[00:00.392](Paperwork)Don't do no business until you check his (paperwork)
[00:08.569]And if all else fails, I just hope that this (paperwork)
[00:12.520]Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof
[00:16.456]Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you(Paperwork)
[00:20.745]ATL, Westside, that's the only home I know
[00:24.401]In '85, me and Uncle Quint used to ride around in the big Bronco
[00:28.288]Took me up to Charles' Disco
[00:30.512]Daytime, set me down at the bar
[00:32.355]Where I drank *****rley Temple
[00:33.768]'Til he walked out with a bag and we got back in the car
[00:36.368]What you wanna be he asked? When you grow up big kid?
[00:40.489]I just wanna be like you, ridin' round town gettin' bread
[00:44.505]We shot a couple Lac, couple summer pass
[00:46.576]Uncle Quint ain't nowhere to be found
[00:48.402]Later we learn that someone ratted him out
[00:50.424]For that reason 10 years he won't be around
[00:52.392](Paperwork)Don't do no business until you check his (paperwork)
[00:56.456]And if all else fails, I just hope that this (paperwork)
[01:00.408]Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof
[01:04.504]Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you(Paperwork)
[01:08.448]Picture me in '93
[01:10.423]I'm the only man I see
[01:12.434]Fresh up off the porch
[01:13.808]Lookin' for a drop Porsche and a fake ID
[01:16.407]Introduce me to the crack game
[01:18.311]Rap game was the furthest from my mind
[01:20.492]Had a notebook full of rhymes
[01:22.263]And a pocket full of crack rock dimes
[01:24.536]Time on my side, lift.45 in my jeans
[01:27.752]Open fire if you seem to be blocking my dreams, yessir
[01:32.572]Welfare, food stamps
[01:34.032]Section eight, me and Ma lived in the trap
[01:36.223]I said **** school, it holdin' me back
[01:38.199]I wanna bankroll, chasin' after that
[01:40.519](Paperwork)Don't do no business until you check his (paperwork)
[01:44.639]And if all else fails, I just hope that this (paperwork)
[01:48.519]Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof
[01:52.183]Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you(Paperwork)
[01:56.615]Look at me, at 17
[01:58.512]Livin' on my own, peddlin'
[02:00.279]Quarter ki, now and then sellin' ****
[02:02.423]Tokin' too, cost my first felony
[02:04.303]That's one of many, that were to follow
[02:06.479]Drinkin' Henney up out the bottle
[02:08.351]Told a child I think I'm bein' followed
[02:10.471]Family don't think I'll live to see tomorrow
[02:12.336]Plenty have a story like mine
[02:14.447]Know many of you had a little nine
[02:16.404]Know many of you did a little dirt
[02:18.295]Too many of us did a little time
[02:20.495]Wake up, 10 years of your life passed
[02:23.839]When you get your cake up
[02:25.008]Don't it seem like that
[02:26.155]When the Feds on your ass passin' out
[02:28.471](Paperwork)Don't do no business until you check his (paperwork)
[02:32.383]And if all else fails, I just hope that this (paperwork)
[02:36.433]Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof
[02:40.447]Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you(Paperwork)
[02:44.448]If you think that you high, baby look above you
[02:47.919]It's drones in the sky, there's nothing you could do
[02:51.983]So left, two, three snap
[02:54.039]Right two, three snap
[02:56.111]Don't get serious now it's too late for that
[02:59.902]Cause they got
[03:00.550]Time on my side, lift.45 in my jean
[03:03.598]Open fire if you seem to be blocking my dreams, yessir
[03:08.558](Paperwork)Don't do no business until you check his (paperwork)
[03:12.450]And if all else fails, I just hope that this (paperwork)
[03:16.526]Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof
[03:20.414]Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you(Paperwork)