Sacramento Legend
This song is stuffed with metaphors. So if you could understand what I'm kicking, cool! But if you can't understand what I'm kicking, then most likely it's not for you. This may be a negative song to some. But it has A VERY POSITIVE MESSAGE towards the end. The story I tell is over 20 years ago. (So IT IS WHAT IT IS.) We can't change our past, we could only change our future and try to brighten it.
SACRAMENTO LEGEND
A yo,
It's your boy Rob B.
Getting ready to take yawl back.
Check it.
(vs. 1)
I got a little story. And it goes like this.
I was just a Young G. Banging 9-1-6!
Hanging out on the corner of Armington and Amherst. (1500!!!)
And we could blow the spot! If brothers put their plans first!
I used to come together with Players In Red UniformS.
Play us for our money. You'll get stuck like a unicorn!
And torn!!! With the horn!!! I'm a lion! I'm roaring!
When you see the birds soar. Know The King was born! (New Jack!)
Slanging rocks! On the block! Got my glock in the trunk!
I'm not a killer like Pac said. But in case a fool wanted funk,
I got the heater! Got the fever! Got the cream! What you needa???
Talking 20 years ago! You could hit me on the beeper!
Melle and Toine, you could catch them hitting reefer!
Some were hitting base! Not the kind out your speakers!
I'll tell you to your face! You aint nothing but a tweaker!
(hook)
I'm a Sacramento Legend!!! (repeats)
(When legends are told, sit down.)
Ask about me!
(vs 2)
I was all about my paper! Sometimes I'd roll a solo!
Girls used to call me KING OF ONE HOUR PHOTO!
I used to be a Player. Getting girls by the boatload!
Money in our pockets everyday was the G-Code! (What's up Melle???)
Let me ask yawl. Who's the flyest of all???
Like MJ Off The Wall. They say that boy Rob could ball!!!
I'm more Legendary than the drive-ins off of Bradshaw!
In and out of lanes! Making cuts like a hacksaw!
Stacking with the green! Never lack! With the racks tall!
IF I TAKE A FALL AND DISAPPEAR. I'LL BE BACK YAWL!!!
So wait! For The Day! That The King array!
If you keep your hopes alive, THE WHOLE CITY'LL STAY.
(Not just putting a arena in Downtown Sacramento. You know what Im saying? My lyrics go way deeper than that! My city go way back! From the hood, to the bridge, to the Capitol.)
Just know THAT AS A CITY we could blow up together!
We're more Legendary than Theus! Who wanna see us???
Put the 9-1-6 on our shirts!!! They wanna be us!!!
(A youngster) A yo Rob B, Rob B, Rob B, Rob B??? What you talking bout Sacramento Legend??? You ain't no legend fool! We don't know you!!! Don't nobody know you! We ain't never heard of you!!!
(Rob B getting at the youngster) A wait, wait, wait, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up!!!! Don't be trying to run up on no OG disrespecting youngster!!! Just like I'm not disrespecting your skinny jeans!!! Now check this out, cop a seat and pop your ear. There ain't nothing new up under the sun, it may be done a different way, but it's all the same. Now when I was a youngster like you I ripped and ran ALL THESE STREETS!!! From the south side MEADOWVIEW, to the EAST SIDE PIRU!!! To the NORTH SIDE PIRU!!! Now am I glamorizing selling drugs??? Naw!!!! Or am I telling you to be gang affiliated??? Naw!!! In fact, what I am telling you to do is stay in school, get your education, and do something positive with your YOUNG LIFE! Before you end up in a wheelchair, or the penitentiary, or a cemetery somewhere. Now gone and get up up on outta here! And go ask ya daddy or go ask your uncle about me!!! And heed the words of a Sacramento Legend!!!
(Youngster walking away) What the hell the was he talking about earlier??? "Like MJ off the wall and he could ball???" Was he talking about Michael Jackson or was he talking about Michael Jordan??? These got damn rappers and their got damn metaphors!!! I just never understand them!!!! And I'm not asking my daddy or my uncle nothing!!!