| When I was small | 
| We had nothing at all | 
| We used to eat Grits, for dinner | 
| It was pain | 
| almost drive a man insane | 
| what we could find for | 
| to survive another day | 
| but I said nah… | 
| An old killa bee once hummed me a tune | 
| Stay up at night, don’t sleep on ya moon | 
| Four seeds in the bed, eight seeds in the room | 
| Afternoon cartoon, we would fight for the spoon | 
| Old Earth in the kitchen, yell «it's time to eat» | 
| Across the foyer, ya hear the gather of stampeding feet | 
| One pound box of sugar, and a stick of margarine | 
| A hot pot of Grits got my family from starvin' | 
| Loose with the welfare cheese, thick wit’the gravy | 
| used to suck it, straight out the bottle as a baby | 
| Steamy hot meal serve less than five minutes | 
| Big silver pot, boilin’water, salt in it House full of brothers and sisters, the pop’s missin' | 
| Pillsbury box on the stove in the kitchen | 
| Young shorties in my hood started hustlin' | 
| Packin’bags at the neighbourhood associate | 
| Growin’up, not as fortunate to have that fly shit | 
| I’m too young, no jobs’d hire me legit | 
| You walkin’down the street with ya gun in ya hand | 
| Drinkin, thinkin’of a masterplan | 
| Your Old Earth can’t afford what ya friends got | 
| So you roll up to the spot, with ya thing 'pon cock | 
| And it seems worth the takin', stomach achin' | 
| Morning star Reggie makin’go good with the Grits | 
| Now let’s take it back for real | 
| when we used to build at ghetto big wheels | 
| with the shoppin’cart wheels, and wood to nail the seat on Girls skippin’rope in the street | 
| the Summer heat, left the jelly prints stuck to they feet | 
| Skelly chief, flippin’baseball cards for keeps | 
| Momma said it’s gettin’late, and it’s time to come eat |