[ VERSE 1: Eightball ]
  Eightball the Fat Mac must express
  While a nigga's gettin zooted from the potent-ass sess
  Lookin back, damn, I was wild as a juvenile
  Mama showed love and she struggled for her only child
  But like my dad I was stuck in the streets
  I never wanted to work hard, cause that shit ain't for me
  Back then only 16, ignorant and curious
  Mom's gettin periods cause I wasn't serious
  I said fuck school teachers and the church preachers
  I wanted to hang with my niggas with the street sweepers
  Back in the days sellin herbs on the [Name]
  Me and Squeaky doin city-wide talent shows
  Gettin dissed, gettin pissed cause of this shit
  Cause it's so hard in this muthafuckin business
  I said many times, "Mama, I'ma make you proud"
  But I could never leave the thug life of Orange Mound
  I'm on the corner drinkin Thunderbird, slingin rocks
  They in my hands cause the cops know 'bout the matchbox
  But I can't sell dope, rappin is the way, gee
  And this is just another day around the homies
  
  [ VERSE 2: MJG ]
  ..mid day, I was deep into a sleep
  Unconscious from that hay that they distribute on em streets
  My world was constantly spinnin from the Rémy that was in me
  And we ain't half-stepped on them blunts, we chiefed up plenty
  A penny to be earned in a day is what I'm looking for
  Hopin for, some kind of way to make a little more ducats
  Fuck it, shit that I just needed, I just stuck it
  Up, hell, nigga might as well
  Proceed to hustle like a p-i-m-p
  MJ fuckin G
  The nigga with the muthafuckin clout, no doubt
  The pimps is in the muthafuckin house
  Be up out [Name], black folk is takin over
  You know how I know? Gimme the mic and I show ya
  I teach ya, I reach ya with this pimpalistic knowledge
  The shit a nigga learned back in Break-A-Bitch College
  Started, to hustle at the age of 11
  Started makin money when a nigga turned 12
  Started to induldge at the age of 13
  At 14 a nigga flatfoot was raisin hell
  In the muthafuckin hood
  
  [ VERSE 3: Eightball ]
  So many rappers in this industry, I don't doubt
  That it's a bunch of niggas broke with a CD out
  It ain't new to me, cause me and MJG
  Had to struggle just to hustle down in Tennessee
  In Memphis, tryin to be a rapper
  But rappin don't mean shit to Elvis Presley-lovin crackers
  Plus I'm with a record label gankin me and fuckin me
  Niggas always promsisin me shit that I will never see
  Trick-buster always talkin 'bout we family
  But while I was rappin he was snortin up my royalty
  So I got smart, hit the streets and said fuck that
  That's when this nigga named T Money heard our first track
  Pack em up, move em out, straight down to Texas
  Me and JG ridin drop-top Lexus
  "Coming Out Hard" on the charts in the 'Billboard'
  Second album droppin and we waitin on our first award
  Niggas talkin cause the crew ain't walkin no mo'
  Them jealous busters tryin to start shit over hoes
  I don't know what is worse, livin bad or livin good
  But the whole world remind me of my neighborhood
  
  [ VERSE 4: MJG ]
  See, I'm a self-made hustler, trustin the
  Niggas who think that two heads are better than one
  And ready to get the job done, son
  MJG gots game in the street sale
  That makes me get lifts in the studio
  Even though it was kind of hard as far as I can see
  Growin up in the Orange Mound Tennessee community
  Could it be the future had love for a nigga who
  Struggled through all type of shit for a bill or two?
  Still I do shows for my fans cause my fans buy my tapes
  And the tapes make my g's and the g's keeps me straight
  And I hate when the busters smile all in my face like a hoe
  And talk shit in the down low
  Look out, punk, mutha-fucka, sucka, niggas
  My finger's gettin tired of the trigger, dig a
  Grave, shit, cause I don't want his boys to have to deal
  With the smell of the trick I just killed
  ???? if you can't hang with the stress, best
  Wipe the big 'S' off your muthafuckin chest
  Press issues, makin sure they fully understood
  'bout a young nigga life in the muthafuckin hood