From a ass little tadpole swimmin in a fallopian 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 eachother so much Ditchin and the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet trucks Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine camp Posted up thumbtacks, talking on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag fulla Tic In the mean time, in between time, in my time writin raps In the yard, in the driveway, on the concrete shootin craps
You think you know, but you really don't have no to discography of E40, real talk for real Moons ago, way before I had a career I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And never letting the cats up in my hood pump fear with my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the broads and all the Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game than a porcupine spine Don't gimme nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, and grind Hot ones echo through the ghetto, all the time I thank the Lord for me the gift to spit this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and some Around the from the spot where all the dealers dealt and tribul-i-zations, me and my peopl-i-zations Tryin to get this music off the with high ass expectations a little time and patience, a little faith in God To make a long story short, look at me now I'm doing it chubby like the checker, like the soup A de- a and a half and still in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I told you once I ain't too fast, see y'all just listening too slow I paved the way for the grind The industry they mimick me, but don't gimme mine