Dance With The Devil Lyrics - Revolutionary, Vol. 1 - Immortal Technique

I once knew a nigga whose real name was William 

His primary concern, was making a million 

Being the illest hustler, that the world ever seen 

He used to fuck movie stars and sniff coke in his dreams 

A corrupted young mind, at the age of thirteen 

Nigga never had a father and his mom was a fiend 

She put the pipe down, but every year she was sober 

Her sons heart simultaneously grew colder 

He started hanging out selling bags in the projects 

Checking the young chicks, looking for hit and run prospects 

He was fascinated by material objects 

But he understood money never bought respect 

He build a reputation 'cause he could hustle and steal 

But got locked once and didn't hesitate to squeal 

So criminals he chilled with didn't think he was real 

You see me and niggas like this have never been equal 

I don't project my insecurities at other people 

He fiended for props like addicts with pipes and needles 

So he felt he had to prove to everyone he was evil 

A feeble-minded young man with infinite potential 

The product of a ghetto breed capitalistic mental 

Coincidentally dropped out of school to sell weed 

Dancing with the devil, smoked until his eyes would bleed 

But he was sick of selling trees and gave in to his greed 

Everyone trying to be trife never face the consequences 

You probably only did a month for minor offenses 

Ask a nigga doing life if he had another chance 

But then again there's always the wicked that knew in advance 

Dance forever with the devil on a cold cell block 

But that's what happens when you rape, murder and sell rock 

Devils used to be gods, angels that fell from the top 

There's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot 

So Billy started robbing niggas, anything he could do 

To get his respect back, in the eyes of his crew 

Starting fights over little shit, up on the block 

Stepped up to selling mothers and brothers the crack rock 

Working overtime for making money for the crack spot 

Hit the jackpot and wanted to move up to cocaine 

fulfilling the Scarface fantasy stuck in his brain 

Tired of the block niggas treating him the same 

He wanted to be major like the cut throats and the thugs 

But when he tried to step to 'em, niggas showed him no love 

They told him any motherfucking coward can sell drugs 

Any bitch nigga with a gun, can bust slugs 

Any nigga with a red shirt can front like a blood 

Even Puffy smoked a motherfucker up in a club 

But only a real thug can stab someone till they die 

Standing in front of them, starring straight into their eyes 

Billy realized that these men were well guarded 

And they wanted to test him, before business started 

Suggested raping a bitch to prove he was cold hearted 

So now he had a choice between going back to his life 

Or making money with made men, up in the cyph' 

His dreams about cars and ice, made him agree 

A hardcore nigga is all he ever wanted to be 

And so he met them Friday night at a quarter to three 

Everyone trying to be trife never face the consequences 

You probably only did a month for minor offenses 

Ask a nigga doing life if he had another chance 

But then again there's always the wicked that knew in advance 

Dance forever with the devil on a cold cell block 

But that's what happens when you rape, murder and sell rock 

Devils used to be gods, angels that fell from the top 

There's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot 

They drove around the projects slow while it was raining 

Smoking blunts, drinking and joking for entertainment 

Until they saw a woman on the street walking alone 

Three in the morning, coming back from work, on her way home 

And so they quietly got out the car and followed her 

Walking through the projects, the darkness swallowed her 

They wrapped her shirt around her head and knocked her onto the floor 

This is it kid now you got your chance to be raw 

So Billy oaked her up and grabbed the chick by the hair 

And dragged her into a lobby that had nobody there 

She struggled hard but they forced her to go up the stairs 

They got to the roof and then held her down on the ground 

Screaming shut the fuck up and stop moving around 

The shirt covered her face, but she screamed and clawed 

So Billy stomped on the bitch, until he had broken her jaw 

The dirty bastards knew exactly what they were doing 

They kicked her until they cracked her ribs and she stopped moving 

Blood leaking through the cloth, she cried silently 

And then they all proceeded to rape her violently 

Billy was made to go first, but each of them took a turn 

Ripping her up, and choking her until her throat burned 

A broken jaw mumbled for guards but they weren't concerned 

When they were done and she was lying bloody, broken and bruised 

One of them niggas pulled out a brand new twenty-two 

They told him that she was a witness of what she'd gone through 

And if he killed her he was guaranteed a spot in the crew 

He thought about it for a minute, she was practically dead 

And so he leaned over and put the gun right to her head 

I'm falling and I can't turn back 

I'm falling and I can't turn back 

Right before he pulled the trigger, and ended her life 

He thought about the cocaine with the platinum and ice 

And he felt strong standing along with his new brothers 

Cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover 

But what he saw made him start to cringe and stutter 

Cause he was starring into the eyes of his own mother 

She looked back at him and cried, cause he had forsaken her 

She cried more painfully, than when they were raping her 

His whole world stopped, he couldn't even contemplate 

His corruption had successfully changed his fate 

And he remembered how his mom used to come home late 

Working hard for nothing, cause now what was he worth 

He turned away from the woman that had once given him birth 

And crying out to the sky cause he was lonely and scared 

But only the devil responded, cause god wasn't there 

And right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold 

And so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul 

They say death takes you to a better place but I doubt it 

After that they killed his mother, and never spoke about it 

And listen cause the story that I'm telling is true 

Cause I was there with Billy Jacobs and I raped his mom too 

And now the devil follows me everywhere that I go 

In fact I'm sure he's standing among one of you at my shows 

And every street cypher listening to little thugs flow 

He could be standing right next to you, and you wouldn't know 

The devil grows inside the hearts of the selfish and wicked 

White, brown, yellow and black colored is not restricted 

You have a self destructive destiny when your inflicted 

And you'll be one of gods children and fell from the top 

There's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot 

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never 

Because the dance with the devil might last you forever