DMX - The Story lyrics

rate me

I'm always talking shit, cause wherever I go I walk in shit

And now they got me on some stalking shit

Broad daylight, niggaz is crying, "But I don't want anyone to blast"

So from the roof I pick em off like a scab

And watch the slug bust a thug like a watermelon

He shoulda thought about that before caught a terror

And now another kid grows up without a daddy or a mommy

Cause at the funeral I hit up the caddy,

it's the army for real niggaz with nothing to lose

Cause when it's time to go you don't get to choose

I make the muthafuckin rules and I enforce it,

shorty's people was loose hand so he lost it

I took the joints and tossed them, in the river,

at the same spot that I dumped

This kid that didn't wanna give a nigga the combo, to the safe in the crib

Look, money, that's why I did what I did

Mad stressed and I'm about to have a breakdown

It's time for pops who got the store on the corner to have get a shakedown

He hasn't paid for protection in like two months

So I figured I'd leave him wit like two fronts

I break up shit to let him know that I'm real

Reminder, I know where you live so don't squeal

Told him, next time I come, Have some paper for me

Don't fuck around and turn into another caper for me

Cause though he's cool all that cool shit stops

And I be in the crowd talking bout, "Yo who killed pops?"

It's a shame, he was caught up in the game and couldn't play it

So I smoked him, I asked him "who's the man" and made him say it

Three times, and that's how many times I hit him

A nigga was acting like he didn't have to pay so I did him

Yo I think this shit is going to my head (for real)

But let that be a lesson, don't pay dues and you dead

A little birdie told me that the feds were on to me

And they wanted to do something real wrong to me

So I broke out, Blazed the L for a while

Checked my sources and found my name was on file

Under gun for hire and extortion, but yo I never use

The same joint twice as a precaution and I heard this kid tried to set me up

He knew I knew so he tried to wet me up

See he was under investigation for drugs

They set up all types of phone taps and bugs

Then when they bagged him, money went out, reprisent (he was my friend)

Said they'd let him go, all he had to do was snitch

And I know now he wish they would have kept him

Cause it was sweet how I crept him, wet him up then left him

And that's for mufuckas that don't know

Go against the grain and you feel the pain

Aight yo?