Released on March 21, 1995

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[Verse 1: Tuffy]

Booyaka, down goes the other man

I stand with bloody ass hands like Redman

Cause I just choked another, called me in, provoked a brother

So I flipped the script like Danny Glover

The other day, chillin' on the lines of unemployment

I feel like flippin' and killin' devils for enjoyment

My madness started at the age of twelve

When devil's burned down my house like we was livin' in Hell

It ain't hard to tell like Nas, I'm in a rage

This planet is a cage, I'ma bust like a twelve-gauge

From pressure and stress isn't somethin' that can't be forgiven

Is it a dream or a dream that we be livin'?


[Chorus: Channel Live]

Booyaka, booyaka, down goes the devil

Down goes the dev—down, down goes the devil

Booyaka, booyaka, down goes the devil

Down goes the dev—down, down goes the devil


[Verse 2: Hakim]

Puttin' my head to bed, better yet I rest my dreads

Thinkin' about these devils and how they got me fed

Up, it's time to gun buck with my shots

Any questions for my attitude I just say, "Why not?"

They've been fuckin; us, and they've been crushin' us

Who stole two-hundred million from accountin'? It wasn't us

Four-hundred years of murdery and pillage

Is why you get my middle finger walkin' through the village

Why increase the peace while the beast increase the pressure?

I'm tired of the lecture, the speech is gettin' trifle

Brothers killin' brothers, time to redirect the rifle

To the one who was born in the mountain of the Caucus

Now you stalk us, walk us in the malls of Secaucus, devil's trickery

Fuck the bickery with the west

The devil's got the hollow points pointed for my chest


[Chorus: Channel Live]

Down goes the dev—down, down goes the devil

Booyaka, booyaka, down goes the devil

Down goes the dev—down, down goes the devil

Booyaka, booyaka, down goes the devil

Down goes the dev—down, down goes the devil

Booyaka, booyaka, down goes the devil


[Verse 3: Tuffy]

I walk around maintainin', not to be a rebel

But everywhere I look I go there's another devil

He plays a roll like you're down, faker than an actor

Before he gets to me, I'm trackin' down a damn cracker

I got mad stress, I can't take it no more

Day after day, devils follow me through the stores

Like my pores is sweatin' me and upsettin' me

I don't steal, but I wet ya, G, just for testin' me

I always be lookin' in the mirror of my Land Rover

See uh, the overseer pulls me over

Just 'cause I got a Jeep with a phat system

Put down your gun, we can toe to toe, mister

He thought he was slick like breeze the devil pulled his piece

You figure, he didn't know I was quicker

Nonstop shots for Rodney King, that's a given

Is it a dream or a dream we been livin'?


[Chorus: Channel Live]

Booyaka, booyaka, down goes the devil

Down goes the dev—down, down goes the devil

Booyaka, booyaka, down goes the devil

Down goes the dev—down, down goes the devil