[00:00.844]B.I.Vs.Friendship （-Gang Starr/M.O.P.
[00:02.271]Written by：Keith Elam
[00:07.181]It's like a friendship and a business partnership
[00:10.565]And we have to always be concious of the difference
[00:13.902]Between em because y'know some things can happen
[00:16.501]That'll ruin one or the other so
[00:18.503]We alwa we always stay concious of those things
[00:21.26]Those obstacles that can y'know trip us up
[00:23.631]Because we ain't out like that
[00:24.841]Friends business
[00:25.948]Friends business
[00:27.450]Friends business
[00:29.494]C'mon motherf**ker yeah
[00:42.781]Gangstarr gangstarr MOP
[00:49.876]Ghetto people
[00:50.686]Son you're supposed to be my man but you ain't wise enough to realize
[00:53.645]This is B I see I wanna taste the whole cake
[00:56.602]Some things in this industry sh*t be so fake
[00:59.159]Make no mistake if you're my man you'd understand
[01:01.791]About the plan to stack hundreds of grands that's right
[01:04.704]And how to stand on much more acres of land
[01:07.154]And to expand from the days of going hand to hand
[01:09.824]So like I was CEO I do my thing son
[01:12.440]And turn this underground rap thing to my kingdom
[01:15.156]Release a fistful of rhymes for the fiscal year
[01:18.692]MC's are wishful f**king with this here
[01:20.807]They stuck with the tear for fear they foresake a brother's love
[01:23.694]It's clear I'd have to be the better man I'm thinking
[01:26.315]The 7th letter man ain't got no time for petty speaking uhh
[01:29.114]So we go our seperate ways I see the fork in the road
[01:32.108]I know I blessed you with a portion of gold
[01:34.139]And some good fortune to hold so keep that
[01:36.751]While I keep it moving just like truckloads
[01:38.970]Of interstate cargo taxing niggaz like US embargoes
[01:42.755]You my man like I said so all the best
[01:45.31]You shoulda known we do sh*t differently than all of the rest
[01:47.603]Can't afford to let a link be loose in the chain
[01:50.225]It's time for us to get mad more juice in the game
[01:52.954]You're bugging son that's right that's word to billy and fame
[01:55.755]So I'ma stay the game that we play to win yeah
[01:58.529]So I don't care what you say to her or say to him
[02:01.310]The object son is to excel and lead
[02:04.82]And niggaz be bluffing falling for nothing but greed
[02:06.630]If it's animosity
[02:08.230]Let me know
[02:09.95]If you plotting to stop my dough
[02:11.135]Time to go
[02:11.940]Gangstarr M O P ni**a
[02:13.799]Trying to blow
[02:14.607]If you my man you could understand
[02:17.282]If it's animosity
[02:18.732]Let me know
[02:19.728]If you plotting to stop my dough
[02:21.641]Time to go
[02:22.598]Gangstarr M O P ni**a
[02:24.570]Trying to blow
[02:25.341]If you my man you could understand
[02:27.742]I'm true to myself y'all and I'm a down a**ni**a
[02:30.998]So don't fool yourself clown a**ni**a
[02:33.662]I always been the type of cat that'll put it on ya
[02:36.398]Since back in the days when laze snatched me off the corner
[02:38.927]And every since then the whole game changed
[02:41.842]Everybody's against Lil'a**fame
[02:44.606]They wanna see me stretched out with my back smoking
[02:47.449]Left for dead in the street with my back opened
[02:50.247]So I don't keep friends I just roll with
[02:52.670]Niggaz I was raised with went out in a blaze with
[02:55.479]In the penile to B Ville down to Grayson
[02:57.853]And we thick together in these last days kid
[03:01.373]So I don't have what you call friends
[03:03.619]Cause when it's on then they gone in the end
[03:06.156]But I'ma handle my business indeed
[03:08.712]Cause niggaz be bluffing falling for nothing but greed
[03:11.139]If it's animosity
[03:12.851]Let me know
[03:13.745]If you plotting to stop my dough
[03:15.590]Time to go
[03:16.495]Gangstarr M O P ni**a
[03:18.451]Trying to blow
[03:19.239]If you my man you could understand
[03:22.133]If it's animosity
[03:23.721]Let me know
[03:24.543]If you plotting to stop my dough
[03:26.313]Time to go
[03:27.270]Gangstarr M O P ni**a
[03:29.223]Trying to blow
[03:30.48]If you my man you could understand
[03:31.896]Hey yo what happened to the love soldier it never crossed my mind
[03:35.340]That you would doubt my love inside and test my pride
[03:38.334]I divide anything that I got
[03:40.904]With my M O P staff we all and we out
[03:43.738]To the first family loyalty is no game
[03:46.511]We them type of niggaz that money won't change
[03:49.207]We all aim for the big picture
[03:51.748]But to me it don't mean sh*t if your dogs ain't witcha
[03:54.454]I sacrifice my main arteries why ni**a
[03:57.176]Ain't nobody never loved me like my niggaz
[03:59.766]See my business is my friendship and my friendship is my business
[04:02.626]Can I get a witness preach on ni**a
[04:05.207]Hey yo we went through all out wars half assed tours
[04:08.38]Travelled'cross this land with heavy contraband
[04:11.28]See you my man and you ain't never got to
[04:13.556]Second guess or question the love of William danze sho'nuff
[04:16.739]I am invaluable to my niggaz
[04:18.582]Cause they all rest there in thirty two better than nothing
[04:21.351]Think of William when they start busting I hold you down
[04:24.283]When them body parts pop up cousin I'll be around
[04:26.894]Friends business
[04:28.376]Friends business
[04:29.885]Friends business
[04:32.143]Friends business
[04:33.695]Friends business