[Intro]
Was once a thug from round the way x2
[Verse 1: Snubnoze]
It's the new cat on the new track bring it back
When I attack on the wack loadin up the gat
Diggidy pop pop pop goes the 9, coming up from behind
Nappy headed n***a with the dope rhymes
No complication the mission, listen
n***as they don't listen and they keep pissing me
Off, cause they think I'm soft but the boss never lost
At any cost beat you like Hoss
Cut[?], right so, n***a don't come to the Ponderosa
As I come closer you might catch a dose of
Hollow points through your joints
Duck, diggidy duck or get stuck by your buck shot
Think I'm gonna stop but I'm not 'til I see you drop
To the gun, creep you can't come here with a n***a from the streets
Of the ghetto, hello, shake you like Jell-O
n***as be trying to play me like a cello watch me sell yo
Soul to the Devil, dig it like a shovel
Cuz'll take you to another level, several n***as have died
Became victims of homicide, raised in the streets but mommy tried hard
To keep her kid from the rough neighborhood
Why it's like that I never understood why I
Had to be raggedy, so much tragedy, but yet I'm glad to be
Able to survive, day by day, as a thug from around the way
But you don't hear me though
[Hook]
Was once a thug from round the way x2
[Verse 2: Eli]
Capital B-I-G Eli, see why n***as want to be my enemy
Cuz you see, doctors say I'm mentally insane in the brain
(Why?) Cuz I throw these things swiftly
And motherf**ers can't get with me
Never ran, never will, pack my steel, out to k**
Pop pop pop, n***as drop when I co*k the giggity Glock
Murder 1, first degree, no one could be worse than me
Tell me who's the first to see the barrel of my N-I-N-E
Yeah I be the best at this, n***as don't try to get with this
Innocent people hit the floor cuz my bullets ain't prejudiced
Rata (tata) tata (tat) I got my gat (I got your back)
Bought myself a 20 sack and a fifth of cognac
Serving crack to the fiends keep my pockets filled with green
Since the age of 17 I been from under my mother's wing
Yeah another ghetto child roaming the streets, actin wild
Criminal record thousand pounds puffin on them black n mild
Quick to take your money or gold, quick to mack on one of yo hoes
Quick to breaking your sh** and get a good price for them shoes and Vo's[?]
Please don't ever step to me, I'll put your life in jeopardy
Yeah I shot the sheriff now I'm looking for the deputy
Gotta survive, in these streets, on my own, day by day
A fat price to pay to be a thug from around the way
[Hook]
Was once a thug from round the way x2
[Outro]
Was once a thug from round the way x2
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