[Ludacris] 
Yeah 
Gotta feel me on this one 
Ain't none of this [bad word] happen overnight 
We talking about a long [bad word] [bad word] 

 [bad word] 2X: Dolla Boy + (Tity Boi)] 
It ain't clean on these streets(uh, uh) 
It's mean on these streets(yeah) 
Blocks up, hats down 
Fiends on these these streets 
(So please pay attention when [bad word] around 
Cause the blocks got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me) 

[Verse One: Ludacris] 
I'm still back for the first [bad word] time 
So grab a hold of your seat while I OPEN YOUR MIND 
And take you back from when I dropped down from heaven 
And I came on my moms and I had a MIC as my [bad word] weapon 
When I was three I was just a little 
But if you looked in my eyes you would see the future of a real MC 
And when i was nine I wrote my first ryhme 
Soon rapping became one of my favorite pasttimes 
Everywhere that I went spitting and dabbling 
Showing my [bad word] growing up and started traveling 
From one city to the next luda landed in the ATL 
Where the pimps and the players dwell 
I made a tape did shows and got EX-PO-SURE 
And kept learning as my black [bad word] got OLDER 
No matter what I just kept at my trade 
I made mistakes but still stayed sharper than a GINSUI BLADE 

 [bad word] X2] 

[Verse Two: Ludacris] 
Age 14, my talent show, a beast out of cage 
Would have won, but got disqualified for JUMPING OFF STAGE 
But I didn't care cause this game started to open it's arms 
When I was at Banaker High School pulling fire alarms 
So I could get a crowd around me make a name for my BLOCK 
People told me keep flowing they didn't want me to STOP 
Back when big nose John was my human beatbox 
Skipped out on school hit open campus and look out for street COPS 
Now I'm known around the town as that " [bad word] who raps" 
From the hill of Maze high to them roll traps 
And I was still making demos perfecting the craft 
Some said I wouldn't make it they would giggle and laugh 
So I picked up a couple books from DONALD GOINES 
About the busimess of this [bad word] and how to FLIP FEW COINS 
By the age of eighteen I was destined to MAKE IT 
My bank account read DISTURBING THE PEACE INCORPORATED 

 [bad word] X2] 

[Verse Three: Ludacris] 
Age 18, I'm [bad word] just to survive 
But I got a job working for change at 97.5 
Now I'm rapping on the radio increasing their NUMBERS 
Still Ludacris, but Alias was Chris LOVA, LOVA 
Late nights I'm in the studio using they tools 
Me and Poon was smoking weed and breaking all of they rtules 
And I was [bad word]  ALL THE BIG WIGS WAS HEARING MY SONGS 
But nobody did [bad word] and they was taking too long 
Three years went past and I saved enough cash 
To make my own [bad word] and put my self on BLAST 
the album was independent it was just for the streets 
I sold one thousand albums in my first [bad word] week 
Then went on to sell fifty, put the cash in my hand 
All the [bad word] biting, but I chose Def Jam 
The main reason that I made it and I love the town 
Was because the BLOCK had it's EYEBROWS DOWN, ya heard me 

 [bad word] X2] 

[Outro: Ludacris] 
Yah, Ive' been waiting a lifetime to get what the [bad word] I got 
It's real man 
Hardest working [bad word] in show business 
Believe that 
Shout out to Lil fate, I dub, Chaka Zulu 
Yah Woo 
The people's music I used to play some happy and some jealous 
Cause I'm showered with cash and they can't remove they umbrellas 
The people's music I used to play some happy and some jealous 
Cause I'm showered with cash and they can't remove they umbrellas 
Uh 
[music fades] 
You hear it raining don't ya 
You hear it rain