Prince Ea - BET Hot 16 lyrics

[Intro: Prince Ea] What's good man, it's Prince Ea It's BET Hot 16 man What's up Just Blaze Let me tell y'all something about the truth man, listen up I said uhh, look [Verse 1: Prince Ea] I'm from the Lou, but I ain't never drove in Nelly's car We in the hood man, we drinking out of jelly jars No extra change, it's an ethnic shame When that recession came, yo we had to sell it all It hit us hard dawg, close thee accounts I'm telling y'all hard, we almost foreclosed on the house You can tell by my clothes what 'am bout I ain't had a hair cut in years, I tell you that I'm growing it out You know what 'am 'bout, devout with these Biblical concepts Inside that reptilian complex Everybody knew the Savior would arrive in that divine flesh Just not a skinny Black kid from the projects The prophecy's fulfilled, I'm here and I feel great Am I nice? how, understand, never will they That wasn't a question, instead it was a statement Translated backwards, I just lapped you with the cadence They hate this, they try to bock my shining Man they used to laugh at me when I dropped the science But they could never stop the grinding They saw me on page 25 of Vibe and started apologizing See I did it without glorifying violence Without copping wheels and grills, without rocking diamonds Without degrading women, without compromising naw If that ain't true to yourself, somebody lying