Yeah, ya know
Nah, nah, nah, outta road
You have to defend your own, well

Now ease off, squeeze off, pop it off
Now ease off, you have to defend your own so
Now ease off, squeeze off, pop it off
Now ease off, you have to protect your own now

Full clip, banana clip, hollow tip
Yeah, it a fling if a bwoy trip in here now
Full clip, trigger nah stick, rubber grip
Bullet a fling if a bwoy slip

Evidently, them a no badman
Them always talk 'bout them a gangsta of the century
Whe them a do, whe them a try
Come dis badman fool that a tempt we

Me no care how much bling you have
Bullet a boar through you and your Bentley
Almighty God a protect we
Yeah, me bun the sweet sensi

Keep my mind off of bad mind, hypocrite and people who envy
Come a try to take what is mine, bwoy, de clip get empty
Don't bother talk about six shots, pussy
I bust twenty, protect we, nah, nah, now

Now ease off, squeeze off, pop it off
Now ease off, you have to defend your own so
Now ease off, squeeze off, pop it off
Now ease off, you have to protect your own now

Full clip, banana clip, hollow tip
Yeah, it a fling if a bwoy trip in here now
Full clip, trigger nah stick, rubber grip
Bullet a fling if a bwoy slip

You betta keep a weapon to protect your own
I keep an automatic steady ready get this on
I put it right up to yo dome then I wet the chrome
And when I kill you the da feds come and I'm long gone

Don't try to tell me you ain't heard about a nigga
(Bone)
Lyrical killer, I'm fienna, let the trigga go
Anybody think is sweet can let a nigga know

We can get it on in the middle of the flo'
You wanna battle, I tell you no lie
It's a suicide, it's a suicide
Who am I? I'm the truth no lie nigga

Fool with I and you all die
True protection sawed off selection
Head your neck, no longer connection
Huh, Huh, killah, killah

Now ease off, squeeze off, pop it off
Now ease off, you have to defend your own so
Now ease off, squeeze off, pop it off
Now ease off, you have to protect your own now

Full clip, banana clip, hollow tip
Yeah, it a fling if a bwoy trip in here now
Full clip, trigger nah stick, rubber grip
Bullet a fling if a bwoy slip

21, Gun Alley, White Hill
T.H.C. from top of the hill
M.O.B., Rubber Tree, J.V.C., O.R.C.
Them bwoy badee

42, Middle Town, Deep Dale, Frontine
Badman from way back longtime
Shady Corners, Hollywood, Parkside
Southside, you don't want them come collide

Green Acres, do I have any takers?
Them bwoy ago, make you meet your maker
Devil's Hole mon a no fakers, done you
Like how the Spurs done the Lakers

be E are M you D A
Breaker, breaker, breaker
St. Georges, St. Davids
Get lost out round there and nobody can save ya

Now ease off, squeeze off, pop it off
Now ease off, you have to defend your own so
Now ease off, squeeze off, pop it off
Now ease off, you have to protect your own now

Full clip, banana clip, hollow tip
Yeah, it a fling if a bwoy trip in here now
Full clip, trigger nah stick, rubber grip
Bullet a fling if a bwoy slip


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