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What's Beef

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What's Beef

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The Commission

Uncle Paulie, Big Ditti

Caesar Leo DeGenero (yeahhh)

Tony Baltimore, Iceberg Slim

The most shadiest, Frank Baby

We here (do you know what beef is?)

We ain't goin nowhere (do you know what beef is?)

Uh-uh (ask yourself, do you know what beef is?)

Uh-uh, uhh

Ha ha ha ha ha, check out this bizarre

rapper style used by me, the B.I.G.

I put my key you put your key in, money we'll be seein

Will reach the f**kin ceiling, check, check it

My Calico been cocked (uh-huh) this rap Alfred Hitchcock

drop top notch playa hating won't stop (uhh)

This instant, rappers too persistant

Quick to spit Biggie name on shit, make my name taste

like ass when you speak it, see me in the street

your jewelry you can keep it, that be our little secret

See me, B that is, I that is, G whiz

Motherf**kers still in my biz

Don't they know my nigga Gutter f**kin kidnip kids? (uhh)

F**k em in the ass, throw em over the bridge (oooh)

That's how it is, my shit is laid out (what)

F**k that beef shit, that shit is played out (played out)

Y'all got to go, all I make is one phone call

All y'all dissapear by tomorrow

All your guns is borrowed, I don't feel sorrow

Actually, your man passed the gat to me, now check this

What's beef? Beef is when you need two gats to go to sleep

Beef is when your moms ain't safe up in the streets

Beef is when I see you

Guaranteed to be an ICU, one more time

What's beef? Beef is when you make your enemies start your Jeep

Beef is when you roll no less than thirty deep

Beef is when I see you

Guaranteed to be an ICU, check it

I done smoked with the best of em (uh-huh) shot at the rest of

em (uh-huh)

Was about a hundred or more, maybe less of em

Got my rocks off, that nigga from the Brook just be

whylin on you just be, stylin on you (you so crazy)

When I, tried to warn you what your eyes f**ked up

Now I cleared them shits with hits you wanna f**kin bitch (mmm)

Pardon my French but ahh, sometimes I get kinda

peeved at these, weak MC's (don't stop) with the

supreme baller like, lyrics I call em like I see em G

Y'all niggaz sound like me (yeah)

Y'all was grimy in the early nineties, far behind me

It ain't hard to find me number one with the booyaka (booyaka)

Gimme the Remi and the chronic ain't no tellin what I do to ya

(I do to ya)

It's obvious the game's new to ya (new to ya)

Take them ends you make (ehehe)

and spend em on a tutor hah, one shot, I'm through with ya

What's beef? Beef is when you need two gats to go to sleep

(don't sleep)

Beef is when your moms ain't safe up in the streets (ain't safe)

Beef is when I see you

Guaranteed to be an ICU (I see you) one more time

What's beef? (What's beef) Beef is when you make your enemies

start your

Jeep (Start my Jeep)

Beef is when you roll no less than thirty deep (thirty deep)

Beef is when I see you

Guaranteed to be an ICU, check it (I see you)

There'll be nothin but smooth sailin (sailin)

When I spit shots, now your crew's bailin (bailin)

All I got is heat and tough talk for you (uh-huh)

Tie you up, cut your balls off just to use (oooh)

Man listen straight torture, look what that slick shit bought ya

A first class ticket to Lucife, real name Cristopher

Watch me set it off like Vivica

Here lies your demise, close your eyes (uh-huh)

Think good thoughts, die while your skin start to glisten

Pale blue hands get cold, your soul's risen

It's bad cause I just begun, we'll make the real bad

now we's havin fun (ahaha!)

What's beef? (What's beef?) Beef is when you need two gats to go

to sleep

(Don't sleep)

Beef is when your moms ain't safe up in the streets (ain't safe)

Beef is when I see you

Guaranteed to be an ICU, one more time (I see you)

What's beef? (What's beef?) Beef is when you make your enemies

start your Jeep

(Start my Jeep)

Beef is when you roll no less than thirty deep (thirty deep)

Beef is when I see you (I see you)

Guaranteed to be an ICU, and I'm through

(Yeah, and I'm through)

Uhhh, uhhh

It's like that

(Now ask yourself, do you really, know what beef is?)

Like that

(Then ask yourself)

Uhh

(Do you really, want beef?)

Like that, like that *echoes*

(Ahahaha! Yeah, I like that)

(Big Nash, hit me baby, on and on and on and on)

(Bad Boy)

(Y'all know what it is)

(Shit, I don't want no beef, ahaaa!)

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