Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Notorious B.I.G.
Vocals
Poke
Programming
Faith Evans
Background Vocals
David Porter
Sampled Artist
Diddy
Background Vocals
Doug E. Fresh
Sampled Artist
The Trammps
Sampled Artist
Wu-Tang Clan
Sampled Artist
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
Conrad Dimanche
Associate Producer
Faith Evans
Executive Producer
Harve "Joe Hooker" Pierre
Executive Producer
Nashiem Myrick
Producer
Mark Pitts
Executive Producer
Voletta Wallace
Executive Producer
Wayne Barrow
Executive Producer
Chris Athens
Mastering Engineer
DJ Mister Cee
Associate Producer
Jim Caruso
Mixing Engineer
Rich Travali
Recording Engineer
Sean Combs
Producer
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