[00:02.93]Artist: Nas
[00:03.39]Album:  God's Son
[00:03.95]Song:   The Cross
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[00:18.09]I carry the cross, if Virgin Mary had an abortion
[00:20.90]I'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[00:23.93]Had to bring it back to New York
[00:25.58]I'm happy that the streets is back in New York
[00:27.77]For you rappers, I carry the cross
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[00:29.73]I carry the cross, if Virgin Mary had an abortion
[00:32.49]I'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[00:35.48]Had to bring it back to New York
[00:37.37]I'm happy that the streets is back in New York
[00:39.45]For you rappers, I carry the cross
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[00:41.61]Y'all can keep y'all weak beats, from your corny producers
[00:44.21]There's a new king of the streets, you're gonna get used to
[00:47.20]I was the old king of the streets, that y'all once hated
[00:50.19]But now I reinvented myself, and y'all all waited
[00:53.07]NAS, N.A.S. mean Niggaz Against Society
[00:56.23]Noisy I aim not silently, noose all surroundin me
[00:58.99]I hang 'em I string 'em up ain't no thing I just drop 'em
[01:01.98]to which doctor you copped and you locked and it ain't what it was
[01:04.28]I changed it up from that pop shit it's hard to see R&B
[01:07.66]rappers arguably, started fuckin up the game horribly
[01:10.86]Cause, I parted the sea, then these novices targetted me
[01:14.05]Bitches infatuated say they love me lyin to me
[01:17.03]What I've discovered is my brother's tryin to be
[01:19.65]the next me, yeah I support him but he's blinded I see
[01:22.49]jealousy he love me to death am I buggin I love him for life
[01:26.31]We both still mournin on our mother's, life
[01:28.45]And I don't need much but a Dutch, a bitch to fuck
[01:31.42]A six, a truck, some guns to bust
[01:33.56]I wish it was that simple, the last emperor, hit yo' ass
[01:36.34]with the Nasty Nas, diary, get out my path
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[01:40.31]I carry the cross, if Virgin Mary had an abortion
[01:42.64]I'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[01:45.68]Had to bring it back to New York
[01:47.44]I'm happy that the streets is back in New York
[01:49.63]For you rappers, I carry the cross
[01:51.19]
[01:51.66]I carry the cross, if Virgin Mary had an abortion
[01:54.44]I'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[01:57.32]Had to bring it back to New York
[01:59.22]I'm happy that the streets is back in New York
[02:01.56]For you rappers, I carry the cross
[02:02.47]
[02:03.70]I can't keep a bitch cause none of them come up for a little less
[02:06.27]I can't be too rich, too many hoes, lined up for sex
[02:09.01]I can't rest until my niggaz in houses with pretty maids
[02:11.83]Water and flowers in 'em
[02:13.64]While my niggaz walk around in they trousers grinnin
[02:15.96]Gotta keep a lot of heat; 30 cals 10 millimeters
[02:19.27]40 cals plus the heckler, to set y'all straight
[02:22.00]You too light?  I shoot your freckles out
[02:24.02]You too dark?  The infrared show you what the tec about
[02:26.87]Huh?  I'm stressin out, need more offices for bosses
[02:29.50]Secretaries and meetings with big sharks, who mad greedy
[02:32.63]We can sell mo', boats on the coast
[02:34.72]Give, coats to the po' and give, hope to the broke then live low
[02:38.13]But that ain't reality, I look happy but under the sky
[02:41.19]You see a nigga who know, out of three women 2 out of 3
[02:44.32]will love you but lead you to they own, hidden evil
[02:47.24]BITCH!  You the reason niggaz be beefin, hoe get on
[02:50.30]'Posed to be Earth, ain't worth the pussy that you sit on
[02:52.86]From here on, it's a new day
[02:54.84]Million dollars ain't, what it was yesterday
[02:57.49]Many problems, many niggaz, most involved but they fake
[02:59.58]Hope y'all relate
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[03:02.00]I carry the cross, if Virgin Mary had an abortion
[03:06.84]I'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[03:08.06]Had to bring it back to New York
[03:10.81]I'm happy that the streets is back in New York
[03:11.61]For you rappers, I carry the cross
[03:12.92]
[03:13.40]I carry the cross, if Virgin Mary had an abortion
[03:16.24]I'd still be carried in the chariot by stampeding horses
[03:19.24]Had to bring it back to New York
[03:21.15]I'm happy that the streets is back in New York
[03:23.13]For you rappers, I carry the cross
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[03:25.06]I carry the cross