OUTKAST - Claimin True lyrics

rate me

[big boi]

Well it is ithe pimp playin nigga that you heard about

YeahI got the money and a half a million dope houses

I got the hookers on the go and playa rhymes that I fuck with

I buy amps that pops my trunk swift

I've been a player since the age of two

That's when I learned to walkgrab my crotchtalk

Do how them hoe sellers do

See born and raised as a pimpthat's what I claim to be

Always claimin true to what I do and then fuck what I see

I pledge allegiance to the streetsthat's where I growed up

And make my money cuz my daddy never showed up

But fuck itI'm on my ownI'm in my zone

And nothin wrongyou don't belongyou left me standing alone

YeahI'm the nigga with the feather in my hat

Finger waves and snake skinsshitI got all that

But you ain't know I'm the one dippin and dodgin bullets

The price you pay when you behind it steady tryin to pull it

So dolemitedolemite not shitI studied the mack and rudy ray moore

They were my idols when I was a kid

From nappy headgreasy faceeatin watermelon

To drug dealerarmed robbernowto big felon

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I wonder how you would react if you was in my shoes

I put in work and did the dirtthat's how I payed my dues

Uh1-2-3that's how it be

So all the real niggaz step up like the playas that's in back of me

[dre]

All heavenly fatherwhy do you even bother watchin over me

Growin up a little gmy mama thought I'd grow to be

A lawyer or a doctor but I felt like comin harder

Packed a shank up in my socks when I started kindergarten

This ain't no secret gardenso you fly when niggaz flee

If it is one of my ownI'm lettin the trigger be

Cuz I got love for any nigga who got love for me

And then I get a slap of dap when I'm slangin quarter keys

Just tryin to make itthen of agecome throughtake it

I ain't forgot about y'all women who be workin niggaz butt naked

At magic cityshakin titties just to pay the rent

Lordtryin to hustle must be somethin that was heaven sent

But I ain't got no sensethat's what I got them thinkin

I think about paybackstrap myself and keep on dankin

Cuz I be takin the rough side of the mountain

If you cross my pathI'll leave you drainin like a fountain

Yes it's been like that since way backin 1975

Been taught to hustle with muscle and even try to strive

So little botty bwoy better say your prayers

You better learn some street sense before somebody lay ya

Chorus: repeat 4x