From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a tube To a fixture on my soil, a up type a dude I was brought up in the crack dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing my folkers cause we loved eachother so much and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them stepside trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and from the Magazine Street camp Posted up like thumbtacks, talking on faulty big 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 shootin craps
You think you know, but you really don't have no Listen to of E40, real talk for real ago, way before I even had a career I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And letting the older cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin my own soil, listen here cause we had all the broads and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper a porcupine spine Don't nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones through the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit this
A loaf of bread, a stick of 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 with high ass expectations Took a little and patience, a little faith in God To make a long story short, at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby like the checker, chunky like the A de- a and a half and still in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I told you before I ain't rapping too fast, see just listening too slow I the way for the independent grind The industry they mimick me, but don't gimme mine