เนื้อเพลง How Much We Grew - Busta Rhymes

[Intro:]
yeah this next joint right here...
is dedicated to all my n*ggas that I love
all the n*ggas that held it down with me through the whole sh*t
from the beginning of the fort, to the now current day of the fort
from the beginning and the birth of this whole sh*t
to the now success of this whole sh*t
and all my peoples that be holdin it down for their peoples
ridin with them through thick and thin, love y'all n*ggas
peep it

[CHORUS 2X:]
1, 2
Everytime I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my n*ggas
1, 2
All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my n*ggas

[verse 1]
now, this how the sh*t 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 sh*t
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 sh*t, that type sh*t be buggin me out cuz...
y'know n*ggas, n*gga look back
to them days when you know sh*t is kinda ill like y'knawmean?
n*gga, n*ggas like fall out, y'knawmean?
motherf*ckers is, n*ggas live long enough to look back and sh*t and
laugh and sh*t, y'knawmean?

[verse 2]
young and learnin sh*t that started is thick
started inquiring alot, started using my d*ck
like I knew it all but I wasn't really knowin and sh*t
buggin when my pubic hairs started growin and sh*t
now hold up, a young n*gga 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
n*gga 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 n*gga wanted things and wanted money quick
ambitious on the Amtrak, wit a quarter brick
my n*gga, 1, 2
it got hot in the streets
my n*gga campaign the cops who started walkin the beat, my n*gga
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 sh*t
strugglin, so then I start f*ckin 'round with this rap sh*t
moved to Long Island and got up with a few n*ggas
believin we could show the world we was the Leaders Of the New n*ggas
a crew of n*ggas that was hot like an infirmary
blazin til they started actin like b*tches internally
so now, Flipmode is how we own it fo' sho
tried to f*ck with n*ggas but I couldn't do it no more
fo rilla, 1, 2
and then I got with some n*ggas
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 sh*t and take care of moms
give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur
hold it down for all my n*ggas 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 bullsh*t
motherf*ckin, little obstacles
situations they try to set up for n*ggas to f*ckin fall off
and lose they hard earned sh*t, y'knowmean?
I holds it down for my n*ggas though
give my last to my n*ggas
all the n*ggas that was wit me through the whole sh*t
love y'all n*ggas, word
my Flipmode n*ggas, man