A quick story from rags to riches

Comin' to you from Supernova (AKA Left Eye)

Give it to 'em, give it to 'em, give it to 'em (ha ha)

I'm goin', I'm goin' from rags to riches (ha ha ha ha)

I'm goin', I'm goin' from rags to riches (ha ha ha ha)

I started off as an army brat (Atten-hut!)

Seven months old class act

I was racing down the block

As a matter of fact

I could've been a track star (I guess I am)

I stacked bars

Comin' through your system in them phat cars (uh)

Cross country isn't that far

It's like I'm in the race, don't know who you cats are

See one day I fell from grace, landed in this place

My innocence erased from talkin' back to my momma's face

Like I was lost in space

Without a trace, cuttin' class, bein' Mrs. Fast Ass

Gettin' blasted with my dad, got caught up in the flash

My Nana goin' straight mad, had to make the dash

Saw a fella through the streets

Who would give anything for cash

And anything to crash in anybody's path

If everything I had

Look at what I could grab (check it)

And it was just a bunch of niggas

I'm goin' from rags to riches

From rags to riches

I'm goin' from rags to riches

I bet you I'mma be the richest

I'm goin' from rags to riches

From rags to riches

I'm goin' from rags to riches

I bet you I'mma be the richest

I'm goin' from rags to riches

From rags to riches

I'm goin' from rags to riches

I bet you I'mma be the richest

I'm goin' from rags to riches

From rags to riches

I'm goin' from rags to riches

I bet you I'mma be the richest

Ding ding the bell ring, landlord causin' a scene

Mama diggin' for her green, last dolla (dolla bill)

To pay for the phone bill, electric bill, water bill

How you feel when you make a mill?

And move your mama to a house on the hill

With picture framed TV's on the wall

Hard and I'm pissed when she wanna ball

A cell phone for when she wanna call

She ballin