We're proud, we're proud, we're prouder than Broadway We're proud, yes we're proud, we're prouder than Broadway Let the boy know All the thinkin' niggas came from moppin' floors, though From the nosebleed section to the front row Uninvited, still we came through the front door And now we bout to let the whole world know I never let my people down Them non-believers, they believers now I'm just a common nigga with a dream Who's standin' tall enough for y'all to see We're proud, we're proud, we're prouder than Broadway We're proud, yes we're proud, we're prouder than Broadway Ever since a youngin' I've been goin' for the gusto Told me I'd be there by 21 and I said *** no Still here, in this bitch, tryna bust a nut, though Came from way behind, now we the niggas in the front row Played us, straight up embarrassin' how they played us Ironic how the *** we wrote for others and they played us Them niggas I grew up with is the niggas that I came with N.E.D. in verse, they used to tell us that we ain't *** Save it, save it, pussy niggas save it I tell it while at night, them boys just know you're new favorite Now they got me on my Virgin Islands, everyday *** You hearin' bout us now, but when I'm from, I've been famous Women in the States, they used to tell me that I talk funny Now when I speak to them, all they say is please talk funny They wanna rock, man, kill it till they can't stand it Eat it, pack, man, beat it, quanslam Turn up on they ass like I was missin' Was swear my feet was in the toilet, how I'm on my ***tin' Yeah, I told my mom I'd make it back when I was still a kiddin' Even back then I was broke as you can see, I wasn't kiddin' We're broad, we're broad We're broader than Broadway We're broad, yes we're broad We're broader than Broadway All the think a nigga came from moppin' floors though From the nosebleed section to the front row Uninvited still we came out through the front door And now we bout to let the whole world know I never let my people down Them non-believers, they believe us now I'm just a common nigga with a dream Who standin' high enough for y'all to see We're broad, we're broad We're broader than Broadway We're broad, yes we're broad We're broader than Broadway I was seven, my first bed came out the garbage can Ain't my fault my ***in' daddy was a garbage man Yeah, Yaki boy, he my hero, that's my mama's man He the reason I won't bow down to no other man I was hungry, all I had to eat was bread and cheese Bread and cheese, bread and cheese for like seven weeks On Rock City, nothin' pretty more than just a college city It's a pity, it's a pity, wish that you could see I grew up from a bunch of bad man Same time I say A.A. Little Taliban I know the whole world understand I'm just a product of the place that I come from We're broad, we're broad We're broader than Broadway We're broad, yes we're broad We're broader than Broadway We're broad, we're broader than Broadway We're broad, yes we're broad We're broader than Broadway Shiddily-waddily-diddily, shiddily-woodily-woodily Diddily-shiddily-shiddily-wobble Shiddily-didi-didili-didi-didi