From a small ass little tadpole in a fallopian tube To a fixture on my soil, a up type a dude I was brought up in the crack game dealin and that stuff Arguing with my folkers we loved eachother so much Ditchin and the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet stepside Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine Street Posted up thumbtacks, talking on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag Tic Tacs In the mean time, in between time, in my spare time raps In the front yard, in the driveway, on the shootin craps
You think you know, but you don't have no idea Listen to discography of E40, real talk for Moons ago, way before I even had a I got my nickname on the turf for hecka beer And never letting the cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the broads and all the 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 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 milk Around the corner the spot where all the dealers dealt and tribul-i-zations, me and my peopl-i-zations Tryin to get this music off the ground with high ass Took a 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, chunky the soup A de- a decade and a half and still in the 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