[Into: Spragga Benz (Nas)]
Original shotta (Ha)
When come like dem (Spragga) you proper leave hotter[?]
Make brain cell (Nas) splatter
It don't even matter

[Verse 1: Spragga Benz]
Yo
Sick, you must ah sick ah come an diss gangsta now
When you know seh dat man ah go wet up unnu blow-whoa
Bow! Bow! Fire make the dark night ah glow
Now you bleeding and we leaving in your valuables
Now because you see we smile and you think seh man ah play
My way, right away, we take your damn life away, hey!
Ah so we make you turn back to clay
Now we weh make you feel so dishonorable
Top shotta bring the shotty to a gully level
P.O. ah sеh dat we am so intolerable
An dеm a wonder if we ah the son of the devil
But all the girls love we fingers and weh an a bezel[?]
Talk slick, you die quick, and that's inevitable
And make you know seh that ah we ah the gorilla rebel
Ah we ah the jury, we are the judge, and we hold the gavel
We back[?], buy Lime-A-Way[?], steak and tea[?], and topple[?]

[Chorus: Spragga Benz]
This is the way we hold the nine
This is the way we load the nine
This is the way you blow the nine
Now all the platinum and diamonds and golds are mine
This is the way we hold the nine
This is the way we load the nine
This is the way you blow the nine
Now all the shiny stuff you're wearing, those are mine

[Verse 2: Spragga Benz]
Very easily we stay on top of this game
We're taking over all the keys like Biscayne
And dem ah tremble anytime them hear this name
“Ah di top shotta dem deh, ah nuh him name Wayne?”
Get fitted with a cris chrome pistol
Ah like nothing so we get the prettiest gal
Another pound's coming over from Bristol
Sipping on Amaretto, Moet, and Cristal
So we have to get the paper, weh no matter which part
More like a tax collector, don't say we extort
Get the cheddar, get the cheese, but don't get it distort
From the gullies in the bellies of the ghetto this start
So gimme that now, or else you know
The way how the ending of the story will go
Yeah, gimme that now, and fool don't be slow
Right now me done talk, you know we ah go start show

[Chorus: Spragga Benz (Nas)]
This is the way we hold the nine
This is the way we load the nine
This is the way you blow the nine
Now all the platinum and diamonds and golds are mine (Yeah!)
This is the way we hold the nine (Spragga Benz)
This is the way we load the nine (Escobaro)
This is the way you blow the nine (Yeah, yeah)
Now all the shiny stuff you're wearing, those are mine

[Verse 3: Nas]
My n***as say I wear the fly shit that makes stick up kids come out
While bitches wink at me, n***as would rather dap me
Fly enough to make you think the struggle is over
Whereever we make it rain, a cash hurricane
Come through your window, just like brother man
Catch you naked at the Driveway right next to Lovers Lane
Remember Eddie Cheeba, back at the Viva
N***a kept us fly, from the best ghetto diva…
A hand job while he's smoking his reefer
They like, “damn Nas, that robbery is beneath ya”
I'm like, “damn guys, I gotta gets my money up”
Black chicks, asians, even snow bunnies fuck
Back then, that was the beef I chose
Now every day I'm in my Sunday Easter clothes
Fresher now, watch the game elevate
Money green Louie, now n***as'll hate
It's hard being a boss in the city I dwell
I make it look like heaven, but it feels like hell
Hard being a boss in the city I dwell
I make it look like heaven, but it feels like hell
Yeah!
[Chorus: Spragga Benz (Nas)]
This is the way we hold the nine (Yeah!)
This is the way we load the nine
This is the way you blow the nine
Now all the shiny stuff you're wearing, those are mine (Yeah!)

This is the way we hold the nine
This is the way we load the nine
This is the way you blow the nine
Now all the platinum and diamonds and golds are mine (Uh! Uh!)

This is the way we hold the nine (Red Square)
This is the way we load the nine (Q.B.)
This is the way you blow the nine (Blow!)
Now all the shiny stuff you're wearing, those are mine

[Outro: Nas]
You know I hold a nine
Must know how to hold a nine
Straight out of Q.B. projects
I know how to hold mine
Spragga Benz
Red Square
Real n***as everywhere
To all the shottas world wide
Gangsta n***as
Blow!