When I was in the sixth grade,
these niggas was bitch mad.
They was, they was thinking psych.
I was, I was thinking get paid.
They was thinking psych.
I was, I was thinking get paid.
They was thinking psych.
I was, I was thinking get paid.
I always kept a plan to get dough.
Like selling the same * I used to steal for my to stop and go.
I used to,
I used to run a paper route,
but that ain't pay me enough.
I was still on the bus.
My mom would always tell me,
don't you rush to get old.
Ballet,
ballet,
then I listen to the * I was told.
I was a ghetto boy.
Long before, before the rap group existed.
I used to take my lunch money and bitches.
I stayed, stayed on suspension.
*, * with school.
Truant officers be chasing me.
I'd give them the blues.
Hit the pipes off a room and just to pass the time.
Shoot the * and walk the champ.
Stole, stole me a wine.
Get smashed and hit the bus stop with school let out.
Get off a teeny house and bust that cop.
Walk around the ridge,
my smelling like fish in my pocket.
Back, back to the South side.
Walking home from walk-ins.
I stopped to see the homies off a hump of the street.
All you game in the front yard.
Bump this beat.
I was back and back again.
Only known my grind all, all the time.
I can look at you and feel so fine.
I find a thing on my mind.
Had to shine.
If I did it's necessary.
I'd go, go wide and get come, come back with it.
Took life off my balls and my words on the nigga.
12 world was mine.
I stayed on.
The gold game started up serving the heights.
I was seeing more gold.
I ever seen in my life,
but when the dope game started,
sir,
sir,
in the heights,
I was seeing more gold than I ever seen in my life.
Don't don't start,
start,
sir,
sir,
in the heights.
I was seeing seeing more gold.
I ever seen in my life was rock was
rocking up eight balls and going to *.
Kept a thousand in my pocket,
twenty more in the safe
I had my grandmother guessing how I got that *
Every other day I had to buy new kicks
Hope they can't step into me as if I was the man
Getting telephone calls from my uncle's friends
I'm sixteen years old, with James so throwed
I was with James so throwed,
I was with James so throwed
*,
* niggas frontin',
*,
* they hoes
*,
* niggas frontin',
*,
* they hoes
Eventually I moved out,
rented a house I'm stretching the dope,
cut,
cutting seventeen
From my house with carpet pots full of spray I'm moving big way,
but that was back in the days
Nobody told about a gold case,
it's all mapped out
Get in,
get out,
they giving motherfuckers ten years for each rock
It's *,
they ain't looking at the picture they been painting
They hanging all these niggas whose careers was dope,
they crack
Crack epidemic had you locked if you was in it
And even if you stepped out with bread you couldn't spend it
In the beginning,
niggas had their whole hood flooded with that Antonio Montana disease
Like,
* it,
the drug war's just another day in the life
You * over me,
I * you,
they gave me the right
* if I could remove it on my grind,
all the time
Looking for pen and pencil,
so find the things on my mind,
I had to shine
I didn't miss a business area,
I'd go wide and get caught
Back with it,
I would live off,
and my words on the liquor world was mine
I'm up and down I-10 with a car full of hens,
finna check my ends,
finna get this Benz
Stopped,
showed up my drop spot by red lights flashing,
I'm third
And if,
and if he wants to search,
I'ma blast him,
I'll roll the windows down so I can show him my hands
Wouldn't you know,
the cop that pulled me over,
my man,
I got a brand new plan
Take this * to the line,
stop at Shoney's,
and give it back,
I'll give you a dime
With ten thousand,
you can go to work for a week,
take some time off to think,
I'll leave a door in the key
He stopped at the mow,
I came in the door,
checked in my room,
roofed out the scale and the blow
There's a knock at the door,
I grabbed the phone,
it was my homeboy,
he was setting me up,
down on the floor
I could remember,
I've been on my grind,
all the time
I was just a fan,
went through the sea and the final thieves on my mind
I had to shine,
but in any means necessary,
I had to go out and get it
Come back with it,
I would live off,
and my words on the liquor world was mine