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Don’t Body Yourself Remix

By The Game · Targeting 50 Cent

Don’t Body Yourself Remix is a diss track by The Game targeting 50 Cent. The recording also credits Nas. The Game attacks 50 Cent and G-Unit after his removal from the group and the collapse of their public reconciliation.

Released2007

Annotated3

ExplicitYes

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Don't body ya self
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Don't body ya self
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Don't body ya self nigga
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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Yeah, yeah
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Everybody get low niggas
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Dedicated to the 'Fuck Nas' coalition
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Touch my dough I'm lettin .40 cals blow nigga
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Not cows with four legs
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But cals with more lead
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That add up more dead
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It's on nigga
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I'mma bury them
Multi-line diss block
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Niggas don't want beef, they vegetarian
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Scared of pussy, you climbed out a Cesarean
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I'll push ya grown ass back in your mother's womb
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
Target50 Cent
MeaningWhat it means: In “I'll push ya grown ass back in your mother's womb,” The Game brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with 50 Cent, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The Game attacks 50 Cent and G-Unit after his removal from the group and the collapse of their public reconciliation. Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for 50 Cent and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe Game attacks 50 Cent and G-Unit after his removal from the group and the collapse of their public reconciliation.
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You need nine more months
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Your crews nine more punks
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You rhyme on stuff and claim I ain't sign y'all up
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If I sign y'all, I'm on dust
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Yeah, we from the same hood but nigga what?!
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When y'all was trying to rap, y'all was making me proud
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Man now you fucked up, down on your luck, runnin' your mouth, man
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Why don't be a real man, say you need a lil help
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And I might help your ass off the shelf
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But noooo, you're being disrespectful
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Thinking son so cool that he won't check you
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Stand down, the king is home
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Queens is on, NASDAQ, Dow Jones
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Don't body ya self
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Crazy
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Take it slow man
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Slow down
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Take it slow motherfucker
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Don't body ya self
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Let's listen
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Let's just listen
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Don't body ya self
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Listen
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Slow down though man
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Slow down
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Y'all gotta take it slow
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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I am DeNiro after Am.Ex. commercials and "The Fockers"
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With Martin Scorsese after "Gangs Of New York" could rock this
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Back together with the master plan
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The rebirth of Langston Hughes, I'm that man
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I'm in the streets like old graffiti
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I'm hearing wankstas talking greasy
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Whether broke or rich my friend
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Nasir bring that career to an end
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And I'm bored with you MCs, B
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Y'all beneath me
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And my raps bring horror like a board of a Ouiji
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Of course I'm the king, get my shine on and I blind y'all
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'Cause they call me "The Lord of the Rings"
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Pinky heavy man, big stones in the wedding band
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Smell of brimstone, back from Hell again
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Next verse gets worse from God's son to Devil's sin
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Y'all need to take it slow
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Don't body ya self
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Motherfucker act like ya know (05')
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Motherfucker better take it slow
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Don't body ya self
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[Verse 3: The Game]
Multi-line diss block
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Me and Nas like Ether and anthrax makin' killin' statements
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Shootouts with fags in front of the radio station
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You ain't Superman, the S stand for snitch on your cape
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And since I'm signed to the Doc, they tryin' to test my patience
Block noteAttacks the target's street credibility
Target50 Cent
MeaningWhat it means: In “You ain't Superman, the S stand for snitch on your cape,” The Game links 50 Cent with police protection or informing, casting doubt on the hard public persona used in the feud. Why it was said: The Game attacks 50 Cent and G-Unit after his removal from the group and the collapse of their public reconciliation. The point is to expose a contradiction between 50 Cent's threatening image and alleged reliance on authorities, making later threats sound performative rather than credible.
ContextThe Game attacks 50 Cent and G-Unit after his removal from the group and the collapse of their public reconciliation.
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Commit lyrical homicide fly through the windshield
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Your soul can't escape, it's froze because of the wind chill
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I weather the storm as raindrops trickle off your Timberlands
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Death becomes the faggot ass nigga that made "Many Men"
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Mr. Potato Head, I'll take that title
Multi-line diss block
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Drop it off at your son's recital then read a quote from the Bible
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I'm suicidal, this ain't a rap war, this survival
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The beat is a grenade, the flow a automatic rifle
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
Target50 Cent
MeaningWhat it means: In “Drop it off at your son's recital then read a quote from the Bible,” The Game brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with 50 Cent, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The Game attacks 50 Cent and G-Unit after his removal from the group and the collapse of their public reconciliation. Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for 50 Cent and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe Game attacks 50 Cent and G-Unit after his removal from the group and the collapse of their public reconciliation.
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So send your soldiers home, I wrap 'em like Iraqis
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Send ashes home in a package without dirt on my khakis
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This nigga beef with a rapper then go run to the captain
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Take it slow 'fore that bullshit you asked for happen
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Y'all need to take it slow
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Don't body ya self
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Motherfucker act like ya know (05')
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Motherfucker better take it slow
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Don't body ya self
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[Verse 4: Nas]
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They say Jada defeated him
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Joe too street for him
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What's next? I guess it's for Nas to Ether him
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Y'all awaiting an MC burial
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This is ethereal, FM stereo to XM radio
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What does it mean, ethereal? Hmm.. either heavenly or spiritual
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Extreme, delicately light in a way that seems too perfect for this world
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Man that is righteous, faithful and keeps law
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Will surely live declares the sovereign Lord
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And you are none of the above
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See, you a sucka for death if I'm a sucka for love
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And ya wanna know why I don't gotta answer niggas
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'Cause I truly understand these niggas
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Scared of me so they talk about family members
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Like I can't point out your grandma to niggas
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Damn, you was my man like crew, dog
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Don't make me change your body frame to blue fog
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The Q is the borough of true dons
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Any disrespect, nigga, we choose arms
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Will it be Gilmore or Crowes?
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Nigga act like ya know
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Yeah
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Ya betta take it slow
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Motherfuckers act like ya know
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Mess around and body ya self
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Don't body ya self