Against All Odds

To my *************s that went out in line on duty

21-gun salute! One love, one thug

One nation (Let's get down, let's do this!)

21-gun salute! (Come on, yeah, let's do this!)

21-gun salute! (Come on, come on)

All the time I be… (Let's do this!)

Hopin' my true mother******s know

This be the realest *************t I ever wrote

(Against all odds)

Up in the studio, gettin' blowed

To the truest *************t I ever spoke

21-gun salute, dressed in fatigues

Black jeans and boots

Disappeared in the crowd

All you seen was troops

This little ************* named Nas

Think he live like me

Talking 'bout he left the hospital

Took five like me

You live in fantasies, *************

I reject your deposit

We shook Dre punk ass

Now he out of the closet

Mobb Deep wonder

Why a ************* blowed 'em out

Next time grown folks talk

*************, close your mouth!

Peep me, I take this war *************t deeply

Done seen too many real players fall

To let these ************* *************s beat me

Puffy, let's be honest, you a punk

Or you will see me with gloves

Remember that *************t you said

To **** about me being a thug?

And you can tell the people you roll with

Whatever you want

But you and I know what's goin' on

Payback

I knew you ************* *************s from way back

Witness me strapped with MAC's

Knew I wouldn't play that

All you old rappers tryin' to advance

It's all over now, take it like a man

*************s lookin' like Larry Holmes

Flabby and sick (Look at DaLa Soul)

Tryin' to player hate on my *************t

You eat a fat *************, let it be known

This is how you made me

Lovin' how I got you *************s crazy

Against all odds

Hopin' my thug mother******s know

This be the realest *************t I ever wrote

Against all odds

Up in the studio, gettin' blowed

To the truest *************t I ever spoke

Against all odds

Hopin' my true mother******s know

This be the realest *************t I ever wrote

I heard he was light skinned, stocky

With a Haitian accent. Jewelry, fast cars

And he's known for fla*************n'

Listen while I take you back

And lace this rap

A real live tale about a snitch

Named Haitian Jack

Knew he was workin' for the feds

Same crime, different trials, *************,

picture what he said. And did I mention?

Promised to payback

Jimmy Henchman, in due time

I know you ************* *************s is listenin’

The world is mine

Set me up, wet me up

*************s stuck me up, heard the guns bust

But you tricks never shut me up

Touch one of mine, on everything I own

I'll destroy everything you touch

Play the game, *************

All out warfare, eye for eye

Last words to a ************* *************:

"Why you lie?"

Now you gotta watch your back

Now watch your front, here we come

Gunshots to Tut, now you stuck

************* the rap game, *************, this M.O.B

So believe me, we enemies

I go against all odds

I'm hopin' my true mother******s know

This be the realest *************t I ever wrote

Against all odds

Up in the studio, gettin' blowed

To the truest *************t I ever spoke

Against all odds

I'm hopin' my true mother******s know

This be the realest *************t I ever wrote

Against all odds

Puffy gettin' bribed like a *************

To hide that fact

He did some *************t he shouldn't have did

So we ridin' for that

And that ************* that was down for me

Restin' dead, switched sides

Guess his new friends wanted him dead

Probably be murdered for the *************t that I said

I bring the real, be a legend

Breathin' or dead. Lord, listen to me

God don't like ugly, it was written

Ayo, Nas, your whole damn style is bitten

You heard my melody

Read about my life in the papers

All my run-ins with authorities

Felonious capers

Now you wanna live my life

So what's a "Hausa", Nas?

*************s that don't rhyme right

You've seen too many movies

Load 'em up against the wall

Close his eyes, since you lie, you die

Goodbye! Let the real live *************s

Hear the truth from me

What would you do if you was me?

*************, against all odds

Hopin' my true mother******s know

This be the realest *************t I ever wrote

Against all odds

Up in the studio gettin' blowed

To the truest *************t I ever spoke

Against all odds

Hopin' my true mother******s know

This be the realest *************t I ever wrote

Against all odds

Up in the studio gettin' blowed

To the truest *************t I ever spoke

Against all odds (21-gun salute)

One love to my true thug *************s

21-gun salute to my *************s (Outlaw, outlaw!)

That die in the line of duty (Outlaw!)

Representin' to the fullest

Being soldiers with military minds

That play the rules of the game

21-gun salute, I salute you

My *************s, stay strong

I ride for you, I rhyme for you

I roll for you, it's all for you

To all you *************-made *************s

I'm comin' for you, against all odds

I don't care who the ************* you is

You touch me I'm at you

I know you mother******s didn't think I forgot

Hell nah, I ain't forgot, *************

I just remember what you told me

You said don't go to war

Unless I got my money right

Aight, I got my money right now

Now I want war