[00:14.46]From a small ass little tadpole
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[00:16.09]Swimmin in a fallopian tube
[00:17.28]To a fixture on my soil
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[00:19.56]A stand up type a dude
[00:21.22]I was brought up in the
[00:22.29]Crack game dealin and pushin that stuff
[00:23.72]
[00:24.40]Arguing with my folkers
[00:25.50]Cause we loved eachother so much
[00:27.26]
[00:27.80]Ditchin and dodgin the rollers
[00:29.28]Grippin the block real tuff
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[00:30.96]Strikin and scootin them
[00:31.87]Novas and them Chevrolet stepside trucks
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[00:34.27]Me and my brother Dennel
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[00:36.00]Kevin  Dalon  and Black
[00:37.08]
[00:37.68]Little Ray  Billy  and Ivory and
[00:39.21]Them from the Magazine Street camp
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[00:41.08]Posted up like thumbtacks
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[00:42.72]Talking on faulty big backs
[00:43.48]
[00:44.44]Motorola  A1 yola  glad bag fulla Tic Tacs
[00:46.68]
[00:47.47]In the mean time  in between time
[00:48.84]In my spare time writin raps
[00:50.11]
[00:50.85]In the front yard  in the driveway
[00:52.36]On the concrete shootin craps
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[01:07.75]You think you know
[01:08.72]But you really don't have no idea
[01:10.12]
[01:11.06]Listen to discography of E40
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[01:13.03]Real talk for real
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[01:14.48]Moons ago  way before I even had a career
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[01:17.93]I got my nickname on the
[01:19.10]Turf for drinking hecka beer
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[01:20.65]And never letting the older
[01:21.78]Cats up in my hood pump fear
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[01:24.98]Funkin with my own soil  listen here
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[01:28.20]Jealous cause we had all
[01:29.43]The broads and all the gear
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[01:31.13]Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb
[01:32.71]Game sharper than a porcupine spine
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[01:36.16]Don't gimme nothing
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[01:37.24]I'ma work for mine  try and grind  grit and grind
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[01:41.06]Hot ones echo through the
[01:42.28]Ghetto  funkin all the time
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[01:44.17]I thank the Lord for giving
[01:45.37]Me the gift to spit this rhyme
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[02:00.91]A loaf of bread  a stick of butter and some milk
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[02:04.07]Around the corner from the
[02:05.25]Spot where all the dealers dealt
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[02:07.38]Trials and tribul-i-zations
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[02:09.27]Me and my peopl-i-zations
[02:10.52]Tryin to get this music off the
[02:11.80]Ground with high ass expectations
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[02:13.76]Took a little time and patience
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[02:15.40]A little faith in God
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[02:17.28]To make a long story short
[02:19.07]Look at me now sahob
[02:19.78]
[02:20.65]I'm doing it chubby like the checker
[02:22.35]Chunky like the soup
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[02:23.84]A de- a decade and a half and still in the loop
[02:26.57]In case you suckers didn't know
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[02:28.92]I told you once before
[02:30.19]I ain't rapping too fast
[02:31.37]See y'all just listening too slow
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[02:33.47]I paved the way for the independent grind
[02:35.77]
[02:36.72]The industry they mimick me
[02:38.37]But don't wanna gimme mine