From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a tube To a on my soil, a stand up type a dude I was brought up in the crack game dealin and pushin stuff Arguing with my folkers cause we loved so much Ditchin and the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet stepside Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them the Magazine Street camp Posted up like thumbtacks, talking on big backs Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag Tic Tacs In the time, in between time, in my spare time writin raps In the front yard, in the driveway, on the shootin craps
You think you know, but you really don't have no Listen to discography of E40, real for real ago, way before I even had a career I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And never letting the cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin with my own soil, listen Jealous cause we had all the broads and all the Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game than a porcupine spine gimme nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot echo through the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of and some milk Around the corner the spot where all the dealers dealt and tribul-i-zations, me and my peopl-i-zations Tryin to get music off the ground with high ass expectations Took a little and patience, a little faith in God To make a long story short, look at me now I'm doing it like the checker, chunky like the soup A de- a decade and a half and in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I told you before I ain't rapping too fast, see y'all just too slow I the way for the independent grind The industry mimick me, but don't wanna gimme mine