Well you done know, 
When gangsta touch the street, 
Food have fi eat
It's a gangsta life
Zagga zow 

We squeeze and make cheese 
Bun my enemy
Cats freeze and beg please 

Put them on their knee

We seize the opportunities for our families to make Gs 

Bu'n the wannabes
We squeeze and make cheese 
Bu'n my enemy

Cats freeze and make please 
Put them on their knee 
We seize the opportunities for our families to make Gs 

Straight from the gangsta town
Kingston, Jamaica, where we hold it down
Fools get killed for the chi-ching sound 
Ain't got time to be fucking around
Cause only the strong will survive the streets 
Don't fuck around cause the dogs must eat
Punks get fucked up on my beat 
Beenie puts it down with the blue steel heat
Gangsta been through lot of wars 
Most of my niggas live behind bars
So I'm telling you so-called stars 
Don't come around in your luxury cars
Fool, I swear you must be flakin 
Come around tellin cats what you're making
Showing off jewels like they can't be taken 
You must be mistaken
Gimme dat!

We squeeze and make cheese 
Bu'n my enemy
Cats freeze and beg please 
Put them on their knee
We seize the opportunities for our families to make Gs 

Bu'n the wannabes

We squeeze and make cheese 
Bu'n my enemy
Cats freeze and make please

Put them on their knee

We seize the opportunities for our families to make G's 

Well we going straight to your cranium 
From the sanitarium
Coming to you heavy like I'm powered by uranium
Unleash my serum 
On a whole stadium
And wild chickenhead getting high from avilium
It's like, it's like shit's getting serious 
Cats getting personal 
Actin' all precarious
Niggas from various 
Crews get delirious 
Wonderin' if I'm a Gemini or Sagittarius
Dog this is hideous 
By the way I'm curious 
I moved along so why you getting furious
Could it be the Grammy tingwhy they are malicing
Or is it because I link with Dave Kelly why them panicking 
While I'm rocking it 
Beenie Man locking it
You bitchin like a bitch 
Fool, put a sock in it
Rude boy cockin' it 
Hustler stockin' it
Anywhere I'm playin' at 
Ladies will be flockin' it 

We squeeze and make cheese 
Bun my enemy
Cats freeze and beg please 

Put them on their knee

We seize the opportunities for our families to make Gs 

Bun the wannabes

We squeeze and make cheese 
Bun my enemy
Cats freeze and make please 

Put them on their knee
We seize the opportunities for our families to make Gs 
Straight from the gangsta town
Kingston, Jamaica, where we hold it down
Fools get killed for the chi-ching sound 
Ain't got time to be fucking around
Cause only the strong will survive the streets 

Don't fuck around cause the dogs must eat
Punks get fucked up on my beat 
Beenie puts it down with the blue steel heat

Gangsta been through lot of wars 
Most of my niggas live behind bars
So I'm telling you so-called stars 
Don't come around in your luxury cars
Fool, I swear you must be flakin 
Come around tellin cats what you're making
Showing off jewels like they can't be taken 
You must be mistaken
Gimme dat! 

We squeeze and make cheese 

Bun my enemy

Cats freeze and beg please

Put them on their knee

We seize the opportunities for our families to make Gs

Bun the wannabes
We squeeze and make cheese 
Bun my enemy
Cats freeze and make please 

Put them on their knee

We seize the opportunities for our families to make Gs


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