[04:52.00](feat. Cold 187um & Kokane)
[04:52.00]What's goin' on man
[04:52.00]Yeah, ************* wanna ask me how I got started
[04:52.00]Well it's a long *** story, you know
[04:52.00]Hella dates, times, hella names
[04:52.00]Just a youngsta in tha game
[04:52.00]Let me ask you a question though, potna
[04:52.00]Tell me nigga have you ever watched your family starving
[04:52.00]I been there at 6 in the morning when rollers barge in
[04:52.00]I had to generations of your family hooked on ...
[04:52.00]All this drama and still my cuddies keep fallin'
[04:52.00]3 summers ago my older cousin' tried ballin'
[04:52.00]And when tha judge got him a crooked jury he started falling
[04:52.00]Slow down youngsta that's what my mother keep callin'
[04:52.00]3 steps ahead of death I been that way since I was crawling
[04:52.00]Late 89 Freaky D. fronted me a whole one
[04:52.00]Only 13 cooked it up and then I sold some
[04:52.00]Fetti came fast cause the story street was poppin'
[04:52.00]Pushin' in Nikes and now I hit tha block knockin'
[04:52.00]Crestside playa bending a corner in them Chevs
[04:52.00]And let me get funky we rip the city in to shreds
[04:52.00]Some say they livin' close to the edge, well I was raised there
[04:52.00]Got my **** together, hit tha track and got paid there
[04:52.00]And never did I stress of the jail termes
[04:52.00]Some say it's filthy money but it's well earned
[04:52.00]So why some tell you 'Just say no'
[04:52.00]I'm gettin' vicious about my hustle steady opening doors
[Chorus:]
[Cold 187um & Kokane]
[04:52.00]You got to go out there, and handle your business
[04:52.00]Open them doors, handle yours, alright
[04:52.00]Said it's allright, leanin' to the side
[04:52.00]Pimpsters and gangsta lean
[04:52.00]Baddest playa on the scene
[04:52.00]3 years later still young in tha streets
[04:52.00]Started writing playa raps still slangin' tha D
[04:52.00]I came wit Crack The 40 and Pay This ****
[04:52.00]First time I touched a microphone I knew I had this gift to uuuh
[04:52.00]Make a million, stop coke dealing
[04:52.00]So I got wit Mac Dre, we got paper to make
[04:52.00]I did a 7 song EP
[04:52.00]But it didn't get released
[04:52.00]Cause my cuddie was to hard for the ******* police
[04:52.00]On the real it was a straight conspiracy
[04:52.00]Feds set my potna up don't want the town hearing me
[04:52.00]They got my folks in the system, thought I was washed
[04:52.00]No record, no money, no **** on the jock
[04:52.00]And I was just so close
[04:52.00]Got me thinkin' what the devil wanna do me for
[04:52.00]So now I'm back to the track where I came from
[04:52.00]Same soldier, same streets, up in tha same crumbs
[04:52.00]Them wanna see a playa straight starving and broke
[04:52.00]Instead of ******* and livin' and steady opening doors
[Chorus]
[04:52.00]A year later it got a little greater
[04:52.00]Me and Khayree now we're gettin' young playas together
[04:52.00]Dropped Illegal Business had the V-Town sewed
[04:52.00]We sold 200.000 + independent, ***
[04:52.00]Down with YBB but I had to do my own ****
[04:52.00]Get full control or you be broke as ******* gone quik
[04:52.00]But I knew it all started from Strictly
[04:52.00]No matter what tha suckas do the game is still in me
[04:52.00]Packed up my mackin' and my Crestside slang
[04:52.00]Took some ...now it's tha youngsta running his thangs
[04:52.00]And now a nigga got action went straight platinum
[04:52.00]So when you buy this tape I'm the one that's doin' stackin'
[04:52.00]Pulled them licks and had to slang lleyo
[04:52.00]Now I'm in tha industry straight opening doors
[Chorus]
[04:52.00]Yeah, yeah so I guess it all worked out you know what I'm saying
[04:52.00]It all started from a dream from my nigga young Michael Robinson
[04:52.00]Better know as The Mac
[04:52.00]**** went all through Mac Dre, Young Coolio you know what I'm saying
[04:52.00]Indeed this **** is livin' through me
[04:52.00]Young Mac *** Mall 1995 **** or die