Beware Lyrics

[Chorus: Prodigy sample]
I gave you fair warning, beware
I gave you fair warning, beware


[Verse 1: Big Pun]
Yo! What you thought, Pun's shit was weak? Now you can't sleep
Gotta keep your eyes open wide
and hide your face from the streets
I'm like the beast with a warrant, far from a law man
Gave you fair warnin', now you on the stairs, fallin'
I'm callin' out any rapper that I doubt, smack him in the mouth
Throw him in the yoke—boom—then I knock him out
No doubt, Freddie Foxxx files
Twenty-shot auto Glock, blaow! Benny Blanc Puerto Rock style
With a twist of black and I'm proud, twist your cap and I'm out
Sleep with the fish-dips for yappin' too loud
What's happenin' now? Niggas is hard as hell but they Gargamels
Pickin' on the smallest victim gives 'em heart to kill

My squad is real and holds it down, the hardest regardless
The size of the largest
We polish the floor with the rawest hardcore artists
Flawless victory, ya niggas can't do shit to me
Physically, lyrically, hypothetically, realistically

I'm the epitome of catchin' wreck
Catch you when you cash your check
Smash you when you pass, then jack you for your fuckin' 'Lex
Nothin' less than the best if the Squad did it
Hard-headed niggas better beware and fear like God said it
[Chorus: Prodigy sample]
I gave you fair warning, beware
I gave you fair warning, beware


[Outro: Fat Joe]
Yeah, yeah, yeah! What's up now, partner?
Know I'm sayin'? Think this just some rap shit?
We do this shit for real
Terror Squad, nigga
Fuckin' shoot the place up
Motherfuckers know the time
This motherfuckin' rap game
Joe Crack, Big Dog Punisher, Full-A-Clips crew
What the fuck? WHAT!
Beware, beware, beware, beware, beware

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Genius Annotation

Over an ominous-sounding sample from Henry Mancini’s “Theme for the Losers” mixed with a vocal sample from Prodigy’s verse on the first version of Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones,” Big Pun enters the rap arena issuing a “fair warning” to all challengers that he is ready to punish the competition.

Producer JuJu from The Beatnuts talked about the production of the track in a 2004 interview with XXL magazine:

Pun gave me an idea. He told me, ‘I need that dirty, grimy shit. You gotta give me a track that’s gonna let niggas know how I’m coming.’ And I was like, ‘That’s what I’m good at. Some niggas do dance records. I do the grimy, dirty shit.’ So I went into the lab, did a couple of beats. I came back, let him hear some stuff and he was like, ‘This is it, man.’ [It had a Mobb Deep sample in the beginning] ‘I gave you fair warning: Beware.’

Fat Joe also talked about his part on the track:

This is one of my favorite tracks ever by Pun, a greater introduction couldn’t be done. So I got on the back of it and started talking shit, basically trying to tell niggas I’m not alone no more. I found a partner who sees my same point of view, and he’s nasty. Deal with that. Y'all got a problem, let me know. Muthafuckas was like, ‘Not only do we gotta deal with Fat Joe, now we gotta deal with the nicest nigga in the universe.’

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