From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up type a I was brought up in the crack game dealin and pushin that Arguing with my folkers cause we eachother so much and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin Novas and them Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and from 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 to discography of E40, real talk for real Moons ago, way I even had a career I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And never letting the older cats up in my hood pump with my own soil, listen here 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, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, and grind Hot ones echo through the ghetto, funkin all the 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 from the where all the dealers dealt Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my 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, at me now sahob I'm it chubby like the checker, chunky like the soup A de- a decade and a half and still in the In case you didn't know, I told you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see just listening too slow I paved the way for the independent The industry they mimick me, but don't wanna mine