Yo son, what the deal,
son? What's really hood, son?
The word is bond, shit is real, shit is real
Yo son, this block is dead
Nigga need to go over here
and pop off real quick
Yo, I gotta get that guap by any means
The puberty came,
started hittin' them cuties with game
And the truancy came (uh)
Started cuttin' in just class,
I was comin' all fast, I was new to game
Used to playin' on TV courtesy
of video music box
Plus knew a lot of hustlas, goin' O.T.,
comin' back with the new Hip Hop
Like E- 40 holding down the yay (that yay),
N.W.A. in L.A.
OutKast from the A- Town,
way down in Houston, they play the UGK
I walk and talk kinda fast and thought
of as a New York kinda rhymer
But must New Yorkers got family in South
and North Carolina (c'mon)
L.A. is little Alabama They
walk and they talk with
a country grammar
New York think everybody else sound country,
so they started, started callin 'em 'Bamas
Down south where we buy them hammers,
down south where we sell them drugs
Down south where life is cheap,
where they quick to fill you with them slugs
It's nothin',
I'm from New York but I got country cousins
It's nothin',
you stay connected by the slang you bustin'
Want it simply put? You can't rip me,
when I spit for the set, everyone free
I'ma underground king,
nigga Pimp C free
Word up to my man Bun B, what?
your name is nothin'
Growin' up in P.A.,
I knew nobody out there talked like us
Nothin' but that county slang,
what up, dog? What up, cuzz?
Late night you see us guzzlin' 40's,
menthols, wine and weed
Sittin' on the back porch,
Then along came Geto Boys,
Raheem and the Royal Flush
Rap- A- Lot Records based out in Houston,
represents for us
OG style, they cars,
ditch that 4 and too much trouble
Our squad is gangsta nig ga,
put it down for H- Town on the double
So I said it's time to hustle,
got down with my brother C
Put together UGK and shit,
the rest is history
We make hits by the dozen,
put it down when they said we wasn't
Trust me it's nothin',
just another day in the life for country cousins
It's nothin', I'm from New York
but I got country cousins
It's nothin',
you stay connected by the slang you bustin'
Want it simply put? You can't rip me,
when I spit for the set, everyone free
I'ma underground king,
nigga Pimp C free
Word up to my man Bun be, what?
It's nothin',
I'm from New York but I got country cousins
It's nothin',
you stay connected by the slang you bustin'
The things you bustin', the game you hustlin',
the days you're cuttin'
The flame you cuffin' and the lames you snuffin',
your name is nothin'
Chitlin' tour with
my mic in my hand
Shittin' on these jealous
niggaz in the new world clan
I wouldn't trade it for nothin',
only a crazy man would
I represent for the whole south,
I made it just for my hood
The pimpin's good (i got cousins)
I got cousins (I got cousins), country
cousins (country cousins)
Like blood that's thicker than water
(it's nothin'), down dirty 'cross the border
I got cousins (I got cousins), country
cousins (country cousins)
Like blood that's thicker than water
(it's nothin'), down dirty 'cross the border
They're my country cousins
Talib Kweli 
