"Industry Shakedown" I this one The Shakedown up Uh huh "Industry Shakedown" Now the reason I call it... the Shakedown Is 'cause alot of niggas have up "Word up, Shakedown" Now I mean by fucked up is They don't wanna see the game played "Word up, up" So me and my Pete Rock gon show y'all how to the game right "Get for the Industry Shakedown" "Word up, up" up, word up"
1] Uh, uh I can't stop rockin I was to keep it hot Fought miles of pain just to get what I got crying, took mad shots without dying Man they know when I'm in town mad heads flyin Who thought that I would be dealt the hand That would make me the most lyrical man Ask Tone how it not to be able to sleep I was layin on him in his dream on the heat I kept the pressure on him, now, I'm 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 I stepped to Lyor, I should've blown him 'cause that cracker been a crook, since I first known him Thought I'd sale to But there's niggas workin for 'em sink the whole label the fucking Titanic What I gotta do is run some dick up in Sylvia So she can hear Bumpy on this microphone Maybe I can - fy her brain Show her how I love and turn it to pain I never been an ass I call it if it's right, if rappers aint gay or Then unpluggin your mic My is cordless, I'm thugged out and wild as shit And I'm comin for my crown, Bumpy Knuckles 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 Rock gon show you motherfuckers how to shake it down You ready for this one? it out
2] When I spit hot potato, I was Tommy Boy But didn't wanna be the the next act that they destroy See labels be all on your dick, when they see you have paper But I flip the game, 'cause I pull the Got way nut, than date rapers You better be tryin to get yourself an Way on top of skyscraper I bring the ruckus, your money lookin you ever been stuck up by a hardcore hip hopper Forgot ya signed to Cappa, a real Donnie A nigga wit mics and recorders, all up in his asshole of police, I found a Interscope And when I looked through the what I saw was dope I saw a new nigga, behind a big desk Wit a big and a big chest And a big belly, on a celly real players, cuttin niggas throats Like he was tryin to be the Then niggas rushed in, punched him in his mouth him down on the floor and started stompin him out Screamin fuck Steve Stoute, serve street Cryin on the floor wit lip all busted You went out a pussy, fuck the dough you got 'cause wit all that money nigga, you can't buy a heart Only gangstas the part I'm still around, to you, the Industry Shakedown
Ha! "Word up, up" To the Rock, and you don't stop To the Pete Rock, and you don't My nigga Pete Rock, and you stop
3] I never felt like I should to hold back anything I say So I make the records Red Alert don't play Because I flow too hard, my is penetratin Or maybe your crate 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 consider me one of the 50 So I reviewed my tapes, my position Sat and thought for a minute, grabbed the phone and listen I sell less records than niggas out wit a deal Gettin more cash and all my diamonds is And you want me to battle for a Rolie, that I'ma take Better me the fuck alone Bumpy Knucks don't play It made me laugh when I think about how Harris Tried to play me got fired and all fuckin embarrassed Fly shit is he saw me, wit a smile, at a club Reached to shake my fuckin hand and, back a nub All them temporary spots will be filled again You can hate me now but I rhyme again Fall climb again, more wild, more corrupt Still more shit, more fire, more abrupt And I'll never put my two guns that 'cause I need 'em... for the Shakedown
"Word up, up" C'mon! "Word up, up" Yeah! "Industry Shakedown" right That's what the fuck I call, a Industry "Word up, up" And it's a lotta out there that I didn't name in this Motherfucking but I tell you this much "Get ready for the Shakedown" Don't think I forgot motherfuckers, 'cause I my options It's Knuckles baby, ha "Word up, up" And the Boy Wonder I you niggas a fast way, to six feet