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Bang Bang (Order Of Protection)

Bang Bang (Order Of Protection) is a diss track by G-Unit targeting Ja Rule and Irv Gotti. The track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records.

Released2002
Annotated4
ExplicitYes
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Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    [Intro: 50 Cent]

    Multi-line diss block
    02

    Yeah!

    03

    G-Unit, nigga!

    04

    50 Cent, you heard me!

    05

    Irv, I don't believe you let that nigga talk, you fat cupcake-eating motherfucker!

    Block noteTurns the target into a visual punchline

    TargetIrv Gotti

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Irv, I don't believe you let that nigga talk, you fat cupcake-eating motherfucker!,” G-Unit reduces Irv Gotti to an exaggerated physical caricature instead of engaging the target's preferred public image. Why it was said: The track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records. A visual insult is easy for an audience to remember and repeat; the goal is to make ridicule of Irv Gotti travel beyond the song itself.

    ContextThe track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records.

  2. 06

    I fuck you up nigga!

    07

    Fuckin' punk-ass nigga!

    08

    Don't nobody respect you nigga!

    09

    You Preme's son, nigga

  3. 10

    Muhfuckers been gettin' extorted from day one

    11

    It's all kind of bitch in you, Chinese!

    12

    Spanish, Black, White!

  4. 13

    [Verse 1: Tony Yayo]

    14

    I got X, meth and slabs and cocaine

    15

    So the Feds want to search us like Arabs boarding a plane

    16

    I'm in the Range switching lanes

    17

    Reminiscing on cans of sardines

  5. 18

    [Lloyd Banks]

    19

    .. and car dreams

    20

    I'll burn an unfamiliar bun

    21

    Got a shotgun like Elmer Fudd

    22

    Gotta let off and leave you in hella blood

  6. 23

    Mom hip to the game, two ice chips in the chain

    24

    A few nights skipped on the plane

    25

    With two white chicks getting brain

  7. 26

    [50 Cent]

    27

    Bang bang from big heaters, hundred dollar sneakers

    28

    Two-seaters, two meters

  8. 29

    [Lloyd Banks]

    30

    .. and a bundle of haze

    31

    It's enough to last fourteen days

    32

    Eat where they sell lobster

    33

    My eyes planning like Pharrel's partner

  9. 34

    [Tony Yayo]

    Multi-line diss block
    35

    Nigga, respect me like your father when it come to drama

    36

    I put the llama to your mama and beat her like a piñata

    Block noteMakes the feud personal through family

    TargetJa Rule

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Nigga, respect me like your father when it come to drama,” G-Unit brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Ja Rule, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records. Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Ja Rule and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.

    ContextThe track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records.

  10. 37

    [50 Cent]

    38

    Nigga, I've been hotter since '97

    39

    You've been begging the fifth cake like a kung-fu legend

    40

    One blue seven, what's popping, nigga?

  11. 41

    [Tony Yayo]

    42

    Different day, same shit

  12. 43

    [Lloyd Banks]

    44

    Well, what you copping, nigga?

  13. 45

    [Tony Yayo]

    46

    X case, more bricks

  14. 47

    [Lloyd Banks]

    Multi-line diss block
    48

    Shit, you wind up dead-sleeping, so why turn soft?

    49

    Straight bullets'll burn a nigga sideburns off

    Block noteCalls the target's toughness an act

    TargetJa Rule

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Shit, you wind up dead-sleeping, so why turn soft?,” G-Unit portrays Ja Rule as frightened or unwilling to stand behind the aggression shown in public. Why it was said: The track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records. A diss threat depends on the audience believing the speaker will confront the opponent; calling Ja Rule afraid is designed to empty that threat of force.

    ContextThe track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records.

  15. 50

    [Tony Yayo]

    51

    I got a model with a sick ass

    52

    Bagged her on Fifth Ave

    53

    I fucked her all for a hot dog and a playoff Knicks pass

  16. 54

    [50 Cent]

    55

    Now we shopping in the malls on the West Coast

    56

    And as far as pussy

  17. 57

    [Lloyd Banks]

    58

    I've been through more walls than asbestos

  18. 59

    [Tony Yayo]

    60

    So let's toast and have a sex on the beach

    61

    These niggas quoting my lines like I'm Martin Luther King speech

  19. 62

    [50 Cent]

    63

    Remember Patrice? She looked like Kelis

    64

    Met her in club Exit, caught her eyein' my piece

  20. 65

    [Lloyd Banks]

    66

    And with all the birds at the show

    67

    I had to go and fuck the crazy hoe

    68

    Call on Hot 97 'cause she know I'm on the radio

    69

    Ha ha, crazy bitch

  21. 70

    [Outro: 50 Cent]

    Multi-line diss block
    71

    Yeah!

    72

    Ja you lil Stuart Little lookin' motherfucker!

    73

    Catch you I'll break your motherfuckin' neck nigga

    74

    You only weigh 110 pounds you little faggot!

    Block noteMakes the confrontation explicit

    TargetJa Rule

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Ja you lil Stuart Little lookin' motherfucker!,” G-Unit addresses Ja Rule directly and makes the situation described in the quoted line the point of confrontation. Why it was said: The track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records. Naming or plainly addressing Ja Rule removes the safety of a subliminal and makes the quoted claim something the target can either answer or leave standing.

    ContextThe track belongs to 50 Cent's feud with Ja Rule and Murder Inc., a dispute involving personal conflict, label rivalry, and competing diss records.

  22. 75

    I know the stylist you been fuckin' too, nigga, I paid him fifty thousand!

    76

    Check my album out nigga, February 11th you gon' hear him talk!

    77

    YOU LIL BITCH!

    78

    Tried to jump off like it's a promotional stunt

  23. 79

    Seven days before your album drop, huh? You lil bitch!

    80

    Order of protection, from who?!

    81

    Who I need a order protection from, nigga? haha

    82

    You lil k, ah man, you motherfuckers, man

  24. 83

    Y'all niggas is gon' make this a lot of fun for me