Nail In The Coffin Lyrics

[Intro]
This motherfucker, man!
Just won't shut up, will you?
Talkin' 'bout I owe him
Bitch, you owe me!
I'm promotin' you right now

Yo, let's put the nail in this coffin!

[Chorus]
I don't wanna be like this
I don't really wanna hurt no feelings

But I'm only being real when I say
Nobody wants to hear their grandfather rap (Nope)
And old men have heart attacks
And I don't wanna be responsible for that
So, put the mic down and walk away
You can still have a little bit of dignity


[Verse]
I would never claim to be no
Ray Benzino
An eighty-three-year-old fake Pacino

So how can he hold me over some balcony without throwin' his lower back out as soon as he goes to lift me? (Ugh!)
Please don't, you'll probably fall with me and our asses'll both be history (Aah!)

But then again, you'd finally get your wish
‘Cause you'd be all over the street like 50 Cent (Hahahaha)

You fuckin' punk, pussy, fuck you, chump
Give me a one-on-one, see if I don't fuck you up
,
Tryna jump the Ruff Ryders and they cut you up
And you put Jada on a track, that's how much you suck

Dick in the industry, swear that you in the streets hustlin'
You sit behind a fuckin' desk at The Source butt-kissin'
And beggin' motherfuckers for guest appearances

And you can't even get the clearances
'Cause real lyricists don't even respect you or take you serious

It's not that we don't like you—we hate you, period
Talk about a mid-life crisis, damn
Last week you was shakin' Obie Trice's hand
Now he's a buster? What the fuck's with that?

Get on a track dissin' us, kissin' 50's ass
And askin' me what I know about indictments, bite me
Bitch, I got two cases and probation—fight me
What do I know about standin' in front of a judge like a man
Ready to take whatever sentence he hands?
What you know about your wife slicin' her wrists, right in
Front of the only thing that you have in this world, a little girl?

And I put that on her, when this is all over
I would never try to make her a star and eat off her
I don't know shit about no choppin' rocks
But what you know about Hip Hop Shops rockin' spots
Where you're the only white boy up in that bitch, just rippin'?
Pressin' up your own fliers and your stickers, stickin'
Them bitches up after spendin' six hours at Kinko's
Makin' copies of your covers of cassette singles
To sell them out of the trunk of your Tracer
Spendin' your whole paychecks at Disc Makers

What you know about bein' bullied over half your life?
Oh, that's right, you should know what that's like, you're half white (Haha)
Vanilla Ice, spill the beans and rice

I'm eatin' you alive inside, Jesus Christ!
If you're that much of a gangsta, put the mic down
You should be out killin' motherfuckers right now

Kill a motherfucker dead, kill him dead, bitch!
Shoot 'em in the fuckin' head—go ahead, bitch!

Slap my mom! Slap the fuck out of her!
She can't sue you, she wouldn't get a buck out of ya
‘Cause you're broke as fuck, you suck, you're a fuckin' joke!

If you was really sellin' coke, well, then what the fuck
You stop for, dummy? If you slew some crack
You'd make a lot more money than you do from rap (Haha)

You'll never have no security, you'll never be famous
You'll never know what it's like to be rich, life's a bitch, ain't it?
Raymond? Here, let me break this shit down in layman's terms for you
Just to make sure that you can understand us

And Canibus ain't usin' too many complicated fuckin' words for you
Here, and let me slow it down for you
So that you can understand if I say it slower
Let it go, dog, it's over

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About

Genius Annotation

“Nail in the Coffin” is one of four diss tracks released on Shady Times: Invasion, Pt. 1, in the feud between Eminem and Benzino. The song was premiered on November 21 by DJ Kay Slay along with “The Sauce.” In the song, Em responds to several disses on Benzino’s “Pull Your Skirt Up”, that was released one and a half months earlier.

The song’s title is based on the old English idiom “A nail in the coffin”, which is derived from how the lid of a coffin where you bury dead people had to be nailed in. Thus the idiom refers to an event that causes the failure of something that had already started to fail. In this case Em refers to him ending the beef as well as Benzino’s rap career.

Q&A

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What was leading up to the four diss tracks on Shady Times: Invasion, Pt. 1?
Genius Answer

“Nail In The Coffin”, “The Sauce”, “The Realest”, and “Welcome To Detroit City” from Shady Times: Invasion Pt. 1 were released as a response to “Pull Your Skirt Up” by Benzino, which had been released one and a half month earlier.

The feud started after Em was displeased with his album The Eminem Show only receiving 4 mics in the magazine The Source’s record report. In an interview Em begins to diss The Source and even claimed that he would never get a 5 mic rating in the magazine, because of Benzino, who at the time was co-owner of the magazine.

In September 2002, Benzino is in the studio of Hot 97 talking about the double standard in hip hop. Everybody in his crew begins to freestyle, and at the end of Benzino’s part, he dissed Em in 2 bars over the Nas – “Made You Look” beat. Later in September, Em calls in to Hot 97 to promote 8 Mile, as well as his new artist 50 Cent. During the Interview he disses Benzino. Later the same night Benzino went to the studio and recorded a early version of the song “Pull your skirt up”. Em had his manager, Paul Rosenberg, call Benzino to try to squash the beef. Benzino releases the song a week or two later.

What is the chronical order of diss tracks in this feud?
  1. 6.
    Nail In The Coffin
  2. 10.
    Flipmode Squad Freestyle (Invasion) (Missing Lyrics)
  3. 13.
    Freestyle (Invasion) (Missing Lyrics)
  4. 16.
    Golden State Project Freestyle (Missing Lyrics)
  5. 19.
    F.T. Freestyle (Invasion) (Missing Lyrics)
  6. 21.
    Gang Starr Freestyle (Invasion) (Missing Lyrics)
  7. 23.
    Kuniva Freestyle (Invasion) (Missing Lyrics)
  8. 24.
    G-Unit Freestyle (Invasion) (Missing Lyrics)
  9. 25.
    Rap Name (Freestyle) (Missing Lyrics)
  10. 26.
    Young Zee Freestyle (Missing Lyrics)
  11. 27.
    Kardinal Offishall Freestyle (Invasion) (Missing Lyrics)
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