[Intro]

It's like y'all can't do nothin' without me

Everything be going good, but then y'all pull me in

And mess everything up

Why y'all always let me win? Hahaha (Uh)

[Chorus]

I be tryna find the best way they can stop me cold

Another body and guess who the cause and why they foes?

Beef is my name, my story is age old

Some question why do I always come to take souls?

[Verse 1]

I'm everywhere in the hearts of men

Jealousy and envy my right hands, them is my mans

I'm what happens on mad blocks, I'm the jabs taken in talks

The arguments between the women in the crab leg spots

That behind the back shit, complex and multifaceted

Lesson to the real, I be decimal, subtracting shit

The devil is a lie, I could confuse a genius

Have him movin' real dumb over nothin' at my convenience

When empires fall over women, I am the reason

USA and Al-Qaeda, I'm the tension between 'em

I'm the words that get misinterpreted

I'm the get back, I'm the first to hit, I'm the worst of it

Lurkin' on your premises, I am your nemesis

Parents of every slain rapper wish I didn't exist

But I'm alive and I thrive on your ignorance

I'm a thousand-foot fence that keep you from getting rich

Get around me

[Chorus]

I be tryna find the best way they can stop me cold

Another body and guess who the cause and why they foes?

Beef is my name, my story is age old

Some question why do I always come to take souls

I be tryna find the best way they can stop me cold

Another body and guess who the cause and why they foes?

Beef is my name, my story is age old

Some question why do I always come to take souls? (Take souls)

[Verse 2]

I'm the invasion of personal space

Fake smiles on your face, it's certain I'm hate

All that internet beef, that shit a virgin to me

I been here before the Bible, it's murder I speak

The energy creepin' 'round the blocks and the streets

Took his guys with him shoppin', they side-eyeing to please

Everybody's impossible, it don't stop in the Ps

I'm eternal, I'm everywhere the action at

I'm always where the guns are blazin', attractin' that

The grimiest places is my natural habitat

In all the jails and all the parties I be

Drive-bys where kids get killed accidentally

That's the type of shit they try to pin to me

Tragic situations give me my identity

And beef cut off the fat, that sizzle in grease

Love to many deceased over me, beef

[Chorus]

I be tryna find the best way they can stop me cold

Another body and guess who the cause and why they foes?

Beef is my name, my story is age old

Some question why do I always come to take souls?

I be tryna find the best way they can stop me cold

Another body and guess who the cause and why they foes?

Beef is my name, my story is age old

Some question why do I always come to take souls? (Take souls)

[Interlude]

People got me in some shit everyday

Over this, over that

Over nothing, over something

Either way, it's on

[Verse 3]

Why it's always gotta be resortin' to me?

I ain't asked for this power, it's torture, it forced me to see

People drainin' themselves, some pull off some horrible deeds

Rumors turnin' into a monster, lies always mislead

By the time you hear what somebody said, it's stretched out

They expanded it, made it worse, now you all stressed out

You wish you got it straightened out, but it's too far gone

From "Who Shot Ya?" to "Hit Em Up", the 2Pac song