One of These Days

[Chorus: Donny Hathaway & Inspectah Deck]

One of these days and it won't be long

(It won't be long now)

One of these days and it won't be long

(You bound to come up)

One of these days and it won't be long

(Keep your eyes on us)

One of these days and it won't be long

(Yeah, yeah, Deck)

[Verse 1: Inspectah Deck]

I'm from the home where the buffalo roam

And niggas don't give a flyin' fuck

Talk with signs up, walk with the iron tucked

Leave your eyes wide shut

Money bag's on the table, gots to get my cut

Rebel I city slicker, pick up a pretty sister

Dig her out on the table, bent off the Rémy liquor

Head splitter, deliver so cold I send shivers

For many figures, battle the world or any nigga

I'm uptown Saturday night like Bill Cos'

Got weed in the jars with vanilla cigars

On the strip, eyeballin' the chicks, all in the mix

Gassed off of my shit, vibratin' the whip

[Chorus: Donny Hathaway & Raekwon]

One of these days and it won't be long

(That's what you call it pa)

One of these days and it won't be long

(Chef)

[Verse 2: Raekwon]

Yo I'm sicker than the V12 X5

With cracks in the Rolly jumper all we do is drink, fuck and drive

Real niggas raise up, Mommy get your feet off the table

The cable look bare, my man got me one on his ankle

It's nothin' for me to get up with you, Dutch with you

Blow off them matches and sit up with you

Ayo, the streets, what is gettin' more crazy?

Stressin' me never, investin' the leathers, we all into things blazin'

Slingin' coke is just a normal habit, rappers we wear

Straddlers with cannons and hatchets gettin' cheers

Yatzis are fresh off the block, block squeezin', it's real

If we get real, pop-pop, poppin' at your blocks equal

Take these niggas and throw 'em in lakes, it's business

Rake these niggas on the mic, display your ninjas

Nines crowns versus your nine towns

Run up with nine 9's, brown down, get to lyin' you down

[Chorus: Donny Hathaway, U-God & Raekwon]

One of these days and it (Yo) won't be long

(That's what you call it pa)

One of these days and it won't be long

(Yo, yo)

[Verse 3: U-God]

I come from the slums, I ain't no dummy

My testament talk, represent money

This Verbal Intercourse, fueled by exhaust

The bread winner, head spinner, coldest with the force

No remorse, endorse the rap artist

So flamboyant cos I pimp slap the hardest

Ever since the Triumph we've been missin' them soldiers

We came tonight, boy the mission is cobra, full exposure

Bulldoze through the rubbish, I'm in too deep, boy

I just gotta love this, they call me too sweet

One of the nine brothers, I'm so unique

Every line that smother, the situation's grim

It's a bloody sin cos every time I want out they pull me back in

I see my reflection in the chrome MAC-10

Ask the passer who's faster with the pen

That bullet, nine hollows, amorettos

That's how I like it, sweat on my wine bottles

The automobiles with them shiny assed hubs

The endo pull, with the bathtub club, my angel's in the mud

Veteran smile, that's gangsta shit, that American style

Dig it, prick my prey off

I'm quick to slay with the rapid-fire shit, caught by the ricochet, nigga

[Chorus: Donny Hathaway & Raekwon]

I got to know

One of these days and it won't be long

(That's what you call it pa)

One of these days and it won't be long

One of these days and it won't be long

(That's what you call it pa)

One of these days and it won't be long

I got to know

One of these days and it won't be long

(That's what you call it pa)

One of these days and it won't be long

I got to know

One of these days and it won't be long

(That's what you call it pa)

One of these days and it won't be long

I got to know

[Outro: Donny Hathaway]

One of these days and it won't be long