Against All Odds
I know you bitch niggas is listenin’, the world is mine / Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up / Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up
To my niggas that went out
In line on duty
21-gun salute!
One love, one thug, one nation
(Let’s get down, let’s do this!)
21-gun salute! (Come on, yeah, let’s do this!)
21-gun salute! (Come on, come on, let’s do this!)
All the time I be…
Hopin’ my true motherfuckers know
This be the realest shit I ever wrote
Against all odds
Up in the studio gettin’ blowed
To the truest shit I ever spoke
21-gun salute
Dressed in fatigues
Black jeans and boots
Disappeared in the crowd
All you seen was troops
This little nigga named Nas
Think he live like me
Talking ’bout he left the hospital
Took five like me
You live in fantasies, nigga
I reject your deposit
We shook Dre punk ass
Now he out of the closet
Mobb Deep wonder why a nigga blowed ’em out
Next time grown folks talk, nigga
Close your mouth!
Peep me
I take this war shit deeply
Done seen too many real players fall
To let these bitch niggas beat me
Puffy, let’s be honest
You a punk or you will see me with gloves
Remember that shit you said to Vibe
About me bein’ a thug?
And you can tell the people you roll with
Whatever you want
But you and I know what’s goin’ on
Payback
I knew you bitch niggas from way back
Witness me strapped with MAC’s
Knew I wouldn’t play that
All you old rappers tryin’ to advance
It’s all over now
Take it like a man
Niggas lookin’ like Larry Holmes
Flabby and sick
(Look at De La Soul!)
Tryin’ to player hate on my shit
You eat a fat dick
Let it be known
This is how you made me
Lovin’ how I got you niggas crazy
Against all odds
Hopin’ my thug motherfuckers know
This be the realest shit I ever wrote
Against all odds
Up in the studio, gettin’ blowed
To the truest shit I ever spoke
Against all odds
Hopin’ my true motherfuckers know
This be the realest shit I ever wrote
I heard he was light-skinned, stocky
With a Haitian accent
Jewelry, fast cars and he’s
(Say his name)
Known for flashin’
(What’s his name?)
Listen while I take you back
(Nigga say his name!)
And lace this rap
A real live tale about a snitch
Named Haitian Jack
Knew he was workin’ for the feds
Same crime, different trials, nigga
Picture what he said
And did I mention?
Promised to payback, Jimmy Henchman
In due time
I know you bitch niggas is listenin’
The world is mine
Set me up, wet me up
Niggas stuck me up
Heard the guns bust
But you tricks never shut me up
Touch one of mine
On everything I owe
I will destroy everything you touch
Play the game, nigga
All out warfare
Eye for eye
Last words to a bitch nigga
“Why you lie?”
Now you gotta watch your back, now
Watch your front
Here we come
Gunshots to Tut
Now you stuck
Fuck the rap game, nigga
This M.O.B.
So believe me
We enemies
I go against all odds
I’m hopin’ my true motherfuckers know
This be the realest shit I ever wrote
Against all odds
Up in the studio, gettin’ blowed
To the truest shit I ever spoke
Against all odds
Hopin’ my true motherfuckers know
This be the realest shit I ever wrote
Puffy gettin’ bribed like a bitch
To hide that fact
He did some shit he shouldn’t have did
So we ride him for that
And that nigga that was down for me
Restin’ dead
Switched sides
Guess his new friends wanted him dead
Probably be murdered
For the shit that I said
I bring the real
Be a legend
Breathin’ or dead
Lord, listen to me
God don’t like ugly
“It Was Written”
Ayo, Nas
Your whole damn style is bitten
You heard my melody
Read about my life in the papers
All my run-ins with authorities
Felonious capers
Now you wanna live my life
So what’s a “Hausa”, Nas?
Niggas that don’t rhyme right
You’ve seen too many movies
Load ’em up against the wall
Close his eyes
Since you lie, you die
Goodbye!
Let the real live niggas
Hear the truth from me
What would you do if you was me?
Nigga
Against all odds
Hopin’ my true motherfuckers know
This be the realest shit I ever wrote
Against all odds
Up in the studio gettin’ blowed
To the truest shit I ever spoke
Against all odds
Hopin’ my true motherfuckers know
This be the realest shit I ever wrote
Against all odds
Up in the studio gettin’ blowed
To the truest shit I ever spoke
Against all odds
(21-gun salute)
One love to my true thug niggas
(Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw!)
21-gun salute to my niggas
That die in the line of duty
Representin’ to the fullest
Bein’ soldiers with military minds
That play the rules of the game
21-gun salute
I salute you, my niggas
Stay strong
I ride for you
I rhyme for you
I roll for you
It’s all for you
To all you bitch-made niggas
I’m comin’ for you
Against all odds
I don’t care who the fuck you is
You touch me
I’m at you
I know you motherfuckers didn’t think I forgot
Hell nah, I ain’t forgot, nigga
I just remember what you told me
You said don’t go to war
Unless I got my money right
I got my money right now
Now I want war