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Gold by GZA

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GZA

Gold

Release date: 7th November 1995

From Liquid Swords
Track 4
3:57
Hip-Hop/RapMusicHardcore RapEast Coast Rap
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About This Track

GZA inhabits a drug-dealing narrative on 'Gold', adopting the voice of a street operator consumed by the need to move product and accumulate wealth. The track is built on a simple, brutal logic: the fiend supply cannot keep pace with demand, the cut is never pure enough, and so the cycle continues. He raps with clinical precision about violence as a business tool, the removal of competition, the calculus of territory and profit. The production sits spare and menacing beneath his delivery. GZA moves between boasts and threats, between the mechanics of the trade and its human wreckage, never breaking character or offering moral distance. The repetition of the hook, "I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload", becomes a kind of mantra, the sound of compulsion dressed as ambition. It is a portrait of entrapment rendered without sentimentality.

"Gold" is a track by GZA, from the album Liquid Swords, released 7th November 1995. The track is 3:57 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below.

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GZA

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Gold

A-yo shorty, yo that's my word
Oh, y'all smelling y'all piss now y'all think y'all gold
Yo anybody get caught flinging
Over here, I'm returning 'em, that's my word they getting blasted
Anything from 220 to 140, that's mine
Y'all need to step the fuck off
Y'all niggas ain't crazy for real
Yo, the fiends ain't coming fast enough
There is no cut that's pure enough
I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload
Product must be sold to you
I'm deep down in the back streets, in the heart of Medina
About to set off something more deep than a misdemeanor
Under the subway, waiting for the train to make noise
So I can blast a nigga and his boys,for what?
He pushed up on the block and made the dope sales drop
Like the crash in the Dow Jones stock
I had a connect to cross-sales, to catch more mill's
Than ho-bitches got birth control pills
I'm in the park setting up a deal over blunt fire
Bum nigga sleeping on the bench, they had him wired
Peeped my convo, the address of my condo
And how I changed a nigga name to John Doe
And while we set up camp, we got vamped
Put the stake through his heart, I ripped his fucking fangs apart
Snake got smoked on the set like Brandon Lee
Blown out the frame like Pan Am Flight 103
He got swung on, his lungs was torn
A kingpin just castled with his rook and lost a pawn
A regular on the block that played lookout
For playing predator with a Glock, he should have took out
No neighbourhood is rough enough
There is no clip that's full enough
I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload
Product must be sold to you
Fiends ain't coming fast enough
There is no cut that's pure enough
I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload
Product must be sold to you
It's mandatory that I supply all my troops with mega firearms
Big apes and spread 'em out like crops on a farm
To get cream, sometimes they repaint the scene
Like the last episode on gates, and other niggas
Plant bombs till the smoke from the blast becomes thick
And flows through, all they knew, he's gun sick
His Glock clicks like high-heeled shoes on parquet floors
Mad sick, stand on hills and invade wars
Filthy foul, shovelling dirt, he's out to hurt
For instance, chop off hands, attack worth
His idols would lock down airports and extort
Some import, catching ten percent of what the fiends snort
Up in the ski resorts, up in hills
They move keys and had the skis making drops on snowmobiles
The plan was to expand, catch seven figures, release triggers
And live large and bigger than my nigga
Who promised his moms a mansion with mad room
She died and he still put a hundred grand in her tomb
Open wounds, he hid behind closed doors
And still organized his crime and drug wars
Fiends ain't coming fast enough
There is no cut that's pure enough
I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload
Product must be sold to you
No neighborhood is rough enough
There is no clips that's full enough
I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload
Product must be sold to you
There's no cuffs that's tight enough
There is no niggas that's fuck with us
I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload
Product must be sold to you

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Track details

From Liquid Swords

3:571995
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Album
Liquid Swords
Liquid Swords
GZA
7th November 1995
Track number
4
Release year
1995
  1. 1Liquid Swords
    4:32
  2. 2Duel of the Iron Mic (feat. Masta Killa, Dreddy Kruger, Inspectah Deck & Ol' Dirty Bastard)
    4:05
  3. 3Living In the World Today
    4:23
  4. 4Gold
    3:57

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