Bad Boy For Life Lyrics

[Intro: Diddy]
Ayo, you ready?
Let's do it
Mm, yeah
Yeah
What-what, ah
Come on

[Verse 1: Diddy]
I'm the definition of (Ugh) "half man, half drugs"
Ask the clubs: Bad Boy—that's what's up
After bucks, crush crews after us
No games, we ain't laughin' much
Nothing but big things
Check the hit list, how we twist shit—
What changed but the name?

We still here, you're rockin' with the best
Don't worry if I write rhymes; I write checks (Ha!)
Who's the boss? Dudes is lost
Don't think, 'cause I'm iced out, I'ma cool off
Who else but me? (Who else?) And if you don't feel me
That means you can't touch me—it's ugly, trust me
Get it right, dog: We ain't ever left
We just moved in silence and repped to the death (Yeah)
It's official: I survive what I been through
Y'all got drama? The saga continues

[Chorus: All; Diddy & Black Rob]
We ain't goin' nowhere
We ain't goin' nowhere
We can't be stopped now
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life
We ain't goin' nowhere (Uh-uh)
We ain't (Uh-uh) goin' nowhere (Uh-huh)
We can't be stopped now (Bad Boy)
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life (Come on)

[Verse 2: Black Rob, Diddy, & both]
Hey yo, straight from the Harlem streets (Ugh)
I don't play—I puts it down with the Harlem Heat (Uh-huh)
All 'a' sudden, niggas got a problem with me (Black, what happened?)
They runnin' round actin' like the Black-O can't eat (Hmm)
And you know what? (What?) For some strange reason (Ugh)
I'm off of this medication, feeling deranged, needin'— (Ah)
For y'all to put the word out (Come on, come on): We ain't leavin'
We tryin' to be rich before we all stop breathing (Come on)
Therefore (What?) we kinda hustle lames
Stay layin' down our muscle games (Come on)
Still turn niggas' dreams to flames (Yeah)
You got "The Wire"? (Ugh)
If not, I ain't sayin' no names; you'll soon expire (Ha)
No pain (Nothing) I feel remorseless
Of course, it's me and Diddy, up first, racin' Porsches (Errr!)
With them big twin-valve exhausts-es (Yeah)

On the cover of your "Vibe"s, "Double-X-L"s, and "Source"s, bitch (Haha, yeah, come on, let's go)
[Chorus: All; Diddy & Mark Curry]
We ain't goin' nowhere (Eh-eh)
We ain't (Eh-eh) goin' nowhere (We ain't goin' nowhere)
We can't be stopped now (That's right)
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life
We ain't (We ain't) goin' nowhere (Eh-eh)
We ain't (Eh-eh) goin' nowhere (We ain't goin' nowhere, ah-ah, yeah, yeah)
We can't be stopped now (Yo, yeah)
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life

[Verse 3: Mark Curry & Diddy]
And ain't shit changed (Ain't shit changed)
Since the Notorious (We miss you, Big)

See, everything still glorious (Yeah)
We still got warriors, still be the victorious (That's right)
See, it's a lot of them, but it's more of us
Still got cash to blow (Come on), raps to flow
Still them cats they know pack the flow, that's fa' sho
Bottles to pop, joints to rock
Played the background, hand on my jock
Holdin' my Glock (Hahaha)

Money to get, cars to flip (Ugh)
Bars to sit at and sip Cognac, with jewels that drip (Come on)
Hoes to see, make sure they knowin' it's me (They know it's you)
Drop that beat, can't believe that I MC? (Haha)
Bad Boy 'til the casket drop (Bad Boy), gotta love it
Place nothin' above it (Nothin'), it's on like that (Come on)
Don't believe—we ain't gone like that
We're always gon' be here (Yeah, ugh)
We there every motherfuckin' year! (What? Let's go)
[Chorus: All; Diddy]
We ain't (Bad Boy) goin' nowhere
We ain't goin' nowhere (We ain't goin' nowhere)
We can't be stopped now
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life (Come on)
We ain't (Uh-uh) goin' nowhere
We ain't (Uh-uh) goin' nowhere (What?)
We can't be stopped now
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life
We ain't (We ain't goin' nowhere)
Goin' nowhere (We gon' stay right here)
We ain't (For ever) goin' nowhere (And ever)
We can't be stopped now (And ever, and ever)
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life (Come on)
We ain't goin' nowhere (We ain't goin' nowhere)
We ain't goin' nowhere (We gon' stay right here)
We can't be stopped now (We ain't goin' nowhere)
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life (We gon' stay right here)

[Outro: All; Diddy]
We ain't (Yeah, uh-uh) goin' nowhere (Uh-uh)
We (Uh-uh) ain't goin' nowhere
We can't be stopped now
'Cause it's Bad Boy for life

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Genius Annotation

The second single for The Saga Continues. This song was considered to represent strength for the Bad Boy label. This was because after the death of Biggie, Mase’s departure to become a Christian pastor and the decrease of album sales, many people believed Bad Boy and Puff were not going to be as big as they were back in the late 90’s. This track was made to state this is not the case and Puffy and the label will live on no matter what.
The single reached number 33 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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    Incomplete (Interlude) (Missing Lyrics)
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    Lonely
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    Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now (Interlude) (Missing Lyrics)
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    I Don’t Like That (Interlude) (Missing Lyrics)
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Recorded At
Daddy's House Recording Studios (New York City)
Release Date
November 27, 2001
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