[Intro: Nina Sky] (Prodigy) (*Sample of Hold You Down) (**Alchemist Intro sample)
(*Hold hold hold hold hold hold hold hold you you you you you you you you down)
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh (*Down) (Yeah man!) (*Hold, you, down)
(**AAAAAAAAAAAlchemist!) (*Down)
(Let`s do this, aiyyo it`s like this man, aiyyo! (*Hold, you, down)
[Verse 1: Prodigy] (*Sample of Hold You Down)
When it comes to teks, I`m similar to a menace
Like Ol` Dog sniffin caine couldn`t fuck with the damage
That I do to a bastard keep playin around
Won`t be nobody strong enough to (*Hold, you, down)
Yeah, I leave `em in shock
People get sentenced to life they stressed in the box
Most of my friends got murdered and damn I feel lost
Wish I was there when they popped off to (*Hold, you, down)
Nobody but me, I got a whole gang of killers but that`s how you gotta think
If you wanna make it alive in all in one piece
It takes much more of them things to (*Hold, you, down)
Yeah, yo sonny, I`m well connected in the streets
We loyal to each other when it comes to that beef we get (*Down)
Don`t worry `bout a thing dun dun I foreverly (*Hold, you, down)
[Chorus: Nina Sky] (*Sample of Hold You Down)
(***Lil` Kim sample from All About the Benjamins)
Even when shit gets hard I`m going to make sure that I`m around to hold you (*Down)
Will never leave your side until the day I die I`m gonna (*Hold, you, down)
Recognize that this game could be hard
Long as you roll with me, we are (*Down)
Here by your side always to (***Hold me down baby!) (*Hold, you, down)
[Verse 2: Alchemist] (*Sample Of Hold You Down)
Yeah, yo, when the time is worst
Never leave my fam in a jam I`m dyin first
Never (*Down) to my last dollar I`m grindin first
Never take the stand on my fam I`m silent first (*Hold, you, down)
It`s goin down, feel me The Alchemist in the flesh
And I love this profession but I throw it all away in a second cause I`m (*Down)
For the cause when my life is threatened
Taken this and that maybe that`ll (*Hold, you, down)
Now you know how we cooks the pot up
You could get caught up in some things you would not wanna so slow (*Down)
And watch how I mold the sound so when I ain`t around the music still (*Hold, you, down)
But I`m a keep my eyes open yo I don`t even blink
Keep my pen movin down the line I don`t even think, just write it (*Down)
On the paper get my vocals in sync
Check how it sound (*Hold hold hold hold you you you you you you you you down)
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Illa Ghee] (*Sample of Hold You Down)
To all my people I war for, blow the four four for, you know I gets (*Down)
Even if we trapped standin back to back I`ll (*Hold, you, down)
No matter if you wrong or right you still right, for you I lay a man (*Down)
I don`t care if it`s the president I cock my heat, and (*Hold, you, down)
For all y`all chickens in the club
If you hop in the truck, first thing y`all gonna go (*Down)
And when we get to the telly I`m a bend you over and (*Hold, you, down)
[Verse 4: Prodigy]
Aiyyo! Mobb, thugs, drops and trucks
We got enough paper to front, you see our guns and duck (*Down)
Somebody fittin to get wigged, homey I hold your outfit a (*Hold, you, down)
I seriously doubt it, my chain cost a quart a mill imagine what I spend gun shoppin
Get bullets by the thousands they say that we whylin
And I`m far from recluse, we fight on front street with them fullies in the coupe
Before the drama and the shootin, then I take bullets and die to (*Hold, you, down)
[Chorus & Outro: Nina Sky] (*Sample of Hold You Down)
Even when shit gets hard I`m going to make sure that I`m around to hold you (*Down)
Will never leave your side until the day I die I`m gonna (*Hold, you, down)
Recognize that this game could be hard
Long as you roll with me, we are (*Down)
Here by your side always to (*Soon, you`ll, un-der-stand)
