Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Notorious B.I.G.
Vocals
Poke
Programming
Faith Evans
Additional Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
The Notorious B.I.G.
Songwriter
Christopher Wallace
Songwriter
Nashiem Myrick
Songwriter
Sean Combs
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
The Notorious B.I.G.
Executive Producer
Sean Combs
Producer
Conrad Dimanche
Associate Producer
Nashiem Myrick
Producer
Mr. Cee
Associate Producer
Chris Athens
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
As we proceed
(Uh) To give you what you need
Nine five, ****
Get live, ****
As we proceed
To give you what you need
Nine five, ****
Get live, ****
[Verse 2]
Turn the mics up (As we proceed)
Turn that mic up, yeah, that beat is knocking
Gonna need that mic up, though (To give you what you need)
Turn that **** the **** up
Uh, what? (East coast, ****)
Turn it up louder (Bad Boy, ****)
Yeah, uh
[Verse 3]
As we proceed to give you what you need
J.M., ****
J.M., **** (Uh)
Nine five, **** (Uh)
[Verse 4]
Who shot ya? (Uh)
Separate the weak from the obsolete
Hard to creep them Brooklyn streets
It's on ****, **** all that bickering beef
I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
Thundering, shaking the concrete
Then the **** stop when I foil the plot
Neighbors call the cops said they heard mad shots
Saw me in the drop, three and a quarter
[Verse 5]
Slaughter, electrical tape around your daughter
Old school new school need to learn, though
I burn, baby, burn like Disco Inferno
Burn slow like **** with yayo
Peel more skins than Idaho potato
**** know the lyrical molesting is taking place
**** with B.I.G., it ain't safe (Uh)
I make your skin chafe, rashes on them asses
Bumps and bruises, **** and Land Cruisers
Big Poppa smash fools, bash fools
**** mad because I know that cash rules
Everything around me, two **** nines
Any **** whispering about mines
And I'm Crooklyn's finest
You rewind this, Bad Boy's behind this
[Verse 6]
As we proceed (What?)
To give you what you need
Nine five, **** (What?)
(Uh) Get live, ****
[Verse 7]
As we proceed
To give you what you need
East coast, ****
Bad Boy, ****
[Verse 8]
Get high, ****
Get high, ****
Smoke ****, ****
Get high, ****
Ready to die, ****
Nine five, ****
[Verse 9]
I seen the light excite all the freaks
Stack mad chips, spread love with my peeps
**** wanna creep, got to watch my back
Think the Cognac and indo sack make me slack?
I switches all that, ****, G's up
One false move, get Swiss cheesed up
Clip to TEC, respect, I demand it
Slip and break the 11th commandment
Thou shalt not **** with raw, C. Poppa
Feel a thousand deaths when I drop ya
I feel for you like Chaka Khan I'm the don
**** when I want, Rolex on the arm
You'll die slow but calm
Recognize my face, so there won't be no mistake
So you know where to tell Jake, lame ****
Brave ****, turned front page ****
Puff Daddy flips daily
I smoke the ****, he sips on the Bailey's
On the rocks, tote **** at christenings
Hammer cock in the **** position and what?
[Verse 10]
Get live, ****
Ready to die
[Outro]
C'mere, c'mere
Open your **** mouth, open your-
Didn't I tell you don't **** with me? (C'mon man) Huh?
Didn't I tell you not to **** with me?
(As we proceed) Huh?
Look at you now (To give you what you need) Huh?
Can't talk with a **** in your mouth, huh? (Nine five, ****)
**** **** ****, what? (Get live, ****)
Who shot ya? (As we proceed)
[Verse 11]
To give you what you need
Nine five, ****
Get live, ****
Who shot ya?
Get high, ****
Ready to die, ****
As we proceed (Who shot ya?)
To give you what you need
Nine five, ****
East coast, ****
Who shot ya?
[Verse 12]
West coast, **** (Uh)
West coast, ****
As we proceed to give you what you need
As we proceed to give you what you need
Get live, ****
Nine five, ****
Get money, ****
[Verse 13]
As-
To give you what you need
Get live, ****
Nine five, ****
J.M., ****
J.M., ****
As we proceed
To give you what you need
Nine five, nine five
Written by: Sean Puffy Combs, Herbert Magidson, Nashiem Sa-allah Myrick, Christopher Wallace, Allie Wrubel