Eastside Tales - B.o.B

Shouts out to all my hoods across the A gettin it in

My Eastside niggaz, my Westside niggaz

Big shouts to the Northside («DJ Spinz, fuck nigga!»)

I could go on and on for days and days and song for song yeah

I could go on and on for days and days and song for song yeah

It’s 'bout that Eastside tale, yeah I can tell you 'bout that Eastside tale

It’s 'bout that Eastside tale, let me tell you 'bout another Eastside tale

(«M… L… K!!»)

Let me say again!

You’ll never know that no matter what song

what the concept is or whatever, I’m tryin to keep it 100

So I may not be givin you the story but the story got the truth in it

You feel me?

(«SCREAM!!»)

Oh yeah, believe it, I can tell many secrets

But the mo' I talk about them that’s just the mo' that you see 'em

Yup — I’m a believer, not sayin I’m religious

But I see somethin wrong with how we livin in my city

Why everybody from Decatur wanna be a sanger?

or be an entertainer, or to be rich and famous?

You see us on TV, you sit for hours and you stare

Not sayin that we Gods, but that’s what they try to make us

And like I said — even though I’m tryin to get to paid

I ain’t fin' to do what they want me to do dawg

Realer than that I’m from Decatur

Decatur’s a city that’s gon' be on yo' mind soon as you think about it

Hell yeah I’m from the Eastside

Ain’t sayin it just to get the streets behind me

Ain’t like slum, but I know where I’m from

So I spit it for the slums and the street society

It’s yo' block that I’m beatin down

So that real shit’s what I’m speakin 'bout

Now I can probably, tell you a lie

to tell the stories about people’s problems

But everything that I got to say is

contagious like

Don’t play ball but I’m Atlanta’s Bravest

So if I’m fake then it’s not today

Now I can sit up here and lie up in my rhyme

and tell you everything is fine but y’all ain’t blind — nah!