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Da Bridge 2001

By QB Finest · Targeting Jay-Z, Roc-A-Fella Records

Da Bridge 2001 is a diss track by QB Finest targeting Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella Records. The recording also credits Nas, Mobb Deep, Cormega, Tragedy Khadafi, Capone, Nashawn, Nature and MC Shan. The track is part of the Nas–Jay-Z feud, which moved from subliminal references to direct exchanges including “Takeover,” “Ether,” and “Super Ugly.”

Released2000

Annotated2

ExplicitYes

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[Intro: Marley Marl]
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(Ayo calm down, fall back!
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Y'all Queensbridge always fightin up in here!)
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Ladies and gentlemen, we got Queensbridge Finest up in this motherfucker
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Tonight
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They just came from war
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They wanna let you know a little something about where they come from
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"The-the Bridge" "Queensbridge" "The-the Bridge"
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"The-the Bridge" "Queensbridge" "The-the Bridge"
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"The-the Bridge" "Queensbridge" "The-the Bridge"
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"The-the Bridge" "Queensbridge"
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[Verse 1: MC Shan]
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You love to hear the story, again and again
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About a rap dynasty that just won't end
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The monument still in your face
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Niggas played out, Shan still in the place
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Hip hop was set out in the dark
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The Bridge was never over, we left our mark
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This jam is dedicated to you and your boys
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I brought my Queensbridge thugs, kill that noise
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[Verse 2: Havoc]
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If you was an out-of-towner, had to know somebody with strength
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You know the drill, shit was real, fuck around, got killed
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You know the Hill breed of thugs, death to those who squeal
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Squeezin' them slugs, one love to those that died in the field
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So many names, don't got room to spit 'em
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But through my rhymes, they livin'
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We the Bridge, through tracks I'm givin'
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Never lose sight, 41st Side's my life
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The 40th Side of life, dunn, we keepin' it tight
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[Verse 3: Cormega]
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What, yo, it ain't just the music
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Hoop aspirations or ghetto illusions
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It's the product, east side, and all the beautiful children
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And unleashed dreams comin' through each building
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If you sleep, you better wake up, as you see
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Mega more mature, I'm on a record with Nature
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Mind on my paper, nine in my waist
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There's no denyin' the greatness
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Queensbridge, never try to disgrace it
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[Verse 4: Millennium Thug]
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Yo, yo, yo
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The Queensbridge associations breeds similarity
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Bricked up, chipped off rocked out salaries
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Pull out long guns, pop out casualties
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It's like I gotta see a thug nigga ill as me
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The Ill Will in me, I rep that willingly
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Step back enemies, death trap, feelin' me? (Yeah)
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Six blocks, losin' my mind
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Runnin' from D's
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These P's got me usin' my nine, I pop off
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[Verse 5: Nature]
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Y'all know the place where stars is from
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Every night it sparks off and the crowds'll run
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We leave chicks trippin' over strollers (Slip, it's over)
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In Queens, you be the victim 'til you get to know us
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Your hood's bogus, my hood be keepin' it crunk
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So much be jumpin' off, I ain't sleep in a month
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Y'all can play the front line, I be deep in the cut
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Drive through, y'all can't peep it enough
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You in the Bridge, nigga
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[Verse 6: Capone]
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Yo, you must pay homage to my projects
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We thorough to the end
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Only jail and death divide us
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From rap to the crack suppliers
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Out-of-towners get knocked off
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We regulate block laws
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I had the hood like Watts, flooded with cop force
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QB to the cracks in the pavement
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Mister Everything that re-center pool for stacks in a basement
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Niggas understand the drama we bring
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The legacy, dynasty upholding the ring where QB is king, what!
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[Verse 7: Tragedy Khadafi]
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Yo, for you, I take a fifth to the head until I earl
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Boomerang dunn, QB bust they gun
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Keep them PC niggas on the run, one
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Mahdi specialist, 2-5 the nemesis
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The last verse, "T.O.N.Y." – remember this
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Resurrect through the birth of my seed, crime genetic
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You synthetic, your gangsta's cosmetic
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I move niggas telekinetic, who wanna set it?
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[Verse 8: Prodigy]
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Yo, yo, yo
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Move, me and my dogs comin' through
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We the grain, go against us you feel pain
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Get rained on, we beat niggas numb
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These niggas is dumb, you can't resist my dunns
Multi-line diss block
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2001, we still thump – the fuck happened to y'all?
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We like that snowball, goin' downhill
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We get large, you get bullets lodged
Block noteQuestions the target's judgment
TargetJay-Z
MeaningWhat it means: In “These niggas is dumb, you can't resist my dunns,” QB Finest characterizes Jay-Z as unintelligent, careless, or unable to understand the situation being addressed. Why it was said: The track is part of the Nas–Jay-Z feud, which moved from subliminal references to direct exchanges including “Takeover,” “Ether,” and “Super Ugly.” The insult makes the target's decisions part of the evidence: a poor response can be framed not as strategy, but as proof that Jay-Z never understood the contest.
ContextThe track is part of the Nas–Jay-Z feud, which moved from subliminal references to direct exchanges including “Takeover,” “Ether,” and “Super Ugly.”
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In your jaw, your ribs, your arms
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We party hard, at the bar
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Buyin' bottles of overpriced styles and Remy Mar'
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The Head Niggas In Charge
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We number one, QB there's no competition
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Infamous Records, Bars and Hooks listen
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Littles, Noyd, and Mega
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We independent, dunn we Infamous Mobbin'
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G.O.D., Nitty and Twin in
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The Ill Will, Bravehearts, L.E.S., Millennium
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[Verse 9: Nas]
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Yo! Blow faces, fo'-fo' blazes, no one's safe
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This music mogul rollin' with a hundred soldiers, gangstas
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We postal
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Oh, you didn't – wanna know whose life was written?
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The life I'm livin' — the ice, the women
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The kites that's sendin' to lifers biddin'
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The streets to prison
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I touch you, then buck you — heats be spittin'
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La-ser, AR-15, doors come down
Multi-line diss block
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Jaws is broke, your whole crew is coffin bound
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Your hoe, your man, lieutenant, your boss get found
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This dough I got, I spend it and toss around
Block noteTurns money and possessions into leverage
TargetJay-Z
MeaningWhat it means: In “Jaws is broke, your whole crew is coffin bound,” QB Finest contrasts financial power or possessions with Jay-Z's alleged lack of money, access, or control. Why it was said: The track is part of the Nas–Jay-Z feud, which moved from subliminal references to direct exchanges including “Takeover,” “Ether,” and “Super Ugly.” The comparison converts status into material evidence and is meant to make Jay-Z's success claims look hollow beside something listeners can picture and measure.
ContextThe track is part of the Nas–Jay-Z feud, which moved from subliminal references to direct exchanges including “Takeover,” “Ether,” and “Super Ugly.”
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New York, it's time we flip it — where you from!?
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Ladies, it's time we flip it — where you from!?
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Now, tell me who was the true thugs in videos first?
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Who had the projects behind us, who bit it the worst?
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We from the largest project, yo, the biggest on Earth
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Queensbridge know they history, left y'all cursed, because...
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[Outro]
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Keep on rockin', the 'Bridge'll keep rockin'
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If the beats stop rockin', the 'Bridge'll keep rockin'
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Keep on rockin', the 'Bridge'll keep rockin'
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If the beats stop rockin', the 'Bridge'll keep rockin'
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Keep on rockin', the 'Bridge'll keep rockin'
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If the beats stop rockin', the 'Bridge'll keep rockin'
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Keep on rockin', the 'Bridge'll keep rockin'
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If the beats stop rockin', the 'Bridge'll keep rockin'