All I Need

(All that I)

(This world)

Let these fools know

(You been so good to me)

The game's been good to me

My fans been good to me

The money been good to me

All I need though is this shit

Talkin about I be rappin off track

Some of you square suckers be tryina say E-40 wack

Do your due dilligence in your research 'fore I pimp my pen

If you ain't never lived it and done it, you can't comprehend

I'm a fixture, a factor, somethin that you ain't

Respect my rank, you got none of that, point blank

I'm one of your favorite MC's favorite MC

Ask they ass, they know me

Bet you they tell you "That boy right there got flows and creativity

That's the big homie"

I'm authentic and real, I'm far from bein phoney

Originality is a must whenever I bust

Before I got into the rap game I was hustlin on the hush

Rock it up [?] dust, same color as pie crust

Penitentiary chances, shackles, chains and handcuffs

The first rapper talkin about triple-beam scales

Choppers, drought seasons and shit like that

I got some real niggas that'll vouch for that

Might not know how to freestyle but my rhymes'll paint a picture

Fuck bein a lyricist, I'm a fuckin game spitter

Pandemonium and chaos the price of bein a boss

That come with the package, I'm a savage, slightly throwed off

Grew up on $hort and Freddie B, Magic Mike and Calvin T

Dolemite and Blowfly, KRS and Ice-T

Melle Mel and Spoonie, just to name a few

UTFO, Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa, too

(You been so good to me)

The game's been good to me

My fans been good to me

The money been good to me

G-O-D been good to me

You all I need

You all I need

You all I need

You all I need

I paved the way for indie labels

Ask Master P and Birdman what I brought to the table

Out the trunk independently

Sold hundreds of thousands of records with no video or airplay

Me and my uncle St. Charles

Suga, D-Shot, Legit, The Click, legends in this shit

But hold up, it don't stop there

If I got a dollar for every word I made up I'd be a billionaire

I'm the past and the present

I was sayin shit 20 years ago y'all niggas just now sayin

I done seen rappers come and go

Get they 15 minutes of fame, then you don't hear about them no mo'

Yeah, I done had my ups and downs

But the cold part about it is E-40 still around

I don't know why these suckers keep sayin I need to get my mumblin ass out the way

When I got a passion for rappin, partner, I don't do it just for pay

You oughta come to one of my concerts, you oughta come to one of my shows

I do my old school and my new school songs and all of them bitches go

They don't build 'em like me no mo', I'm a motherfuckin pro

A living legend, collection of classics, thought that you should know

You can't erase me out of history

I'm from the same place as CC

[?] Vallejo California, if you blink you might miss it

(You been so good to me)

The game's been good to me

My fans been good to me

The money been good to me

G-O-D been good to me

You all I need

You all I need

You all I need

You all I need

Third verse, more than half my life

Since teenagers, I gotta thank my wife

Since we was little young cubs

Born in the struggle, broke, livin off of love

This is the actual, not a non-theatrical movie

I thank God for my sons, Issue and Droop-E

Even though they divorced, my mama and my daddy

My sister, my brothers, my cousins and my family

I love y'all, and my fans when they hated

Were down with my futuristic ass way before I made it

And all my real ones with some balls

Went out funkin, beefin, feudin, niggas made some phone calls

Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta - Pow!

Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta - Pow!

Ratata-tat, put him on his back

Bust a sucker head open till the tender fat

The rap game's been good with me

Stuck when me when I didn't even have a penny

You lames can say what you like

But I been in it for 22, I gotta be doin somethin right

That means I'm not a overnight

Overnight sensation, didn't happen over night

I broke barriers for independence, mayne, I set the tone

They probably won't 'preciate me till I'm gone

(You been so good to me)

The game's been good to me

My fans been good to me

The money been good to me

G-O-D been good to me

You all I need

You all I need

You all I need

You all I need

(You been so good to me)