"Industry Shakedown" I this one The Industry up Uh huh "Industry Shakedown" Now the reason I call it... the Shakedown Is 'cause alot of niggas fucked up "Word up, Shakedown" Now what I mean by up is They don't wanna see the game right "Word up, up" So me and my Pete Rock gon y'all how to play the game right "Get for the Industry Shakedown" "Word up, up" Word up, up"
1] Uh, uh I can't stop rockin I was to keep it hot Fought through miles of just to get what I got Without crying, mad shots without dying Man they know when I'm in town mad start flyin Who ever thought that I would be dealt the That would me the most feared lyrical man Ask Tone how it feel not to be 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 game called hand, reversal I remember when I that I could rock at Def Jam While I was watching niggas 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 workin for 'em that'll sink the whole label Like the Titanic What I gotta do is run some up in Sylvia Rhone So she can hear Bumpy on this microphone Maybe I can - fy her brain Show her how I take and turn it to pain I never an ass kisser I call it if it's right, if rappers aint gay or Then unpluggin your mic My shit is cordless, I'm out and wild as shit And I'm for my crown, it's 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 right Me and my nigga Pete gon show you motherfuckers how to shake it down You for this one? Check it out
2] When I hot potato, I was peepin 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 the capers Got way nut, than date rapers You be tryin to get yourself an office Way on top of that I bring the ruckus, your lookin proper Have you ever been up by a hardcore hip hopper ya signed to Cappa, a real Donnie Brasco A nigga wit mics and recorders, all up in his asshole Speakin of police, I found a And when I looked through the hole I saw was dope I saw a new nigga, behind a big desk Wit a big and a big chest And a big belly, talkin on a Hatin real players, cuttin niggas he was tryin to be the mayor Then some niggas in, punched him in his mouth Threw him down on the floor and started him out Screamin fuck Steve Stoute, serve justice on the floor wit your lip all busted You out like a pussy, fuck the dough you got 'cause wit all that money nigga, you can't buy a heart Only gangstas play the I'm still around, to you, the Industry Shakedown
Ha! "Word up, up" To the Pete Rock, and you don't To the Pete Rock, and you don't My nigga Pete Rock, and you stop
3] I felt like I should have to hold back anything I say So I the kinda records Red Alert don't play Because I flow too hard, my voice is Or maybe your crate needs renovatin, I'm to hatin why I'm hockey on you niggas, stickin and skatin I heard about the Blaze Battle, they me to be in it But to not me one of the 50 great So I reviewed my tapes, figured my Sat and thought for a minute, grabbed the and said listen I sell less records than some niggas out wit a Gettin more cash and all my diamonds is And you want me to for a Rolie, that I'ma take anyway Better leave me the alone Bumpy Knucks don't play It made me laugh when I think about how Harris Tried to play me than got fired and all fuckin Fly is that he saw me, wit a smile, at a club Reached to shake my fuckin hand and, brought a nub All them temporary spots will be filled again You can hate me now but I rhyme again down climb again, more wild, more corrupt Still spittin more shit, more fire, more 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" That's That's the fuck I call, a Industry Shakedown "Word up, up" And a lotta motherfuckers out there that I didn't name in this Motherfucking song but I you this much "Get ready for the Shakedown" Don't think I forgot motherfuckers, I reserve my options Bumpy Knuckles baby, ha "Word up, up" And the Chocolate Boy I you niggas a fast way, to six feet