It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
Niggaz Done Started Something
DMX
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[Chorus: Styles P & DMX]
If you love the money,✦ then prepare✦ to die for it
Niggas✦ done started✦ something✦
You can lay in the flames,✦ or hug the sky for it
Niggas✦ done started✦ something✦
If you love the money,✦ then prepare✦ to die for it
Niggas✦ done started✦ something✦
You can lay in the flames,✦ or hug the sky for it
Niggas✦ done started✦ something✦
[Verse 3: Jadakiss]
Yo, check out the kid that get coke like Sosa✦
Never✦ turned✦ down chocha,✦ be in the Costa✦
Rica,✦ sipping margaritas with a mami✦
Cleaning my Tommy,✦ showing✦ love to my army✦
Whenever✦ The Lox find rippy✦ blocks, we kill 'em
Yeah I hear niggas,✦ but I still don't feel 'em
And this for the listeners, and prisoners
And them jealous rap cats that prefer✦ dissing us
My 16's be so real
You can feel 'em in your vein
Like Ramello's pops from Sugar✦ Hill
J be the cause for the kiss at your wake
Cartel✦ lips, spitting✦ clips at your face
We started✦ from the bottom, you'll see beg niggas'✦ pardon✦
Whatever,✦ we can do it at the Garden✦
Word life, this shit is real, B
I'm making✦ niggas✦ blow trial even✦ if they not guilty✦
[Verse 4: Styles P]
I want a palace✦ for my thugs, with oriental rugs
Green bags from drugs, get whacked for the love
Twenty✦ niggas✦ batter✦ me, still couldn't shatter me
I'm only✦ getting✦ up, splitting✦ up your anatomy
Official LOX family,✦ grants niggas✦ handing✦ me
I want the finer✦ things, and I hope you understanding✦ me
Sitting✦ at the table, planning and plug the fan in
Let the sweat dry off and then grab your cannon✦
Think you're smartest, and retaliate the hardest✦
Regardless, if you're a thug or a rap artist
Respect me like Pesci✦
And if rap was hockey,✦ I be Gretzky, puffing Nestle
And y'all niggas✦ done starting something✦
Acting✦ invincible✦ like you God or something✦
If you God, then I'ma✦ make salat✦ 'til you rot
And if you a playa, then play for everything you got
And if you a thug, then start busting off shots
And if you a dog, you better✦ bite before✦ you bark
[Chorus: Styles P & DMX]
If you love the money,✦ then prepare✦ to die for it
Niggas✦ done started✦ something✦
You can lay in the flames,✦ or hug the sky for it
Niggas✦ done started✦ something✦
[Verse 5: DMX]
Don't come at me with no bullshit, use caution✦
'Cause when I wet shit, I dead shit, like abortions✦
For bigger✦ portions,✦ of extortion✦ and racketeering
Got niggas✦ fearing,✦ fuck whatchu heard, this what you hearing✦
How much darker✦ must it get, how much harder✦ must it hit
See if your hardest✦ niggas✦ flip, when I start a bunch of shit
I like pussy,✦ but not up in my face, so give me 3 feet
'Cause when we creep, no more than 3 deep, niggas✦ see sheep
Bloodhounds found your shit buried✦ in the mud
Following✦ traces✦ of gun powder,✦ residue and blood
A positive ID is impossible,✦ so you know
John Doe is what they gon' be putting on that tag on your toe
Now who gon' tell your mother,✦ her baby's under✦ a cover✦
In the morgue, stiff as a log, sniffed out by the dogs?
Another hardheaded nigga✦ that wouldn't listen✦
So you got what you came for
(What's that?) Surgery with the chainsaw
I hit the fucking✦ streets
'Cause, like I said before,✦ ain't nothing going down until✦ I eat
Muh'fuckers✦ think it's all about✦ impressing✦ bitches✦ and stressing✦ bitches✦
Well, I'm testing bitches✦ game, undressing✦ bitches,✦ and caressing✦ bitches✦
And dealing✦ with muhfuckers✦ on all levels,✦ what I'm dealing✦ with is all devils
Fucking✦ with snakes✦ running with niggas✦ you call rebels✦
I got an army✦ of 730 niggas,✦ dirty✦ niggas✦
That come through and worry✦ niggas✦
30 niggas✦ that like to bury✦ niggas✦
And scary✦ niggas✦ get it all the time
'Cause what they got is all of mine, your man was talking shit until✦ I pulled✦ the nine
And if I don't know you, I don't fuck witchu✦
And if you with my man, then he getting✦ stuck witchu✦
And gave it the money,✦ 'cause I just lost my mind when he crossed the line
Sent his back through his chest then I tossed✦ the nine
Boss of crime, black Gotti,✦ I stack bodies✦ with the black shottie
Bitch-ass niggas✦ that act snotty✦
Get it
[Outro: Interviewer & DMX]
These niggas✦ is for real
These niggas✦ ain't playing
This ain't no fucking✦ game
She think we playing?
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