[Intro Nas] You ever dance with the devil under the pale moonlight? Desperados, travellin What the f**'s up son? We could do this word up, we could do this [Hook: The Firm] Spend too many nights on the Henny gettin right Breakin big face Bennies, bettin against the friendly dice I can't call it, it's goin too good to spoil it Tell it like it is, the raw sh** never rewarded Spend too many nights on the Henny gettin right Breakin big face Bennies, bettin against the friendly dice I can't call it, it's goin too good to spoil it Tell it like it is, the raw sh** never rewarded [Verse 1 Nas] We bust guns, my mans bring coke to customs Rock garments like m**ms speaking with deep wisdoms Fat ganja sack be the reason my lungs are black It's tons of crack that made the pimp game fall off track Horseback ride hoes, these black desperados 1 4 point O's, blaze hydros with my compadres Rock waves, cop jade trainos Getting facials and toes done, I rolls one Notch up, hold Glocks up, in hot tubs Get my co*k s**ed, pop slugs through bathroom doors Scan my b**h, f**ing with me Hoes pull on cancer sticks, dressed in AX and Verso ?Murson Halo?, gimme head, gimme dough Platinum triple times, nickel nine, simple crime Equal hard times, ask ?? benting since 79 He sent me a vine, he told me get mine No dig, so numb, coking up rum Plottin', k** b**hes with the dick then call Cochran Pa**ing Caz level, Daytona ice bezzle You lay away, I take the day, flossing icecycles Who am I to trust, Pablo, he copped the pie from us Your wifeys private lust, asking me to tie her up The fame and fortune got rappers put in early coffins n***as talking sh**, broke, bragging and pushing Volkswagens Sell ya tapes up at the Gabin, fake saggin' You should've plotted with the cats who get paid Retarded, 4 20's riding past Diamonds that cut gla**, Firm get the paper then we dash [Verse 2 Foxy Brown] f** that I done held it back, f** y'all You movin too quick, don't push ya luck y'all The way I chiz, have these rap cats thinking you rich Iced it up, frontin', then your girlfriends picked If you thorough like you say you is, ho catch up Ain´t no time for the slack up, my funds on the stack up Glitterd up, rocks is kinda brolic now, give it up BK a'day, go hey, shorty live it up Laced up in anything, placed up co*ks**er It be the tuckers and the s**ers that 'll try to f** ya See me, I'm pretty slimmy on the 3D Copped the Burgundy E, my n***a copped the 450 LS, now what the f** you gon tell us That have your lame man talking sh** from the plain land Watch this, I get my p**y licked on the tropics Bare chested, finnesed it, VVS'ed it Spit mines, legally on the get mines Straight jack move, while ya crew wanna dickride Hate on me, b**h you slopped it and I rocks this ?? from your idol, ain't no stopping this Got a little H, bag anything in the mirages Got these cats licking toes and giving ma**ages Bonita, Platinum Visa where the cars is We all know the stars and the shorty who's the ?laggis? Caked up though, I'm g'd up, copping jade trainos Word life, put that on my dick and my chips Dippin' in the Yukon with all the j**els on The unspeakable truth song, bent, gotta move on [Verse 3 Canibus] At a thousand degree Celsius I make MC's melt f** my record label I appear courtesy of myself Let me explain how I maintain thresholds to pain I walk across the Sun barefoot lookin for shade I rearrange your rib cage like a twelve gauge at close range And change the position of your brain My hard raps penetrate through your hardhats and all that n***a, get ya wig peeled back I scalp you like the indians on horseback Running Bull will hit you harder than runningback Stunning man with brave and cunning rap Swiftly running laps around 48 tracks Like uncut crack you fiends keep coming back Heads is flippin like acrobats on gym mats From wax to an*log tapes to digital DAT's It's critical black, that Canibus is ill like that In fact perhaps you should quit rap, instead of always Tryin to diss back, cause n***as keep tellin you that your sh**'s wack I rip raps, hardcore raps rushin you to the floor mat Put you in the figure four, break your thorax Jump off the top turnbuckle and land on your back Til I hear it snap or crackle, the ref says chill black You get clapped bringin the wrong raps to combat Like bringin a paint gun to a shoot out with real gats Y'all n***as is wack, rappin over microphone feedback My intelligence begins where yours peaks at From Fox Boogie in the see-through brasierre, to Nasty Nas here My n***a Nature'll explain it further if it's not clear [Verse 4 Nature] Here's the cause of this sh**, more statistics Deeper than the laws of physics, Malibu sand ,the gorgeous b**hes Weed from 1-2-5, my whole crew live A true Desperado, one that never choose sides And show sympathy, just QB, an entity Stock exchange, top of the game, watch you mention me Image is nothin just obey your thirst I blaze the Purple Haze, sit in a daze, then display your birth For those concerned or just eager to learn I speak for The Firm, was told to keep the cheeba to burn Stashin my riches, past traditions, like Olympics Pa** the torch flip sh** so y'all could picture my thoughts, I'm driftin It's type ill wakin up lookin like filth Twenty years younger same hunger same ice grill Genetically form grade A pedigree Born to carve rhymes, a swift tongue helped to set it free Theoretically peep how we bless this, young and restless Guns and westins, learnin to connect through lessons From koofi's to caps, n***as shoot back It's a proven fact, nine-seven's mine, y'all n***as move back [Verse 5 AZ the Visualiza] Yo lock in, through the knowledge, follow the doctrine We clockin, on your airwaves, keepin it rockin Blaze up, make fire, light your Purple Haze up Betcha tired, b**h a** n***as need to be caged up So raise up f** the playin, I'm sick of layin I can picture sprayin off an SK, shells ricochetin Snatched up, in Supreme Court, eyes half shut Co-defendant caught a life sentence, see him crack up React what, who will, bail two mill' n***a cool still bet I'll be home before the news will Blast fuse the rebirth of Frank Matthews Perhaps you confuse the concept black, cash rules Incog-ged, another had more deez involved Known freeze condo seized seven keys dissolved Daily routine, speakin up for n***as who sling Hand to hand on them street corners claimin you king It's time to lock this, join with us, let your Glock spit Guzzle the toxic, only fake n***as drop snitch Get your guns out, it don't take much for me to dumb out Play one route, lay ya sh** down and run South