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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Pete Rock
Performer
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Penn
Songwriter
P. Phillips
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Pete Rock
Producer
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Producer
P. Phillips
Executive Producer
Damian Blyden
Executive Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
On you, smile on my face, behind my back they talk trash
On you, mad and stuff because they don't have cash
On you, when I roll I stroll, cool, always pack a tool
On you, just in case a brother acts a fool
[Verse 2]
It's death before dishonor, strap the vest down tight
When you bring the drama
Now raise up off mine and taste it in the raw
Before snipers on the floor galore in my hardware store
[Verse 3]
Nightmares of thirsty crooks
**** actin' all fishy working at the books
Painting pictures of poverty, causing armed robbery
And if provoked every last one gets smoked
[Verse 4]
No doubt, for real it's like a wildlife
Where thugs forever pull caps and always keep a knife
'Cause on the strip warfare's inevitable, hot steel's incredible
And if surprised, the revolution won't be televised
[Verse 5]
When I supply and demand
As I build my currency to expand
Call it progress, when I bless my territory all respect due
But can **** keep it real? It's on you
It's on you, baby
[Verse 6]
On you, smile on my face, behind my back they talk trash
On you, mad and stuff because they don't have cash
On you, when I roll I stroll, cool, always pack a tool
On you, just in case a brother acts a fool
[Verse 7]
Step into the dragon's lair where CL's the don and Pete's the creator
Now praise the most high and represent the best
'Cause the number one killer of black men is stress
[Verse 8]
The armed and dangerous, the bulletproof
Couldn't stop the homicide of another youth
Penetrating your body parts with hollow point shells, you fraud
'Cause vengeance is mine said the Lord, indeed
[Verse 9]
My own click now turns greedy
Out of twelve of my soldiers one will deceive me
With salt in the game, shame the family and push
My black ass straight into a terrifying ambush
[Verse 10]
The whole empire's at stake
Mastering the streets, devil the mental won't break and turn snake
For Pete's sake you gotta be true to the crew
So if **** want to set it, it's on you
So set it off
[Verse 11]
On you, smile on my face, behind my back they talk trash
On you, mad and stuff because they don't have cash
On you, when I roll I stroll, cool, always pack a tool
On you, just in case a brother acts a fool
[Verse 12]
Capture the beast within me
Beware when it's moving deep in New York City
The diabolical gangster chronicle mod scenes in all directions
The type of connection to get your wig split
[Verse 13]
Submit the wanted signs posted
Chicken spots for major knocks, you get toasted
To the head piece, I release firepower only I'm controlling
We put in work and got the right brothers rolling
[Verse 14]
When hell kicks off we lick off
Keeping mine hard like stone from the red zone to each his own
Smile in my face, behind my back you talk trash
Hope my pockets hit empty and my Lexus crash
[Verse 15]
But not in your wildest dreams
Hear my name in all the scandals and all the schemes, I rest in Queens
The Vernonville's my capital so memorize the cut
Then give you two more seconds to get off these nuts, it's on you
[Verse 16]
On you, smile on my face, behind my back they talk trash
On you, mad and stuff because they don't have cash
On you, when I roll I stroll, cool, always pack a tool
On you, just in case a brother acts a fool
[Verse 17]
On you, smile on my face, behind my back they talk trash
On you, mad and stuff because they don't have cash
On you, when I roll I stroll, cool, always pack a tool
On you, just in case a brother acts a fool
[Verse 18]
Oh yeah, it's on you
I do it, baby
Ha, ha-ha, ha
Ha, ha-ha
Ha-ha-ha, ha
It's on you
It's on you, baby
Ha-ha-ha, it's on you
[Verse 19]
If you're in the house
Just get on the mic and show 'em what it's all about
It's all the wicked check one, two
'Cause I rips a microphone and pass it to my crew
I don't drink no brew, I smoke 'nough ****, I don't have no riffs
[Verse 20]
So check me as I shoot the gift
Rip rhymes, freestyle rhymes
Off the top of the dome every time
I'm glad this shit is going on tape
So I can escape into the beat and make 'nough paps
Word to God, kicking 'nough freestyle rhymes
Written by: P. Phillips, Penn