[Verse 1]
My niggas got scarred grills, skully hats and gats be full-ies – brrrat!
Cars peel, the East Coast cartel, rats get their tails snapped and trapped
The snitches in the streets and the snitches who rap
Pure euphoria, a dose of death to all of ya
Coroner choruses sung from The Bridge to Astoria
Dreams of falling in the elevator, passing floors
Suddenly stop, the doors open up to a brick wall
I can smell the haters, wishful thinkers, bad-luck prayers
Picture your Tarot cards and bodyguards getting sprayed up
Sabotaging my makeup, my watches get laced up
Even if they indicted Jacob
Forensics, paramedics–carry cowards off
Defibrillators shock to your chest, try to cough
They die and hit Hell from an iron
I'm fly in YSL, I'm paid from this shit
Got bitches high as hell, and they fucking like AIDS don't exist
They get sent to your hotel, a maid in this shit
Put a barrel in a capo mouth 'til his scalp come out
You a kid, you don't live what you rap about
King poetic, too many haters to count
Too much paper to count (QB, bitch!)
[Chorus]
Join me in war, many will live, many will mourn (Mourn)
Money over bullshit, pistols over brawn
Afraid not of none of you cowards (Hahaha), but of my own strength
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
Join me in war, many will live, many will mourn
(My own strength, nigga! That's what I'm afraid of!)
Money over bullshit, pistols over brawn (Hahaha)
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
[Verse 2]
Got seven candles lit, black wallpaper, black carpet
Thinking 'bout which nigga to target
You kill a nigga today, he lives forever
So I plotted out smarter, there'll be no martyrs
Black TEC on the table, Mag' four-four
Black negligée on my bitch, she's at the door
Black fish eggs, nigga, that's the caviar
You niggas fish-made, y'all niggas is fifth grade niggas
It's fifty ways to dissect the General
If I give you the top five, you will not survive
Rule 1: Cocksucker, keep my name from your tongue
Rule 2: Thought you knew—don't fuck with God's Son
Rule 3: See, matter fact, I just wait
If y'all reach top five, then I'ma eat y'all alive
Each one of ya guys that claim Hip-Hop is still alive
Like y'all ain't in agreement with Nas
I said it's dead, motherfucker
[Chorus]
Join me in war, many will live, many will mourn (It's dead, bitch!)
Money Over Bullshit (Hahaha), pistols over brawn
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
(My own strength nigga, that's what I'm scared of, ha-ha)
Join me in war, many will live, many will mourn
Money Over Bullshit, pistols over brawn
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
[Verse 3]
From crack pushers to 'Lac pushers and ambushers
And morticians to fortresses
Case dismisses, laced in riches, cake ridiculous
From nickel and dimin', to trickin' them diamonds
Vegas, places in Switzerland, from 9 blastin' to
I don't have to blast mine, they blast mine, black 9
You flatline, my cash climb
Buy rare art, antique pieces, Mona Lisa's, own no leases
Five-star restaurant eaters; don't forget who your peeps is
'Posed to dine with you, sip that good wine with you
Only if they grind with you, or slang for ya
Seen niggas live, laugh, party, and die in that very same corner
Pretty girls glance at us, status unconceivable
Private planes landed out in Teterboro, weed, I twirl
Once even gave me a phobia
That I'd be in a spot, trapped like Madame Zenobia
With this kid eyein' my Rollie, y'all
[Chorus]
Join me in war, many will live, many will mourn (Mourn)
Money Over Bullshit, pistols over brawn
Afraid not of none of you cowards (Hahahaha), but of my own strength
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
(My own strength nigga, that's what I'm scared of, ha-ha-ha)
Join me in war, many will live, many will mourn
Money Over Bullshit, pistols over brawn
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
Afraid not of none of you cowards, but of my own strength
[Outro]
There it is! QB, bitch! Yeah…
QB, bitch! Yeah, yeah… QB, bitch!
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