From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a fallopian To a fixture on my soil, a stand up type a I was brought up in the crack game dealin and pushin stuff Arguing with my cause we loved eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them and them Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and and them from the Magazine Street camp up like thumbtacks, talking on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag fulla Tic In the mean time, in between time, in my spare time writin In the front yard, in the driveway, on the concrete craps
You think you know, but you really don't have no Listen to discography of E40, real for real Moons ago, way before I even had a I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And letting the older cats up in my hood pump fear with my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper than a spine Don't gimme nothing, I'ma for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones echo through the ghetto, funkin all the I the Lord for giving me the gift to spit this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a of butter and some milk the corner from the spot where all the dealers dealt Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my Tryin to get this music off the ground high ass expectations Took a little and patience, a little faith in God To a long story short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby the checker, chunky like the soup A de- a decade and a half and in the loop In case you didn't know, I told you once before I rapping too fast, see y'all just listening too slow I paved the way for the independent The industry they mimick me, but don't wanna gimme