How Much We Grew Lyrics
Artist Busta Rhymes
Intro: yeah this next joint right here... is dedicated to all my niggas that I
love all the niggas that held it down with me through the whole shit from the
beginning of the fort, to the now current day of the fort from the beginning and
the birth of this whole shit to the now success of this whole shit and all my
peoples that be holdin it down for their peoples ridin with them through thick
and thin, love y'all niggas peep it CHORUS 2X: 1, 2 Everytime I sit and take a
look at how we grew so much my niggas 1, 2 All the things I do, you know I will
hold my flags for you my niggas [verse 1] now, this how the shit all started was
like doctors of ? I was being conceived kinda retarded like, and while my moms
was conceiving this beautiful baby doctors was the this woman's stress out of
this Jamaican lady Pops beef and straight carrying on nobody realizing how the
god was now being born ayo, yo, 1, 2 while they was wildin and shit they
couldn't even find my pulse, sonogram on the frisk so, they tried a natural
birth, but had to stop production baby stuck all up in the womb, another
malfunction 1, 2 and now the doctors discover they had to cut this lady's gut,
and c-section me out of my mother Pop duke could only sit and ask why looked up
in the sky and begged for mercy from the most high c'mon, now, 1, 2 see now the
day would feel blessed watching the birth of a precious baby life manifest see
how that bugged me out CHORUS [over chorus] that shit, that type shit be buggin
me out cuz... y'know niggas, nigga look back to them days when you know shit is
kinda ill like y'knawmean? nigga, niggas like fall out, y'knawmean?
motherfuckers is, niggas live long enough to look back and shit and laugh and
shit, y'knawmean? [verse 2] young and learnin shit that started is thick started
inquiring alot, started using my dick like I knew it all but I wasn't really
knowin and shit buggin when my pubic hairs started growin and shit now hold up,
a young nigga now a couple years pass searchin desperate to experience my first
piece of ass now, gettin into mischief and caught my first arrest started
smoking weed and started totin on them cigarettes eyes bloodshot like I was
starin at a highbeam nigga only twelve so why he lookin like he nineteen? 1, 2
the fast life baby, young with an old soul from the past life baby a young nigga
wanted things and wanted money quick ambitious on the Amtrak, wit a quarter
brick my nigga, 1, 2 it got hot in the streets my nigga campaign the cops who
started walkin the beat, my nigga trouble causin too much problems just me and
my brother made mommy a grandma and shacked up with my babymother now it a seed,
I was always ready to clap shit strugglin, so then I start fuckin 'round with
this rap shit moved to Long Island and got up with a few niggas believin we
could show the world we was the Leaders Of the New niggas a crew of niggas that
was hot like an infirmary blazin til they started actin like bitches internally
so now, Flipmode is how we own it fo' sho tried to fuck with niggas but I
couldn't do it no more fo rilla, 1, 2 and then I got with some niggas always wit
it to multiply the gross and double the figgas and then I, hit with bombs and
hold a stack in my palms whippin Bentleys, floss icy shit and take care of moms
give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur hold it down for all my
niggas til the movement is over it's kinda beautiful CHORUS repeats to end [over
chorus] yeah, y'knawmean? how we have acquired so much where we can look back
and, and actually laugh and lavish in the, in the, in the moment as we prime in
life look at how we, we struggled all this way and went through the bullshit
motherfuckin, little obstacles situations they try to set up for niggas to
fuckin fall off and lose they hard earned shit, y'knowmean? I holds it down for
my niggas though give my last to my niggas all the niggas that was wit me
through the whole shit love y'all niggas, word my Flipmode niggas, man
