Dirty Money

Used to Be

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[Chorus: Pimp C]

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ nigga,^✦ now I'm the big ballin'^✦ nigga^✦

Comin^✦ down grippin'^✦ wood, keepin^✦ these motherfuckin'^✦ bitches^✦ callin'^✦ nigga^✦

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ nigga,^✦ now I'm the big ballin'^✦ nigga^✦

Comin'^✦ down grippin'^✦ wood, keepin^✦ these motherfuckin'^✦ bitches^✦ callin'^✦ nigga^✦

[Verse 3: E-40]

Oooh; reppin^✦ and retrievin', hustlin', dollar^✦ danglin'

Pockets^✦ used^✦ to be leakin',^✦ but now my pockets^✦ hangin'^✦

I came in the game with a prayer and a wish and a hope and a dream tryin' to do my thing

With a digital beam and a mayonnaise jar and a razor blade and an ounce of cream

Posted^✦ on magazine with a Mini-14, servin'^✦ them fiends in the middle of the night

Tryin' to get my money^✦ right, gettin'^✦ my dick sucked^✦ in the broad daylight

Clockwork, work around^✦ the clock, by myself when I go clock

Roosters, chickens, geeses,^✦ hawks, on the block goin block for block

[Verse 4: B-Legit]

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ of ballers but now I'm taller^✦

It's a shame what that 'caine and that soda^✦ did with that water^✦

Ask your mother^✦ or your father,^✦ your sister^✦ or either^✦ daughter

Or them ballin'^✦ ass pimpin'^✦ ass niggas^✦ from Port Arthur^✦

I'm a starter, I go harder,^✦ mix the soft in the pot

Hit the hood, up to no good with jugs and whatnot

All gas, no brakes,^✦ no shake, just rocks

Been gettin^✦ gooder^✦ with a gang of chocks, it don't stop

[Chorus: Pimp C]

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ nigga,^✦ now I'm the big ballin'^✦ nigga^✦

Comin^✦ down grippin'^✦ wood, keepin^✦ these motherfuckin'^✦ bitches^✦ callin'^✦ nigga^✦

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ nigga,^✦ now I'm the big ballin'^✦ nigga^✦

Comin'^✦ down grippin'^✦ wood, keepin^✦ these motherfuckin'^✦ bitches^✦ callin'^✦ nigga^✦

[Verse 5: 8Ball]

Ghetto^✦ superstar, with candy^✦ on my car

Apple cranberry juice mixed^✦ with the bar

28 inches^✦ in the air we are

Two pimp niggas^✦ in the area^✦

With them P.A. niggas,^✦ Rap-A-Lot mob

Salute^✦ to the president and I don't mean Barack^✦

Fire up the sticky,^✦ let the champagne pop

And the big thick yellows to they knees best drop

[Verse 6: MJG]

Yeah I used^✦ to be the smallest,^✦ now I'm tallest^✦ on the yard

I'm straight up hard, I'm smilin'^✦ like Bob

I'm pimp type MJ, act like you done heard of

Mister^✦ mind my own business, I'm the lesbian converter

It's brains at the top, at the bottom assholes

I done grew into^✦ a whale, from a fuckin^✦ tadpole^✦

I ain't playin', I can look, y'all mean straight face

I'm back like Kobe Bryant after^✦ rape case, boy!

[Chorus: Pimp C]

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ nigga,^✦ now I'm the big ballin'^✦ nigga^✦

Comin^✦ down grippin'^✦ wood, keepin^✦ these motherfuckin'^✦ bitches^✦ callin'^✦ nigga^✦

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ nigga,^✦ now I'm the big ballin'^✦ nigga^✦

Comin'^✦ down grippin'^✦ wood, keepin^✦ these motherfuckin'^✦ bitches^✦ callin'^✦ nigga^✦

[Verse 7: Bun B]

You lookin'^✦ at a nigga^✦ that went from puppy^✦ to dog

From tadpole^✦ to frog, from pig to a motherfuckin'^✦ Hogg

I be smokin'^✦ on a swisha,^✦ that's bigger^✦ than a log

And makin'^✦ up a batch that's as creamy^✦ as eggnog^✦

The feds log every^✦ move that I make

So I keep on switchin'^✦ clothes,^✦ switchin'^✦ cars, switchin'^✦ plates^✦

They ride behind^✦ me undercover in the Rover^✦

I cross over^✦ four lanes^✦ of traffic to fuck them hoes over,^✦ hol' up

[Verse 8: Pimp C]

Most drug dealers doin' life in the pen

Or spend they last 90,000 on a droptop Benz

Uhh, and I'm a Trill representer

I pray every^✦ night but I still Ride Dirty,^✦ I'm a sinner^✦

If he try me I'll leave his shit on his lunch kit

Sometimes I wonder^✦ how I got off in this fuck shit

Then I look around^✦ at the cars and the clothes^✦ and the jewels and hoes

Ain't no secret,^✦ it's all exposed

[Chorus: Pimp C]

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ nigga,^✦ now I'm the big ballin'^✦ nigga^✦

Comin^✦ down grippin'^✦ wood, keepin^✦ these motherfuckin'^✦ bitches^✦ callin'^✦ nigga^✦

I used^✦ to be the smallest^✦ nigga,^✦ now I'm the big ballin'^✦ nigga^✦

Comin'^✦ down grippin'^✦ wood, keepin^✦ these motherfuckin'^✦ bitches^✦ callin'^✦ nigga^✦

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