Busta Rhymes - How Much We Grew lyrics

[Intro:] yeah this next joint right here... is dedicated to all my n***as that I love all the n***as that held it down with me through the whole sh** from the beginning of the fort, to the now current day of the fort from the beginning and the birth of this whole sh** to the now success of this whole sh** and all my peoples that be holdin it down for their peoples ridin with them through thick and thin, love y'all n***as peep it [CHORUS 2X:] 1, 2 Everytime I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my n***as 1, 2 All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my n***as [verse 1] now, this how the sh** 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** 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**, that type sh** be buggin me out cuz... y'know n***as, n***a look back to them days when you know sh** is kinda ill like y'knawmean? n***a, n***as like fall out, y'knawmean? motherf**ers is, n***as live long enough to look back and sh** and laugh and sh**, y'knawmean? [verse 2] young and learnin sh** that started is thick started inquiring alot, started using my dick like I knew it all but I wasn't really knowin and sh** buggin when my pubic hairs started growin and sh** now hold up, a young n***a now a couple years pa** searchin desperate to experience my first piece of a** 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***a 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***a wanted things and wanted money quick ambitious on the Amtrak, wit a quarter brick my n***a, 1, 2 it got hot in the streets my n***a campaign the cops who started walkin the beat, my n***a 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** strugglin, so then I start f**in 'round with this rap sh** moved to Long Island and got up with a few n***as believin we could show the world we was the Leaders Of the New n***as a crew of n***as that was hot like an infirmary blazin til they started actin like b**hes internally so now, Flipmode is how we own it fo' sho tried to f** with n***as but I couldn't do it no more fo rilla, 1, 2 and then I got with some n***as 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** and take care of moms give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur hold it down for all my n***as 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** motherf**in, little obstacles situations they try to set up for n***as to f**in fall off and lose they hard earned sh**, y'knowmean? I holds it down for my n***as though give my last to my n***as all the n***as that was wit me through the whole sh** love y'all n***as, word my Flipmode n***as, man