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Prodigy

Y.B.E.

Release date: 14th November 2000

From H.N.I.C.
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About This Track

"Y.B.E." is a track by Prodigy, from the album H.N.I.C., released 14th November 2000. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Prodigy

Prodigy

Lyrics

Y.B.E.

[Intro: Prodigy]

Much more than your ass

So many years and tears, the blood and sweat that fell

Now it speak for itself

I be the same nigga... (get rich, nigga)

Uh-huh, get yours, nigga, (get yours, nigga...)

(We take yours, nigga...)

[Verse 1: Prodigy]

Yo – yo, I can see it, dunn, yo, let's be it dunn

And we can manifest all the cash we ever dreamed of

It's the cream I love, for the team I shove

All fakeness and everything else to far away from us

Ain't no discussion for the plush life

My niggas go hard and knock y'all down to survive

In this jungle, wilderness, we was raised

By the wolves and the scavengers, instincts like a animal

But it toughened us, put a whole lot of thug in us

And it paid off, 'cause can't none of y'all fuck with us

Don't get it twist, I know, anyone can get touched

But uhh - my style of Dunn is too quick to bust

And too swift to just, talk in angles to

Let me straighten that shit out for you, peep it

I'm the Head Nigga In Charge, the best kept secret

We killers, but chill, dunn (shhh) – that's best kept secret

Let's not jump off the topic, we talkin' 'bout cash

Fuckin' with mines'll be, much more than your ass

So many years and tears and blood and sweat that fell

This dirt underneath my fingernails speak for itself

I'd be the same if I had billions

You couldn't understand my pain if you lived it

Give me the riches, and all of my dunns'll be drivin

It's beautiful to see the click live comfortable

[Chorus: (Prodigy), B.G. & Prodigy together]

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

Get rich, get money, get paper, get paid

Keep yourself laced, get your ones, get your dunns out the slums

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

Get dollars, get cash – straight up, don't get fucked

Get ya bucks, and get big

Stash your first millions and live off the interest

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

[Verse 2: B.G.]

When I hit the block – pistol on my side, bundle of dope in my socks

Dime bags of powder, sack of twenty dollar rocks

I'm a hustler, I was taught "be 'bout green"

Therefore, I got to have it by all means

I be thuggin', B.G. was raised that way

Can't see me bein' a ho, you'll get played that way

If I'm broke, ya got coke? Unhands that yae'

Be a man, don't break it off, gotta blast that K

Drama, I love that, I bring that shit

Dick get hard off that shoot-em-up and bang-bang shit

I [mob deep/Mobb Deep] with this click that I'm with, believe that

Disrespect us if you want, we bang for feedback

Glock got a bad mouth – when it start, it don't stop

Black talons go straight through the heart and close shop

I'm a guerrilla, I run with jackers and gangsters

Convicted felons, and believe we armed and dangerous

It gets real, I'm prepared for whatever it comes to

Let me catch ya with your drawers down, I'ma down you

Police will find you in a project dumpster

With ya dick cut off, stuffed in ya mouth, motherfucker

I don't care, about you or no nigga that you fuck with

All of y'all can slip and get your head busted

B.Geezy love this gangsta this, nigga

Whoever I beef with, I creep, and spank ya quick, nigga

[Chorus: (Prodigy), B.G. & Prodigy together]

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

Get rich, get money, get paper, get paid

Keep yourself laced, get your ones, get your dunns out the slums

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

Get dollars, get cash – straight up, don't get fucked

Get ya bucks, and get big

Stash your first millions and live off the interest

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

Get rich, get money, get paper, get paid

Keep yourself laced, get your ones, get your dunns out the slums

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

Get dollars, get cash – straight up, don't get fucked

Get ya bucks, and get big

Stash your first millions and live off the interest

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

(To the young black entrepreneurs)

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Track details

From H.N.I.C.

2000
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Album
H.N.I.C.
H.N.I.C.
Prodigy
Release year
2000
  1. —Infamous Minded
  2. —What U Rep
  3. —Y.B.E.
  4. —Delt With the Bullshit
  5. —Bars & Hooks (Intro)
  6. —Can't Complain
  7. —Diamond
  8. —Drive Thru (Skit)
  9. —Genesis
  10. —Gun Play
  11. —H.N.I.C. (Outro)
  12. —Be Cool (Skit)
  13. —Do It
  14. —Wanna Be Thugs
  15. —Littles (Skit)
  16. —You Can Never Feel My Pain
  17. —H.N.I.C.
  18. —Veteran's Memorial
  19. —Trials of Love
  20. —Rock Dat Shit

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
“Legs” Larry Smith (Musician), B.G., Jalil Hutchins, Nashiem Myrick, Prodigy
Producer
Nashiem Myrick, Prodigy, Steven “Lost Spirit” Dorsian
Keyboards
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Mastering Engineer
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