Released: August 11, 1998

Featuring: Wu-Tang Clan

Songwriter: GZA Raekwon U-God Inspectah Deck Method Man Ghostface Killah

Producer: RZA

Lay ya hammer (lay ya hammer)
Lay ya hammer kid (lay ya hammer kid)
They want the drama bring it to 'em Fuck 'em

[Verse 1: Ghostface Killah]
All rise meet the preacher this pro dueler been diagnosed
Diabetic cleptic I'm your host
Lock the vanilla suede British
Staten Island mall menace
Otherwise posing as a dentist in my lenses
Pinball machine gun rap spoke to Arafat
Laundromat lady can't blow in this hat
What

[Verse 2: Method Man]
Is it raw now, change it around
It's war now, the final countdown commences
The battleground is twelve inches of wax paper
Breaking down your defenseless senseless nature
Pain stings with 'Ma Baker
Twin towering I skyscrape ya
Kingdom come meet your maker

[Verse 3: Inspectah Deck]
Yo; Another sound boy's dying
Crowd noise multiplying
Don't let the fuzz slide in bust out the sirens
Sure win lure 'em in like exotic women
I smile with the sinister grin and finish him
You're fucking with hoods, get ya goods pushed back
Ya fraud, pull the wool off your Hollywood hat

[Verse 4: U-God]
The track melts in half liquors have this brave meaning
Supreme being being all that I can being
Picture wavy beavers meat cleaving your receiver
Fly sunny cheeba leather buckets dirty reefer
Fast floatin’ grill residential honey hill
Stainless steel rashes sheisty catch a money bill

[Verse 5: Raekwon]
It's all gravy
We floating through like the British navy
Fresh design lady love the fade keep it wavy
The mix drink - throw the dick in the drink
Play it baby girl caught ya
Exotic album Cuban Link
Custom AV's beige panties who could front on these please
Y'all niggas broke so much your uncle sells trees

[Verse 6: GZA]
Yo; High ranked officials and armed tanks and missiles
Blood drizzle simple fact you slept on the issue
That before he started jerkin' off joysticks and Sega
I made tapes a hundred watt amps Cerwin Vegas
RZA fine tune it shipped a mil units
MC's ask, who be those rhyme killers in masks?
No doubt difficult task to last in the square
Beware infinite amount of darts is in the air
I'm victorious no opponents and blast through components
And microphones watch the whole world live the moment
Anything anti that came approaching this
Incapable lust speech remains motionless

Lay ya hammer (Lay ya hammer)
Lay ya hammer kid (Lay ya hammer kid)
Lay ya hammer (Lay ya hammer)

Funkmaster Flex

Funkmaster Flex began his career as a producer best known for his work in the 90’s East Coast hip-hop scene. His discography includes both solo works, such as 60 Minutes of Funk which received RIAA gold standard, as well as his collaborative efforts with rappers such as Biz Markie and The Notorious B.I.G. Flex’s early music served as an inspiration for other artists growing up, such as Mark

However, Flex is perhaps best known as a DJ, most notable for his show on radio station Hot 97 in New York. His show often includes special guests who freestyle, also known as the “Funkmaster Flex Freestyle”, rappers who have participated, to name a few, include J. Cole and Mos Def.

Even more notorious, is the news and gossip sections of Funk Flex’s show. Although Flex is not new at inserting himself into beef, he immortalized his position in gossip when he perpetuated the 2015 Drake and Meek Mill ghostwriting beef. The Funkmaster played reference tracks from alleged Drake ghostwriter Quentin Miller and dissed Drake on his show continuously. While he did eventually deliver on providing some “evidence” to Quentin Miller’s involvement with Drake, many criticized Flex for using the beef as promotion, even starting a petition to have him fired from Hot 97.