Make 'Em So Proud

[Intro: A.G.]

Hold up, hold up

I said we make 'em so proud

This that loud, nigga roll up, hold up, hold up

I said we make 'em so proud

This that loud, nigga roll up, hold up, hold up

[Break: Yuna sample]

While you're out there

Out there alight in the dark

I keep my hopes up

While you're out there

Out there alight in the dark

I keep my hopes up

[Verse 1: A.G.]

Many people tell us our style is terrific

It is quite different ("but let's get specific!")

I'll focus on a lyric - mind, body, spirit

Inspires when you hear it, so you feel it

I'm birthed in the Apple, Bronx is the cradle

Fighting off demons, embracing all the angels

Mastered all the angles, you should do the same too

Before your inner self blame you, came through

With the same crew - D-I-double-G-I-N 'til the end

Fill a pen, kill again with the will to win

Nah, we're not like the rest of 'em

In the same sentence don't mention 'em (hold up, hold up)

I said we make 'em so proud, this that loud, nigga roll up

See, Andre's a giant, Joey got that crack

Finesse is the Lord, Mush shine on a track

Buck got the heat, Show got the street

L is still with us, best producer with lyrics

Is D squared, so you better beware

So lit with the shit 'til we leave here

(Hold up, hold up), yeah, yeah

[Chorus: A.G. & (Fat Joe)]

Hold up, hold up

I said we make 'em so proud

This that loud, nigga roll up (often imitated)

Hold up, hold up

I said we make 'em so proud (never duplicated)

This that loud, nigga roll up (D.I.T.C. nigga)

Hold up, hold up

[Verse 2: Fat Joe]

I was at the Castle, Dapper Dan on

Finesse on stage, I'm like put your fans on

Ever since the shotgun flew over the sofa

I been building a empire, preserving the culture

Life's what you choose it, crack before music

I put that on the wall, now my name's on the Hall of Fame

Next to L and the rest of the crew

I had to board therefore I was destined to shoot

I'm like Vince with his arm in the rim

Tell ya Honor and them, that I'm never going back

But it's still Cook Coke Crack (Crack)

She stash the dope where her choch at

Don't make me have to give a soul clap, nigga, nigga...

[Chorus: A.G.]

Hold up, hold up

I said we make 'em so proud

This that loud, nigga roll up, hold up, hold up

I said we make 'em so proud

This that loud, nigga roll up, hold up, hold up

[Verse 3: Diamond D]

Uh; and now you got all these non-descripts

Looking for an angle, all dressed up

Like they looking for a bangle, I'm pressed up

I'm just looking for a strangle

'Cause these lames wanna hook and entangle (uh)

In the League of Extraordinary Men

All blessed with the extraordinary pen

Fans screaming now they want the more live six shit

That uncut 1-0-4-5-6 shit, yeah

Bodacious (uh), so gracious

I don't talk much, but the flow is loquacious

(Diggin') rough beats and rough raps

The vanguards of boom bap, fuck that

[Outro: A.G.]

Hold up, hold up

I said we make 'em so proud

This that loud, nigga roll up, hold up, hold up

I said we make 'em so proud

This that loud, nigga roll up, hold up, hold up

Hold up, hold up...