[00:00.00]Dollar And A Dream (feat. AB Soul) (Explicit) - The Game/Ab Soul
[00:10.75]They say it started in the east where the apple was
[00:13.42]But out west we be throwing them apples up
[00:16.28]They say them fruit town niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:19.02]They say them tree top niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:21.74]They say them grape street niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:24.49]They say them bounty hunter niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:27.18]They say them 60 niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:29.93]They say them cedar block niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:32.87]Them 190 niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:35.55]They say them timberland niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:38.24]They say them campanella niggas gon' ride tonight
[00:40.88]Who gon' ride tonight who gon' die tonight
[00:44.34]Started with a dollar and a dream
[00:49.83]Started with a dollar and a dream
[00:54.70]We did it for the west motherf**ker like kanye
[00:57.40]Niggas get stretched out on la cienega
[00:59.67]Got three thousand stacks I ain't talking 'bout andre
[01:02.86]I put it on your head I ain't talking no toupee
[01:05.56]See I stayed the same ain't go weird like lupe
[01:08.42]Squeeze on this trigger like ain't no more toothpaste
[01:11.00]You ain't gon' do sh*t b**ch of course I is
[01:13.60]You want this money you gon' have to drive the course I did
[01:16.33]I got that weight foundry talking 'bout the porsche out here
[01:19.06]You in the nosebleeds come down to where the courtside is
[01:22.86]How a ni**a with a rojo rag end up in soho
[01:25.71]Bag any b**ch walking with a solo swag
[01:28.11]You think you ballin' in that four do' jag nah
[01:30.80]In tom fords with a mk bag nah
[01:33.53]Give you a bird's eye view of the streets
[01:35.78]Ni**a welcome to compton take you to carson next week
[01:38.45]Ab soul
[01:38.94]Started with a dollar and a dream and a pistol
[01:41.82]On the corner rag hangin' slangin' crystal
[01:44.53]I said you gangbanging let me see credentials
[01:47.24]And when I pull this gun out you know how this go
[01:50.44]Started with a dollar and a dream
[01:52.33]Look at me now look at me now
[01:56.04]Started with a dollar and a dream
[02:00.29]I was fathered by the bastards
[02:03.36]Pardon my mannerisms
[02:04.34]The curtiss magnet that managed without the metal with him
[02:07.32]How the hell I did it I let god ad lib it
[02:09.44]I put that on leetwood I ain't lying one sentence
[02:12.54]B**ch I started with a dollar and a dream
[02:15.08]We went from helping old ladies with their groceries at alpha beta
[02:18.69]For a couple quarters to a baby hustling something major
[02:21.36]We had to grow up sooner or later but
[02:23.62]I'm so del amo my mama still stay off anna lee
[02:26.72]Carson across my belly I prove you lost already
[02:29.40]Roccett my big brother bishop let the door crack
[02:32.10]Game took me on my first tour now look where we at
[02:34.81]In the studio getting paid to reflect on that
[02:37.84]Documenting true facts
[02:39.32]Not to mention this the documentary 2 too
[02:41.93]You do the addition in ballerina shoes
[02:44.54]Enough with the clever raps it s more important than that
[02:48.87]I put my city on the map ni**a
[02:51.50]Yeah I really put my city on the map
[02:53.74]I mean when the last time you heard carson on the track ni**a
[02:58.83]Let alone when they calling out stomping grounds on the west
[03:02.20]I'll wait
[03:05.00]Yeah that's what I thought I'm the best ni**a
[03:08.04]This the new west ni**a respect that
[03:10.65]It's top dawg all I'm missing is the red hat
[03:13.13]But don't question what pocket I had left my handkerchief
[03:15.68]I'm guilty by affiliation in many ways gangsta
[03:18.17]But let me explain something a paradox if you may
[03:21.31]I threw all on fresh supreme chuck taylors today
[03:24.28]And then I got a call from chuck taylor I'm saying
[03:26.96]The game ain't changed we still changing the game
[03:29.47]Started with a dollar and a dream and a pistol
[03:32.22]On the corner rag hangin' slangin' crystal
[03:34.87]I said you gangbanging let me see credentials
[03:37.68]And when I pull this gun out you know how this go
[03:40.78]Started with a dollar and a dream
[03:42.73]Look at me now look at me now
[03:46.27]Started with a dollar and a dream
[03:51.77]My first album was a set up
[03:53.78]I was the little ni**a pac was talking to
[03:56.07]When he said keep your head up
[03:57.28]Cause he knew what I would be facing after his demise
[03:59.71]Jayceon had to pitch them pies better life than flipping fries
[04:02.55]I'm the one the crips despise
[04:03.74]Move the yay or kiss the sky for having dreams that 50 died
[04:06.71]Eulogy by mary blige
[04:07.95]Hopped up in that enterprise had to stop a genocide
[04:10.66]Went from underdog to watching top dawg and kendrick rise
[04:13.44]Now tell me can I testify pull over trying to rest for 5
[04:16.24]On a block no tint on the wraith left these kids mesmerized
[04:18.80]They ask me how I did it how I got it
[04:20.56]Say I'm king you looking brolic
[04:22.11]I put them weights down start practicing lyrical exercise
[04:24.49]Tell me who the next to die probably who the next in line
[04:26.99]They got me battling ghost cause I'm the illest one alive
[04:30.20]That's word to pac pun biggie why I stand as my city
[04:33.08]It's wise to run a train you couldn't f**k with me
[04:35.64]Ever since I saved my coast it's been born again
[04:39.10]If I ain't sh*t then who the king of california then
[04:41.76]Who could out rap me
[04:43.16]Now think about if the same ni**a you bout to say can run up
[04:46.06]And out strap me yeah
[04:47.55]Out trap me yeah out gat me
[04:49.98]I mean think about it exactly
[04:52.79]Speaking matter of factly I'm down playing that actually
[04:55.22]Call me game I ain't one still I get paid like an athlete
[04:58.17]Do the math after the math doc two in the bag
[05:00.69]Lived up to expectations dre took me first in the draft
[05:03.55]Now who the f**k want what
[05:05.80]Nobody survives so look alive when them impalas in the cut
[05:08.98]Started with a dollar and a dream and a pistol
[05:11.59]On the corner rag hangin' slangin' crystal
[05:14.12]I said you gangbanging let me see credentials
[05:16.79]And when I pull this gun out you know how this go
[05:20.11]Started with a dollar and a dream
[05:21.72]Look at me now look at me now
[05:25.63]Started with a dollar and a dream