A yo man chill let's take this moment of silence out for my man C A Dogg.
 Claude Austin. Rowdy 9 5.

 Hook:
 1 2 to the breaker 1 9 9 5  Jamal represent to keep it live
 Testin' 1 2 3 I flows rhymes wicked Jamal represent to keep it live (x2)

 Verse 1:
 Back in the day where I'm from in the slum it was ill
 Drive around the corner catch a view to a kill
 Move up the block on the O they slang rocks
 When niggas get hot they lickin' shots at the cops
 Come with me (uh ha) I take you back to 1983
 It was shell top sneakers and it was all about me
 Me growin' up makin' a man out of myself
 Kindergarden's cool I'm thinkin' about makin' to the 12th
 Semester went by, by 5th grade I'm strugglin'
 My mind was on bitches and smoke I'm not functioning
 On waht I need to be to get me through
 The world is a school, and me? Fuck it I'm rollin' with the crew
 Now boom there it is I'm labelled as
 An eleven year old, a 5th grade fast ass
 A year went by (uh ha) and I'm still bad as hell
 I got a taste of jail nothin' major I'm only twelve
 My grandmas pissed off not understandin' what's happenin'
 But come with me, creep into the darkening
 (Back in the day) It's southwest
 Fuck with Jamal you catch two to your chest
 Contest if a nigga want to fool
 I be the leader of the new school I straight rule
 That was (back in the days) the days of wayback
 But nowadays it's all about million stacks (word)

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 Verse 2:
 It all started on December 25th 1991 on the Illadelphiatic streets
 Jamal took a step up and gave his rep to someplay
 Prayin' that I make it to this day
 I met this female her name was El
 Said she liked my style of rap we chatted for a little while
 Told me haps on how to make the snaps
 She said she lived in Atlanta where business booms like rockets
 And she had connects outta sockets
 We exchanged numbers and I was off to the crib
 Cause January 1st I had to start my bid (for what?)
 For being a wild unruling child
 A week my granny sent complaints to the juevenile
 Finally January 1st, the day I hated
 My granny flew away to Georgia I got reinslated
 Now I'm off, no more sun for a year of two
 No more get high no more lampin' with the crew
 (what could you do?) Nothin' so I lamped for about 20 months and a half
 Then I got amped (what?)
 I'm losing my mind, I can't take (what)
 All of this bullshit I'm about to break (Where?)
 Atlanta where they got some wealth to share
 Hits the poster with my granny I got some tracks to tear
 So I did it, soon as I got home I did it
 Then I got that bitch Janey Ace to get the ticket and I'm out

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 Verse 3:
 A wild little shortie on the straight looney expedition
 Gut a nigga (uh ha) who ever thought I'd be in this position
 I went from rockin' basement paprtys to placements to all these
 Opportunites, I got to GA o.k. and I got situated
 Reinstated in school and fell El too
 I never forgot my number one plot
 Was for me to rock the crowd and make my granny proud
 No doubt I had to shape up or ship out
 Never to be a failure so I found another route
 At last to get the cash
 And then massed to meet El in North Cacalac
 She had this black little juvenile wild as hell that got busy
 It's real so we packed up and bailed to the city
 Together to shop around the sound and get down
 With my nigga D hooked me up with E and I'm on

 Hook (x5