Twinz (Deep Cover ’98) Lyrics

[Verse 4: Fat Joe & Big Pun]
I support Pun in anything he does, anything he loves
A brother from another mother sent from the above
A thug nigga just like me, one of the best, might be
Even better
, leavin' niggas kneelin' on they right knee
Spike Lee couldn't paint a better picture
You small change, I'm blowin' out your brains, gettin' richer

Hit you with the MAC! (MAC) Smack your bitch, nigga, what!?
You gettin' stuck! My trigger finger's itchy as a fuck!
Truck jewels (Jewels!), cruisin' in the Land, bumpin' "Cash Rules"
Last crew to want it caught a hundred tryna pass through
That's true! So who the next to get it?
T.S. — the best that did it
Get it off your chest, kid, admit it, and it's…

[Chorus: Fat Joe & Big Pun]
Yeah! And you don't stop!
Twenty-shot Glock with the cop-killers, fill 'em to the top
Yeah! And you don't stop!
Joey cracks the rock, and Big Pun keeps the guns cocked
Yeah! And you don't stop!
We'll make it hot, nigga, what? Bring it, I blow your whole spot
Yeah! And you don't stop!
It's still 187 on an undercover cop

[Verse 5: Big Pun]
Fuck the police, I squeeze first, make 'em eat dirt
Take 'em feet-first through the morgue, then lodge 'em in the deep earth

The street's cursed, the First Amendment's culturally biased
Supposed to supply us with rights
, tonight, I hold my rosaries tight as I can
I'm one man against the world
Just me and my girl — Black Pearl Latina, más fina, but keeps it real

You know the deal, we steal from the rich and keep it
Peep it, it's no secret, watch me and Joe go back and forth and freak it
[Chorus: Fat Joe & Big Pun]
Yeah! And you don't stop!
Twenty-shot Glock with the cop-killers, fill 'em to the top
Yeah! And you don't stop!
Joey cracks the rock, and Big Pun keeps the guns cocked
Yeah! And you don't stop!
We'll make it hot, nigga, what? Bring it, I blow your whole spot
Yeah! And you don't stop!
It's still 187 on an undercover cop
Yeah! And you don't stop!
Twenty-shot Glock with the cop-killers, fill 'em to the top
Yeah! And you don't stop!
Joey cracks the rock, and Big Pun keeps the guns cocked
Yeah! And you don't stop!
We'll make it hot, nigga, what? Bring it, I blow your whole spot
Yeah! And you don't stop!
It's still 187 on an undercover cop

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Big Pun and Fat Joe cover Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg’s 1992 track “Deep Cover.” Snoop also makes a cameo in the music video.

Fat Joe said the following about the friendly competition between himself and Pun during an interview with XXL magazine in 2004:

At the time, I really thought I was getting over on Pun. When we [were] writing, I thought I had him. I was coming with ‘Creep with me, as I cruise in my Beemer…’ I thought I was freaking it! But that was not the case. I still don’t know what his shit means. I can still hear Pun saying, ‘You’re limited, Joe.’

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What did Big Pun say about "Twinz (Deep Cover '98)"?
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Fat Joe had this to say to Complex:

Fat Joe: “I knew I had to do a song with Big Punisher on his album. I also knew the world was bigger than New York, so we had to do a track that I knew they would play on the West Coast. When Snoop Dogg 1st came out, & him & Dr. Dre did that ‘Twinz (Deep Cover ‘98),’ that was the hardest shit. & nobody had fucked with it.

“So I said, ‘Yo Pun, let’s go back & forth on this bitch so I can introduce you to the game.’ So we sat down & wrote it. Back & forth, we’re going in. Hard. We wrote it together.

“I ain’t bug out when he first said the ‘Dead in the middle of Little Italy…’ rhyme. That wasn’t even a rhyme. He used to play around & say [that tongue twister], just like he used to walk around going, ‘Packin’ the Mac in the back of the Ac, packin’ the Mac in the back of the Ac.’ These were like jokes to him.

“I had to argue with him to put ‘Dead in the middle of Little Italy…’ in the song. I was like, ‘That’s the hardest shit on earth.’ He was like, ‘Are you crazy? That’s a fuckin’ joke. Niggas will laugh at me. Are you serious?’ Then he did it, & it was the illest shit.

“Snoop gave us his blessing & came & did the ‘Deep Cover’ video. & no disrespect, no 1 can ever say anything about that song. That shit is a body. Get the white sheets out. There’s no way around it. That’s a historic track. Legendary forever.”

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Mystic Recording Studios (Staten Island, New York)
Release Date
April 28, 1998
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