Started as a Baby - Jon LaJoie

Yo!

Uh!

Motherfuckers out there be talking about started from the bottom,

Starting with nothing, ha!

Y’all don’t know shit!

That don’t compare to the struggle I had to go through

Y’all better recognize, motherfuckers!

Cause me…

I started as a baby

A tiny little baby

Now look at me, uh

Now look at me

When everybody look at me, yo, they can tell that I’m a grown-up

Six-foot-one, facial hair, with the coffee cup

People saying 'whassup' when they see me on the block

Cause they know I’m an adult and I know how to talk

But back in the day I couldn’t talk, I was a baby

I didn’t even know what English was, it sounds crazy

I couldn’t even walk, my baby legs were way too weak

Look at me now communicating on my two feet

And eating solid foods whenever the fuck I want

Celery, broccoli, spaghetti, smokey cheese and croissant

But y’all, when I was a newborn child it wasn’t this way

Breast milk was the only food my stomach could take

Because I didn’t have teeth, motherfucker, I couldn’t chew

Bitch, look at me now, I’m fucking biting into fresh fruit

Saying 'Fuck you' to all the haters talking shit

Who say I was never a baby, I was born like this

Bitch, just because you see me sitting on a toilet

Don’t mean I don’t know what it’s like to feel a diaper with a load of shit

I drive to work every day to go make some dollar bills

The reason I can do this is cause I have basic motor skills

Which I developed over time, but, yo, back in the day

This shit was way too complicated for my tiny baby brain

No comprehension of the concept of motorized transportation

Didn’t even understand the concept of changing locations

In the car seat, the stroller, yo, I didn’t give a fuck

Just as long as when I cried I had a titty to suck

But I come a long way, today I drive my own car

As a baby I never thought I would make it this far

Contemplating the future was literally impossible,

A dearth of empirical knowledge can be a huge obstacle

But being born a baby didn’t stop me, I am not a quitter

I kept being alive, so over time, my body got bigger

Life experience and education helped develop my brain

Look at me now, I’m a grown-up, things done changed!

Being a baby wasn’t easy

But it made me who I am

If you were never a baby

Well, you wouldn’t understand

It sounds crazy, but before being a baby

I was split in half (two parts)

Half in my mom, the other half

Was in my dad’s nutsack (means his testicles)

That’s right, bitch, I even used to be microscopic

Shot out of my dad’s dick into mom’s uterus

Nine months later I was sucking on my mom’s tit

Thirty years later I recorded this fucking hit!

Oh, yeah… I’m getting paper!

Shit, when I was a baby, I didn’t even know what paper was

I didn’t even know that you could exchange it for goods and services

I didn’t even know what goods and services were

What about you, MC Vagina?

(When I was a baby, I didn’t even know that owning a lot of guns

Was the best thing you could do for safety

When I was a baby, I was sooo stupid!)