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Who Shot Ya Lyrics
* originally from the 'Big Poppa' vinyl 12"
Intro: Puff Daddy
As we proceed
to give you what you need
9 to 5 motherfuckers
get live motherfuckers -- 2X
As we proceed
to give you what you need
East coast motherfuckers
Bad Boy motherfuckers
BIG - Now turn the mics up
Turn that mic up, yea that beat is knockin
to that microphone
Turn that shit the fuck up
Uh, what?
Turn it up louder
Yea, uh
As we proceed, to give you
what you need
J.M. motherfuckers
J.M. motherfuckers
9 to 5 motherfuckers
Verse One:
Who shot ya?
Seperate the weak from the ob-solete
Hard to creep them Brooklyn streets
It's on nigga, fuck all that bickering beef
I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
Your heartbeat soun like Sasquatch feet
Thundering, shaking the concrete
Finish it, stop, when I foil the plot
Neighbors call the cops said they heard mad shots
Saw me in the drop, three in the corner
Slaughter, electrical tape around your daughter
Old school new school need to learn though
I burn baby burn like Disco Inferno
Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo
Peel more skins than Idaho potato
Niggaz know, the lyrics molestin is takin place
Fuckin with B.I.G. it ain't safe
I make your skin chafe, rashes on the masses
Bumps and bruises, blunts and Landcruisers
Big Poppa smash fools, bash fools
Niggaz mad because I know that Cash Rules
Everything Around Me, two glock nines
Any motherfucker whispering about mines
And I'm, Crooklyn's finest
You rewind this, Bad Boy's behind this
Interlude:
As we proceed
to give you what you need
9 to 5 motherfuckers
get live motherfuckers
As we proceed
to give you what you need
East coast motherfuckers
Bad Boy motherfuckers
Get high motherfuckers
Get high motherfuckers
Smoke blunts motherfuckers
Get high motherfuckers
Ready to die motherfuckers
9 to 5 motherfuckers
Verse Two:
I seen the light excite all the freaks
Stack mad chips, spread love with my peeps
Niggaz wanna creep, got ta watch my back
Think the Cognac and indo sack make me slack?
I switches all that, cock-sucker G's up
One false move, get swiss cheesed up
Clip to Tec, respect I demand it
Slip and break the, 11th Commandment
Thou shalt not fuck with raw C-Poppa
Feel a thosand deaths when I drop ya
I feel for you, like Chaka Khan I'm the don
Pussy when I want Rolex on the arm
You'll die slow but calm
Recognize my face, so there won't be no mistake
So you know where to tell Jake, lame nigga
Brave nigga, turned front page nigga
Puff Daddy flips daily
I smoke the blunts he sips on the Bailey's
on the rocks, tote glocks at christenings
And my cock, in the fire position and...
(Get live motherfuckers
Ready to Die motherfuckers)
C'mere, c'mere [it ain't gotta be like that Big]
open your fucking mouth, open your... didn't I tell you
don't fuck with me? [*muffled* c'mon man] Huh?
Didn't I tell you not to fuck with me?
(as we proceed) [c'mon man] Look at you now
(to give you what you need) Huh? [c'mon man]
(9 to 5 motherfuckers) Can't talk with a gun in your mouth huh?
(get live motherfuckers) Bitch-ass nigga, what?
(get live motherfuckers) [*muffled sounds, six gun shots*]
(as we proceed...) Who shot ya?
Outro: Puff Daddy
...to give you what you need
9 to 5 motherfuckers
Get live motherfuckers
(Who shot ya?)
Get high motherfuckers
Ready to Die motherfuckers
Hah!!
As we proceed...
(Who shot ya?)
...to give you what you need
9 to 5 motherfuckers
East coast motherfuckers
(Who shot ya?)
West coast motherfuckers...
West coast motherfuckers... hah!
As we proceed, to give you what you need
As we proceed
to give you what you need
Get live motherfuckers
9 to 5 motherfuckers
Get money motherfuckers
As we proceed
to give you what you need
Get live motherfuckers
9 to 5 motherfuckers
J.M. motherfuckers
J.M. motherfuckers
As we proceeeeeeed
To give you what you need...
9 to 5...
to give you what you need
9 to 5 motherfuckers
get live motherfuckers -- 2X
to give you what you need
East coast motherfuckers
Bad Boy motherfuckers
Turn that mic up, yea that beat is knockin
to that microphone
Turn that shit the fuck up
Uh, what?
Turn it up louder
Yea, uh
what you need
J.M. motherfuckers
J.M. motherfuckers
9 to 5 motherfuckers
Seperate the weak from the ob-solete
Hard to creep them Brooklyn streets
It's on nigga, fuck all that bickering beef
I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
Your heartbeat soun like Sasquatch feet
Thundering, shaking the concrete
Finish it, stop, when I foil the plot
Neighbors call the cops said they heard mad shots
Saw me in the drop, three in the corner
Old school new school need to learn though
I burn baby burn like Disco Inferno
Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo
Peel more skins than Idaho potato
Niggaz know, the lyrics molestin is takin place
Fuckin with B.I.G. it ain't safe
I make your skin chafe, rashes on the masses
Bumps and bruises, blunts and Landcruisers
Big Poppa smash fools, bash fools
Niggaz mad because I know that Cash Rules
Everything Around Me, two glock nines
Any motherfucker whispering about mines
And I'm, Crooklyn's finest
You rewind this, Bad Boy's behind this
to give you what you need
9 to 5 motherfuckers
get live motherfuckers
to give you what you need
East coast motherfuckers
Bad Boy motherfuckers
Get high motherfuckers
Smoke blunts motherfuckers
Get high motherfuckers
Ready to die motherfuckers
9 to 5 motherfuckers
Stack mad chips, spread love with my peeps
Niggaz wanna creep, got ta watch my back
Think the Cognac and indo sack make me slack?
I switches all that, cock-sucker G's up
One false move, get swiss cheesed up
Clip to Tec, respect I demand it
Slip and break the, 11th Commandment
Thou shalt not fuck with raw C-Poppa
Feel a thosand deaths when I drop ya
I feel for you, like Chaka Khan I'm the don
Pussy when I want Rolex on the arm
You'll die slow but calm
Recognize my face, so there won't be no mistake
So you know where to tell Jake, lame nigga
Brave nigga, turned front page nigga
Puff Daddy flips daily
I smoke the blunts he sips on the Bailey's
on the rocks, tote glocks at christenings
And my cock, in the fire position and...
Ready to Die motherfuckers)
open your fucking mouth, open your... didn't I tell you
don't fuck with me? [*muffled* c'mon man] Huh?
Didn't I tell you not to fuck with me?
(as we proceed) [c'mon man] Look at you now
(to give you what you need) Huh? [c'mon man]
(9 to 5 motherfuckers) Can't talk with a gun in your mouth huh?
(get live motherfuckers) Bitch-ass nigga, what?
(get live motherfuckers) [*muffled sounds, six gun shots*]
(as we proceed...) Who shot ya?
9 to 5 motherfuckers
Get live motherfuckers
Ready to Die motherfuckers
Hah!!
As we proceed...
9 to 5 motherfuckers
East coast motherfuckers
West coast motherfuckers... hah!
As we proceed, to give you what you need
As we proceed
to give you what you need
Get live motherfuckers
9 to 5 motherfuckers
Get money motherfuckers
to give you what you need
Get live motherfuckers
9 to 5 motherfuckers
J.M. motherfuckers
J.M. motherfuckers
As we proceeeeeeed
To give you what you need...
9 to 5...
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This song is shit compared to other BIG songs but it had NOTHING to do with 2pac it was off his first album wrote before 2pac was shot. 2pac was hyped about the shooting and thats when shit turned nasty and the fued started. The best rappers to live pac and biggie it was obvious that they had to both die, regardless of who killed then they would have been killed anyway, they were too great for this world.
Overall, this song is much better than Hit 'Em Up.
Biggie was the greatest.
If the song was wrote b4 pac shoot why b.i.g realesed after 2pac shoot, nd th song hit em up is 1 of th best song still now we hear it th song who shot ya we are not much interested like sky th limit,mo money mo problem b.i.g's song.
If the song was wrote b4 pac shoot why b.i.g realesed after 2pac shoot, nd th song hit em up is 1 of th best song still now we hear it th song who shot ya we are not much interested like sky th limit,mo money mo problem b.i.g's song.
Very Frustrating when people call this a Diss track to tupac and his entourage. Biggie and Tupac never had a problem with each other! this is made clear when Tupac says " rest in peace to my ni**a biggie smalls" on his track God Bless the Dead. The problem with the situation was the U.S government actually afraid of the gangsta Hip-Hop that was being created in the early 90's the media portrayed the whole West side East side beef which never actually exsisted until Tupac got shot... The media automatically picked East coast rivalry as the reason he got shot! Not a bad track but never his best!
RIP Biggie and Pac.
biggie smalls is a reference to a member of the live squad notnotorious big. (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAfj-E_zR7g). Secondly, BIG was passed away after tupac so your logic does not follow. Although the media esculated the hype, often where there is smoke there if fire. Biggy had no need to directly speak of pac in this track as it was a means to send a message without incrimination. All we know is that the timing of the tracks release is interesting even though Bad Boy claimed it was written prior to tupacs 1994 shooting.
biggie smalls is a reference to a member of the live squad notnotorious big. (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAfj-E_zR7g). Secondly, BIG was passed away after tupac so your logic does not follow. Although the media esculated the hype, often where there is smoke there if fire. Biggy had no need to directly speak of pac in this track as it was a means to send a message without incrimination. All we know is that the timing of the tracks release is interesting even though Bad Boy claimed it was written prior to tupacs 1994 shooting.
Hit em up is better
Ya i agree with starfire hit em up is the better song but who shot ya got pac fired up enough to write hit em up
Hit Em Up Was better on so many levels IMO. (I'll even say Nas' Ether was better than this.) Hit Em Up was the kind of song that clearly expressed that 2Pac wasn't holding anything back which makes it the better dis track. However, Biggie's song is better than the other versions of Hit Em Up that were unreleased. I never took any of 2Pac's songs as a diss to the other side (east coast) but I would take this song as a diss to the West Coast.
I don't know why Tupac took it as a diss. Diddy & Biggie told him they'd recorded it months before that night, and Biggie even said he was literally smoking weed with Diddy & his friends when he got the news. Great track, with insane Biggie rhymes. "I burn baby burn like disco inferno"
Idiots, stop comparing this to "Hit Em Up". It's like saying this BMW is better than this apple. Fruit has nothing to do with cars as much as "Who Shot Ya?" has nothing to do with Pac or any of his song.
I liked Hit Em' Up, don't get me wrong. But all I feel like is that Tupac is just yelling at Biggie "FUCK YOU!". Biggie's song just sounds like "You're afraid, don't fuck with me". Much or subtle and "cool-like". So think of as Tupac red-hot Fire and Biggie cool as Ice, which one do you prefer? That's how I'm guessing people judge this song. But anyway aren't we supposed to be debating on what the meaning of the song is? Not which one is better...
I could see how Tupac could think this song is towards him in the first place because of the song title but other than that how does he know that Biggie is talking about him? If Biggie came out and said "Yeah it was directed at you" then that would shut down my whole arugement. But anyway, other than the song title, what evidence does Tupac have that it's directed at him? Tupac just immediatly came out and started hatin' on Biggie as soon as he got out of the hospital and never thought it over. Maybe it was biggie's crew but they have their own thoughts and their own arms and legs. Biggie isn't a puppet master so if anyone can show me another reason why Tupac would think it's directed at him please tell me.
Yo DoctaRossta I dont give a fuck if this was or was not a dis track..2pac was so much better than biggie. 2pac spoke from his heart about real shit. Biggie spoke about what every other rapper spoke about the only difference is he spoke about it better than most, however tupac was too real, too genius. Imagine if biggie got shot like that do you think he would have dealt with it, went jail and come out then sold more albums than 2pac and fucked tupac's bitch. Do you think he would have dissed so many rappers. Nobody but...
Yo DoctaRossta I dont give a fuck if this was or was not a dis track..2pac was so much better than biggie. 2pac spoke from his heart about real shit. Biggie spoke about what every other rapper spoke about the only difference is he spoke about it better than most, however tupac was too real, too genius. Imagine if biggie got shot like that do you think he would have dealt with it, went jail and come out then sold more albums than 2pac and fucked tupac's bitch. Do you think he would have dissed so many rappers. Nobody but 2pac could have done that. 2pac= Realest rapper and best rapper ever, rapped about real shit biggie was the 2nd best.
Grab your glocks when you see 2pac, call the cops when you see 2pac! Mr.makaveli
If the song was wrote b4 pac shoot why b.i.g realesed after 2pac shoot, nd th song hit em up is 1 of th best song still now we hear it th song who shot ya we are not much interested like sky th limit,mo money mo problem b.i.g's song are good. Pac shoots 5 times as we know, in the song who shoot ya their is 5 times gun shoots can any 1 tell me what it mean. Beacuse we don't know nething.