[laughs]
  Yeah, uh uh
  Turn me up a little bit
  Yeah kid, Harlem on the rise
  Yeah, turn me up a little bit more
  Uh-huh, uh-huh
  We like it
  Uh-huh, uh-huh
  Yeah kid, Harlem on the rise
  This the remix '98
  And you don't want no problem with us guys
  Let's go
    [Chorus: Puffy, (Mase), | Carl Thomas |]
    I been around (Uh-huh, uh-huh)
  I been around the world (Uh-huh, uh-huh) | I been around |
  I been around (Uh-huh, uh-huh) | Been around |
  I been around the world (Uh-huh, uh-huh) | Ai-yeah |
  I been around (Uh-huh, uh-huh) | Aiii, yeah-yeah-yeah |
  We ain't gon' stop
  I been around the world (Uh-huh, uh-huh) | Whoaou |
  I been around
  We don't even know how to stop
  I been around the world
    [Verse One: Mase]
    Yo, yo
  Now trick what? Lace who?
  That ain't what Mase do
  Got a lotta girls that'll love to replace you
  Tell it to your face boo, not behind your back
  Cats talk slick, we never mind that
  Funny never find that Puff a dimestack
  Write hot stuff that make people say 'Rewind that'
  People know, you go against the Harlem Jiggalo
  Getcha hoe, lick her low, make your girl trick your dough
  I represent honies with money, fly guys, and jets
  Ride with the tints that be thirty-five percent
  Hoes hope I lay, so I look both ways
  Cop says okay, my tint smoke gray
  No way, people leave without handin' me my chips
  Got plans to get my land and my 6
  People outta town'll understand these hits
  Pop champagne like I won a championship
    [Chorus: Puffy, (Carl Thomas)]
    I been around (Been around)
  I been around the world (I been around)
  I been around (Been around)
  I been around the world (Ai-yeah)
  I been around (Aiii, yeah-yeah-yeah)
  I been around the world
  Can't stop the power
  I been around (Whoaou)
  I been around the world
    [Verse Two: Puff Daddy]
    Yea-yea, yeah, yeah
  I was in one bedroom, dreamin of a million
  Now my beach houses creamed to the ceiling
  I was a gentleman livin in tenements
  Now I'm swimmin' in all the women every tens
  Went from Bad Boys to the Crushed Linen Men
  Now my dividends be the new Benjamins
  Chicks of all complexions, I like cinnamon
  Mase you got some girls, well playboy
  Send 'em in
  What you waitin' for let the freakshow begin
  How they came in a truck [Mase:] (Nah Puff, that's a Benz)
  Mercedes, come here baby
  You don't like the way it's hot and hazy
  Never shady, you must be crazy
  It's ridiculous how they keep their lips on this
  Don't kiss right there, girlfriend I'm ticklish
  And I be switchin fees with a wrist full of G's
  Playa please, I'm the macaroni with the cheese
    [Chorus: Puffy, (Carl Thomas)]
    I been around
  Yea-yea, yeah, yeah
  I been around the world (I been around)
  I been around (Been around)
  I been around the world (Ai-yeah)
  I been around (Aiii, yeah-yeah-yeah)
  I been around the world
  Can't stop the power
  I been around (Whoaou)
  I been around the world
    [Verse Three: Mase, Puff Daddy]
    What, what
  You don't know who the hell I be
  Can tell I be
  Now hasta la vista, c'est la vie
  Now what have we a cat in a Bentley waggy
  That keep cats saggy, roll with P-Daddy
  Some be wanna bag me, girls be one to stab me
  I be more than gladly to tell a foe
  Yo, you ain't offendin' me
  It ain't like you the third son of the Kennedy
  Or even in a mob where you can send for me
  But all until you talk you don't ever spend a G
  I know how it be
  You know me from before when I used to detour
  Down in B-more, push the E or
  Days I just kick it
  My crew buys Crystal just so we can spit it
  All that expensive stuff just so that we can shit it
  Be a lot of places that you niggaz can't visit
  Talking cause I live it
    [repeat Chorus]
    [Outro: (Heard in background)]
    The remix
  9-8, B.I.G. forever
  Can't stop and we won't stop
  We don't even know how to stop
  Let's go, Big ???, Big Carl
  Harlem on the rise
  and you don't want no problem with us guys
  L-O-X, Little Justin
  I see Quincy
  Ha ha ha, ahh, 9-8 we got a game
  We gon keep puttin it on your ass
  And we won't stop, we don't even know how to stop
    [repeat chorus till fade]