[00:16.273]Listen
[00:17.111]Come here for a minute
[00:18.405]let me borrow your ear
[00:19.474]I was just a little kid
[00:20.776]I heard it perfectly clear
[00:22.015]Got a chip planted on my neck when I was six
[00:24.524]And ever since, I've been tripping off this music itch
[00:27.077]I couldn't sleep, television screen kept me awake
[00:29.578]My brothers' 808 booming in a room full of crates
[00:32.012]I couldn't wait
[00:33.458]Plus I was late for the school bus
[00:35.058]Rhyming in the mirror with my Spider-Man toothbrush
[00:37.444]Divine and Everlast in the back of the hut
[00:39.829]I'm talking '89 and I'm still packing a lunch
[00:42.384]Sounds crazy, but really seemed to happen as such
[00:44.928]Whoever thought that I would do it with this passion and gut
[00:47.540]I don't know, but it hit me
[00:48.982](Oh) All of a sudden, I got the globe rocking with me
[00:51.509](Yeah) Now we clubbing and all the girls wanna kiss me
[00:54.112]Says she loves it, but she's really not listening
[00:56.621]Damn, what's up with that?
[00:58.267]You want to play the role? (Yes)
[00:59.593]Like you ain't a ho? (Yes)
[01:00.933]But you probably heard the single on the radio (Damn!)
[01:03.475]Now it's all love (Yes)
[01:04.700]Got a strong buzz (Yes)
[01:05.964]But she didn't know my name thirty days ago (Damn!)
[01:08.541]Oh, you heard of us? (Yes)
[01:09.822]Let me hear you say (Yes)
[01:11.124]Roll 'em up, I was tellin' you in '98
[01:13.562]But that was all planned, now its a logjam
[01:15.683]With haters in the place yellin' "God-" (Damn!)
[01:18.658]To all the people down since the beginning
[01:20.737]Yo, we never wore the crown, you insisted we get it
[01:23.222]Bought the record every day, never trip what it costed
[01:25.632]All you wanted was to put some more chips in my pocket
[01:28.183]Way before the world tour and overseas and big stuff
[01:30.981]When Cheapshot was still spinnin' valley bar mitzvahs (haha)
[01:33.823]You always had a seat, rollin' right there with us (uh-huh)
[01:36.103]In the car, drinkin' 40s out in front of them shit clubs
[01:38.832]You remember then?
[01:40.114]Twenty-five fans would line up
[01:41.261]But nobody gave a fat frog's ass who I was
[01:43.467]Time's up, nine months later put the smack down
[01:46.375]Sign to Machine Shop, Warner got my back now
[01:48.975]Funny how they all flipped up when they see me
[01:51.359]"Yeah, he think he doing big shit 'cos he on TV"
[01:53.815]Yeah, but that was all planned, like it or not man
[01:56.592]You hatin' from the couch, going "God-" (Damn!)
[01:59.566]You want to play the role? (Yes)
[02:00.956]Like you ain't a ho? (Yes)
[02:02.186]But you probably heard the single on the radio (Damn!)
[02:04.703]Now it's all love (Yes)
[02:06.025]Got a strong buzz (Yes)
[02:07.328]But she didn't know my name thirty days ago (Damn!)
[02:09.826]Oh, you heard of us? (Yes)
[02:11.199]Let me hear you say (Yes)
[02:12.476]Roll 'em up, I was tellin' you in '98
[02:14.989]But that was all planned, now its a logjam
[02:17.153]With haters in the place yellin' "God-" (Damn!)