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Jackin’ For Beats

Ice Cube

Jackin’ For Beats Lyrics

Wait a minute, hold on, get your ass up
Whassup nigga?
Get over there... shit
Ya lil punk ass nigga
C'mere, c'mere, c'mere boy
God damnit you stop that shit now
Take him to jail and get him the hell from in front of this house
Now wait a minute, wait a minute, hey man
Wait a minute?
There are police, go!

[Verse 1]
Give me that beat, fool, it's a full time jack move
Chilly Chill, yo homie make the track move
And I'll jack any Tom, Dick and Hank
That's the name of the SUCKERS I done ganked
I get away from a copper
Drop a dime, I'll break you off somethin proper
T-Bone and that's J-Dee

And here's how we'll greet ya
Stop fool, come off that beat ya
Feel dumb cause you're caught in the dark
(ya lil nuttin ass mark)
Raise up, cause you can't' have it back
You said - "I ain't never got gaffled like that"
Off the end of the gat you choke
Short Dog's in the house - "Whattup loc?"
Nuttin but a come up
Gimme that bass, and don't try to run up
Cause you'll get banked somethin sweet
Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob, is jackin for beats

[Verse 2]
Huh, and even if you're down with my crew
*Yo Chuck man, I don't understand this man
You got to slow down*

I jack them too
And then we'll freak it
Kick that bass, and look what we did
Fade the grade, played, and made a few mil
And I keep stealin
Ice Cube'll make it thump
But right about now - *let's get over the hump*
But I don't party and shake my butt
I leave that to the brothers with the funny haircuts

And it'll drive you nuts
Steal your beat, and give it that gangsta touch

Like jackin and mackin
Say hi to the three fifty-seven I'm packin
And it sounds so sweet
Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob, is jackin for beats

[Verse 3]
Ice Cube, will take a funky beat and reshape it
Locate a dope break, and then I break it

And give it that gangsta lean
Dead in your face as I turn up the bass

I make punk suckers run and duck because
I don't try to hide cause you know that I love to
Jack a fool for his beat and then I'm outtie
So when I come to your town don't crowd me
Cause I know, you're gonna wanna kick it with me
But I know, none of y'all can get with me

So you think you're protected
Well you are til you put a funky beat on a record
Then I have to show and prove and use your groove
Cause suckers can't fade the Cube
And if I jack you and you keep comin
I'll have you marks a 100 Miles and Running!

*stop stop stop stop stop!
Sa-prize, niggas*

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About “Jackin’ For Beats”

Ice Cube’s ode to stealing beats. Among a plethora of samples, the main hip-hop beats he “jacks” are:

  1. “Call Me D-Nice” by D Nice
  2. “So Wat Cha Sayin'” by EPMD
  3. “Welcome to the Terrordome” by Public Enemy
  4. “The Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground
  5. “Funky Drummer” by James Brown
  6. “Big Ole Butt” by LL Cool J
  7. “Heed the Word of the Brother” by X Clan

Cube provided background information on the track:

That was after AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted was done. I had thought of that concept, because at the time so many dope beats had come out. I just wanted to rap over all that shit. Chilly Chill was there when I was thinkin’ about it, in our demo studio, and he started helping me put it together. But Jinx helped him pop the song off, when we got to the big studio. He helped him with all the hooks and stuff. We had all the tracks, the beats, but we didn’t know how the hooks would go. I chose all those tracks to use. I’m not going off on anyone in that song, I just want their beats! I mean, I use a Public Enemy beat in there. D-Nice’s beat was dope! X-Clan and EPMD, too.

Producer Sir Jinx said the following about “Jackin' For Beats”:

When we did Kill At Will, [it] was just the remixes of the songs from AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted. [Because] “Jackin’ For Beats” had so many samples in it, it couldn’t be on a record with no other song [due to publishing splits]. So that’s why we made an EP.

"Jackin’ For Beats" Track Info