[00:00:00] Keep Your Sh*t The Hardest - DMX [00:00:02] Written by:Swizz Beatz/DMX [00:00:08] What y'all want me to do [00:00:09] Keep your sh*t the hardest [00:00:11] It's about to go down [00:00:12] Niggas is ready to start this war that's for sure [00:00:15] Ni**a come and get it [00:00:16] Ride and die why [00:00:17] Cause my niggas is wit it [00:00:19] What y'all want me to do [00:00:20] Keep your sh*t the hardest [00:00:21] It's about to go down [00:00:23] Niggas is ready to start this war that's for sure [00:00:26] Ni**a come and get it [00:00:27] Ride and die why [00:00:28] Cause my niggas is wit it [00:00:29] I want monopoly money but I ain't even halfway there [00:00:32] Cause do a dirt and a ni**a got to take the back way there [00:00:35] What it is is the biz and it's dirty [00:00:37] You'll get rich but life expectancy is about thirty [00:00:40] Take the business to the hallways driving up for four days [00:00:43] On parole with warrants that'll send me back the raw way [00:00:46] If I get caught across Jersey state lines [00:00:48] Figure this 98 and I been runnin' since 89 [00:00:50] So that's like 9 years delinquent time [00:00:52] You speakin' crime then you know [00:00:54] 9 years you owe get knocked 9 years you gonna go [00:00:56] No probation or parole more time doin' nothin' [00:00:59] They roam to yard writin' rhymes an frontin' [00:01:02] Carry niggas greasy because I'm built like that [00:01:04] Burry niggas easy cause they get kilt like that [00:01:07] If you ain't in it wit me than you in my way [00:01:09] But either or you will respect mine [00:01:10] And leave tech 9 and leave it for dude [00:01:13] The realest you gonna feel is when you face your death [00:01:15] Sorry I didn't know ni**a don't even waste your breath [00:01:17] Coppin' pleas not D why you flippin' [00:01:20] Ni**a know the only thing I'm really scared of is slippin' [00:01:23] Lettin' a ni**a catch you when I got my gaurd down [00:01:25] So I keep 'em up [00:01:26] Noddin' off with one eye open [00:01:28] I can freak it but there's gonna be a time when I'm close 'em both [00:01:31] Lead poisonin' I'm a get hit with an overdose [00:01:33] So I don't drug thing crud thangs [00:01:36] Think I don't know my slug stains or blood blaze [00:01:38] Raw gun playin' drama [00:01:40] Sadness to another niggas momma [00:01:42] I'mma be the the one that puts you up inside the trauma [00:01:44] These are troublesome times [00:01:46] And the crime prevails [00:01:47] And the dark side keeps a ni**a's a** in jail [00:01:50] Bada boom bada bing some of this and some of that [00:01:52] I gotta boogie for a minute but you know I'm coming back [00:01:55] What y'all want me to do [00:01:56] Keep your sh*t the hardest [00:01:58] It's about to go down [00:01:59] Niggas is ready to start this war that's for sure [00:02:02] Ni**a come and get it [00:02:03] Ride and die why [00:02:05] Cause my niggas is wit it [00:02:06] What y'all want me to do [00:02:07] Keep your sh*t the hardest [00:02:09] It's about to go down [00:02:10] Niggas is ready to start this war that's for sure [00:02:13] Ni**a come and get it [00:02:14] Ride and die why [00:02:15] Cause my niggas is wit it [00:02:17] Try to show niggas but I can only hope they see [00:02:19] You's a little ni**a fit right up in a 6 by 3 [00:02:22] Layin' up like this [00:02:23] Lips sewn shut eyes closed [00:02:25] Niggas walk past the casket damn shorty nice pose [00:02:27] You was ballin' ni**a till your a** got balled out [00:02:30] Called out by some disrespectful a** niggas that go all out [00:02:33] I bet you thought it was real funny [00:02:35] Until it had to get cruddy [00:02:36] Me walkin' off leavin' you with all this bloody [00:02:38] What he gonna do when it's all over for real [00:02:41] And the last thing you seein' is that steel [00:02:43] A blast of light that's what he seein' if you blast him right [00:02:46] Hit him in his face and hear them close the casket tight [00:02:49] Cause it's like it ain't nothin' but endin' it to a ni**a [00:02:51] Street sweeper like ahhhh [00:02:53] Sendin' it to a ni**a