Set It Off

By Cha Cha

On Dear Diary

Released on September 14, 1999

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[Intro]

Lord, I swear if you could just get me out of this for the last time

I'm too young, I'm too young to die now, not now

How'd this happen? Why this happen? Why me?

Now, today, we hit Downtown Federal

Not the time for anybody to freeze up

I'ma need somebody to pick up Cha from school no later than 3:30

Be there

Jade, get the getaway car and talk to Sam about the pieces

Load 'em and be there

Know the M.O., in and out

Come on and set it off


[Verse 1]

Yep, today, they'd be with me when the bell ring

Right on the L wing

Tryna stay down makes it seem harder to rebel things

Nervous as hell mean just tryna parallel things

Straightening gel things, funny, I felt things

The closer to the car the more I could tell things was a little tense

Much suspense, but convinced

'Cause my fair one revealing a hint, not a bit

Plus we've been discussed our plans of intent

They figured I was content, prepared and ready ever since

Reviewed it so many times in my teenage mind

It was just a prediction of an instant replay crime

Undefined, Lord, please just give me a sign

Don't wanna whine but let this be my first and last time

'Cause now I'm going on, I'm rolling a stolen Range Rover

Soon as we hit the corner, they start to exchange orders

Like, it's Cha's first time, let's go over some things for her

In and out is your M.O., you remember what I told ya

Let the dough be a door if you need an ulterior motive

Can't afford to move slow like we ain't getting any older

Then I thought, just remember what she told me before


[Chorus]

The real broads stick together if we die at war

Get it all to the end 'til we rise or fall

We riders, y'all, they don't wanna try us broads

Because we'll die for each other 'fore we die for y'all

Let's set it off


[Interlude]

Now Cha, I need you to make sure she is not reaching for her right-hand clip

(Come on, let's set if off)

The teller reaches for her right-hand clip, she's setting off the alarm

Rox, I need you to make sure that the getaway car is parked directly in front of the door

We need easy access to the doorway

(Set it off)

Jade, call your banker, make sure he's outta there


[Verse 2]

See, I don't wanna have to touch one or bust one for my cousins

See, Cha is the only one I got left of my loved ones

And I swear to God I'll plug 'em 'fore she be the last of 'em

Promised her, then the past, my last car fronted

But tuition was wanted, wasn't enough cash from it

Enough to stash from it, get away and laugh on it

12 G's with a three-way split ain't shit

And involvin' her made me wanna make a change quick

But it's teamwork, know we can make plan B work

To get out, cop D & Burke, that bank I'm seeing first

'Cause it's Downtown Federal and I know that y'all scared to go

But yo, I let her know, after this, we out fa sho


[Chorus]

'Cause real broads stick together if we die at war

Get it all to the end 'til we rise or fall

We riders, y'all, they don't wanna try us broads

Because we'll die for each other 'fore we die for y'all

Let's set it off


[Interlude]

All y'all, this our last gig

Cha, don't freeze up on us now

(Come on, let's set it off)

Caught in the system at any necessary moment

We're going in, we're going in with style

I got us Gucci glasses, fly wigs, let's do this

Fill every Prada bag up

(Let's set it off)

You got this, mami, let's do this

Come on, y'all, set it off


[Verse 3]

This ain't the time to try to freeze up

We need her, can't leave her

She better bust

That's what we taught her how to cock and squeeze for

This our last gig, black wigs and Gucci glasses

High fashion for the cameras, robbery castin'

For certain, it seem worse since I'm hurtin' multiple persons

So suggestions to the clerk and she better be easy to work with

I ain't perpin', fillin' Prada duffels, I screen persons

While she move the cal window to window

I'm insertin' more clips, feel this, gettin' tense, touchin' your shirt and

Hits to her reaching for the right-hand clip (No, no, miss)

'Cause you makin' this teller more nervous

We can all get through this if y'all remember this


[Chorus]

That real broads stick together if we die at war

Get it all to the end 'til we rise or fall

We riders, y'all, they don't wanna try us broads

Because we'll die for each other 'fore we die for y'all

Let's set it off


[Interlude]

Yo, I want everybody down now

No, no, miss

(Come on, let's set it off)

You're making this teller more nervous over here

You reach for that right-hand clip, my gat is going in your mouth

On three-and-a-half minutes, let's make it, move, move, now

(Let's set it off)

Don't make me get ugly up in here

I want everybody on the ground now


[Verse 4]

Kick in the door (Everybody hit the floor), first words that I heard

'Fore my vision went and blurred, sudden thoughts just occurred

Got me a little disturbed, nothing else register

While I'm nervously thinkin', yo, this scam better work

'Cause that'll hurt if it fly, better her hurt than I

Before I plead first, you'll bleed first 'fore I let her testify

Lord, I don't wanna have to do her as I'm holdin' a piece to her

Conscience saying she got a look and be the first one to give you up

Up to you but fakin', you just a private school student

Used to pleated skirts, knee-highs, blazers and creased shirts

In Gucci penny loafers, not deuce-deuce mini-holsters

Now security told to toast ya if you get any closer

What a girl like me supposed to do at such a tight stage and right page

Right when I'm set in all the right ways?

Saw light rays, cops came, pull in from all ways

Then they cuffed Jade, I felt they runnin' through hallways

Saw the glass come through and bust things

Ran to the Range and cut lanes

Some sudden rain, dang, 'cause the road's sustained

Now I gotta get out and foot things due to a sudden train

And when it's set, dang, it's hard to run through mud and rain

Bills got heavy in the case and now it's tougher to race

I realize that I've been grazed and that's what slowin' my pace

Well, then my luck was just fate, as tears trickle my face

Speakin' of praying, I'm gettin' weak, Lord, get me out of this chase


[Outro]

Freeze! This is the F.B.I.!

Put your damn gun down!

Put the fucking gun down now!

Get on your hands and knees!

Get on your goddamn hands and knees!

Throw your goddamn stuff now! *gunshots*

No, don't shoot! Don't shoot!

Cha! No, Cha! Cha! No!

Damn!

Get up, Cha!

Cha, get up!

Get up, Cha!

Cha! (Yo, Cha, wake up)

Cha, get up! (Come on, Cha)

Yo, Cha, get up

Cha, stop playing, get up

Cha, get the fuck up

Cha, we late for the studio, for real