* translation of NTM's verses follows at the end of these lyrics



[Nas]

Yeah, Affirmative action, with my crew, NTM

This is Nas Escobar

[Kool Shen]

International remix

Check the lyrics

[NTM]

Chacun sa Mafia ,Chacun sa mille-fa

Mmh, baby, come wicked nigger



[AZ]

You sit back relax catching contacts

Sip your cognac

And let's all wash this money

Through this laundry mat

Sneak attack

A new cat is back worth top dollar

In fact touch mines and i'll react

Like a rock wilder



Who pull the late

We play for high stakes at gun point

Catch'em and break undress'em tie'em

With tape no escape

The Corleone Fettucini Capone

Roam in your own zone

Get kidnapped and clapped in your dome

We go it sewn

The firm art of war is unknown

Lower your tone face it

Homicide cases get blown

Aristocrats

politician daily with diplomats

see me I'm an official mack

Lex coup triple black



[Kool Shen]

Pas de Don Corleone dans mon quartier

Mais si tu deconnes jusqu'au bout faudra jouer les bonnes

Mais y a plus de place pour les r?es

Ici quand on s'??e les rageurs te jettent l'oeil

M?e les Anges te cr?ent

Sache que l'union fait la force mais que la mis?e la divise

Et qu'en p?iode de crise chacun mise sur son biz

Chacun sa Mafia , chacun sa mille-fa

M?e l'?at fonctionne comme ?

Que d'la gouille-ma d?uis? en secrets d'?ats



Chorus

[Foxy Brown] The Firm, baby

[NTM] Chacun sa Mafia , chacun sa mille-fa

Aujourd'hui ? se passe comme ?

[Foxy Brown] The Firm, baby

[NTM] Chacun sa Mafia

[Nas] Nas with NTM yo the Firm connect



[Nas]

Yo my mind is seeing through your design

Like blind fury

I shine jewelry sippin' on crusted grapes

We lust papes

And push cakes

Inside the casket at just's wake

It's sickening he just finish bidding upstate

And now the project

Is talking that somebody gotta die shit

It's logic

As long as it's nobody that's in my clique

My man smoke

Know how to expand coke

And Mr coffee

Feds cost me 2 mil to get the system off me

Life's a bitch

But god forbid the bitch divorce me

I be flooded with ice or hell fire kid scorch me

Cuban cigars

Meetin' foxy at the mars

Movin' cars

Your top poppy Sr Escobar



Pour tous mes peeps, je le balance avec mes tripes

J'applique

Et nous affecte, cherche pas, y'a m?e plus rien qui nous implique

M?e la vie nous tient a bout de bras

On oeuvre dans l'ombre

Ayant conscience de notre force

La force du nombre

C'est comme ? qu'on prime dans cette putain de soci??parallele,

On a le vent dans le dos pr? a voler de nos propres ailes

Chez moi y'a pas de trou , pas...

Non y'a pas de place pour tout ?

Dans mon quartier mon gars

J'ai vue que des gosses qui se bousillent en bas



Chorus (2x)



[Joey Starr] Seine-Saint-Denis Style



[Foxy Brown] (this verse was removed in the radio/video edit)

In a black camaro

Firm deep all my niggas hail the black esparo

Wallabees be the apparel

Through the darkest tunnels

I got visions of multimillions in the biggest bundle

In the lex pushed by my nigga Jungle

He money bags got moet shan dor

Bundle In 62

They ain't got a clue what we about to do

My whole team we shittin' hard like czar

Sosa, Foxy Brown, Cormega and Escobar

I keep a fat marquis piece

Laced in all the illest snake skin

Armani sweaters carolina herarra

Be the firm baby, from BK to the bridge

My nigga wiz operation firm biz

so what the deal is

So let's see, if we flip this other key

Then that's more for me

Mad coke and mad leak

Plus a five hundred

Cut in half is two-fifty

Now triple that times 3

We got three-quarters of another key

The Firm baby, volume one uh!



[NTM] Seine-Saint-Denis Style (3x)

Supr?e NTM Nas dans la place

Seine-Saint-Denis Style ... (fading out)



--- * this section is a translation of the French verses in the song * ---



[Kool Shen]

No Don Corleone in my area

But if you fuck up you'll have to do dirt

But there's no time for dreamin'

here when you go up, jealous people come

even angels want you dead

know unity is power but wisery divides

and in time of crisis, everybody watch its own business

Every man to his Mafia, every man to his family

Even the government is working like this

only scheming hidden as state secret



[Joey Starr]

for all my peeps, I finger him

I act

it affects us, don't look, we're not implicated in anything anymore

We act in the shadow

Being aware of our power

the fact that we are numerous

That's how we live in this fuckin' parallel society

We got the wind in our back ready to fly with our own wings

here is no hole, no...

No time for all this

In my area man

I only saw children killing themselves downstair