Busta Rhymes How Much We Grew Lyrics

Intro:
yeah this next joint right here...
is dedicated to all my n____s that I love
all the n____s that held it down with me through the whole s___
from the beginning of the fort, to the now current day of the fort
from the beginning and the birth of this whole s___
to the now success of this whole s___
and all my peoples that be holdin it down for their peoples
ridin with them through thick and thin, love y'all n____s
peep it

CHORUS 2X:
1, 2
Everytime I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my n____s
1, 2
All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my n____s

[verse 1]
now, this how the s___ all started
was like doctors of ? I was being conceived kinda r_____ed
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 s___
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

[over chorus]
that s___, that type s___ be buggin me out cuz...
y'know n____s, n____ look back
to them days when you know s___ is kinda ill like y'knawmean?
n____, n____s like fall out, y'knawmean?
m_________ers is, n____s live long enough to look back and s___ and
laugh and s___, y'knawmean?

[verse 2]
young and learnin s___ that started is thick
started inquiring alot, started using my d___
like I knew it all but I wasn't really knowin and s___
buggin when my pubic hairs started growin and s___
now hold up, a young n____ now a couple years pass
searchin desperate to experience my first piece of a__
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
n____ 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 n____ wanted things and wanted money quick
ambitious on the Amtrak, wit a quarter brick
my n____, 1, 2
it got hot in the streets
my n____ campaign the cops who started walkin the beat, my n____
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 s___
strugglin, so then I start f___in 'round with this rap s___
moved to Long Island and got up with a few n____s
believin we could show the world we was the Leaders Of the New n____s
a crew of n____s that was hot like an infirmary
blazin til they started actin like b____es internally
so now, Flipmode is how we own it fo' sho
tried to f___ with n____s but I couldn't do it no more
fo rilla, 1, 2
and then I got with some n____s
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 s___ and take care of moms
give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur
hold it down for all my n____s til the movement is over
it's kinda beautiful

CHORUS repeats to end

[over chorus]
yeah, y'knawmean?
how we have acquired so much
where we can look back and, and actually laugh and lavish
in the, in the, in the moment
as we prime in life
look at how we, we struggled all this way and went through the bullshit
m_________in, little obstacles
situations they try to set up for n____s to f___in fall off
and lose they hard earned s___, y'knowmean?
I holds it down for my n____s though
give my last to my n____s
all the n____s that was wit me through the whole s___
love y'all n____s, word
my Flipmode n____s, man