How Much We Grew - Busta Rhymes

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

Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas

All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas

Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas

All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas

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

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

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?)

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)

All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas (Laugh and

shit, y’knawmean?)

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?

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

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

Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas

All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas

Every time I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas, niggas,

niggas