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 game dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing with my folkers cause we eachother so much Ditchin and the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them 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 faulty big Motorola, A1 yola, bag fulla Tic Tacs In the mean time, in between time, in my spare time raps In the front yard, in the driveway, on the concrete shootin
You think you know, but you really don't have no Listen to discography of E40, real for real Moons ago, way before I had a career I got my nickname on the for drinking hecka beer And never letting the cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin my own soil, listen here Jealous we had all the broads and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper than a 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 for giving me the gift to spit this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and milk Around the corner from the spot all the dealers dealt and tribul-i-zations, me and my peopl-i-zations Tryin to get this music off the ground with ass expectations Took a little and patience, a little faith in God To make a long short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby like the checker, like the soup A de- a decade and a half and in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I told you before I rapping too fast, see y'all just listening too slow I paved the way for the independent The industry they mimick me, but don't wanna gimme