From a small ass 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 that with my folkers cause we loved eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them stepside trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine camp Posted up like thumbtacks, talking on faulty big Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag fulla Tic In the mean time, in 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 nickname on the turf for drinking hecka And never letting the older cats up in my hood pump Funkin with my own soil, listen Jealous cause we had all the and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game than a porcupine spine Don't gimme nothing, I'ma 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 this
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and some 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 time and patience, a little faith in God To make a story short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby like the checker, chunky the soup A de- a decade and a half and in the loop In case you suckers know, I told you once 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