'Keep your shyt the hardest' and this track are my fav tracks from him...
His first verse on that song is one of my favorites from him
"I want Monopoly money but I ain't even halfway there
'Cause doin' dirt, a nikka got to take the back way there
What it is, is the biz and it's dirty
You'll get rich but life expectancy is about thirty
Place of business is the hallways, I've been up for four days
On parole with warrants that'll send me back to Rahway
If I get caught across Jersey state lines
Figure this '98 and I been runnin' since '89
So that's like nine years delinquent time, you speak in crime then you know
Nine years you owe, get knocked, nine years you gonna go
No probation or parole more time doin' nothin'
Day room to the yard, writin' rhymes and frontin
Carry nikkas greasy because I'm built like that
Bury nikkas easy 'cause they get killed like that
If you ain't in it wit me then you in my way, but either or
You will respect mine and leave Tec-9 and leave it for dude
The realest you gonna feel is when you face your death
"Sorry, I didn't know" nikka, don't even waste your breath
Coppin' pleas not D why you flippin'
nikka know the only thing I'm really scared of is slippin'
Lettin' a nikka catch you when I got my guard down, so I keep 'em up
Noddin' off with one eye open, I can freak it
But there's gonna be a time when I close 'em both
Lead poisonin', I'm a get hit with an overdose
Over those drug things, crud things
Think I don't know my slug stains, or blood blaze
Raw gun playin' drama, sadness to another nikkas momma
I'mma be the the one that puts you up inside shock trauma
These are troublesome times and the crimes prevail
And the dark side keep a nikka's ass in jail
Bada-boom, bada-bing, some of this and some of that
I gots to boogie for a minute but you know I'm comin' back"
DMX was truly a phenomenon.