Busta Rhymes — How Much We Grew

[Intro] Yeah, this next joint right here Is dedicated to all my niggas that I love All the niggas that held it down with me through the whole shit From the beginning of the fort, to the now current day of the fort From the beginning and the birth of this whole shit To the now success of this whole shit And all my peoples that be holdin' it down for their peoples Ridin with them through thick and thin, love y'all niggas Peep it [Chorus] 1, 2 Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas 1, 2 All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas 1, 2 Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas 1, 2 All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas [Verse 1] Now, this how the shit 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 shit 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] 1, 2 (That shit, that type shit be buggin me out 'cause) Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas (Y'know niggas, nigga look back) 1, 2 (To them days when you know shit is kinda ill like y'knawmean?) All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas (Nigga, niggas like fall out, y'knawmean?) 1, 2 Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas (Motherfuckers is, niggas live long enough to look back and shit and) 1, 2 All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas (Laugh and shit, y'knawmean?) [Verse 2] Young and learnin' shit that started is thick Started inquiring a lot, started using my dick Like I knew it all but I wasn't really knowin' and shit Buggin when my pubic hairs started growin' and shit Now hold up, a young nigga 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 Nigga 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 nigga wanted things and wanted money quick Ambitious on the Amtrak, with a quarter brick My nigga, 1, 2 It got hot in the streets My nigga campaign the cops who started walkin' the beat, my nigga 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 shit Strugglin', so then I start fuckin 'round with this rap shit Moved to Long Island and got up with a few niggas Believin we could show the world we was the Leaders Of the New niggas A crew of niggas that was hot like an infirmary Blazin' 'til they started actin' like bitches internally So now, Flipmode is how we own it fo' sho Tried to fuck with niggas but I couldn't do it no more Fo rilla, 1, 2 And then I got with some niggas 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 shit and take care of moms Give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur Hold it down for all my niggas til the movement is over It's kinda beautiful [Chorus] 1, 2 (Yeah, y'knawmean?) Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas (How we have acquired so much) 1, 2 (Where we can look back and, and actually laugh and lavish) All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas (In the, in the, in the moment) 1, 2 (As we prime in life) Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas (Look at how we, we struggled all this way and went through the bullshit) 1, 2 (Motherfuckin', little obstacles) All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas (Situations they try to set up for niggas to fuckin' fall off) 1, 2 (And lose they hard earned shit, y'knowmean?) Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas (I holds it down for my niggas though) 1, 2 (Give my last to my niggas) All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas (All the niggas that was wit me through the whole shit) 1, 2 (Love y'all niggas, word) Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas (Love y'all niggas, word) 1, 2 (My Flipmode niggas, man) All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas 1, 2 Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas 1, 2 All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas 1, 2 Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas, niggas, niggas