Lyrics Ball - Tech N9ne

Another story from my house on 5816 Forest
Life is really crazy
My people had to raise me
In the sick conditions of these streets
Dealers and killers didn't love me least
This is the story of a kid who dug Steve's beats

The school I be say truce
Right after school I go, one house from me is DJ Juice
He let the beats play, every day it give me a boost
Then the decay of the DJ I see shake loose
From hip-hop he started to flip rocks
The mixing records, it stopped
I did watch Steve pull up in beautiful cars on this block
Velour sweatsuits, many gold chains
Displaying big watts of grip knots
Flashing things, a year ago he did not
I was curious, he went from normal to luxurious
I made my way over to him even though my stepdaddy would be furious
I said, "What's up Steve?" he looked and smiled at me
I said, "I miss how it used to be, you spinning h-i-p h-o-p"
He said

We stacking, rolling, straight balling
Getting it in just balling
One more time I say
We stacking, rolling, straight balling
Getting it in just balling, ayy

My block is poppin', foreign cars with tires, bam
I see beautiful women hanging with Steve and his hired hands
I would always see this dude who was Steve's admired fam
And we look up to him on this block because he is a fireman
That's a big thing in 1980, my question to him might seem crazy
"Mr. Dowdy, my desire's just to take a ride on your firetruck"
He would just laugh and say, "Lil' Donnie, not too fast
'Cause this serious job I have, a kid in the way could really be bad"
Time goes on and I see a decade passes
But it's crazy I'm next to the same family on 62nd and Agnes
Woke up to feds pulling beautiful vehicles away from next door
It's a daddy bad day, now I'm thinking back when Steve used to say

We stacking, rolling, straight balling
Getting it in just balling
One more time I say
We stacking, rolling, straight balling
Getting it in just balling, ayy

Life is really crazy
My people had to raise me
In the sick conditions of these streets
Dealers and killers didn't love me least
This is the story of a kid who dug Steve's beats