From a small ass little tadpole in a fallopian tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up a dude I was brought up in the game dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing with my folkers cause we eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block real Strikin and scootin them and them Chevrolet stepside trucks 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 mean time, in time, in my spare time writin raps In the yard, in the driveway, on the concrete shootin craps
You you know, but you really don't have no idea Listen to discography of E40, real talk for ago, way before I even had a career I got my nickname on the turf for drinking beer And never letting the older cats up in my hood fear Funkin with my own soil, listen Jealous we had all the broads and all the gear Up the ladder I'm to climb, game sharper than a porcupine spine Don't gimme nothing, work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones echo through the ghetto, all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the to spit this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and some 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 time and patience, a faith in God To make a story short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby the checker, chunky like the soup A de- a and a half and still in the loop In case you didn't know, I told you once 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 wanna gimme mine