[Chorus: Luis Santiago and Jadakiss] Now you gotta be careful in my town (yeah)
You know I’m the man with my crown up (yeah)
My goons pull your skirt and f** a clown up (yeah)
We build this empire from the ground up (yeah)
Ground up (ground up), ground up (ground up)
Chopper leave a body looking ground up (ground up)
Ground up (ground up), ground up (ground up)
Chopper leave a body looking ground up
(HA-HAAAEEH!)
[Verse 1: Jadakiss] Uh, now what?
I got the regulators to mound up
Go ahead and thank us for elevating the town up
That boy ‘Kiss is a ba*tard, you gotta see him
He giving out free caskets and mausoleums
My first tour, I copped work off my per diem
Emotional motherf**ers hurt, that a EM
At least a quarter mill for the V, the for-eign
So n***as that’ll k** you for free just off a DM
Damn shame what they did to his body
You know me, I keep a alibi, slid to the party
Mingle with a couple skeezers, dark caesar, ducardi
To top it off, all white so they know that I’m godly
Yeah, crooked n***as get set straight
When you increase the d**h rate, it’s less hate
Umm, real n***as can relate though
True master of ceremonies, what’s the ratio?
Impossible for me to get full off your plate, bro
I ain’t tryna make new friends, I’m tryna make dough
And they gon’ do what I say so
(k** k** k** k** k** k**)
That’s the Camp Crystal Lake flow
[Chorus: Luis Santiago and Fabolous] Now you gotta be careful in my town
You know I’m the man with my crown up
My goons pull your skirt and f** a clown up (I only f** with ground up n***as)
We build this empire from the ground up (word)
Ground up, ground up
Chopper leave a body looking ground up (you gotta be from the mud with this sh**)
Ground up , ground up (yeah)
Chopper leave a body looking ground up
[Verse 2: Fabolous] Ayo, I built this from the ground up, that’s how I found patience
Came up from the mud and that’s how you foundation
Don’t stop, pop that, that’s if you found hatin’
Face down, a** up, that’s how you found facin’
No witnesses, that’s all that they found, casings
I dipped in Crystal Lake and that’s how I found Jason
(k** k** k** k** k** k**)
That Bentley Bentayga, straight violation
The truck so fire, it came with a dalmation
Hit the lights, co*k the ladder, then slide down slow
Them n***as don’t want now smoke, they better lie down low
These bars are still flaming, never died down flows
And I know some fire hoes that slide down poles, wow
I’m used to the sirens
I don’t jump when I hear shots, I’m used to the firin
I come from the COD but got used to the wirin
I could talk it ’cause I live it, I just use my environments
See these old n***as washed, and I used to admire them
Now they begging for a job but they used to be hiring
Ain’t no use of retirin if you still inspirin
She ain’t ground up like Cookie
She can’t share my empire then, n***a
[Chorus: Luis Santiago] Now you gotta be careful in my town
You know I’m the man with my crown up
My goons pull your skirt and f** a clown up
We build this empire from the ground up
Ground up, ground up
Chopper leave a body looking ground up
Ground up , ground up (yeah)
Chopper leave a body looking ground up