[Chorus: James Brown sample & Nas]
"Get down" "Get down!" "Get down" "Get down!"
"Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get down!"
Everybody✦ – "Get down" "Get down!" "Get down" "Get down!"
"Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get down!"
[Verse 2: Nas]
Some niggas✦ fuck their enemies in their ass when they catch 'em
Weird-ass niggas✦ who dangerous, so don't test 'em
They make you disappear, this a year that I won't forget✦
Sold CD's, double Platinum, met mo' execs
Southern✦ niggas,✦ independent label,✦ real killers
Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chillin'
They had the coke game somethin'✦ crazy✦
Sold music out the trunk of their car, that shit amazed✦ me
Put me onto✦ heron✦ blunts, sherm or somethin'✦
Took a puff, "What the fuck?!" I turned✦ and punched 'em
Southern✦ niggas✦ ain't slow, nigga✦ tried to play me
I left from around✦ them dudes,✦ they cool, but they crazy✦
Now I'm back around✦ the old school that raised✦ me
New York gangsters, we loungin', out in L.A
See a dude wrote my dog from Pelican Bay
The letter✦ say, "Nas, I got your back, the fools don't play"
I rolled✦ with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral
Never✦ saw so many✦ men slaughtered, and I knew the ho responsible
The nigga✦ still alive✦ in a hospital
Midnight, they crept in his room and shot the doctor✦ too
See, my cousin's in the game, thuggin' and thangs
He plugged me with a dame who was half-Mexicano✦
Gave the ass up, I'm a mack daddy✦ Soprano✦
She passed✦ me the indigo✦
But the imbecile, should've never✦ tippy-toed
Thought my eyes were closed✦
Openin'✦ the hotel✦ room door to let her goons in
But I moved✦ in a manner✦ on some Jet Li shit
I let the hammers blow, wet three kids
See, honey✦ thought I had somethin'✦ to do
With all the drama,✦ 'cause I was with a crew
That had her people killed✦
Called✦ up my cousin,✦ told him, "I ain't fuckin'✦ with you"
He responded, "Cool," but told me "Out here, this how motherfuckers—"
[Chorus: James Brown sample & Nas]
"Get down" "Get down!" "Get down" "Get down!"
"Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get down!"
Everybody✦ – "Get down" "Get down!" "Get down" "Get down!"
"Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get" "Get down!"
[Outro: Salaam Remi]
All I really✦ gotta✦ say, is that...
If that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever✦ gon' get up?
How we ever✦ gon' get up if that's how we get down?
A shame when you really✦ look at it
My folk against your folk, but we all kinfolk
Somebody✦ got to make a change
[Produced by Salaam Remi]