You Don’t Wanna Run Up

By Rodney O & Joe Cooley

On Get Ready to Roll

Released on July 1, 1991

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[Chorus: General Jeff, Cyco with Rodney O & Joe Cooley, & James Brown]

You don't wanna run up

Come on, get it, ah

Come on, get it, ah

You don't wanna run up

Come on, get it, ah

Come on, get it, ah (Yeah, you won't come up)

You don't wanna run up

Come on, get it, ah

Come on, get it, ah

You don't wanna run up

Come on, get it, ah

Fool, you won't come up


[Verse 1: Rodney O]

You don't wanna run up, you know what's happenin'

Rodney O can do more than just rappin'

I'll drop a bomb on your jaw like foreman

Take you on one on one like jordan

Step back and say "Man, what you thought"

Smoke you like a cigarette and not get caught

Now you know that I don't play

I beat you down like a crip from LA

So you don't wanna run up, you get done up

Beat you down from night until sun up

Cause I'm getting fed up, we can go head up

Rodnеy O's on the mic, I won't let up


[Verse 2: Joe Cooley]

You don't wanna run up, cause you'rе quite scared

Joe Cooley, the DJs' nightmare

Comin' off strange, looking crazy

Cause I know you DJs can't fade me

Joe Cooley's on the mic for the first time

Straight doggin' and hoggin' and gettin' mines

These hands, I can use 'em like a bolt, and

Why don't you run up and let me check that chin

With the grin, puttin' doohickeys on your head

Next to dogs and the sucker start running scare

When I grab the mic you better shut up

Like I said nigga, you don't wanna up

[Chorus: General Jeff with Rodney O & Joe Cooley, & James Brown]

You don't wanna run up

Come on, get it, ah

Come on, get it, ah (Haha, yeah)

You don't wanna run up

Come on, get it, ah

Come on, get it, ah (Yeah, you won't come up)

You don't wanna run up

Come on, get it, ah

Come on, get it, ah

You don't wanna run up

Come on, get it, ah

Fool, you get done up


[Verse 3: General Jeff]

You don't wanna run, you get done up

Beat down, from sun down til sun up

So what up, step up if you wanna get whack

Cause I'm putting motherfuckers on their back

Take my advice and don't step to the general

Cause when it's on that, nigga's invisible

It don't matter if the odds are in your favor

You better fear that mafioso type behavior

I don't wanna say what I might do

Cause my next victim might be you

You're talking trash and you don't wanna shut up

Yeah, but you don't wanna run up


[Verse 4: Rodney O]

You don't wanna run up, I pull my gun up

In your face fool, so what you wanna do, fool?

Good to go, Rodney O will start whackin' ya

And like a psycho, I keep coming after ya

I'm not showing no shame or mercy

Killing rhymes and suckers in the first degree

So hit the deck, jump as if I was robbin' ya

So don't run up on the hip-hop mafia

Can you cope with the dope-ness I'm throwing to ya

What you thought fool, we got the formula

So don't run up ya'll, the new anthem

Rodney O dropping fools at random


[Verse 5: General Jeff]

(How could you) figure that you can pull the trigger on a six foot four nigga

Bigger than you, so what you wanna do?

General Jeff ain't a punk and won't be punk

Breaking niggas down to the size of a tree stump

Don't creep up tryna do a bum rush

Cause I'll show you the meaning you of a bone crush

Stop your ass like a grape

And with the quickness, I won't hesitate

To smoke your crew like a barbeque pit

You don't run up, so sit

Back and watch daddy rip up the track

The hip-hop mafia is taking over rap