"Industry Shakedown" I call one The Shakedown up Uh huh "Industry Shakedown" Now the reason I call it... the Industry Is 'cause alot of have fucked 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 how to play the game right "Get for the Industry Shakedown" "Word up, up" up, word up"
1] Uh, uh I can't stop I was born to keep it hot Fought miles of pain just to get what I got crying, took mad shots without dying Man they know I'm in town mad heads start flyin Who ever thought that I would be dealt the would make me the most feared lyrical man Ask how it feel not to be able to sleep I was on him in his dream squeezing on the heat I kept the pressure on him, now, I'm Now he played this money called hand, reversal I remember I thought that I could rock at Def Jam While I was watching other niggas up in a def scam I remember I stepped to Lyor, I should've blown him 'cause that cracker been a crook, ever I first known him I'd sale to Atlantic But there's niggas workin for 'em sink the whole label Like the Titanic What I do is run some dick up in Sylvia Rhone 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 it if it's right, if rappers aint gay or dikes Then they unpluggin mic My shit is cordless, I'm thugged out and wild as And I'm for my crown, it's Bumpy Knuckles baby And it's... The Industry
"Word up, up" Ha! "Word up, up" "Ready for the Shakedown" Yeah! "Word up, up" "Industry Shakedown" "Word up, up" That's right Me and my nigga Pete Rock gon you motherfuckers how to shake it down You ready for this Check it out
2] When I hot potato, I was peepin Tommy Boy But didn't wanna be the the next act that they would See be all on your dick, when they see you have some paper But I flip the game, 'cause I the capers Got way more nut, than date You be tryin to get yourself an office Way on top of skyscraper I bring the ruckus, your money proper Have you ever been stuck up by a hardcore hip Forgot ya signed to Cappa, a Donnie Brasco A nigga wit and tape recorders, all up in his asshole Speakin of police, I a Interscope And I looked through the hole what I saw was dope I saw a new nigga, behind a big desk Wit a big head and a big And a big belly, talkin on a real players, cuttin niggas throats Like he was tryin to be the Then some rushed in, punched him in his mouth Threw him on the floor and started stompin him out Screamin fuck Steve Stoute, serve justice on the floor wit your lip all busted You went out like a pussy, fuck the you got 'cause wit all that money nigga, you still buy a heart Only gangstas the part I'm around, to bring you, the Industry Shakedown
Ha! "Word up, up" To the Rock, and you don't stop To the Rock, and you don't stop My Pete Rock, and you don't stop
3] I never felt like I should have to hold back I say So I the kinda records Red Alert don't play Because I flow too hard, my is penetratin Or maybe your needs renovatin, I'm used to hatin That's why I'm hockey on you niggas, stickin and I about the Blaze Battle, they asked me to be in it But to not consider me one of the 50 So I reviewed my tapes, figured my Sat and thought for a minute, grabbed the phone and listen I sell less 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 I'ma anyway Better leave me the fuck alone Bumpy don't play It made me laugh when I about how Gary Harris Tried to play me than got fired and all fuckin Fly shit is he saw me, wit a smile, at a club Reached to shake my fuckin hand and, back a nub All temporary spots will be filled time again You can hate me now but I will rhyme Fall down climb again, wild, more corrupt Still more shit, more fire, more abrupt And never put my two guns down that 'cause I need 'em... for the Industry
"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 motherfuckers out there that I didn't in this Motherfucking song but I tell you much "Get ready for the Shakedown" Don't think I forgot motherfuckers, 'cause I reserve my Bumpy Knuckles baby, ha "Word up, up" And the Chocolate Boy I show you niggas a way, to six feet