"Industry Shakedown" I call one The Shakedown up Uh huh "Industry Shakedown" Now the reason I call it... the Industry Is 'cause alot of niggas have up "Word up, Shakedown" Now what I mean by up is don't wanna see the game played right "Word up, up" So me and my nigga Pete gon show y'all how to play the right "Get ready for the Shakedown" "Word up, up" Word up, up"
1] Uh, uh I can't rockin I was born to keep it hot Fought through of pain just to get what I got Without crying, mad shots without dying Man they know when I'm in mad heads start flyin Who ever that I would be dealt the hand That would make me the most feared man Ask Tone how it feel not to be to sleep I was layin on him in his dream on the heat I kept the on him, now, I'm Universal Now he played this money called hand, reversal I remember when I thought that I could at Def Jam While I was watching other caught up in a def scam I remember when I to Lyor, I should've blown him that cracker been a crook, ever since I first known him Thought I'd to Atlantic But there's niggas workin for 'em that'll sink the label Like the fucking What I gotta do is run some dick up in Sylvia So she can Bumpy rockin on this microphone Maybe I can Elektra - fy her Show her how I take love and turn it to I been an ass kisser I call it if right, if rappers aint gay or dikes Then they your mic My is cordless, I'm thugged out and wild as shit And I'm comin for my crown, it's Bumpy baby And it's... The Shakedown
"Word up, up" Ha! "Word up, up" "Ready for the Shakedown" Yeah! "Word up, up" "Industry Shakedown" "Word up, up" That's nigga Me and my nigga Pete gon show you motherfuckers how to shake it down You ready for one? Check it out
2] When I spit hot potato, I was Tommy Boy But didn't wanna be the the act that they would destroy See labels be all on your dick, when see you have some paper But I flip the game, 'cause I pull the Got way nut, than date rapers You better be tryin to get an office Way on top of that I bring the ruckus, your money lookin Have you ever been up by a hardcore hip hopper Forgot ya signed to Cappa, a real Donnie A nigga wit mics and tape recorders, all up in his of police, I found a Interscope And when I looked through the hole what I saw was I saw a new nigga, behind a big desk Wit a big head and a big And a big belly, talkin on a Hatin real players, cuttin throats he was tryin to be the mayor Then niggas rushed in, punched him in his mouth Threw him down on the floor and started him out Screamin Steve Stoute, serve street justice Cryin on the floor wit your lip all You went out like a pussy, the dough you got 'cause wit all that money nigga, you still can't buy a gangstas play the part I'm still around, to bring you, the Industry
Ha! "Word up, up" To the Rock, and you don't stop To the Pete Rock, and you stop My nigga Pete Rock, and you don't
3] I never felt like I should have to hold anything I say So I make the kinda Red Alert don't play Because I flow too hard, my voice is Or maybe crate needs renovatin, I'm used to hatin That's why I'm hockey on you niggas, and skatin I heard about the Blaze Battle, asked me to be in it But to not me one of the 50 great So I my tapes, figured my position Sat and thought for a minute, the phone and said listen I sell records than some niggas out wit a deal Gettin more cash and all my is real And you want me to battle for a Rolie, that take anyway Better leave me the fuck alone Bumpy don't play It made me when I think about how Gary Harris Tried to play me than got fired and all fuckin Fly is that he saw me, wit a smile, at a club to shake my fuckin hand and, brought back a nub All them temporary spots will be time again You can me now but I will rhyme again down climb again, more wild, more corrupt Still spittin more shit, more fire, abrupt And I'll never put my two down Why's 'cause I 'em... for the Industry Shakedown
"Word up, up" C'mon! "Word up, up" Yeah! "Industry Shakedown" right That's what the I call, a Industry Shakedown "Word up, up" And it's a lotta out there that I didn't name in this Motherfucking song but I tell you much "Get ready for the Shakedown" Don't think I motherfuckers, 'cause I reserve my options It's Bumpy baby, ha "Word up, up" And the Boy Wonder I show you niggas a way, to six feet