[00:01.95]Artist: Nas
[00:02.18]Album:  God's Son
[00:02.41]Song:   Get Down
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[00:03.87]"Get-get.. get down!" - James Brown
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[00:08.40]Uh.. uh.. uh..
[00:15.68]New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete
[00:18.64]And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys admiration
[00:21.37]Prince from Queens and Fritz from Harlem
[00:23.44]Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from starvin
[00:25.97]Pushin cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's
[00:28.74]But there's a long list of high-profile celebrities
[00:31.24]Worldwide on the thorough side of things
[00:33.60]Livest kings, some died, one guy, one time
[00:36.49]one day grabs me, as I'm about to blast heat
[00:39.00]40-side of Vernon, I turned well he asked me
[00:41.76]"Whatchu up to, the cops gon' bust you"
[00:43.94]I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered
[00:47.01]if God sent him, cause two squad cars entered the block
[00:49.46]and looked at us, I ain't flinch when they watched
[00:51.40]I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair
[00:53.46]Starin at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do
[00:57.54]Yeah man, throwin them bones
[00:59.63]Hopin my ace get his case thrown
[01:01.58]His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight hoein
[01:04.61]While he lookin at centerfolds of pretty girls
[01:07.07]showin they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's livin proof
[01:10.11]The D.A. who tried him was lyin
[01:12.42]A white dude, killed his mother durin the case
[01:14.78]Hung jury, now the D.A. is bein replaced
[01:16.68]Pre-trial hearin is over, it's real for the soldier
[01:19.60]Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild
[01:22.49]Triple-homicide, I sit in the back aisle
[01:24.83]I wanna crack a smile when I see him
[01:26.55]Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his freedom
[01:29.99]He grabbed a court officer's gun and started squeezin
[01:32.31]Then he grabbed the judge, screams out -- nobody leavin everybody
[01:34.16]
[01:34.61]"Get down, get down!  Get down, get down!" - James Brown
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[01:44.70]Everybody
[01:45.63]"Get down, get down!  Get down, get down!" - James Brown
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[01:54.94]Some niggaz fuck they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em
[01:57.65]Weird-ass niggaz are dangerous, so don't test 'em
[01:59.94]They make you, dissapear, this a year that I won't forget
[02:02.91]Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' execs
[02:05.51]Southern niggaz, independent label, real killers
[02:08.18]Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chillin
[02:10.79]They had the coke game somethin crazy
[02:12.72]Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me
[02:15.58]Put me onto heron blunts, sherm or somethin
[02:18.18]Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them
[02:20.44]Southern niggaz ain't slow, nigga tried to play me
[02:22.89]I left from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy
[02:25.48]Now I'm back around the old school that raised me
[02:27.88]New York gangstas, we loungin, out in L.A. see
[02:30.86]A dude wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay
[02:33.11]The letter say, "Nas I got your back - the fools don't play"
[02:35.68]I rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral
[02:38.31]Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible
[02:41.55]The nigga still alive in a hospital
[02:43.63]Midnight they crept in his room and shot the doctor too
[02:46.42]See my cousin's in the game, thuggin and things
[02:48.76]He plugged me with a dame who was half-Mexicano
[02:50.85]Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano
[02:53.46]She passed me the indigo, but the imbecile
[02:56.00]shoulda never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed
[02:58.24]Openin the hotel room do', to let her goons in
[03:01.49]But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li shit
[03:04.16]I let the hammers blow, wet three kids
[03:06.25]See honey thought I had somethin to do, with all the drama
[03:08.79]Cause I was with a crew, that had her people killed
[03:11.22]Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fuckin witchu
[03:13.86]He responded cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
[03:16.02]
[03:16.74]"Get down, get down!  Get down, get down!" - James Brown
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[03:26.33]Everybody
[03:27.20]"Get down, get down!  Get down, get down!" - James Brown
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[03:38.76]All I really gotta say is that
[03:41.38]if that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up?
[03:45.76]How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get down?
[03:49.20]A shame when you ain't look at it
[03:51.38]My folk is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk
[03:55.83]Somebody gotta make a change