Featuring: Canibus

Songwriter: Canibus Foxy Brown Nas Nature AZ

Producer: Curt Gowdy Trackmasters

[Intro: Nas]
You ever dance with the devil under the pale moonlight?
Desperados, travellin
What the fuck's up son?
We could do this word up, we could do this

[Hook: The Firm]
Spend too many nights on the Henny gettin right
Breakin big face Bennies, bettin against the friendly dice
I can't call it, it's goin too good to spoil it
Tell it like it is, the raw shit never rewarded
Spend too many nights on the Henny gettin right
Breakin big face Bennies, bettin against the friendly dice
I can't call it, it's goin too good to spoil it
Tell it like it is, the raw shit never rewarded

[Verse 1: Nas]
We bust guns, my mans bring coke to customs
Rock garments like Muslims speaking with deep wisdoms
Fat ganja sack be the reason my lungs are black
It's tons of crack that made the pimp game fall off track
Horseback ride hoes, these black desperados
1 4 point O's, blaze hydros with my compadres
Rock waves, cop jade trainos
Getting facials and toes done, I rolls one
Notch up, hold Glocks up, in hot tubs
Get my cock sucked, pop slugs through bathroom doors
Scan my bitch, fucking with me
Hoes pull on cancer sticks, dressed in AX and Verso
?Murson Halo?, gimme head, gimme dough
Platinum triple times, nickel nine, simple crime
Equal hard times, ask ?? benting since 79
He sent me a vine, he told me get mine
No dig, so numb, coking up rum
Plottin', kill bitches with the dick then call Cochran
Passing Caz level, Daytona ice bezzle
You lay away, I take the day, flossing icicles
Who am I to trust, Pablo, he copped the pie from us
Your wifeys private lust, asking me to tie her up
The fame and fortune got rappers put in early coffins
Niggas talking shit, broke, bragging and pushing Volkswagens
Sell ya tapes up at the Gabin, fake saggin'
You should've plotted with the cats who get paid
Retarded, 4 20's riding past
Diamonds that cut glass, Firm get the paper then we dash

[Verse 2: Foxy Brown]
Fuck that I done held it back, fuck y'all
You movin too quick, don't push ya luck y'all
The way I chiz, have these rap cats thinking you rich
Iced it up, frontin', then your girlfriends picked
If you thorough like you say you is, ho catch up
Ain´t no time for the slack up, my funds on the stack up
Glitterd up, rocks is kinda brolic now, give it up
BK a'day, go hey, shorty live it up
Laced up in anything, placed up cocksucker
It be the tuckers and the suckers that 'll try to fuck ya
See me, I'm pretty slimmy on the 3D
Copped the Burgundy E, my nigga copped the 450
LS, now what the fuck you gon tell us
That have your lame man talking shit from the plain land
Watch this, I get my pussy licked on the tropics
Bare chested, finnesed it, VVS'ed it
Spit mines, legally on the get mines
Straight jack move, while ya crew wanna dickride
Hate on me, bitch you slopped it and I rocks this
?? from your idol, ain't no stopping this
Got a little H, bag anything in the mirages
Got these cats licking toes and giving massages
Bonita, Platinum Visa where the cars is
We all know the stars and the shorty who's the ?laggis?
Caked up though, I'm g'd up, copping jade trainos
Word life, put that on my dick and my chips
Dippin' in the Yukon with all the jewels on
The unspeakable truth song, bent, gotta move on

[Verse 3: Canibus]
At a thousand degree Celsius I make MC's melt
Fuck my record label I appear courtesy of myself
Let me explain how I maintain thresholds to pain
I walk across the Sun barefoot lookin for shade
I rearrange your rib cage like a twelve gauge at close range
And change the position of your brain
My hard raps penetrate through your hardhats and all that
Nigga, get ya wig peeled back
I scalp you like the indians on horseback
Running Bull will hit you harder than runningback
Stunning man with brave and cunning rap
Swiftly running laps around 48 tracks
Like uncut crack you fiends keep coming back
Heads is flippin like acrobats on gym mats
From wax to analog tapes to digital DAT's
It's critical black, that Canibus is ill like that
In fact perhaps you should quit rap, instead of always
Tryin to diss back, cause niggas keep tellin you that your shit's wack
I rip raps, hardcore raps rushin you to the floor mat
Put you in the figure four, break your thorax
Jump off the top turnbuckle and land on your back
Til I hear it snap or crackle, the ref says chill black
You get clapped bringin the wrong raps to combat
Like bringin a paint gun to a shoot out with real gats
Y'all niggas is wack, rappin over microphone feedback
My intelligence begins where yours peaks at
From Fox Boogie in the see-through brasierre, to Nasty Nas here
My nigga Nature'll explain it further if it's not clear

[Verse 4: Nature]
Here's the cause of this shit, more statistics
Deeper than the laws of physics, Malibu sand ,the gorgeous bitches
Weed from 1-2-5, my whole crew live
A true Desperado, one that never choose sides
And show sympathy, just QB, an entity
Stock exchange, top of the game, watch you mention me
Image is nothin just obey your thirst
I blaze the Purple Haze, sit in a daze, then display your birth
For those concerned or just eager to learn
I speak for The Firm, was told to keep the cheeba to burn
Stashin my riches, past traditions, like Olympics
Pass the torch flip shit so y'all could picture my thoughts, I'm driftin
It's type ill wakin up lookin like filth
Twenty years younger same hunger same ice grill
Genetically form grade A pedigree
Born to carve rhymes, a swift tongue helped to set it free
Theoretically peep how we bless this, young and restless
Guns and westins, learnin to connect through lessons
From koofi's to caps, niggas shoot back
It's a proven fact, nine-seven's mine, y'all niggas move back

[Verse 5: AZ]
Yo lock in, through the knowledge, follow the doctrine
We clockin, on your airwaves, keepin it rockin
Blaze up, make fire, light your Purple Haze up
Betcha tired, bitch ass niggas need to be caged up
So raise up fuck the playin, I'm sick of layin
I can picture sprayin off an SK, shells ricochetin
Snatched up, in Supreme Court, eyes half shut
Co-defendant caught a life sentence, see him crack up
React what, who will, bail two mill'
Nigga cool still bet I'll be home before the news will
Blast fuse the rebirth of Frank Matthews
Perhaps you confuse the concept black, cash rules
Incog-ged, another had more deez involved
Known freeze condo seized seven keys dissolved
Daily routine, speakin up for niggas who sling
Hand to hand on them street corners claimin you king
It's time to lock this, join with us, let your Glock spit
Guzzle the toxic, only fake niggas drop snitch
Get your guns out, it don't take much for me to dumb out
Play one route, lay ya shit down and run South

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.