[Intro]
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Yep, I need money every day
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Like a junkie need heroin, you know what Im sayin?
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And Im a junkie, and thats my fix, money
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You know what Im sayin?
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I need it every day
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[Verse 1]
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Nas like the Nazca Lines, can only be seen from up high
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Only the true understand me but I see em as family
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I saw the shit when I was fourteen, I counted on it
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I was born a don with a powerful poignant style they wanted
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Never dissing for clout, yall know what this about
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Niggas tryna deflect from the fact people sort of fizzle out
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The people saw them try to make hit songs that went wrong
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This about the money, right? ‘Cause all that shit done been gone
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Lets throw a nickel at the wishing well rappers
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Watch it sink to the bottom, and I wish em all happiness
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Im in the cut, attention needers need to front, see em front
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The world watching em shine, thats all they want
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And I always get my cut, imagine that making you mad
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Im just a real version, they dont make em like that
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Never had to get the youth to relate for the bag
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And since they smarter than us, they know Nas was once they age
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Made they pay grade, the youngster phase
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Same mistakes though times have changed
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Trying not to touch the cage but touch interior
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In the front is the trunk, thats the custom carrier
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Lets play a game, I hand you a king of diamonds
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The hand is faster than the eye, check in your pocket
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I snap my fingers, Im up in smoke like The Chronic
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Disappear and reappear right in front of your optics
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[Chorus]
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Lets slow it down
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Was I moving too fast for you?
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Lets slow it down then
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If you gotta slow it down, I wont laugh at you
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Lets slow it down, slow it down
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Might be moving too fast for you
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Was I moving too fast for them?
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Slow it down, lets, lets slow it down
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[Verse 2]
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Upon closer inspection
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They really are non-threatening, I bomb first then I stretch em
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Instigators causing these problems, thats why I question
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Everything and everybody thats aiming in this direction
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Thats why I sound like I been spending time at the SPA
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Thinkin bout the days I first heard I Became a Star
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Words from my A&R, Im noticing that they notice me
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Gun and a mean mug and was slow to speak
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Now I hold meetings over cold sake and kobe beef
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Hockey jersey, a hoodie underneath
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Set up the trust, support the trustee
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Corporations is the modern day custies
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My flow is the hard substance, mastered it, Bernie Grundman
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The stove top and oven, my company going public
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I see the puppets, they moving like they the judges
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But Nas and all his subjects is hard for you to catch up with
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[Chorus]
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Lets slow it down
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Was I moving too fast for you?
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Lets slow it down then
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If you gotta slow it down, I wont laugh at you
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Lets slow it down, slow it down
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Might be moving too fast for you
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Was I moving too fast for them?
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Slow it down, lets, lets slow it down
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[Verse 3]
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I might be moving at lightspeed
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I landed icy in Iceland to sightsee
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This long mink gon be pricey
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I might perm up my shit like Im Ice-T
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American pimp, Im on timing
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Only thing that I pimp is this rhyming
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I made that work for me back since the 90s
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Thats a daily affirmations to remind me
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I might be moving at lightspeed
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To do what Im doings unlikely
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This new urgencys perfectly hurting em
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Send these suckers to emergency nightly
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[Outro]
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(S-slow it down)