When I was five years old I realized there was a road At the end I will win lots of pots of gold Never took a break, never made a mistake Took time to create cos there’s money to make To be a billionaire takes hard work for years Some nights I shedded tears while I sent up prayers Been through hard times, even worked part time In a ... store sweeping floors for dimes I was sort of a porter takin the next man’s order Breaking my back for a shack for headquarters All my manpower for four bucks an hour Took the time, I wrote rhymes in the shower Shoes are scoffed cos the road gets rough But I’ma rock it til my pockets ain’t stuffed enough All the freaks wouldn’t speak cos my checks was weak They would turn the other cheek so I started to seek A way to get a play, and maybe one day I’ll be performin up a storm for a decent pay No matter how it seems I always kept the dream All the girlies scream and suckas get creamed Dreamed about it for five years straight Finally I got a break and cut my first plate The road ain’t yellow and there ain’t no witches My name is Kool G Rap, I’m on the road to the riches
I used to stand on the block sellin cooked up rock Money bustin out my sock cos I really would clock They were for kind of fiends bringing jackets and jeans Magazines, anything, just to hustle for beans The cash was coming fast, money grew like grass People hungry for the blast that don’t even last Didn’t want to be involved but the money will getcha Getting richer and richer, the police took my picture But I still supplied, some people I knew died Murders and homicides for bottles of suicide Money, jewelry, living like a star And I wasn’t too far from a jaguar car In a small-time casino, the town’s al pacino For all of the girls, the pretty boy valentino I shot up stores and I kicked down doors Collecting scars from little neighborhood wars Many legs I broke, many necks I choked And if provoked I let the pistol smoke Loyal members in a crew now down with the game Selling nickels and dimes, sunshine or rain What I had was bad from my shoes to my pad In the first time in my life loanin money to dad Now the table’s turned and my lifestyle switches My name is Kool G Rap, I’m on the road to the riches
A thug a-mugs for drugs, he eventually bugs Looking for crack on carpets and rugs The squealers tells but the dealer still sells Little spoiled kids inheritin oil wells I was the type on the opposite side Of smoking the pipe, in a beef I got hype Cos rags to riches switches men to witches Become stitches, body bags in ditches Bloodshed, I painted the town red People fled as I put a dread’s head to bed That mean’s dead, in other words deceased Face got erased, bullets got released Bombs were planted, the kids were kidnapped In fact that was a way to get back At enemies who tried to clock g’s