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  3. Cradle 2 The Grave (Original Soundtrack)
  4. Getting Down

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DMX

Getting Down

Release date: 18th February 2003

From Cradle 2 The Grave (Original Soundtrack)
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About This Track

"Getting Down" is a track by DMX, from the album Cradle 2 The Grave (Original Soundtrack), released 18th February 2003. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

DMX

DMX

Lyrics

Getting Down

[Intro: DMX]

Grrrrrrrr

Gettin' down for what we stand for 'cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed

Bazaar

[Verse 1: Bazaar Royale]

I am from the ghetto

I don't do the disco

I just pull my pistol, take a chunk of your soul

It's me who ride right by you, police won't recognize you

Run up right behind you, and let my ratchet squeeze

You don't want no drama, pistol-whip your momma

Put that bitch in trauma, you don't wanna pump with me

[Chorus: DMX]

Gettin' down for what we stand for 'cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed

Gettin' down for what we stand for 'cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed

Next out the gate is B.S

[Verse 2: Big Stan]

Dog, I don't have to use the fifth to be a threat

I stand six foot three, four thirty, and unless

Motherfuckers' want their shit split, I ain't the one to test

Understand what I'm saying, if not, how I figure

Nine to your tongue while I play with the trigger

Will make you understand what I say a lot quicker

Do we have an understanding?, (Yeah), my nigga

And cats that be frontin', know they really

Don't want it with me

Come coming with them hollows and heaters

To put it simply

So if your team gon' follow it's leader

Then come and get me

But all you cowards better believe that

Your comin' with me

[Chorus: DMX]

Gettin' down for what we stand for 'cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed

Gettin' down for what we stand for 'cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed

Next out the gate that bitch Kash

[Verse 3: Kashmir]

Dog, I'm known for gettin' up in these niggas ass

And they don't want to, fuck with the bitch of this shit

Because I position the hits, speak with the nine

Niggas ain't ready for that shit that I spit

Oh no

Get at these niggas

Fo sho

Cause once you cross the line, you already

Know were you go

The, quicker they slip, the quicker their ready

Holes in your Pelle, body laid up in the back of the deli

I thought ya'll 'ready knew 'bout

Me and these triggers

Get touched if you ever fuck with

Me and these niggas

The bitch is loose, got niggas like 'Bitch you loose'

I'm the realest bitch of them all 'cause I get down for what I stand for

[Chorus: DMX]

Gettin' down for what we stand for 'cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed

Gettin' down for what we stand for cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed

[Verse 4: DMX]

(Yo!) Fuck, I gots to say it for, you already know

How it's goin' dizzy, I get busy with the flow

Oh, it's like that, aight, hey yo

Niggas comin' through anytime, anywhere

Pop up and pop niggas up right there

Put your man's brains in the motherfuckin' air

Pop, pop, pop, you drop, drop, drop

Stop and, look at what I done to you niggas

I don't wanna be a father, tired of sonnin' you niggas

And I'm sick of being bothered, I'm confrontin' you niggas

And take this and run, in a minute I'm huntin' you niggas

Go on now

[Chorus: DMX]

Gettin' down for what we stand for 'cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed (P-pop)

Gettin' down for what we stand for 'cause it don't stop

Once, the, line's, crossed (P-pop)

Track details

From Cradle 2 The Grave (Original Soundtrack)

2003
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Bazaar Royale, Big Stan, DJ Envy, DMX, Kashmir (Ellen Lomax), Mono (Renan Thybulle)
    Producer
    DJ Envy, Mono (Renan Thybulle)
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