Statik Selektah - Animal lyrics

[Hook] [Notorious BIG] I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal It's rules to this sh** [Intro] Yea enough respect The Bad Boy, d**h Row, No Limit Rap-a-lot, Roc-a-Fella, Cash Money, Ruff Ryders So So Def, The Inc And all the incarcerated Scarfaces from ghetto to ghetto Now introducing to you a new empire Quiet Money Records and Hush Management Formely presents, yours truly [Verse 1] I'm praised for wicked word-play Emerge from my herb days Was boxed in the Bird Cage Now flock with the Mermaids A shorty wop, til I copped then I turned age Saw it unfold, certain wars is untold Unsolved Mysteries, coffins is closed A carnivore trickery, caution your role Any slip-ups will be haunting your souls So neva get it twisted n***a, keep an iron biscuit witcha Beast promoted, the street's is coded For the naked eye times is too deep to notice Yeah I specialize in rhymes but I peep the bogus On every known level I'mma stone cold rebel Clothes is crisp, I rolls gold the wrist I was schooled how to tuck, hide and hold the fifth How to crush, cut, divide and supply the sniff So if the truth ain't me, then the truth can't be [Hook] [Notorious BIG] I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal [Nas] Peeps that's into drug money, market into rap [BIG] I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal [Prodigy] I'm falling and I can't turn back [BIG] I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal [Nas] Peeps that's into drug money, market into rap [Pro] The street's is ki's [BIG] I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal [Pro] I'm falling and I can't turn back [Verse 2] From base potter to that hard rock white We all hustlers, live that hard knock life Some get knocked, and their heart's not right Cuffed up in the AM, met this charge that night We all know that the Narc's ain't nice But that's the price when your bars ain't tight The beast within release within, you get caught-up lose trust You don't speak to friends, you lose lust Rarely f**, you just seeking sin You know thugs stay grizzly and love to get busy The stakes is high, the bids is long A few wakes n***as cry, you live, you gon' If you escape, rules apply, kids is born And the game won't change, it's the same ol' thang [Hook] [Verse 3] And my mind been backwards since puffing on them back-woods Stressing on them clappers, and ducking from them crackers Neva been in Napa, neva f** wit no Rappers I'm so gon' wit it, but I'm so long winded Seen the worst, when I seen my first Body get caught, I was prolly this short The victim right beside me, stressed on the sidewalk But you neva seen a man cry, 'til you seen a man die The k**er shots, the realer the guap If you gorilla, then it's similar plots Then if not, you more familiar, you a squealer You no dilla you hot, f** around get the whole block locked But neva me, I've been Boss playing, cooking up sautéing Til I saw another door, I had to force a n***a way in Now in all Black wit the gloves and hat I'm so deep in it, that I can't turn back [Hook]