DISSNATION
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Wanksta

By 50 Cent · Targeting Ja Rule

Wanksta is a diss track by 50 Cent targeting Ja Rule. 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
Annotated1
ExplicitYes
Addressable transcript

Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    [Intro]

    02

    Woo, yeah

    03

    It's 50 AKA Ferrari F-50

    04

    Break it down

    05

    I got a lot of livin' to do 'fore I die

  2. 06

    And I ain't got time to waste

    07

    Let's make it

  3. 08

    [Refrain]

    09

    You say you a gangsta, but you never pop nothin'

    10

    We say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin'

  4. 11

    [Verse 1]

    12

    You ain't a friend of mine (Yeah!), you ain't no kin of mine (C'mon!)

    13

    What makes you think that I won't run up on you with a .9? (Uh-huh)

    14

    We do this all the time (What?), right now we on the grind (Yeah)

    15

    So hurry up and cop and go, we sellin' nicks and dimes (Uh-huh)

  5. 16

    Shorty, she so fine, I gotta make her mine

    17

    An ass like that gotta be one of a kind (Woo)

    18

    I crush 'em every time, punch 'em with every line

    19

    I'm fuckin' with they mind, I make 'em press rewind

  6. 20

    They know they can't shine if I'm around to rhyme

    21

    Been on parole since '94 'cause I commit the crime

    22

    I send you my line, I did a three-to-nine

    23

    The Ds ran up in my crib, you know who droppin' dimes

  7. 24

    [Chorus]

    25

    You say you a gangsta, but you never pop nothin'

    26

    We say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin'

    27

    You go to the dealership, but you don't never cop nothin'

    28

    You been hustlin' a long time and you ain't got nothin'

  8. 29

    You say you a gangsta, but you never pop nothin'

    30

    We say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin'

    31

    You go to the dealership, but you never cop nothin'

    32

    You been hustlin' a long time and you ain't got nothin'

  9. 33

    [Verse 2]

    Multi-line diss block
    34

    Damn, homie

    35

    In high school you was the man, homie, the fuck happened to you?

    36

    I got the sickest vendetta when it come to the cheddar (Uh-huh)

    37

    Nigga, you play with my paper, you gon' meet my Beretta

    Block noteQuestions the target's judgment

    TargetJa Rule

    MeaningWhat it means: In “In high school you was the man, homie, the fuck happened to you?,” 50 Cent characterizes Ja Rule as unintelligent, careless, or unable to understand the situation being addressed. 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. The insult makes the target's decisions part of the evidence: a poor response can be framed not as strategy, but as proof that Ja Rule never understood the contest.

    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. 38

    Now shorty think I'ma sweat her (Uh-huh), sippin' on Amaretto (Yeah)

    39

    I might hit once, then dead her, I know I can do better

    40

    She look good, but I know she after my cheddar

    41

    She tryin' to get in my pockets, homie, and I ain't gon' let her

  11. 42

    Be easy, start some bullshit, you get your whole crew wet

    43

    We in the club doin' the same old two-step

    44

    Guerrilla Unit, cuz, they say we bugged out

    45

    'Cause we don't go nowhere without toast, we thugged out

  12. 46

    [Chorus]

    47

    You say you a gangsta, but you never pop nothin'

    48

    We say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin'

    49

    You go to the dealership, but you don't never cop nothin'

    50

    You been hustlin' a long time and you ain't got nothin'

  13. 51

    You say you a gangsta, but you never pop nothin'

    52

    We say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin'

    53

    You go to the dealership, but you never cop nothin'

    54

    You been hustlin' a long time and you ain't got nothin'

  14. 55

    [Verse 3]

    56

    Me, I'm no mobster, me, I'm no gangsta

    57

    Me, I'm no hitman (Yeah), me, I'm just me, me

    58

    Me, I'm no wanksta, me, I'm no actor

    59

    But it's me you see on your TV

  15. 60

    'Cause I hustle, baby, this rap shit is so easy

    61

    I'm gettin' what you get for a brick to talk greasy (Woo)

    62

    By any means, partner, I got to eat on these streets

    63

    When you play me close, for sure I'm gonna pop my heat

  16. 64

    Niggas sayin' they gon' murk 50, how?

    65

    We ridin' 'round with guns the size of Lil Bow Wow

    66

    What you know about AKs and AR-15s

    67

    Equipped with night vision, shell catchers and inf-beams, huh?

  17. 68

    [Chorus]

    69

    You say you gangsta, but you never pop nothin'

    70

    We say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin'

    71

    You go to the dealership, but you never cop nothin'

    72

    You been hustlin' a long time and you ain't got nothin'

  18. 73

    You say you a gangsta, but you never pop nothin'

    74

    We say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin'

    75

    You go to the dealership, but you never cop nothin'

    76

    You been hustlin' a long time and you ain't got nothin'

  19. 77

    [Outro]

    78

    Aha

    79

    Damn, homie