Shook Ones, Part. II (Song)

"Shook Ones (Part II)" is the lead single from Mobb Deep's 1995 album *The Infamous...*. The song is a sequel to the group's 1994 promotional single "Shook Ones", with similar lyrics, but less profanity. The original song is featured on the b-side of some releases of "Shook Ones, Part II" and was also included on the international version of the group's album *Hell on Earth*. The narrative is told from the perspective of inner-city youths engaged in territorial warfare and struggling for financial gains. The phrase "shook one" refers to someone who acts tough and hardcore but when faced with murder and crime, they are scared and run away.

The song contains a pitched down sample of "Jessica" by Herbie Hancock and "Kitty with the Bent Frame" by Quincy Jones. The drum break is sampled from "Dirty Feet" by Daly-Wilson Big Band. The Herbie Hancock sample was slowed down and the pitch was altered to create the beat in the song.

In 1997, the song was sampled by Mariah Carey in her single "The Roof (Back in Time)". For its single remix, Mobb Deep recorded additional raps and also appeared in the music video.

The song was featured in the 2002 film *8 Mile*. It is the song being played in the opening scene when main character B-Rabbit, portrayed by rapper Eminem, is preparing for his battle. An instrumental version of the song is played as the beat for the final battle of the film as well. The song also appears on the intro of the Season 2 premiere episode "Soul Brother #1" of the Marvel-Netflix TV Show Luke Cage, in which Luke Cage disrupts a Drug Operation that was peddling a drug named after him.

In 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 25 on their *Top 200 Tracks of the 90s*. *Rolling Stone* magazine placed the song on its list of *The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time* and their list of the "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" at No. 215. while *Complex* ranked "Shook Ones (Part II)" at #23 on their list of the 25 most violent rap songs of all time.

The song appears in the 2005 video games Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories in the in-game radio station The Liberty Jam and in True Crime: New York City. It also appears in *NBA 2K13* and *NBA 2K18*.

## Lyrics

* Word up son, word
* Yeah, to all the killers and a hundred dollar billers
* (Yo, I got the phone thing, know I'm sayin'? Keep your eyes open)
* For real- who ain't got no feelings
* (No doubt, son, keep your eyes open)
* (I got this, I got this)
* (Just watch my back, I got your front, yo)
* Check it out now
* (Word up, say it to them real-, check this out it's a murda)
* I got you stuck off the realness, we be the infamous
* You heard of us, official Queensbridge murderers
* The Mobb comes equipped for warfare, beware
* Of my crime family who got 'nough shots to share
* For all of those, who wanna profile and pose
* Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone
* You all alone in these streets, cousin
* Every man for they self in this land we be gunning
* And keep them shook crews running, like they supposed to
* They come around but they never come close to
* I can see it inside your face, you're in the wrong place (yo, who that?)
* Cowards like you just get they whole body laced up (who that right there? I don't know, son)
* With bullet holes and such (we gon' get 'em though)
* Speak the wrong words, man, and you will get touched (you see him? Aight)
* You can put your whole army against my team and
* I guarantee you it'll be your very last time breathing
* Your simple words just don't move me, you're minor, we're major
* You're all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player
* Don't make me have to call your name out
* Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots'll make you levitate
* I'm only nineteen but my mind is old
* And when the things get for real my warm heart turns cold
* Another- deceased, another story gets told
* It ain't nothing really, ayo Dun, spark the Philly
* So I can get my mind off these yellowbacked-
* Why they still alive? I don't know, go figure
* Meanwhile back in Queens the realness and foundation
* If I die, I couldn't choose a better location
* When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation
* Getting closer to God in a tight situation
* Now, take these words home and think it through
* Or the next rhyme I write might be about you
* Son, they shook
* 'Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks
* Scared to death and scared to look, they shook
* 'Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks
* Scared to death and scared to look
* Living the live that of diamonds and guns
* There's numerous ways you can choose to earn funds (funds)
* Some brothers get shot, locked down and turn nuns
* Cowardly hearts and straight up shook ones, shook ones
* He ain't a crook, son, he's just a shook one
* For every rhyme I write it's twenty-five to life
* Yo, it's a must, in gats we trust, safeguarding my life
* Ain't no time for hesitation, that only leads to incarceration
* You don't know me, there's no relation
* Queensbridge and we don't play, I don't got time
* For your petty thinking mind, son, I'm bigger than those
* Claiming that you pack heat but you're scared to hold
* And once the smoke clears you'll be left with one in your dome
* Thirteen years in the projects, my mentality is what, kid?
* You talk a good one but you don't want it
* Sometimes I wonder, "Do I deserve to live
* Or am I gonna burn in Hell for all the things I did?"
* No time to dwell on that 'cause my brain reacts
* Front if you want, kid, lay on your back
* I don't fake jax, kid, you know I bring it to you live
* Stay in a child's place, kid, you outta line
* Criminal minds thirsty for recognition
* I'm sipping, E&J got my mind flipping
* I'm bugging, digging my ways out of holes by hustling
* Get that loot, kid, you know my function (function)
* 'Cause long as I'm alive I'ma live illegal
* And once I get on I'ma put on all my people (yo, yo)
* React quick, spit lyrics like MACs, I hit your dome up
* When I roll up, don't be caught sleeping 'cause I'm creeping
* Son, they shook
* 'Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks
* Scared to death and scared to look, they shook (he just a shook one)
* 'Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks
* Scared to death and scared to look, they shook
* (We live the life that of diamonds)
* 'Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks
* Scared to death, scared to look, they shook
* 'Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks
* Living the live that of diamonds and guns
* There's numerous ways you can choose to earn funds (funds)
* Some brothas get shot, locked down and turn nuns
* Cowardly hearts and straight up shook ones, shook ones
* He ain't a crook, son, he's just a shook one
* Yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)
* To all the villains and a hundred dollar billers
* To real brothers who ain't got no feelings, yeah
* The whole Bridge, Queens get the money
* 41st side, keepin' it real, you know
* Queens get the money
* It ain't nothin', son, it's all good
* You know I'm sayin?
* Uh, they know where we at