[Intro:]
One love... one love... one thug
One nation... twenty-one gun salute
[Chorus:]
I'm hopin my true m********** know
This be the realest s*** I ever wrote
Against all odds, up in the studio, gettin blowed
To the truest s*** I ever spoke
[Verse One:]
21 gun salute, dressed in fatigue, black jeans and boots
disappeared in the c***, all you seen was troops
This little n**** named Nas thinks he live like me
Talkin bout how he left the hospital took five like me
You living fanatasies, n**** I reject your deposit
We shook Dre punk a**, now we out of the closet
Mobb Deep wonder why n**** blowed them out
Next time grown folks talk, n**** close your mouths
Peep me, I take this war s*** deeply
I see too many real playas fall to let these b**** n***** to beat me
Puffy, lets be honest you a punk
or you gonna see me with gloves
Remember that s*** you said in vibe about me being a Thug
You can tell the people you roll with whatever you want
But, you and I know what's going on
Pay back I knew you b**** n***** from way back
Witness me strapped with macs knew I wouldn't play that
All you old rappers trying to advance
It's all over now, take it like a man
n***** looking like, Larry Holmes flabby and s***
Trying to playa hate on my s***, you eat a fat d***
Let it be known this is how you made me
Love it how I got you n***** goin crazy, against all odds
[Chorus 2X]
[Verse Two:]
I heard he was light skined, stocky with a haitian accent
Jewelry, fast cars and he's known for flashing (what's his name)
Listen while I take you back and lace this rap
A real live tale, about a snitch named Haitian Jack
Knew he was working for the feds, same crime different trail
n***** picture what he said, and did I mention
Promised a payback, Jimmy Henchmen, in due time
I knew you b**** n***** was listening, The World is Mine
Set me up, wet me up, n***** stuck me up
Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up
Touch one of mine on everything I own
I'll destroy everything you touch, play the game n****
All out warfare, Eye For An Eye
Last words to a b**** n****, why you lie?
Now you gotta watch your back n****, watch your front
Here we come gunshots to deck, now you stuck
f*** the rap game n****, n**** This M.O.B
So believe me, we enemies, I go, against all odds
Chorus 2X
Verse Three:
Puffy gettin robbed like a b****, to hide that fact
He did some s*** he shouldn't have did
So we ride em for that
And that n**** that was down for me
Restin dead, switch sides
Guess his new friends want him dead
Probably be murdered for the s*** that I said
I bring the real, be a legend or even the dead
Lord listen to me
God don't like ugly It Was Written
Hey Nas your whole d*** style is weak
You heard my melody, read about my life in the papers
All my run-in with authorities, felonious capers
Now you want to live my life, so what's the deal
n***** that don't ride right
You've seen too many movies
Load 'em up against the wall, close his eyes
Since you lie, you die, goodbye
Let the real life n***** hear the truth from me
What would you do if you was me (n****), against all odds
[Chorus 2X]
Against all odds
One love... one love... one thug
One nation... twenty-one gun salute
[Chorus:]
I'm hopin my true m********** know
This be the realest s*** I ever wrote
Against all odds, up in the studio, gettin blowed
To the truest s*** I ever spoke
[Verse One:]
21 gun salute, dressed in fatigue, black jeans and boots
disappeared in the c***, all you seen was troops
This little n**** named Nas thinks he live like me
Talkin bout how he left the hospital took five like me
You living fanatasies, n**** I reject your deposit
We shook Dre punk a**, now we out of the closet
Mobb Deep wonder why n**** blowed them out
Next time grown folks talk, n**** close your mouths
Peep me, I take this war s*** deeply
I see too many real playas fall to let these b**** n***** to beat me
Puffy, lets be honest you a punk
or you gonna see me with gloves
Remember that s*** you said in vibe about me being a Thug
You can tell the people you roll with whatever you want
But, you and I know what's going on
Pay back I knew you b**** n***** from way back
Witness me strapped with macs knew I wouldn't play that
All you old rappers trying to advance
It's all over now, take it like a man
n***** looking like, Larry Holmes flabby and s***
Trying to playa hate on my s***, you eat a fat d***
Let it be known this is how you made me
Love it how I got you n***** goin crazy, against all odds
[Chorus 2X]
[Verse Two:]
I heard he was light skined, stocky with a haitian accent
Jewelry, fast cars and he's known for flashing (what's his name)
Listen while I take you back and lace this rap
A real live tale, about a snitch named Haitian Jack
Knew he was working for the feds, same crime different trail
n***** picture what he said, and did I mention
Promised a payback, Jimmy Henchmen, in due time
I knew you b**** n***** was listening, The World is Mine
Set me up, wet me up, n***** stuck me up
Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up
Touch one of mine on everything I own
I'll destroy everything you touch, play the game n****
All out warfare, Eye For An Eye
Last words to a b**** n****, why you lie?
Now you gotta watch your back n****, watch your front
Here we come gunshots to deck, now you stuck
f*** the rap game n****, n**** This M.O.B
So believe me, we enemies, I go, against all odds
Chorus 2X
Verse Three:
Puffy gettin robbed like a b****, to hide that fact
He did some s*** he shouldn't have did
So we ride em for that
And that n**** that was down for me
Restin dead, switch sides
Guess his new friends want him dead
Probably be murdered for the s*** that I said
I bring the real, be a legend or even the dead
Lord listen to me
God don't like ugly It Was Written
Hey Nas your whole d*** style is weak
You heard my melody, read about my life in the papers
All my run-in with authorities, felonious capers
Now you want to live my life, so what's the deal
n***** that don't ride right
You've seen too many movies
Load 'em up against the wall, close his eyes
Since you lie, you die, goodbye
Let the real life n***** hear the truth from me
What would you do if you was me (n****), against all odds
[Chorus 2X]
Against all odds