Released: January 20, 1998

Featuring: 2Pac Master P

Songwriter: Scarface 2Pac Master P

Producer: MIKE DEAN N.O. Joe

[Intro: Scarface]
No Limit motherfuckin' soldiers
And the Rap-A-Lot crime family
Scarface
Master P
They ain't ready for this y'all
Yeah

[Verse 1: Scarface]
Ghetto niggas remain violent while the killers remain silent
Niggas strapped with 45's and ain't smilin'
And I'm drivin' to a place they're all warrin'
The lake we build houses but it's the hood we call home
In the ghetto the only place a motherfucker will keep it real
We focused on the dollar bill, still
The outsiders tend to disrespect the place
Where niggas do their strugglin' die with a straight face
Survivin', under conditions demons died in
You can run it but can't hide it, so step aside
It's the nigga that makes music for the streets
'Cause I love this motherfucker like pussy with no sheets
'Cause it's deep
Some niggas make it out the neighborhood and won't surface
They let the money make them nervous, what's the purpose?
A motherfucker sittin' on fat
He came up in the hood but he can't come back
Fuck that, I remain in the street game frame
On a mission to maintain me and take aim
In position to let my opposition know my life
'Cause off in these streets I keep it real, but what's right?
Survivin', sittin' on a key doin' business on a beeper
I'm sinkin' in this motherfucker deeper
Fear the Reaper that no man born or woman harm me
Fuck bein' niggas in your army
Though I'm a killer, enter the ghetto so that you can see
What I mean when I say I love this 'cause it loves me
Let it be, stop lookin' at this motherfucker strange
And talkin' 'bout a motherfuckin' change
This is for my thug niggas

[Chorus: Scarface & Master P]
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)

[Verse 2: Master P]
Face imagined us workin' at McDonald's
And me and you sellin' fuckin' toasted up the hummus
Gold slug, a car full of thug niggas
Twenty inch wheels candy paint so we drug dealers
No limit soldiers to the fullest
See I was raised on red beans the size of some bullets, huh
We ghetto niggas can't be stopped
Got me mixin' up dope with little J down at Rap-A-Lot
My phone tapped, the feds on my tail
Got me paying luxury taxes on everythin' I build
True to the ghetto that's my life
You see that house on the lake it's for the kids and the wife
You can test me if you wanna
'Cause I be dumpin' niggas off from New Orleans to California
Rowdy like a hurricane
Independent, black owned, got them hooked on this cocaine
You used to see C, C on the suit and tie
But we young niggas in tennis shoes and diamonds
Executive street millionaires
Niggas gonna be 'bout it, 'bout till we gray in the wheel chair

[Chorus: Scarface & Master P]
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)

[Verse 3: 2Pac]
What do you get from boostin'?
Niggas comin' out from California to represent them niggas in Houston
And now we rockin' keep this shit poppin'
And all my niggas across the bay know LA keep the shit hot
I keep my Glock inside my pants, don't give niggas a chance
To put me inside a casket, you dirty bastards
Until the day I die, you catch a nigga high on weed
The police can't find me
My shit will drop and I'll sell five million
While all the niggas enter the game, get caught up in drug dealin'
How can I fall? How can I ball?
How can I catch my enemies and murder them all?
My word of flame burn niggas inside their brain
Niggas can't hang with me and like it changes
Scarface got me on this shit
We laced it motherfuckers in their body and face, uh
Growin' quicker, liquor made me a daddy and nigga
Niggas don't wanna see me world wide mob figure
MOB and his lead keep me weeded
Key niggas don't wanna see me when I got weed
In my system
Catch another victim, capture bodies
Bring a shottie to the fuckin' party, yeah
I party all night
I do this shit 'cause it's wrong but we were born right
And to these niggas in my zone we do it long ways
'Till these bitches understand, nigga my song pay
'Cause I'm the man
Now these are my homeboys, we outlaws till the day we die
Keep this shit rough and raw my 45
Make sure that I survive to another day
To bust rhymes which from I get paid
Now that's the end of my freestyle
But it was left for dead
Buy the shit and you can hear it playin'
Westside niggas

[Chorus: Scarface & Master P]
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)
This one for the homies and thug niggas (Uh)

Scarface

Brad Terrence Jordan is better known as the legendary rapper/producer Scarface. Hailing from the South Acres neighborhood of Houston, Texas, Scarface entered the rap game as DJ Akshun before he joined the rap group Geto Boys on Rap-A-Lot Records for the group’s 1989 sophomore album Grip It! On That Other Level. In 1991, the Geto Boys released their biggest single “Mind Playing Tricks On Me” and Scarface released his debut solo album Mr. Scarface is Back, which achieved gold status.

Scarface went on to release several critically acclaimed albums, including The Diary (1994), The Untouchable (1997), My Homies (1998), and The Fix (2002), which received a rating of 5 Mics from The Source magazine. In 2000, he was named the president of Def Jam South, and one of his first signings was Ludacris. In 2001, Scarface was named Lyricist of the Year at The Source Awards and he was honored with the I Am Hip Hop lifetime achievement award at the BET Hip Hop Awards in 2015.

He also is a published author, releasing his memoir Diary of a Madman in 2015.