[Produced by No I.D.]
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[Intro: Kaye Fox & Hannah Sidibe]
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Oooooh-ooooh-oooooooh
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42nd Street Terminal
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[Sounds of a subway train]
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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Yo, yo, I live it and I speak it, my religion is reefer
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Big money and the most uninhibited freak to sleep with
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My visions are realistic, nothing is figurative
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I can wish it into existing, God want this nigga to live
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Blunt big as a dread, I get high and forget who bled
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Who we stomp-kicked in the head and who we left for dead
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Who are you niggas? Why argue niggas?
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The truth is the truth, I really put my scars on niggas
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They wear them lifetime, they tell they hoes, Nas did this
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Pointing to they scars like, right here, baby, really Nas did this
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Like a badge of honor, not bragging Im just honest
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War stories we tell them, nothings realer than karma
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Sip prohibition liquor, prohibition whiskey
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Rap Jack Dempsey, matte black Bentley, pimply
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Shattering your silence, passing round the chalice
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Due to my Indian ancestry at the weed dispensery
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Official kings and gents is who I mix and mingle with
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Fuck your ice, I rock rubies, amethyst
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Ill fuck your wife cause she a groupie, scandalous
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This for my bad hood bitches, ghetto glamorous
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[Break: Large Professor]
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Yo, what we talking bout niggas?
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What we talking bout niggas?
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This is Nas, what, Nas
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What, Nasty, what, recollect motherfucker
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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Uhh, uhh, uhh
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At seventeen I made seventeen thousand living in public housing
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Integrity intact, repping hard
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They asking how he disappear and reappear back on top
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Saying Nas must have naked pictures of God or something
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To keep winning is my way like Francis
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As long as Im breathing, Ill take chances
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A soldier coming home, twenty years old with no legs
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Sayin theres no sense to cry and complain, just go ‘head
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So much to write and say, yo I dont know where to start
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So Ill begin with the basics and flow from the heart
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I know you think my life is good cause my diamond piece
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But my life been good since I started finding peace
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I shouldnt even be smiling, I should be angry and depressed
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I been rich longer than I been broke, I confess
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I started out broke, got rich, lost paper then made it back
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Like Trump being up down up, play with cash, huh
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[Break: Large Professor]
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My niggas like a locomotive
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Nas, we pushed it, mush it
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Queensbridge to Bushwick
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Harlem, Bronx, all that
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You aint even supposed to be here
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You know where you at?
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[Verse 3: Nas]
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At night, New York, eat a slice too hot
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Use my tongue to tear the skin hanging from the roof of my mouth
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Shit was felicissimo melting pot, city sweltering hot
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Staggering, drunker than them cops that 2Pac shot
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I was a crook by the train with that iron thing, concealed reaching
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Soon as I heard them iron wheels screeching
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When it came to a halt whoever walked off got caught
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Token man safe behind a locked door for sure
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Minor thief shit, minor league shit, beasting
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Looking for the juks young, but now we older chiefing
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In my truck, play The Greatest Adventures of Slick Rick
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Bugging on how his imagination was so sick
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Its ghetto beef, sinister niggas snicker through yellow teeth
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Alcohol aging my niggas faster than felonies
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How dare I, must be, something in the air that corrupts me
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Look at my upkeep, owned and sublease
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Im here yall
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[Outro: Nas]
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This for my trapped in the 90s niggas
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For my trapped in the 90s niggas
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Ha for yall niggas
