Yeah!
This is it y'all (Darkside), Darkside Volume One
Hope you enjoyed
We had to take you out cla**ic status, you feel me?
We had to touch it (Darkside) - Yeah!
So I say
[Chorus]
Peace God I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm on my way
Peace God I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm on my way
Peace God (peace y'all!) I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm on my way
Darkside, Darkside, Darkside
[DJ Premier scratches over fourth line] ("Listen to the situation my son")
Premo on the beat, yeah I know it sounds different
But his man's just pa**ed, yeah his soul's just risen
Cold, cold, world is the word that was given
As he see me fifteen with the burner out of prison
Gangster - f** that, I'm (GangStarr)
Tell Nas (hip-hop's dead) now, my man's gone
As I rise to the top, knee-deep in the game I survived every shot
Back to life like (Thriller), back to reality
Flipped the light scoop, got everybody mad at me
Uhh, don't let nobody put the battery
'Cause those things'll go 'pop pop' through your anatomy
I'm hungry n***a, I'll eat your flesh
I'ma butcher, chainsaw through your spleen and chest
There's a darkside of Texas too, word to syndicate
No matter how intricate sh** gets, the hit you get
Joe Crack, yeah man on fire
Conversatin' with the devil, rockin' diamond messiahs
Uhh, I seek the truth while the streets admire me
k**ers across the world say it's me they inspire to be
Feds on my back from my ties to criminology
Can't look back now, tomorrow's never promised B
Where I'm from, for (president) we voted Eric B
Joe been crack way before my philosophy
Banned from TV, BET won't play me
Still we do it B.I.G. it's all gravy
It's our reality, you call it crazy
But it's a Darkside, it's what you made me
No more Mr. Nice Guy - pay me
What you n***az owe before I come for your babies?
[DJ Premier scratches] "Listen to the situation my son"
So I say
[Chorus]
Yeah! Been in this game for a minute man - seen a lot of sh** man
Shout out Forrest Projects man, diggin' in the Crates Crew
Went to the Amateur Night at the Apollo, won four weeks in a row
That n***a Chris Lighty came and signed me, n***a I had like ten cars
Medallions down to my dick n***a, Davader suits on - haha!
Saved my life n***a, I took a motherf**in' pay cut to do this sh** right here man
All these rappin' n***az talkin about they dope boys, they real n***az man
I don't know - I don't see these n***az, feel me?
So I wanted a lil bit more than that underground sh**
Had that army fatigue, the Chuckers
I signed a n***a by the name of Big Pun
That n***a went double plat on n***az
We was at the Grammy's with motherf**in fo' fifths in our waist n***a
Hahahaha!
So you know Pun pa**ed, I had to carry on tradition n***a
Don Cartagena had to rise to the occasion
All by myself n***a!
Linked up with the R, linked up with Ashanti - the rest was history n***a
Platinum plaques man
We been rollin ever since man, we been bank rollin ever since man
You feel me? That Lean Back was number one song of the f**in decade
Check the f**in Billboard n***a!
sh**! n***az wanna sleep on Crack
n***az wanna front onCrack, I said, "f** y'all n***az, I'm goin independent man!"
Make it Rain, three million iTunes sold man
I don't give a f** n***a!
Fight for my life, this is the resurrection n***a!
Hop out the motherf**in' casket - brush the motherf**in' dust off my shoulders n***a!
Yeah - see what you don't understand is that I eat, sleep, drink music man
Nobody knows music like me man - this is what I do man!
All these miserable f**s man â?? e'rybody got they f**in hand out
E'rybody want you to just come, give 'em money
Go across the world n***a, go earn, come back and give 'em money for free man
Tell them n***az get a life, get a job, s** a dick n***a
It's Crack b**h!
Welcome to the Darkside - a.k.a. "I Don't Give a f** Music" n***a
A.k.a. "I Will k** You n***az Music" - haha!
Seen that n***a Puff surfin on the hood n***a
You k**ed that Harlem sh** bruh - HA!
Yeah, Darkside n***a [echoes]
Azariah I love you baby - that's my little Queen
Ryan what up? Junito what up?
Chu-Chu what up? John-John what up?
Gianni what up n***a? - HA! [echoes]
Little Joe rock on, Little Joe rest in peace
Big Fred rest in peace
Guru [echoes] rest in peace n***a
Now I can officially say hip-hop is dead n***a
Crack n***a