Keep Your S*** The Hardest - DMX

Now what y’all want me to do

Keep your shit the hardest

It’s about to go down

Niggas is ready to start this

War that’s for sure

Nigga come and get it

We ride or die, why?

'Cause our niggas is wit it

Now what y’all want me to do

Keep your shit the hardest

It’s about to go down

Niggas is ready to start this

War that’s for sure

Nigga come and get it

We ride or die, why?

'Cause our niggas is wit it

I want Monopoly money but I ain’t even halfway there

'Cause doin' dirt, a nigga got to take the back way there

What it is, is the biz and it’s dirty

You’ll get rich but life expectancy is about thirty

Place of business is the hallways, I’ve been up for four days

On parole with warrants that’ll send me back to Rahway

If I get caught across Jersey state lines

Figure this 9−8 and I been runnin' since 8−9

So that’s like 9 years delinquent time, you speak in crime then you know

9 years you owe, get knocked, 9 years you gonna go

No probation or parole more time doin' nothin'

Day room to the yard, writin' rhymes and frontin

Carry niggas greasy because I’m built like that

Bury niggas easy 'cause they get killed like that

If you ain’t in it wit me then you in my way, but either or

You will respect mine and leave TEC-9 and leave it for dude

The realest you gonna feel is when you face your death

«Sorry, I didn’t know» nigga, don’t even waste your breath

Coppin' pleas not D why you flippin'

Nigga know the only thing I’m really scared of is slippin'

Lettin' a nigga catch you when I got my guard down, so I keep 'em up

Noddin' off with one eye open, I can freak it

But there’s gonna be a time when I close 'em both

Lead poisonin', I’m a get hit with an overdose

Over those drug things, crud things

Think I don’t know my slug stains, or blood blaze

Raw gun playin' drama, sadness to another niggas momma

I’mma be the the one that puts you up inside shock trauma

These are troublesome times and the crimes prevail

And the dark side keep a nigga’s ass in jail

Bada-boom, bada-bing, some of this and some of that

I gots to boogie for a minute but you know I’m comin' back

Now what y’all want me to do

Keep your shit the hardest

It’s about to go down

Niggas is ready to start this

War that’s for sure

Nigga come and get it

We ride or die, why?

'Cause our niggas is wit it

Now what y’all want me to do

Keep your shit the hardest

It’s about to go down

Niggas is ready to start this

War that’s for sure

Nigga come and get it

We ride or die, why?

'Cause our niggas is wit it

Try to show niggas but I can only hope they see

You’s a little nigga fit right up in a 6 by 3

Layin' up like this, lips sewn shut eyes closed

Niggas walk past the casket, damn shorty nice pose

You was ballin' nigga 'til your ass got balled out, called out

By some disrespectful ass niggas that go all out

I bet you thought it was real funny, until it had to get cruddy

Me walkin' off leavin' you with all this bloody

What he gonna do when it’s all over for real

And the last thing you seein' is that steel

A blast of light, that’s what he seein' if you blast him right

Hit him in his face and hear them close the casket tight

'Cause it’s like it ain’t nothin' but endin' it to a nigga

Street sweeper like ahhhh, sendin it to a nigga

When you in the house you’ll play by house rules

Two words you’ll never hear again are house lose

And that’s house choose it ain’t gonna be that, 'cause I can’t see that

Ready to get up in this nigga’s ass real good so where the weed at

Believe that, you ain’t gon' see nothin' gettin' too familiar

And I would tell you what I do but then I’d have to kill you

And it ain’t even worth it, I ain’t gon' build nothin'

So I just let you go be that same nigga, still frontin'

Laughin' and shit, like you see somethin' funny

What you sayin' sounds good, but let me see somethin' money

For real

(dog nigga, dog nigga, dog nigga, dog nigga nigga)

Now what y’all want me to do

Keep your shit the hardest

It’s about to go down

Niggas is ready to start this

War that’s for sure

Nigga come and get it

We ride or die, why?

'Cause our niggas is wit it

Now what y’all want me to do

Keep your shit the hardest

It’s about to go down

Niggas is ready to start this

War that’s for sure

Nigga come and get it

We ride or die, why?

'Cause our niggas is wit it

Now what y’all want me to do

Keep your shit the hardest

It’s about to go down

Niggas is ready to start this

War that’s for sure

Nigga come and get it

We ride or die, why?

'Cause our niggas is wit it

Now what y’all want me to do

Keep your shit the hardest

It’s about to go down

Niggas is ready to start this

War that’s for sure

Nigga come and get it

We ride or die, why?

'Cause our niggas is wit it