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In the first actual song on Busta Rhymes' 5th studio album, “Genesis”, Busta welcomes us to the new album by telling us to rise again, in order to see the newly matured version of himself present on this album. The title and hook reference the opening song on his 1998 album, “Extinction Level Event:...
[Intro]
Let's get it goin'
(Hah) Yeah, yeah
I'm about to Picasso a new picture for you muh'fuckas
(Hehehehehehehe...)
I'm baa-aack! Yeah
I just want every one of you motherfuckers in here to do one thing with me
Come on!
[Hook]
Everybody rise, everybody rise (Huh), everybody rise (Hah)
C'mon (Hah), New York (Huh), Jersey (Hah), Philly (Hee!)
B-More (Hah), D.C., Virginia, come on!
Everybody rise, everybody rise (Huh), everybody rise
(Come on, hah)
N.C. (Hah), ATL (Huh), Chicago (Hah), Cleveland (Huh), Miami (Hah), L.A. (Hah), Houston (Huh), come on!
[Verse 1]
We like a nigga straight outta jail, give me the money nigga
I'll smack you stupid, ain't nuttin' funny nigga
I'll lay a nigga out and use they ass to shoot like a marble black floor
Bloody somethin' like a hacksaw
And then we stash a couple gats in the bag because we at war And pistol whip some of these niggas, leavin' 'em wit' cracked jaws
Battlin' like we in Kosovo, niggas see you supposed to know
We extremely serious niggas
You see it's so marvelous how we just stack more, pack more
No chichi niggas allowed, just throw 'em out the back door
This new menace got a wicked flow like pro tennis
Y'all niggas soft like limp dick and need progenes
Blessin' the younger thug with shit to look forward to
The god is back, so niggas is quicker to fast forward you
Yo, this shit be straight energy
You ain't fuckin' wit' Flipmode, nigga
While I'm refreshin' your memory (Come on!)
[Hook]
Everybody rise, everybody rise (Huh), everybody rise (Hah)
N.O. (Hah), Seattle (Huh), Detroit (Hah), St Louis (Hee!), Dallas (Hah), South Carolina, niggas, come on!
Everybody rise, everybody rise (Huh), everybody rise
(Come on, hah!)
Connecticut (Hah), Pennsylvania (Huh), Boston (Hah), Buffalo (Huh), Delaware (Hah), Oakland (Hah), Little Rock (Huh)
Come on!
[Verse 2]
Now, see it's hectic, respect it
Blow up your deck until my cassette is ejected
How I will beat you just like your father, don't even bother
However nigga, whatever nigga, who wanna follow?
It gets coarse like the callous of a strugglin' black foot under privilege
I'm quick to stick you for your whole bank book
Bitches follow my bounce and follow my flow
Follow me now, follow me later, follow my glow, ayo
Follow instructions and follow the pro
And to follow my magic, bitches wanna follow my dough
Keepin' ya bouncin', got all my people singin' the hook
Got bitches buggin' like how niggas be wild in the Brook'
Look, we street niggas, while you live by the book
Funny nigga, ain't no need to shoot yourself in the foot
Fuck wit' bitches that's gettin' dough and they know how to cook
In every struggle, I always did whatever it took!
So all my niggas!
[Hook]
Everybody rise, everybody rise (Huh), everybody rise (Hah)
Maryland (Hah), Michigan (Huh), Kansas (Hah), Kentucky (Hee!), Alabama (Hah), Indiana, Utah, come on!
Everybody rise, everybody rise (Huh), everybody rise
(Come on, hah)
Phoenix (Hah), Memphis (Huh), Nashville (Hah), Mississippi (Huh), Rhode Island (Hah), Colorado (Hah), Wyoming (Huh), fuck it
Everybody rise, everybody rise (Huh), everybody rise (Hah)
Idaho (Hah), Illinois (Huh), Minnesota (Hah), Missouri (Hee!), Oklahoma (Hah), Oregon, South Dakota, come on!
Everybody rise, everybody rise (Huh), everybody rise
(Come on, hah)
All my five (Hah) boroughs (Huh), Brooklyn (Hah), Queens (Huh), Bronx (Hah), Manhattan (Hah)
Staten Island niggas (Huh), come on!
[Outro]
Hah! Yeah, everybody rise, come on
Everybody rise again! Rise wit' me muh'fuckas!
As I welcome you all to the genesis
A whole new foundation, a whole new idea, a whole, new experience, a whole, entire, new, movement!
Busta Rhymes, Flipmode Squad, I salute y'all!
Yeah, yeah, come on, everybody riiiiiiiiiiii...!
Yeah, yeah, enough with the intro shit, let's get straight to it
Everybody Rise Again was written by Just Blaze & Busta Rhymes.
Everybody Rise Again was produced by Just Blaze.
Busta Rhymes released Everybody Rise Again on Tue Nov 27 2001.
Just Blaze (the producer) told Complex:
here were definitely bangers on Genesis, but overall I think Busta was trying to figure out his next move… ‘Everybody Rise Again’ was my favorite track. I liked it from a musical standpoint. The chords that I played on there were very dark and classical sound...