[Intro]
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Japan, I ask you
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Do you love hip-hop music?
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Uh
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[Chorus]
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Cigars in the Japanese soul bar, drinkin scotch til daybreak
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KD3 had gold bars, these vibranium cant break (Uh)
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Thats the one
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Do music for fun
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Give deals to artists (Yeah)
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Pull up to the office (Yeah)
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[Verse]
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Yeah, Im from the projects, so quadruple in my youthful
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So I could boost you, unlimited game I could shoot you (Woo)
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I own my masters now, but the reversions is crucial (True)
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I used to wonder, was they ever jerkin the Juice Crew?
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Wanted: Dead or Alive shouldve been platinum five times (G. Rap)
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A young Russell, Rick Rubin, and Fly Ty
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Ran the music biz (Uh)
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Andre Harrell saw the future is
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Hip-hop
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LErmitage hotel balcony, Louis flip-flops
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Meetings in the mezzanine (Woo)
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With production companies, talkin bout me directin things
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Said I need a CAA, ‘stead I went to ICM
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Said without an agency, all my chances might be slim
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My humble beginnings aint what my hunger diminished (Uh-huh)
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A burnout in this game before I would run into millions (Sheesh)
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See, thats a major fumble (Uh)
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And Im made for the jungles (Uh)
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So I called Jungle
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I said, “Put away the bundles” (Lets go)
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Truly, they gon cry when they see this movie (I know)
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No dry eyes in the theater, the viewers are livin through me (Uh)
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Been thinkin bout who could play me in Tokyo, Paradiso, Belize (Yeah)
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Karaoke, Im participatin, singin Barry
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White, that is (Ha)
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On a good night like this (Yeah, yeah)
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How do I write like this?
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First of all, you gotta have a good life like this (Woo)
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A real life like this
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[Chorus]
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Cigars in the Japanese soul bar, drinkin scotch til daybreak (Uh)
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KD3 had gold bars (Yeah), these vibranium cant break
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Thats the one
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Do music for fun
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Make deals with artists (Yeah)
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Pull up to the office
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[Outro]
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Make deals to artists
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Pull up to the office
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Yeah
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Konichiwa, yeah
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Japanese soul bar, red light bulbs
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A turntable, record selection
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Pictures and frames from those days
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Soul music
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Uh
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[Interlude]
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Somebody from Queens brought it live tonight
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You, you see a lot of Bronx acts, a lot of Brooklyn acts, but you never see Queens acts in the Fever really
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But Nasty Nas, one of the youngest artists out right now, whos doin this thing, new artist
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Hes keepin it live, keepin it real
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This is Nasty Nas
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And the whole Queensbridge masters, can I say that?
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Now, Nas, you have a different style
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I, I, I, I know theres a lot of rappers out there who Im sure you looked up to over the years
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But right now a lot of new rappers and older rappers are lookin up to you
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How do you feel to be like, a, a, a living prodigy?
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I mean, its a pro— its a blessing
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Im a product of hip-hop, you know what Im sayin?
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Im a product from— of the old school and the newest of the new
