Back Against the Wall

(*Sample plays in the background throughout the song*)

[Intro - Royce Da 5'9" - talking] (Sample)

Yeah, aiyyo Statik, my family

You know how sometimes you just feel like ya

Like your back is against the wall

You might go through a particular situation or something

(Sitting here waiting for tomorrow)

It ain't gotta be jail

It could be, what you goin through in your life

Like the industry or some bullshit

So I think you need to put together

The right type of motherfuckers

You could put the realest niggas you could think of on this record

And just kick real shit, know what I'm talkin 'bout?

Royce Da 5'9"

[Verse 1 - Royce Da 5'9"]

They try to have your man slavin, back to the pavement, ass to the floor

Thinkin of raps as spit through the cracks in the door

Learnin how to accept losses

Writin to the sound at night of the depths walkin

To the rhythm of keys jinglin, cells openin

Inmates hopin that he thinks his bail rollin in

When it's over, it's back to totin

That's for sure as, back to clappin that fo' fo' again

Popos know it's him and they know it's 'Mega too

So we roll around the city like we just as dead as you

Bet if you, threaten us nigga, then the threat is you

You know that they say restin in heaven betters you

Therefore I can +Make Him Better+ like Ne-Yo

Tell him I said and tell 'em don't be tellin my PO

Statik Selek' and Cormega, Nickel

That is the lesson, Showoff Records, that is official

[Hook - Sample]

Back against the wall

Back against the wall (back against the wall)

Back against the wall

(Keep your head up)

Back against the wall (back against the wall)

[Cormega talking over Hook]

Uh, uh, yeah, yo

[Verse 2 - Cormega]

I adapt to all, whether real or fake

When my back against the wall, I make the building shake

Like G Fresh and Ron Love, can you relate?

The flow is cocaine raw, I can't feel my face

Niggas think shit's sweet 'til I give 'em a taste

Of de-feat, even Kings fear a lyrical ace

Don't make requests if we ain't friends, give me my space

You throwin stones? Kick rocks, ready y'all ain't

On my level, I'm one of the thoroughest to ever spit

With +Fire and Desire+ like Rick James, (I'm 'Mega bitch)

Don't ever shit where you sleep or you'll smell a stint

A lot of people sittin in cells from carelessness

Ruin lives and neutralize the tenements

I've been in this shit since B.I.G. was Chris

And Reaganomics enslaved the projects

Niggas had to deal to live

(Deal to live), ya heard me?

[Hook]