Keep Your Hands High

By Tracey Lee

On Many Facez

Released on March 25, 1997

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[Intro: The Notorious B.I.G.]

Uhh, uhh, uhh, uhh

[Verse 1: The Notorious B.I.G. & Tracey Lee]

Fuck that, I preach it, my nine reaches

The prestigious cats that speak this Willie shit

Flooded pieces, my hand releases, snatches

Smack your cabbage, half-ass rappers shouldn't have it

So I grab it, never run, the outcome

Is usually a beat down brutally, fuck who you be

Or where you from, West or East coast, squeeze toast

Leave most in the blood they laying in, ask Tray and them

Oh shit, I suppose it's, time to go snitch

Flip a line and get the show lit, you clown niggas hold it

Down your flow lax just so you know that

We could battle for days like old cats black, you dealin' with a throwback

Winnin' like straight jacks, with a wide range of rhyme teams

My lyrics they bang like migraines, nigga my name's

Tray the terrible, Philadelph wild child incredible

Too sick for medical attention (aaahhh), people listen

It's verbal ascension like Maxwell many dimensions

Flood over tracks, well, mics in critical condition

Killing your Maxell, unveil lyrical skills unknown

For my peoples with illegal cell phones

A real MC let's bring it back home, live from the two-one-five

That lost a back bone, in charge

And heavily armed like Brett Favre, you facade niggas stay down

Biggie make them hit the floor face down (What, what, what)

Them rings and things you sing about, bring 'em out

It's hard to yell when the barrel's in yo mouth

It's more than I expected, I thought your jewels were rented

But they wasn't, so run it, cousin

I could chill, the heat doesn't, ran up in your shell about a dozen

You never seen bank like, Frank White

Your hand clutching, your chest plate, contemplates

You 'bout to die, nigga, wait, keep your hands high


[Chorus: Tracey Lee]

If you don't wanna die, keep your hands high

Ain't no right or wrong in this game called survive

So you know, it's Tray and B-I, G, scheming on your cream

Why try, keep yo' hands high

You don't wanna die, keep yo' hands high

Ain't no right or wrong in this game called survive

So you know, it's Tray and B-I, G, schemin' on your cream

Why try, keep yo' hands high

(High high, high high, high high, high high

High high, high high, high high)

[Verse 2: Tracey Lee & The Notorious B.I.G.]

Ayo, it's showtime, so I'ma blow nines, into your spine

'Til what's yours is mines, you know what this is

Bag the Benjamins with all your riches

How quickly, the milli turns Willies to bitches, controllin' your fate

A hole in your plate, fuck the show dates, I want the whole state

The squad's harassing all of y'all niggas who flashing

We doin' this the Tray Lee way, delay, then nigga we spray

No ignoring us, me and Notorious (Uhh, uhh)

I got a new mouth to feed, I'm due south with keys

Y'all pick seeds out y'all weed, I watch cowards bleed

Motherfucker, please, it's my block with my rocks

Fuck that hip-hop, them one-two's and ya don't stops

Me and my nigga Lance, took Kim and Cease advance

Bought ten bricks, four pounds of weed plants

From Branson, now we lamping, twelve room mansion

Bitches get naked off Get Money, Player's Anthem

Don't forget, One More Chance and my other hits

Other shit, niggas spit be counterfeit, robbery come naturally

In and out like fuckin' rapidly, pass the gat to me

Make his chest rest where his back should be

Talking blasphemy, blasting me, your family, rest in coffins often

Frank Wizza, far from soft or fragilla

Play hard like Reggie Miller, rapper, slash dope dealer

Slash gorilla, slash illest turned iller

So nigga keep your hands high, run all your so-called possessions

Links with baguettes in, keys to your Lex

For us to make your shorties dressed in, a full jack maneuver

Don't nobody move, just the moolah

It's RNF and Junior, M.A.F. running through ya like Kahlua

If rum sung then you fly, niggas with the .45

But True Lies, you brought out the real nigga in me

Now I'ma cock the semi, watch you strip like Demi


[Chorus: Tracey Lee]

If you don't wanna die, keep your hands high

Ain't no right or wrong in this game called survive

So you know it's Tray and B-I G, scheming on your cream

Why try, keep your hands high

You don't wanna die, keep your hands high

Ain't no right or wrong in this game called survive

So you know it's Tray and B-I, G, scheming on your cream

Why try, keep your hands high

High high, high high, high high, high high

High high, high high, high high

If you don't wanna die, keep your hands high....

If you don't wanna die, keep your hands high....

If you don't wanna die, keep your hands high...

If you don't wanna die, keep your hands high...

If you don't wanna die, keep your hands high...