[Erick Sermon]  Mm-hmm, hold me down  Hold me down  Hold me down  Ah yeah yeah hold me down  Yeah uh-huh uh-huh, hold me down  Word up, ye-yeah, a-yeh, to hold me down  Eh te eh te eh, hold me down  Word to, everybody that, hold me down  Huh? Ah-huh, yo, what?    Aiyyo P back me up now, hold me down  while I go around this town, snatchin crowns  from those supposed, wannabe rap vocalists  If you nice get your rope and dosey-do in this  Let me know somethin - you wanna fight? Let's go somethin  If not, close your mouth and say nothing  Y'all imitations, fuckin up the whole situation  with sucker MC infiltration    [Parrish Smith]  Aiyyo straight up, you light MC's better get your weight up  I'm benchin three hundred and change, starvin cats get ate up  Ain't that ill? How I can just stare, and watch the blood spill  from an unknown rapper, but now the rapper's no thrill  Now how real is that? Burnin gats, knifes and bats  Hot rhyme, status, with the hot wax  Mixed with the street slang, is where it's at  Perhaps, you should close your mouth kid and slide back    [P]Yo E, hold me down  [E]I'm holdin you down  Yo P, hold me down  [P]I'm holdin you down  Yo E, hold me down  [E]I'm holdin you down  PMD, hold me down  [P]I'm holdin you down  Yo E, hold me down  [E]I'm holdin you down  PMD, hold me down  [P]I'm holdin you down  Yo E, hold me down  [E]I'm holdin you down  PMD, hold me down  [P]I'm holdin you down    [Parrish Smith]  You got shit harder than this, Erick Serm' and Parrish Smith?  What's this? Piped out five, with the kit?  And millions to back it, keep it rugged never wack kid  This ain't just rhymin, God's on the way, and he's askin  who's been followin the rules, two noided, so we strap tools  and can't cool, this go out to the cats in school  It's not the norm, word bond, so get ready for the rainstorm  Too hot, fuck lukewarm, when we swarm    [Erick Sermon]  Yeah we swarm MC's with the bee effect, zzzzz, sting em  like Muhammad, set the scene I'm bombin on  CEO's, A&R's, street team to a manager  For the cream, we damage ya  On light-skinned, dark-skinned, albino  From a crackhead, dopefiend, or wino  Bring the Ultra-ment, stick you with the Magnetic  Give a shout, to them sweet cats, rap diabetics    [E]Yo P, hold me down  [P]I'm holdin you down  Yo E, hold me down  [E]I'm holdin you down  Yo PMD, hold me down  [P]I'm holdin you down  Yo E, hold me down  [E]I'm holdin you down  Yo PMD, hold me down  [P]I'm holdin you down  E-Dub, hold me down  [E]I'm holdin you down  Mic Doc, hold me down  [P]I'm holdin you down  Green Eyed Bandit, holdin it down  [E]Yeah, I'm holdin you down    [Parrish Smith]  Niggaz tryin to jam the frequency, when on the low  they be peepin me and the E, DJ Scratch, EPMD  The Dream Team, who fiend for the cream since sixteen  Dodgin po-nine and marks, with the high beams  God-body, rap style, Mazerrati  Catchin bodies, E Double holdin shit down with the sawed off shotty  What you thought? We takin more than nickels and shorts?  Get the fuck out of here, nothin sweet here, you get your shit torched    [Erick Sermon]  I spit flames at Oklahoma  When done, you can smell the Sermon aroma  In a coma, burned to death, man listen  Did he deserve, the kicked to the curb, ass whippin?  Believe you me, it was his destiny  for the child to end for fuckin with men  P and I got somethin for all y'all  who stand tall, and dose dat like to ball  So we ball like Spalding, in the time of need  who you calling when your career is falling?  Ssshh, way down, you've been hit, lay down  Hit the ground, don't get up, stay down  Relax a minute, you shouldn'ta put your two cents in it  Now you up a creek, in the back of a car that's rented