Double Up

[mase]
Yo, just think if you could rewind time
And start your life all over again
What would you give and what would you keep?
You heard me, what would you keep?

[loon]
Yo, yo, if i could go back, i wouldn'ta sold no crack
Wouldn'ta never put my hands around no gat
But you know loon, bein' all hard-headed
And don't listen, even if god said it
I didn't have to stick with folks that sniff no coke
I didn't have to fix the block when shit was broke
Same cats i helped was twistin' smoke
Now imagine if i went to school, went to class
'stead of bein' a young cat sent to blast
Sent to slash criminal's necks in half
For playin' dumb when i come to collect my cash
And cuz of that cats will respect my past, i ain't playin'

[shyne]
If i start from scratch i'd sign with def jam
Nah, fuck am i saying? puff's the best man
Plus i'mma bad boy, i'm more like a bad man
Put mo' nigga's in pits than brad, man
Can't dodge bullets? too bad, man
Shit, i'd a copped the five instead of the six
That way wouldn't of crashed and killed my cousin
Keep quiet instead of having the industry buzzin'
Do a devil's advocate style, don't let 'em see you comin'
Use the revolver when bustin' and sluggin'
That way no evidence
But fuck it, got money to be tried, worse come to worse
Who god bless, no man curse, hatin' niggas, lay in the dirt

[mase & meeno]
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch (what? what?)
Rewind time and still go back (it's time to eat)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?

If you could start your life from scratch (what? what?)
Rewind time and still go back (about to kill it)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?
Come on, come on

[meeno]
Yo, if i could start life from scratch, i wouldn't change shit
Same gun, same clip, same dumb bitch
All out, harlem world, same old clique
Same old studio, same old shit
Shit don't change just because a cop took six to the brain
Meeno got a lawyer, man i'm hip to the game
You could find a gun, but if my prints ain't on that thing
What is you sayin'?
And on the same block that i get my glocks from
You see the same cop that get popped with the shot gun
(mysonne: mysonne)
And at the same bodega i got my tops from
(mysonne: mysonne)
I give the same old money to the same cop's bum

[mysonne]
If i could start from scratch, i'd bring daddy back
And put five in the first cat that show mami crack
I sit back and listen to them drunks on the block
Tryin' to school me with jewels, tellin' me who to watch
I killed five people, i'd let survive
And the five i took away, i'd a left alive
If i could do all it again i'd bring virg' back
Or i switch places with him, i hope you heard that
I would have prefered that, i ain't have to starve
Pitch crack, have to rob and catch a charge
And i'd do it all again if i had to
Pitch no-win to win, and i'd be glad to
And i'd hit every target i took aim at
But i'd still be a problem, you can't change that
I'm a problem

[mase]
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch (uh)
Rewind time and still go back (all out)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at? (and double up)

If you could start your life from scratch (bad boy, bad boy)
Rewind time and still go back
(yo, i really don't know what's goin' on)
What would you change in the way that you live today
(i'm tellin' ya, i really don't know what's goin' on)
And what would you leave right where it's at?
Come on, come on

[mase]
Yo, cuz half the cats that flip, we all was cool
And half the chicks i hit, they teased me in school
I got a baby by a lady i don't even love alot
Wish i wore three rubbers 'case the first rubber popped
But you can't cry now, milk already spilt
I had eleven friends and ten already killed
Went down south and i ain't feel the guilt
And i ain't ready to war but that ain't the way built
And for all the nights and all the fights
That i had for all this money over all these dice
All my cars and homes and all my ice
If i could do it all again, i'd do it all for christ
Whoever thought the limelight or the super-stardom
Whoever thought there'd be a problem comin' through harlem
Can't even chill, cats wanna make me a villian
Cats that i grew up with i gotta contemplate killin'
Nobody love me, i'm my own mister, and on my own, mister
Mama did what she could but now i'm grown, mister
Though she told me once, wish she'd told me then
Though i'm the youngest, i'mma grow to be the oldest man
And cats thinkin' they gon' win cuz they veterans
Ain't about age at this stage, man with the most cheddar win
How you live right? every day get in bigger sin
How you say no at the door screamin' "let me in"?
From the outside it's lookin' gooder than it ever been
But tell the truth, when i was broke it was better then
All out, 33rd street

[mase]
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?

If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?
Come on, come on

Sample from "oh daddy" by natalie cole (in fast speed)

1 - [nc] oh daddy
You know you make me cry
[mase] you make me cry, too
[nc] how can you love me
I can't understand why
[mase] i just wanna know why

[nc] oh daddy
You know you make me cry
[mase] you make me cry, too
[nc] how can you love me
I can't understand why
[mase] i just wanna know why

You think i wanna see you cryin'?
You think i want you when you need not one more doll
Then gettin' scared everytime you hear them sirens
Hear niggaz open fire and
Think your baby dead, front of a hydrant
But it's gon' to be a time when
Ain't gon' be no more wineing
No more dining, no more diamonds
No reclining, no more expensive violins
And i'mma probably be the one that's cryin'
According to my mother, if you wanna know if a girl love you
All you gotta do is make her suffer
Stop spending, stop givin' her the minks and linen
You will see if this girl gon' be with you to the ending
Cuz floatin' in the drop, it be all good
And when you come in on the block, it be all good
Givin' her money to shop, it be all good
But when you get broke dead pop, is it all good, huh?

Repeat 1

You know you startin' to act just like these bitches
Every fuckin' night with these bitches
Whatchu doin' fighting with these bitches
They like me for my riches, you like me for me
That's the reason i gave you keys to my v
See you be whipping my benz
But you still wanna listen to your friends
And them gon' be the same bitches with me in the end
You look at your neck, what you see plenty of ice?
Then you think these hoes don't envy your life?
They wanna lay in brazil, spend a day in the hills
It ain't hard to shop all day and pay the bills
Fuck the way you feel
And keep it all real i wrote your name on my will
And yo', that's real
You think a nigga cheatin' cause i don't be all in your ass
You think them your friends
I cut you off, all them'll laugh
See my shit right there, put it all in the bag
You ain't gotta say shit to me again, just call me a cab
I'm out

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Now good thing i ain't a nigga who get way open
And fall for a chick that live way in oakland
You pay for a trip, she lay up on an ocean
Then you find out this girl playin' with your emotions
I had this one chick turned out a dumb chick
Cause all she ever did for me was some dumb shit
But i could peep how mommy used to be foul
And everytime i hang up the phone she would redial
But it takes more for mase to flip
I'm the first one to want out this relationship
Save that jeep receipt, just in case you shit
You wanna fuck with my friends, take your pick, uh
You wanna do your thing, do your thing then
But don't be feignin' when you see me minglin'
Running up saying you love me and don't know the meanin'
When i walk away i could hear the girl screamin'

Repeat 1
Repeat 1

Repeat 1 until fade while:
I just wanna know why
I just wanna know why
I just wanna know why
I just wanna know why
I just wanna know why

You know i wanna know why
You know i wanna know why
You know i wanna know why

[intro]
What, what
What, what, what
(h-world)
What, what, what
(all out)
What, what, what, what, what
(take it back to the streets, mutha fucka)
What, what, what, what, what
Yo, this for my niggas in the streets
(what what what what)
Foreign cars and the jeeps
(what what what what)
Make about a fuckin' million in a week
(what what what what)
When i can't forget that we all still street

Yo, yo
You know a nigga that's sniffin', that's always in the kitchen
Bagin' shit up, there's always something missin'
A nigga that's speeding, bound to have a collision
Bound to be in prison, or bound to pop a mission
So if you got dogs, nigga, let 'em go
If a mob fuckin' truck right, let 'em know
We got the same guns that you got, but better though
And next time we in some shit nigga, you will know
See i'm pushed to the point that i put something down
And i stand over your head, like look at you now
And the kids in the parks start lookin' around
Like, "mommy come here, look, look, look what we found"
Wit' me it's more intense, nigga
So if you ain't goin' hard, stay on the bench, nigga
And you know when i come, i leave no prints nigga
And when you die, it won't be at my expense nigga
Nigga, nigga

1 - yo, you ain't as smart as you think
And i know you ain't as smart as you think
(take it back to the streets)
You talk crazy on the phone, bring niggas to your home
Hey yo, you ain't as smart as you think
(take it back to the streets)

Hey yo, you ain't as smart as you think
And i know you ain't as smart as you think
(take it back to the streets)
You leave a thug wit' a hoe and you think you on the low
Hey yo, you ain't as smart as you think

Yo, yo
Not only do i know the rights, i know the wrongs
Mo' money, mo' bitches, yeah, you know the song
And if you claim you a nigga that know me long
And you should know i'mma die with my rolley on
I ain't no punk, i ain't no chump, i ain't no whimp
Ain't got no cane, ain't got no ming, ain't got no limp
Money exempt, instead you niggas are blimp
And every bitch in every state know mase is the pimp
See i'm unlike the ones who fail you, when i know where you
Live, i'mma send my kid to take care of you
I'll bring it to my man if he try to spare you
I'd tie something up if i wanted to scare you
Make it where your own shadow won't stand near you
And they send the trauma unit to come repair you
Now there you are nigga, in the fuckin' reservoir
With your bentley, we don't give a fuck about your car
Who you are

Repeat 1

Yo, yo
You can't never love a man so much you can't doubt him
Let him know certain shit you gotta do without him
And if ya got guns, don't leave home without it
You gon' kill a man, there's ways to go about it
See i never kill a man, and i do it vainly
I won't ever let a mutha fucka know i'm angry
Cuz when i get caught and they come arraign me
It be a surprise witness that come to hang me
I figure, if i'mma do it, i'mma do it my way
Set 'em on sunday, have 'em by friday
Then sunday, i'mma meet 'em on the highway
See where his exit is and keep it movin'
Monday i'm off the exit
All i wanna find out is where the complex is
And by tuesday i'm sittin' in the complexes
All i wanna find out is where the address is
And by wednesday, it just so happen you get shot in the knee
A nigga tried to run away and dropped the key
Now you in the hospital, not critical
Frontin', makin' a scene, bring the whole block wit' you
Friday hit and you ain't got no clique wit' you
Need somebody help you with your leg, got your bitch wit' chu
Soon as you get home and put the key in the door
Click, clack, now get on the floor, i told you nigga

Repeat 1 until fade

[intro]
What the fuck?
'99, get your name back nigga
(get your name back nigga)
Double up motherfucker (99)
Double up motherfucker
Don't believe it, double up, uh
Yea yea yea yea what what what what uh uh

Yo who got the right to flip, twice the whips
Time to get paid, get twice the chips
See law ain't no good unless two dice hit
Hate me even if i didn't ice my shit
Fuck niggas, make that money and lots of it
Sold four million and somebody got to love it
They want mase for video, ain't in the budget
I can't take a piss without a bitch tryin' to rub it
How could you know like this
When it's because of me a nigga know what nice is
I was 60 i have flow-itis
I like my weed green and my hoe's dyke-ish
You know you like this
Young kid'll live by goldie advice's
Pimp hoe's that come across so righteous
Fuck though, promote on the rolley ices
Yo, that's why my jewelery looks snow white-ish
Come on

1 - if you wanna party come and shake your body
If you wanna party put 'em in the air
Over there, over there

If you wanna party come and shake your body
If you wanna party put 'em in the air
Over there, over there

Yo i'm tryin' to live my life the largest, vipers in garages
'nuff money to go court and fight the charges
Everybody stare at myse the hardest
That's why i'm in them all night menages
Besides b.i.g., the criticly acclaimed
I vow, they never bring the city to shame
I pulled up the prettiest things, the prettiest range
The prettiest cars, and the prettiest stars
By far the prettiest misses
I pull up in the prettiest sixes
So by the time you get the six bitch, i have the seven
By the time you get the seven, i switch to the eight
When it time i get this cake, a bitch could wait
They know i could sell five so they ship me eight
Come on

Repeat 1 while:
All out, motherfucker
To the death, motherfucker
Bad boy forever
Bad boy forever
All out, motherfucker (uh uh)
H world, motherfucker (uh uh)
To the death, motherfucker (uh yo)

Yo why i'mma envy the lives or envy the guys
Who be frontin' in the six that's really a five
You could see i still got it by the look in my eyes
I'mma blue collar criminal, crook in disguise
It don't matter if it rain, i got a pool inside
And a stretch range so at least 20 could ride
And i could tell fake platinum from a mile away
When i rap, yo' 150 thou' get paid
So until then nigga, i style away
Four point six swit' to the cal' away
I'm gettin' honey, i ain't with the beefin' going on
I look at nigga's cars, alot a leasin' goin' on
My heat get raised up, streets gets blazed up
Until a nigga find my dough and pays up
I lays up fuck, 'till my days up
Doggy style, so bitch don't fuck my ways up
Come on

Repeat 1

[intro]
See, the difference with me
When i do what i do
I do what i'm doing
But i'm doing it like i'm doing it for tv

Oww, oww, oww, oww, oww
Keep ya hands up
What, what, put your hands up
Come on, come on, keep your hands up

We back, we back, we back, we back (put your hands up)
We back, we back again (keep your hands up)
We back, we back, we back, we back, we back, we back

I remember the days of prayin' my chips be right
Louie the 13, no more cris tonight
Gold to me is like superman and kryptonite
So i pray how i don't miss my flight, switch to night
Get out the plane, it look all strange
See a man from spain, holding up my name
Give him my things and head down to bag' claim
And i hear somebody scream my name

So i look back, look once, look twice
Look fast, look left, look right
Look blink, look meeno, look myse
They try tell me honey don't look right
So, i approach her, it all look kosher
But there was kids runnin' up with posters
And i was startin' to lose sight of chauffer
So i had to say nice to know ya
Get ready

1 - [blackstreet]
Get ready, tonight
We're gonna make this a night to remember
Get ready, tonight
We're gonna make this a night to remember

[during chorus]
What, what, what, what, what, what
Get money all over again
Get money all over again
Come on, uh, uh, all out

Uh, yo, it just so happen this how ma$e stay starred
Flip two aces and get two face cards
It happens, chip stackin'
I turn around, see a bunch of chicks clappin'
But a girl walked by, caught my eye
So i said, 'what the fuck, stand here and give me luck'
And she whispered in my ear
A purple one on there and put a pink one on there
I did just that and gave hud a stack, shout 'i'll be right back'
In fact, i'ma be over here talkin' to love
Said you been around the world, been so many places
Hit so many girls, and spent so many faces
And every girl in the world know who ma$e is
But right now that's really not what the case is
Let's be real, i know you got bills
So how 'bout one night and i just gave you a mil'
Whatchu feel

Repeat 1

[during chorus]
What, what, what, what, what, what
All out
Wanna blow
H world, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on

I don't rap for rollies, i rap for starbucks
I'm that star who get the stars star struck
You a one hit wonder who caught some hard luck
I'm that kid cats can't wait to scar up
But the show ain't over until the bottles is empty
Then girls run out the club, follow the bently
Knowing that every president need a lewinsky
Girls know i ain't know you but they try to convince me
And any chick that i'm with already know
You ain't gotta like ma$e, but bet he blow
And anything that i do get heavy dough
Stop handcuffin' that girl and let her go
My whips got satellite, see it in the graphics
I ain't only got eight cuz i fly passed it
Why ask is ma$e a classic
Knowin' i'm from the hood doing deals with magic
Come on

Repeat 1 until fade while:

What, what, what, what, what, what
Get money all over again, get money all over again
H world get money again
All out get money again
Wanna blow, get money again
So bad boy get money again
No limit get money again
Roc-a-fella get money again
Untertainment get money again
Charli get money again
Brandy get money again
Cuda love get money again
Cardan get money again
Yo, even cam' get money again
We back, we back, we back, we back
We back, we back again
We back, we back, we back, we back
We back, we back again

[intro]
Uh, yeah, yeah
Shit is crazy, yo
(i feel you though, nigga)
Who woulda ever thought, same nigga's
It'd be them same nigga's
(you are the same nigga, though)
Same nigga that couldn't get the deal
Now i'm the hottest nigga wit a deal
(you ain't changed a bit)

Yo, niggas never got nothin' good to say, quick to blame
'fore you judge me feel my pain
You know it ain't a vest in the world that could shield my reign
You ain't got money for the gas bitch, get out the range
Got welcomed to the game wit' like 4 mil' and change
Nigga's feelin' like i changed, but i'm feelin the same
So who cares if they beg to differ
When all them nigga's that beg to differ
Is cokeheads and sniffers
Take me for example, least i made it
You think nigga's in the hood should appreciate it
By time it's happy birthday its gon' be belated
When you me, everything you do get exaggerated
You miss a nigga pound they gon' say you flipped out
Take a piss in the street they say you pulled your dick out
As a youth it's just a lot of shit i wanna live out
Got alot of friends but only had a few when i was without
Same niggas i was starvin', couldn't get a crumb from
Sometimes i think, where all these mother fuckers come from
I needed money for school, couldn't get no ones from
Got jumped in the park and couldn't get the guns from
Instead of rollin' wit a clique, roll wit my sis
Hell no, these motherfuckers can't hold my stick
You think i care if they get mad? i don't owe them shit
Wanna hold sumthin' hold my dick, nigga

1 - we might be from a different hood
But we the same nigga's
(that's just the way it is)
Don't be thinkin' shit all good
It be them same nigga's
Same nigga's get caught, blame niggas
Same nigga's, go to court and name, nigga's
(some things will never change)

It be them same nigga's
Man, regardless how you feel
(it's the way it is)
It be the same motherfuckers that'll get you killed
Them same nigga's, them same nigga's, them same nigga's
Them same nigga's
That's why i don't fuck wit niggas

I got a brotha named ant, right? glad to be home
Been through a lot of shit so i'm glad to be grown
But yo', where were these freaks when i had no jeeps
Livin on 34th street and we ain't have no heat
'cross from p.s. 92, 7th and 8th
Asked you for dough and you said "no" dead in my face
But now that i'm on, it's like i owe everybody somethin'
All my niggas dead so everybody frontin'
Same kid's went to catholic school is dealers
And same nigga's had no heart is now killers
Sometimes i reminisce on what i said in the mist
But even when i dream, it wasn't better than this
But actually, the nigga's who would scrap for me
Or go as far as getting guns and clap for me
Ain't even here to get a platinum plaque for me
I talk to them but they don't talk back to me
I ain't know you that long so ain't much i can ask of you
And when i reminisce i can't take it back wit' you
I can't ask "yo' what happen to my nigga black or q?"
So i don't really need to rap wit you, ya know?

Repeat 1

Yo', i figured if we all out, it's all right
As long as when we all brawl we all fight
I'm under nigga's hoses like roses
Here i am, m a dolla-sign e nigga, fear no man
Nigga hit me in the mouth and we bound to fight
Just call my bluff and it be on tonight
I got words of a madman tatooed on my arm
Ain't fuckin wit my sister cuz i'm mad at my mom
Blink sayin', "that ain't you wit a gat in your palm"
But blink, it's either that or be harmed
So the doctor give me pills for the wound, stitch my flesh
Give a nigga last wish so he could pick his death
So my sister wanna rap and i wish her the best
But i would never wanna wish her my stress
Cause it's like when i hurt, y'all laugh
They put me on every forecast sayin' that i bought ass
So i drink a tall glass before i spaz
Then i take it like a man and let it all pass
I wanted big bucks, no whammys, understand me
I show nigga's love and nigga's underhand me
Then they wonder why i want no family
What i need a hooker for, gettin' head from
And i fear when new year's come, cuz it might be the year
A good nigga die cuz when you good life ain't fair
Like you call on the saints but the saints don't hear
You could cry to the lord, its like christ don't hear
So instead of hood winking i give you the plain facts
If i never change, how i'm gon' change back, explain that
They sayin' mase ain't the same cat
But every time you get robbed i get ya chain back
Them same nigga's
Them same nigga's
Them same nigga's
Them same nigga's
That's why i don't fuck wit niggas

It's crazy like that, you know what i'm saying?
You'll be tellin' a nigga you got a deal
He think that that shit come with rollies
And they come wit' benz's
Come with bentleys and houses and shit
They don't need no one to work, a nigga quitin'

Repeat 1 until fade