The Pledge (Remix)

(feat. 2Pac, Ashanti, Nas)


[Ash] There's no me

[Nas] In the beginnin, it was me (blastin) Nas (I'm blastin)

[Nas] I stood alone (Ashanti) but now

[Ash] Don't you know that I will never leave

[Nas] Murder Inc. y'all

[Jah] It's MURAHHHHHHHH! Nigga, HA HA!

[Nas] It's over now; y'all know that right? (Irv Gotti!)

[Nas] Ill Will baby

[Ash] It's Murdah, for life



[Verse One: Nas]

My enemies want sorta the same respect I was born with

Godson, tatted on my chest it's permanent

The rap Albert Anastasia; you cowards

Y'all want the crown from the black power man of Asia

Snap out your dreams and prayers of takin a king's paper

Ask another rapper how it feels to lose his whole gangsta

(How it feel?) Youse a no namesta - ya little mans is no threat

You make me upset I might stank ya (blastin)

Inc. is the Murdah, Ill Will merger let my cash

make sex with yo' cash, it can't hurt us

Phones ringing off the hook, Bush and Bloomberg callin me constant

Streets wanna know the cause of that gossip

Nas is lord of the projects 'til the coffins drop

in the ocean like a Amistad slave overboat when

It's a new day ya should be scared I'm back with Stoute

Southside, Queensbridge, the hood's in here



[Chorus: Ashanti + (Nas)]

There's no me (uh talk to me) without you (There's no me y'all)

I can't be (I.N.C.) without you (Ill Will now)

Don't you know that I will never leave (talk to me now)

Leave you (It's no me y'all)

All I need (I.N.C.) need is you

There's no me



[Jah] Yeah - you talk to these niggaz Gotti

[Irv] B-b-b-blastin! I'm blastin..

[Jah] Whattup Suge?

[Ash] It's Murdah!



[Ja Rule]

And lord knows I'll, DIEEE, I pledge allegience to homicide

And murdah be the case when I kill 'em

Whyyy, would they get a nigga like me started

I'm regarded the hardest workin artist since 'Pac - NIGGAZ!

And I ain't talkin if I'm liked or better

I'm talkin if he was here we'd probably ride together

On this chick ass nigga with curls, bitch dog!

Get at me dog - Rule nigga the boss

You always been a punk now ain't it a pity

That you runnin to I.G., dyin to be me

But I pledge, I.N.C. and for the love

I'll bleed it in blood and die from hot slugs - motherfuckers



[Chorus]



[Ashanti]

Murdah I.N.C. - you know that I can't see myself

livin without you, bein without you, breathin without you baby

What you done to me - you know that I can't see myself

livin without you, bein without you, breathin without you baby



[Chorus w/o Nas ad libs]



[Chorus]



[Chorus - in background while 'Pac talks and Gotti ad libs]



[2Pac]

I shall not fear no man but God

Though I walk through the valley of death

If I should die before I wake..



[Jah] It's Murdah!!!!

[Ash] It's Murdah, for life