Runnin’ on E

By 2Pac

On Until the End of Time

Released on March 27, 2001

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[Intro: 2Pac & Hussein Fatal]

It's the if you a bad boy

Yo, what's up, man?

(The police comin'!)

Oh shit! (Get out of there)

(Yo, get the fuck out the way)

Fatal, Outlawz runnin' up out this motherfucker

I'm going past niggas

Ain't gettin' me out the game like this, fuck that!

It's Outlaw, nigga


[Hook: 2Pac]

If you a bad boy then you die

Westside Outlawz when we ride, get me high

They fucked up when they robbed me

Put another contract on Mobb Deep

If you a bad boy then you die

Westside Outlawz when we ride, get me high

They fucked up when they robbed me

Put another contract on Mobb Deep


[Verse 1: Hussein Fatal]

I focus my locus thought on the enemy

Sick of the Hennessy, it's necessary to finish me (Ayo)

I'm antisocial, immortal when it come to the vocal (Ayo)

Jersey them niggas down, and won't approach 'em 'til it's time to smoke 'em

Hussein the terrorist (Hahaha)

Nigga, they think I'm crazy and creepy

And as we speak, they try to find me a therapist

Rapid fire, I clap an eye 'til you die a liar

Strapped and next hittin' corners, dropped 'em, didn't want to spin the tires

My man will find ya (Ayo!)

This .357 anaconda is enough to brand ya mama then turn around and hand you drama

Military comradery, Oulaw 'til they body me

Havoc, I gotta have it steady blastin' at Prodigy

Mobb 6 feet deep, you try to bust me to death?

And I suppose you got the dopest moves like Chucky on fresh

You know the verdict, who, what, when, why they die murdered?

Get your physical diverted and your vision deserted


[Verse 2: 2Pac]

Now ever since mama got fucked and papa ducked out

Look at us (Yo, yo), murderous thugs showin' less love than a drug house

Similar to savages, it's a wonder we manage

Bring chaos causin' damage in the quest for cabbage

They ask my style similar to cash when flaunted

Most wanted by the population murder you for it

Exploit your weakness revenge flow deep without release

Criminal orders across the water bringin' war to the streets

Why fear me? Fear the shit I speak

Once this shit drop it's heard on every fuckin' street

Like the sound of police

Who run the streets really? In every hood legends grow

From the hustlas up in Harlem to shot callers in O'

And though, Congress don't want us to progress, we stressed

My homie buried at an early age hustled to death

His last breath, a lesson I possess like jewels

Stay thugged out keep it movin'


[Interlude]

(Hey, where that nigga Kadafi?)


[Verse 3: Yaki Kadafi]

Halfway thugs don't budge when we stalk the streets

Sort of like chalk and narcotics when they walk the beat

You speak the beef, pussy, draw down and drop it

Hit you with 6 shots, lay the law down and throw the shells in my pocket

Gettin' mines with nine cocked extortin'

Blocks pop with 22's in my socks with the butt hangin' out the chocolate

You never seen time I travel across dream crime

My rolls like a million dollar bill, folded with green lines

Wit' my pulse racin'; drink my Henny straight, no chasin'

Catch my body like cases; 5 minutes from the station


[Verse 4: Young Noble]

Hit the hole like Allen Iverson with confidence

No finger prints that mean there was no evidence or proof that I was present

At the scene of the crime around 10 niggas bleed

After they made this punk, fag motherfucka bleed

Money was bloody as shit, y'all niggas shoulda seen it

Bust a cap and freak with, bowin' off to one knee shit

The Glock to your head, nigga, don't make no sudden action

Hit innocent bystanders when he blastin', dumped fuckin' backwards

Little homies puttin' work for stripes

But is it worth your life and G-rides runnin' red lights?

I wish somebody would have told me then

Since I'm an outlaw like Napoleon ain't no cell they can hold me in

Or cage me in, crazy like Arabians

Hold this spot like them niggas gon' fade me in

Havin' a fiend page me (Page me)

When they want the product, nigga I got the smoke (Smoke)

Got this weed and the coke (Coke), what you need, what you want

What you workin' with? I'm on some ol' immortal shit

Outlawz, we straight hurtin' shit, use artillery to murder with

Put on the block, gangsta partyin' like 'Pac (Haha)

Life's hard from the ox, me and my niggas on top (Party)


[Bridge: 2Pac]

I know the law hate me dearly, comin' for me

We outlaws, thugged out, niggas runnin' on E

I know the law hate me dearly, comin' for me

We outlaws, thugged out, niggas runnin' on E

I know the law hate me dearly, they comin' for me

We outlaws, thugged out, niggas runnin' on E

I know the law hate me dearly, they comin' for me

We outlaws, thugged out, niggas runnin' on E


[Verse 5: Nuttso]

Runnin' my Glock, put the lead in pop, fuck the law

Carry steel 'cause I live on the nigga side of the law

Ridin' foes 'cause I can't let hoes catch me slippin'

Quick to blow and dispose if you plot on hittin'

Ridin' high, blazin', kryptonite got a nigga dazin'

Burpin' and smirkin' at enemies before I grave 'em

Ride up with the iron up, I see him, he slippin'

At a stop light on this lonely night

(This motherfucka trippin')

Slide on him, so I can dump and put it in him

(Damn, I guess this motherfucker know the vicinity)

Hit the pedal now we high speedin'

With my metal tryna make these motherfuckers die speedin'

Up the way I seen him slow down

(Shit! I think I done bucked these hoes down)

Caught 'em runnin' on E, that's kinda funny to me

They knew they was funkin' with me but they dumb to see


[Verse 6: 2Pac]

Open up fire, watch 'em expire when my shells split 'em

Plus all them trick-niggas bitchin' can go to hell with 'em

Fuck 'em, they phony claimin' they homies but they foes

Speakin' on thug niggas daily, while we nailin' they hoes

Explode boldly at my stage shows and formation

Words are known to spray blaze as I raise my thug nation

A crooked thought, cops get bought, no longer caught

Out on bail, raisin' hell, nigga, fuck what you thought

Did you cry when my girl died?

Put out the hit, politic niggas worldwide, grabbin' my dick

I’ll never learn, take away the pain with sherm

Throwin' gas on my enemies, watchin' 'em burn

Kamikaze, I’m shootin' up the casket, take the body

Whip the corpse like a piñata and party

His last breath, a straight lesson I possess like jewels

Stay thugged out keep it movin'

Runnin' on E


[Outro]

Stay thugged out keep it movin'

Runnin' on E

(One time, one time for the niggas that stayed down for us)

Runnin' on E

(Smif-n-Wessun the Cocoa Brovaz, Buckshot, BDI, runnin' on E)

The Boot Camp Clik

(What happened, that was it?)