BEEN AROUND THE WORLD
Intro: Mase
Yo yo, this
Mase, you know what I'm sayin?
You got niggaz that don't like me for whatever
reason
You got niggaz that don't wanna see me rich
You got niggaz that's
mad, cause I'm always with they bitch
Then you got niggaz that just don't
like me
You know, the, those P.H.D. niggaz
But you know I pop a lot of
shit but I back it up though
see it's a difference, a lot of niggaz pop
shit
But a lot of niggaz don't make hits
But it's like this whole Bad Boy
shit
we come to bring it to y'all niggaz, me, B.I., Puff, Lox,
whoever
Black Rob
If you wanna dance, we dance
Verse One:
Mase
Now trick what? Lace who? That ain't what Mase do
Got a lot
of girls that'd love to replace you
Tell you to your face Boo, not behind
your back
Niggaz talk shit, we never mind that
Funny, never find that,
Puff a dime stack
Write hot shit, and make a nigga say, 'Rewind
that'
Niggaz know, we go against the Harlem Jigalo
Getcha hoe, lick her
low, make the bitch, hit the do'
I represent honies with money fly guys with
gems
Drive with the tints that be thirty-five percent
Hoes hope I lay so I
look both ways
Cop says, 'OK, my tint smoke gray'
No way, nigga leave
without handin me my shit
Got plans to get my Land and my 6
Niggaz outta
pen'll understand this shit
Pop champagne like I won a championship (uhh,
uhh)
Chorus: sung by Notorious B.I.G. / spoken words by
Puff
Been around the world and I I I
And we been playa hated [say
what?]
I don't know and I don't know why
Why they want us faded
[ahehe]
I don't know why they hate us [yeah]
Is it our ladies?
[uh-huh]
Or I drive Mercedes [uhh, uhh]
Bay-bee bay-BEE!
Verse
Two: Puff Daddy
I was in one bedroom, dreamin of a million
(yeah)
Now I'm in beach houses, cream to the ceiling (that's right)
I was
a gentleman, livin in tenements
Now I'm swimmin in, all the women that be
tens (hoo)
Went from Bad Boys to the Crushed Linen Men
Now my divi-dends
be the new Benjamins (uh-huh)
Hoes of all complexions, I like
cinnamon
Mase you got some hoes well nigga, send em in (c'mon)
What you
waitin for, let the freak show begin
How they came in a truck? (Mase: Nah
Puff, that's a Benz)
Mercedes, c'mere baby, you don't like the way
it's
hot and hazy, never shady, you must be crazy
It's ridiculous, how you put
your lips on this
Don't kiss right there girlfriend I'm ticklish
(heheh)
And I be switchin fees with a wrist full of G's
Nigga please, I'm
the macaroni with the cheese
Chorus
Been around the world
and I I I
And we been playa hated [say what?]
I don't know and I don't
know why
Why they want us faded [ahehe]
I don't know why they hate us
[yeah]
Is it our ladies? [uh-huh]
Or I drive Mercedes [uhh,
uhh]
Bay-bee bay-BEE!
Verse Three: Puff Daddy, Mase
Now
Puff rule the world, even though I'm young
I make it my biz to see that all
ladies come (yeah)
Get em all strung from the tip of my tongue
Lick em
places niggaz wouldn't dare put they faces (c'mon)
Before I die, hope I,
remake a flow by
In the brand new treasure on a old try
Now when my third
dry, even when the smoke lie
Eat the mami chochi and drive a low-ride
We
never ride far, packed five in a car
Save money for the drinks, I'm about to
buy the bar (yeah)
And everywhere I drive I'm a star, little kids
all on
the corner scream, 'That's my car!'
It was days couldn't be fly, now I'm in a
T.I.
Come in clubs with B.I., now a nigga V.I. (uh-huh)
Rock tons of gold,
nuff money I fold
Roll the way you wanna roll, break a hundred out the
toe
Chorus w/ slight modifications
Puff: C'mon, yeah yeah,
uh-huh
Puff: We been playa hated!
Puff: Why?
Puff: Why they want us
hated!
Puff: Why they hate us?
Puff: Is it our ladies?
Puff: Say
what?
Puff: Yeah, bay-bee bay-BEE!
Chorus w/ Puff talking while
B.I.G. sings
You know, sometimes I gotta ask myself
Why's there so
much jealousy in the world?
Don't look at mine, get yours
(music
fades)