[ti:Born 2 Rap (Explicit)] [ar:The Game] [al:Born 2 Rap (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Born 2 Rap (Explicit) - The Game [00:16.61]Lyrics by:Titus E Johnson/Cash Jones (ASCAP)/Jayceon Taylor/Stanley Benton [00:33.22]I remember I was rappin' for a year and half [00:35.87]Couple tears in a glass [00:37.06]Some gunshots then I appeared on the map [00:39.36]Bust it [00:40.04]In the studio [00:41.14]Way in the back with Busta [00:42.94]Next mornin' back to weighin' the crack [00:45.12]F**k it [00:45.75]What if Dre don't make an album out my demo [00:48.11]At least me [00:48.82]Snoop [00:49.02]And Nate Dogg smoked some indo [00:51.02]Mailman told me [00:52.05]"Be patient" thanks for the info [00:53.98]Next thing I know [00:54.73]I'm in Hits Factory with Timbo [00:56.95]Came back and threw the Range on Lorenzos [00:59.39]I'm reminiscin' [01:00.37]Lookin' out this Lamborghini window [01:02.57]My Granny told me I'd be bigger than Nintendo [01:04.93]Game [01:05.45]Let the top down so she could scream her grandson name [01:08.47]We on our way back to the nursin' home [01:10.82]Listenin' to Just Blaze beats to put these verses on [01:13.85]My life almost got cut short on the 'Math [01:16.10]'Til Jigga told Dre"Hate it or Love it" was a smash [01:19.44]I sit alone in my room in the zone writin' classics [01:23.71]Who rap better than me [01:25.22]I sit alone in my room in the zone writin' classics [01:29.32]Who rap better than me [01:30.83]I sit alone in my room in the zone writin' classics [01:34.93]Who do it better than me [01:37.83]Who rap better than me [01:40.63]Who rap better than me [01:42.08]S**t sound like I found the Fountain of Youth [01:44.09]It's like the bald-head Game steppin' back in the booth [01:47.10]True [01:47.87]I'm the only n***a rap like I do [01:49.89]Proof [01:50.70]Who survived after 300 Bars [01:52.72]Who [01:53.45]Nobody [01:53.98]I'm still countin' these bodies [01:55.51]Still countin' these millions [01:56.88]Still make everybody quiet when I walk in the lobby of that Interscope buildin' [02:01.25]I still drop one line and have 'em all in they feelings [02:03.80]I know you miss me but I just been in Calabasas [02:06.87]Bought the crib far just to stop from whoopin' n***a's asses [02:09.64]I'm the definition of classic [02:11.85]I'm the feelin' fans used to get [02:13.57]When they rip the s**t up out the plastic [02:15.99]How many legendary studios got my plaques in it [02:18.51]New Lambo truck [02:19.49]Let's see if I can start from scratch in it [02:21.63]And I started from the bottom of the block [02:23.83]Hate it or love it the underdog still on top [02:26.62]N***a [02:27.24]I sit alone in my room in the zone writin' classics [02:31.44]Who rap better than me [02:32.88]I sit alone in my room in the zone writin' classics [02:37.15]Who rap better than me [02:38.56]I sit alone in my room in my zone writin' classics [02:42.64]Who do it better than me [02:45.57]Who rap better than me [02:48.39]Who rap better than me [02:57.95]Game was always open arms [03:00.72]You know what I mean [03:01.50]And [03:02.21]You know [03:02.53]He was the only one for a while [03:04.04]Yeah [03:04.36]From the-from the generation after the Snoop [03:06.19]Dre [03:06.64]Pac [03:07.75]So Game was-he held the position of-everybody looked to Game [03:12.75]For-for [03:13.45]You know [03:13.86]"Hey listen to my tape woo" [03:15.06]I actually met Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson [03:18.08]And I was outside on the block with like twenty of my homies [03:20.63]And [03:20.81]Um [03:21.35]I see the Range Rover [03:22.28]I'm like"That's Game right there" [03:23.28]And we all walked up to his car and I handed my CD [03:26.42]You know and on my daughter [03:27.55]He had a Glock on his on his hip [03:29.37]I mean on his lap [03:30.72]And that's what made me like [03:31.96]I ain't gon' say made me respect Game [03:33.50]I respect Game off all the things he done [03:36.14]But when we met [03:37.02]You know what I'm sayin' [03:38.04]It was um I was in the middle of my hood [03:41.27]You know with all my homies before rap [03:43.44]And Game was drivin' through solo with a [03:45.12]With a Glock in his lap [03:46.32]You know so [03:47.25]No security [03:47.91]Just solo [03:48.42]Nah [03:48.71]Nah [03:48.97]Only solo [03:49.64]Only solo