"Pa' Llegar A Ser Grande" (To Become Big) is a rags-to-success corrido with a chip on its shoulder. It opens with a rule his parents taught him: "Cuando estás abajo nadie se te arrima" (When you are down, nobody comes near you), and once you start climbing, the envy starts. People "les gusta verte bien, más nunca mejor que ellos" (like to see you doing well, but never better than them). Now that he has money, old acquaintances brag that they remember his beginnings, though they refused him "un paro" (a favor, Mexican slang) when he needed one.
The last verse softens. He remembers childhood nights when "dormíamos con frío, pero eso siempre sin hambre" (we slept cold, but never hungry), and lands on the moral in the title: "Pa' llegar a ser grande, humilde debe ser la persona" (to become big, a person has to be humble). Handy slang to note: feria is Mexican for money, de perro means having a dog's life, and viejones in the spoken shout-outs is a friendly "guys".