Testify/The Next One

By Quota

Released on 2005

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[Intro: Eminem]

Yeah! Come on! Come on!

ATL! Yeah! Haha! WOO!

If you feel like you've been touched

By our music that is


[Verse 1: Eminem]

Nowadays everybody just wanna poke their nose up in our business

What is this some kinda joke?

Man, everywhere I go all I’m hearing is more talk

"What’s up with Jada and Fat Joe?

Doing a song with ol’ boy on a song “New York”

Man, I thought you just went and did a song with them both?”

Man, the streets wanna know how you gonna go and diss Michael

You should get your ghetto pass revoked

I never had no ghetto pass, you asshole

You really wanna know, when I did live in the ghetto

I catch a trespassing charge up at the railroad tracks

So I suggest you get your facts straight before you go

This assuming to know

I ain't grow up in no trailer park just cause I was poor

Man, this is my testimo...ny to those that don’t know

Me, and feel like they do

If not to feel compelled to go and speak on me too

So this dick goes to YOU and this dick goes to YOU

And if you feel like you want it then you can get it too

And when your through pass it to the person next to you

Ayo, Stat get on the mic and come and spit a few


[Verse 2: Stat Quo]

Motherfucker's so quick, to spit bullshit

Stat Quo, who’s this, Em gave me the assist

Shorty got a full clip, standing in the pulpit

A–Town misfit, repping that south shit

Back four or some years ago, foe was hating, I hear them

My flow is skating across the track, rollerblading

Losing patience, want to get on chasing but this taking all my energy

Tired of waiting, people faking fronting like they kin to me

When they're really enemies, give a fuck what it is

Cuz, this what it gonna be, Shady/Aftermath lately

GMM, baby, young nigga out them projects Thomasville

Grady hospital, Freida’s only baby

Niggas biting my style get rabies

Fuck you, pay me, eat a cock, swallow shit

And plus you ain't fucking with this, so don’t trip, ha ha

Don't abort this, what an incredible twist

I write incredible script

That fit in with the plot it’s endless

Now testify to this

Let it bang when you hear, this is classic shit


[Hook: Stat Quo]

I'm the next one next one

Motherfuckers can't fuck with me with me

Got a problem shorty come get me

Nah, I ain't Dr. Dre, nah, I ain't Eminem or 50, dog I’m Stat


[Verse 3: Stat Quo]

As I think back, retract, from the classroom to the trap

Freida's only son had to hustle for scraps

It's hard to relax when your wage minimum, bein' broke

Fuck, with my adrenaline before Dre and Eminem

I was trying to get on demo tapes state to state

Performing at clubs and doing whatever it takes

Relying on faith hopin' my dreams take shape

And my fate meeting (?)

I would wait for these A&R’s say I ain’t grind bitch

Spendin' my last dime on this studio time shit

A lot of folk told me I was stupid for trying this

Situation crucial feds off in my climate

Home environment taking pictures of me it was ugly

The spot got hot, scene felt like curry

Had my vision blurry to underground Atlanta

Hit the streets me and Zeke put a plan together

Shorty it's now or never down to do whatever

You see the rainfall came but I had to bear that weather

Look your boy need cheddar like a mill or better

I was fed up but the benefit was worth the effort


[Bridge: Stat Quo]

I'm patiently waitin', used to get love

Now the same niggas hatin', wanna give me slugs

Partner don't get it separated or twisted, you can't fade it

Stat's the wrong motherfucker to play with, understand me


[Bridge: Eminem]

If you opened up your ears long enough to listen

You may hear what you've been missin' out all of this time

I've been put in position to put others in position

So quit your bitchin', learn how to rhyme

Get signed and get your shine


[Verse 4: Eminem]

It's like this and like that and, uh, welcome to Statlanta

Shady Aftermath and, uh, a brand new rapper from Atlanta

Who goes by the name of Stat Quo

Introducing our new excuse to keep producin'

Continue to do music, use it and expand it and make rap grow

The hottest new shit on the planet, on a new plateau

But don't confuse it, you don't understand it

Let me break it down for you to show you how we do shit

So that you cats know, this is Statlanta 101

Cause we don't want no one walking out this motherfucker with tunnel vision

So anyone with questions you want answered

Just ask and we'll try to unmask them and maybe explain why so few cats blow

Just spit the truth when you get in this booth and do that though

That there boy he hot to death, you already knew that though

Is he the greatest from the ATL, we got haters all day to debate us

So we'll just say this: he's wanted from the [ ] Stat, go!


[Bridge: Stat Quo]

I got caviar wishes, box Chevy dreams

CD covers, TV screens

The booth or the block, might go to triple beam

I'mma make it by any means, huh huh huh

Fuck what your saying, God put me here to shine

Going on tour or white collar crime

The rhyme or the grind, MPC or the nine

I'mma make it, I need mine, huh huh huh


[Verse 5: Stat Quo]

I can care less, fuck y'all, you don't make or break me

Real niggas love me, pussy niggas hate me

Down bitches ride for Stat Quo, they know

The A-Town D Young County be trill folk

Didn't no other label offer me no deal

Till they found out Shady/Aftermath was interested

Then they started to beg, want the truth, there it is

This ain't a gimmick, this the south and I be that kid

Just ride through watching lines of his rhymes

In time you're going to find you're on a great trip

Ain't a word I could life be some extraordinary shit

The piece of the puzzle that fit, it's Stat Quo, you son of a bitch


[Hook]