[00:04.41]If you could look at me now [00:06.10][Beanie Sigel] [00:08.54][Verse 1] [00:09.73]My hair was knotty then [00:10.91]Nose- snotty then [00:11.79]sweats, no pockets then [00:13.10]sweatin', no problems then [00:14.48]facts? Off the potty then [00:15.85]News? Watchin karate then... [00:17.16]Muddas playin double dutch, [00:18.16]she was hop-scotchin' then [00:19.79]Me- Girl watchin' then [00:21.47]Crooked little eye. (eye) [00:22.47]hump-back, tryna hump that [00:23.73]yes I (I) [00:25.10]Couldn't play because I'm poo [00:26.79]They thought I was mockin them [00:28.35]Gramz- [00:28.66]Said I was devilish [00:30.28]Been knew I was rotten then [00:31.78]School- [00:31.97]Been dropped out, [00:32.85]neva really clockin' in [00:33.72]Popz- [00:33.97]Been dropped out, [00:35.10]Neva really stoppin' in... [00:36.48]Momz- [00:36.72]tryna lock me out [00:38.16]Cops- [00:38.60]Tryna lock me in [00:39.54]Damn, Devilish one with Pellet-guns, [00:41.23]Grew from, [00:41.91]Sling-shotin' them, (uh) [00:43.10]To sling-shootin' them [00:44.22]Dice all day, [00:45.16]Kept hook shot- [00:46.23]Nice all day [00:47.23]Right hook fight [00:48.36]Nice all day [00:49.35]Nigga left for a night [00:50.72]To keep money Right all day [00:52.41]Break a night all day [00:53.72][bridge] [00:54.80]If you could look at me now x2 [00:56.67] [00:58.17]If you could look at me now [01:01.23]Let me smoke with you young'in [01:02.17][Verse 2] [01:03.48]Yall was pop-lockin' -Then [01:05.42]Card-board boxin -Then [01:07.36]Me- [01:07.79]I was up the center [01:09.17]3-D- [01:09.42]lockin' in [01:10.36]Strong-arm- [01:10.54]Robbin then [01:11.54]Started car- [01:12.17]Poppin' in [01:12.92]ME- [01:13.23]Skinny toots, Telly boots, Marley Park and them [01:15.10] [01:15.94]Got in trouble with Passyunk [01:17.37]Wilson park n them- [01:18.50]Other Jacks, diffeferent sets [01:19.69]Started sparkin him- [01:20.50] [01:21.57]I had the four-teen gauge, [01:23.07]My nigga Larken then [01:24.20]How it made front page, [01:25.88]-He caught a spark from them [01:27.26]He got gauged in his leg, [01:28.70]Still was walkin' then [01:29.51]8-toss, shook it off [01:31.07]Kept sparkin' them [01:32.45]All heads aint help, [01:34.01]-We had more heart then them [01:35.45]We squashed that war, [01:36.09]-Stayed apart from them [01:36.51]Got some wall, [01:36.84]Down in Iraq, they give me dap, [01:38.21]I'm takin' pounds from clowns, [01:39.03] [01:40.59]You shake my hand like a grown man (grown man) [01:43.46]Ya aint see it like Tony and old man, [01:45.03]Mob-style ferreal, [01:46.40]This is my life-style ferreal. [01:48.41]Beanie Sigel (background)- [01:48.72](bridge) [01:49.10]If you could look at me now [01:55.41]Verse 3 [01:57.98] [02:00.10]...Now its big buisnesses, [02:01.23]You see them big bentley-skids [02:02.41]You see them Bee's on those shiny-ass [02:05.10]Rims of his, [02:05.97]You can't find him in the woods, [02:07.54]With his kids with his [02:08.85]Mob cookin breakfast with no S.W.A.T. [02:10.79]A good day this is. [02:11.91]You could bull-shit with rap if you want, [02:13.73]I pull the bull-shit to the back [02:15.41]And put rap in front. [02:16.60]Now I'm State-Prop flickin' it [02:17.73]State-Prop stitchin' it. [02:19.66]I'm paper soldier yall, [02:20.85]Your boy gettin' rich [02:22.60]I see a kids hair -knotty now.. [02:24.35]They nose -snotty now [02:25.48]So what I do, [02:26.66]I try to turn they frown around [02:28.60]I make 'em smile a day [02:30.10]If only for a -while a day [02:31.35]I give them dollar-day [02:32.41]That's my ghetto -holliday [02:33.23]I must say for myself [02:34.85]I'm feelin proud today, [02:36.73]My life is shaped [02:37.85]Like I run about a mile a day [02:39.79]I dedicate this to the one's that [02:41.60]counted me out [02:42.41]And looked at me down [02:43.48]Just look at me now. [02:44.73][speaking] [02:46.10] [02:47.10]I know yall see me [02:55.23]Look at me now man [02:58.60]I'm killin this shit [03:00.79]Sheed, check your boy out man [03:04.17]Your boy got buisnesses man [03:07.85]I done came up on my own nigga [03:10.60]I'm a ceo nigga [03:12.61]Clothing line... cartoons, movies, name it nigga [03:19.48]Bullshit with rap if you want, [03:21.73]...I'm a big-boy-toy driver nigga [03:24.42]with unlaced airforce 1's with no license- [03:26.79]Holla at me nigga. [03:30.79]Yall can't tell me shit, [03:33.29]look at me now.