Uh, yeah
 It's Ja Rule nigga
 Uh, uh, yeah
 Feel this
 Uh, Ja Rule nigga
 Def Jam, Ja

 Look at my life style it's dangerous
 When I was young this sorta life was contagious
 Hustlin' hard like them sharks down in Vegas
 My gat and I come bust spontaneous
 This world made us to take only what they gave us
 The game is our loss
 Watch yo gloat
 Then show you that this world aint yours
 Push crack like swingin' doors
 And leave strips wide open
 Ja's holdin
 A pair a nines and ya'll cats foldin'
 My life ain't been all that goldin'
 This ryme hit me at a young age and kept callin'
 I know I'm fallin'
 To the evil of money and drugs and lost woman
 But thats what I'm lovin' about livin'
 Bein' I see my birth as a givin'
 Knowin' my inner limits
 This game aint no scrimmage
 Lets play big we're winners
 Beg the Lord for forgiveness
 For when I die please take me off your shit list
 Cause I'll be nameless
 Puttin' them through changes
 The J to the A
 Niggas know the flows crazy

 [Chorus]
 What makes a nigga what he is?
 And how do we get from where we at to where we be?
 It's evident who's out for the dead president
 And why so many close to my heart had to die
 Were we goin' in life figure
 There's no start no end
 But when in doubt you could count on your nigga
 What makes a nigga what he is?
 And how do we get from where we at to where we be?
 It's evident who's out for the dead president
 And why so many close to my heart had to die
 Where we goin' in life figure
 There's no start no end
 But when in doubt
 You could count on your nigga

 [Ja Rule]
 I got a lust for this money
 Admire them old timers
 Assume with no conscience
 Made a world so chaotic
 Opened up my mind and introduced me to narcotics
 Brand new wips not this thicks the hottest chicks
 I just can't seem to keep them off my dicks
 The difference is ya'll did ya'll thing on the low
 Made alot of doe
 We did our thing high pro
 Thou we still blew
 I wish I knew dirty money was evil
 I never understood until I lost a few people
 Dead and gone still their memory lives on
 Throw a mural up let them niggas them was loved
 Now were in to better things
 Got our hands on every ring
 Crime in the streets
 Cause it's my time
 I draw the line between love and war really
 Nigga you with me
 Your flossin, out side that you fear me
 Literally strait up and down with no cross
 As God is my witness and JA is yours
 I'm a spit in your directions
 Hit the floors, Nigga

 [Chorus]
 What makes a nigga what he is?
 And how do we get from where we at to where we be?
 It's evident who's out for the dead president
 And why so many close to my heart had to die
 Were we goin' in life figure
 There's no start no end
 But when in doubt you could count on your nigga
 What makes a nigga what he is?
 And how do we get from where we at to where we be?
 It's evident who's out for the dead president
 And why so many close to my heart had to die
 Where we goin' in life figure
 There's no start no end
 But when in doubt
 You could count on your nigga

 Uh, yeah
 Uh
 It's Def Jam
 Topp dogg nigga
 Recognize
 Uh, Uh
 Ja Rule nigga
 Uh, Uh
 Recognize
 Def Jam nigga
 Uh, yeah
 Recognize
 Uh, yo
 I'm big boy nigga
 What the deal big boy
 What the deal
 Uh, yeah
 All my niggas, live on
 Dog
 We kill 'em all

 [Chorus]
 What makes a nigga what he is?
 And how do we get from where we at to where we be?
 It's evident who's out for the dead president
 And why so many close to my heart had to die
 Were we goin' in life figure
 There's no start no end
 But when in doubt you could count on your nigga
 What makes a nigga what he is?
 And how do we get from where we at to where we be?
 It's evident who's out for the dead president
 And why so many close to my heart had to die
 Where we goin' in life figure
 There's no start no end
 But when in doubt
 You could count on your nigga

 Uh, yeah