(Yeah, yeah)

(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

I was just a young boy

Raised out in Carson

Ambla Elementary

Principal Dr. Larson

Me and my godbrotha

Tyrin Davis

Walkin down the hallways

He got all the ladies

I was just a nappy head

Livin on the 9 block

Brandy went to Bedcross

I was at the chronic spot

Did a lil' rooster

And my homey shantwain

And the homey Big B

Put me on the game

The big homey solo

Told me not to bang

He told me don't put

My career to a shame

But I did, anyway

And I got in trouble but

I had the hookup on the hundred dolla double ups

MyE-dog... he had the flow

And when I snuck out my window

I used to go smoke up his endo

Oh

Cen... ter... view

(I grew up in the little town called)

Cen... (oh yea) ter... view (oh, yes I did)

(I did a little bit of dirt in)

Cen... ter...(oh, yes I did) view

(aww yes I did)

My dad was always at Church

Working in his office

And my cousin Ryan got a

Scholarship to college

Everything start happening

All so quick- fast

I got on a TV show

And started to make cash

My sister's on the radio

Banging through the stereo

I remember when we used to go

Skate at Skate Depot

Damn those were the days

Things just ain't the same

And to my little homie D-O

You gotta be careful in this game

Cen... ter (oh yes you do)...view

(Listen, I was raised in a little town called)

Cen... (oh) ter... (yea) view (you see)