[00:03.180]42nd street terminal
[00:27.600]Yo, yo, I live it and I speak it
[00:32.910]My religion is reefer
[00:34.030]Big money in most, an uninhibited freak to sleep with
[00:36.770]My visions are realistic, nothing’s figurative
[00:39.460]I can wish it into existence, God want this nigga to live
[00:42.070]Blunt big as a dread, I get high and forget who bled
[00:45.010]Who we stomp-kicked in the head and who we left for dead
[00:47.690]Who are you niggas? Why argue niggas?
[00:50.240]The truth is the truth, I really put my scars on niggas
[00:52.920]They wait a lifetime, they tell they hoes, “Nas thisdid ”
[00:55.850]Pointin’ to they scars like, “Right here, baby, really Nas did this”
[00:58.970]Like a badge of honor, not braggin’ I’m just honest
[01:01.720]War stories we tell them, nothin’s realer than karma
[01:03.960]Sip prohibition liquor, prohibition whiskey
[01:06.340]Rap Jack Demsey, Matt Black Bentley, pimply
[01:09.770]Shatterin’ your silence, pass around the chalice
[01:12.830]Due to my Indian ancestry at the weed dispensery
[01:15.010]Official kings and gents is who I mix and mingle with
[01:17.820]Fuck your ice, I rock rubies, amethyst
[01:19.570]I fuck your wife cause she a groupie, scandalous
[01:23.020]This for my bad hood bitches, ghetto glamorous
[01:25.940]Yo, what we talkin’ ’bout niggas?
[01:28.930]What we talkin’ ’bout niggas?
[01:30.920]This is Nas, what, Nas
[01:33.610]What, Nasty, what, recollect,
[01:36.110]At seventeen I made seventeen thousand livin’ in public housin’
[01:39.480]Integrity in tact, reppin’ hard
[01:41.540]They askin’ how he disappear and reappear back on top
[01:44.090]Sayin’, “Nas must have naked pictures of God or somethin’”
[01:47.710]To keep winnin’ is my way like Francis
[01:49.650]As long as m Ibreathin’’, I’ll take chances
[01:51.780]A soldier comin’ home, twenty years old with no legs
[01:54.580]Sayin’ there’s no sense to cry and complain, just go ‘head
[01:57.450]So much to write and say, yo I don’t know where to start
[02:00.130]So I’ll begin with the basics and flow from the heart
[02:02.380]I know you think my life is good cause my diamond piece
[02:04.570]But my life been good since I started finding peace
[02:07.000]I shouldn’t even be smilin’, I should be angry and depressed
[02:10.360]I been rich longer than I been broke, I confess
[02:12.920]I started out broke, got rich, lost paper then made it back
[02:16.670]Like Trump bein’ up down up, play with cash
[02:19.970]My nigga’s like a locomotive
[02:22.710]Nas, we push it, mush ‘em
[02:27.020]Queensbridge to Bushwick
[02:28.270]Harlem, Bronx, all that
[02:33.950]You ainbe ’out t hereeven supposed to
[02:34.660]You know where you at?
[02:35.850]At night, New York, eat a slice too hot
[02:37.910]Use my tongue to tear the skin hangin’ from the roof of my mouth
[02:40.960]Shit was Falicimo, melted pot, city sweltering hot
[02:43.580]Staggerin’ drunker than those cops that 2pac shot
[02:45.950]I was a crook by the train with that iron thing, concealed
[02:48.890]Reachin’, soon as I heard them iron wheels screechin’
[02:52.010]When it came to a halt whoever walked off got caught
[02:54.370]Toker man safe behind a locked door for sure
[02:57.000]Minor theif shit, minor league shit, beastin’
[02:59.490]Lookin’ for the young, but now we older chiefin’
[03:02.370]In my truck, play The Greatest Adventures of Slick Rick
[03:04.540]Buggin’ on how his imagination was so sick
[03:07.360]It’s ghetto beef, sinister niggas snicker through yellow teeth
[03:10.340]Alchohol agin’ my niggas faster than felonies
[03:13.410]How dare I? Must be, somethin’ in the air that corrupts me
[03:16.590]Look at my upkeep, owned and sublease
[03:18.230]I’m here ya'll
[03:20.290]This for my trapped in the 90′s niggas
[03:23.660]For my trapped in the 90′s niggas
[03:26.240]Ha, for ya'll niggas