Released: September 13, 1997

Featuring: Dawn Robinson

Songwriter: L.E.S. Foxy Brown AZ Nas Teena Marie Allen McGrier

Producer: L.E.S.

[Verse 1: AZ]
The six ease out, CD laced, digital readout
No doubt, cop Glocks from the dread, fuck the weed house
Show elegance, hate females with no intelligence
Embezzlement got big boys behind the metal fence, Merrill Lynch
It's your life, Crist' pour right
Vince on ice, sex chicks - all types
General status, smoothness mixed with malice
Trips to Dallas, built a pool in my palace
Who want what? From more moneys I want a cut
Extorting, start from the corners that brung us up
Sixty-inch screen, laser-disc with the beam
It's my life, I'm holding the dice, don't intervene
I send a team, to smash out your whole plans
No cold hands, liquid or hunger to hold grands
From state bids to large cats who lace cribs
It's Firm Biz, y'all know what time it is

[Hook: Dawn Robinson]
I'm talking Firm Biz to you, baby (Firm, Firm Biz)
Talking 'bout the Firm, that is (Firm, Firm Biz)
I'm talking Firm Biz to you, baby (Firm, Firm Biz)
Talking 'bout the Firm
That is, that is, that is, that is, Firm Biz!

[Verse 2: Nas]
Peep the stee', creeping with AZ
B-12's crazy, I ball with The Firm's first lady
I brawl with those who hate me
Make me spray y'all, hoping for the day I fall
Never that though, black, .44's for Feds
Like Donnie Brasco, so peep the capos who mack most
Splash it up with lactose
Pretty thug style, I blow you out slug style
Bent in the Caddy Coupe, me and Daddy Duke
He schooled me on how to stand on my own two
He said, "Son, it's all kinda shit you gon' go through
Either you gon' make it or you gon' fall, too"
Now we headline tours
Remember me? I told you that the world was yours
Married to The Firm laws, Esco bless flows
Y'all know me, laced in Missoni
Firm be the hottest clique to blow, G

[Hook: Dawn Robinson]
I'm talking Firm Biz to you baby (Firm Firm Biz)
Talking bout the Firm, that is (Firm Firm Biz)
I'm talking Firm Biz to you baby (Firm Firm Biz)
Talking bout the Firm, that is that is
That is that is Firm Biz!

[Verse 3: Foxy Brown]
My pops used to warn me, never fall victim to the horny
Keep the pussy tight, stay that bitch
If I'm gon' fuck, blaze that dick
Tony, get him for his chips and pray he push a six
Now I got game to make the thuggish niggas scream my name
Hope the panties drop, only if I cop
The baby blue drop, gotta keep my wrist iced
The baddest bitch, yeah, the sex is alright
Lace 'em all night, going to the crib
Jumping out the range in the iceberg tights
Yeah, I know about the five and its one shut eye
360 wave spinning cat thinking he Nas
From now 'til the day we shining, keep my diamond
Esco with me in the E reclining, top dogs
The illest duo since the Boss name was Hugo
AZ, Firm trio stay on the lee-low

[Hook: Dawn Robinson]

The Firm

The Firm was a group consisting of Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature. The Firm first appeared on “Affirmative Action” from Nas' 1996 album It Was Written, but instead of Nature, the song featured original member Cormega, who left the group due to creative and financial issues. The group released their only album, The Album, on Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment in 1997, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and achieved gold status. The original lineup of Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown and Cormega reunited on the track “Full Circle” from the 2020 Nas album King’s Disease.

Nas spoke about the beginning and end of The

AZ was my man and he told me about Foxy Brown; drove me to Brooklyn to meet her at her house. I wanted to put the Firm together and she fit perfectly.