Lyrics: Nasir Jones/Ernest Wilson
Music: Nasir Jones/Ernest Wilson
42nd street terminal
Yo, yo, I live it and I speak it
My religion is reefer
Big money in most, an uninhibited freak to sleep with
My visions are realistic, nothingâs figurative
I can wish it into existence, God want this nigga to live
Blunt big as a dread, I get high and forget who bled
Who we stomp-kicked in the head and who we left for dead
Who are you niggas? Why argue niggas?
The truth is the truth, I really put my scars on niggas
They wait a lifetime, they tell they hoes, âNas thisdid â
Pointinâ to they scars like, âRight here, baby, really Nas did thisâ
Like a badge of honor, not bragginâ Iâm just honest
War stories we tell them, nothinâs realer than karma
Sip prohibition liquor, prohibition whiskey
Rap Jack Demsey, Matt Black Bentley, pimply
Shatterinâ your silence, pass around the chalice
Due to my Indian ancestry at the shit dispensery
Official kings and gents is who I mix and mingle with
**** your ice, I rock rubies, amethyst
I ****ed your wife cause she a groupie, scandalous
This for my bad hood bitches, ghetto glamorous
Yo, what we talkinâ âbout niggas?
What we talkinâ âbout niggas?
This is Nas, what, Nas
What, Nasty, what, recollect,
At seventeen I made seventeen thousand livinâ in public housinâ
Integrity in tact, reppinâ hard
They askinâ how he disappear and reappear back on top
Sayinâ, âNas must have naked pictures of God or somethinââ
To keep winninâ is my way like Francis
As long as m Ibreathinââ, Iâll take chances
A soldier cominâ home, twenty years old with no legs
Sayinâ thereâs no sense to cry and complain, just go âhead
So much to write and say, yo I donât know where to start
So Iâll begin with the basics and flow from the heart
I know you think my life is good cause my diamond piece
But my life been good since I started finding peace
I shouldnât even be smilinâ, I should be angry and depressed
I been rich longer than I been broke, I confess
I started out broke, got rich, lost paper then made it back
Like Trump beinâ up down up, play with cash
My niggas like a locomotive
Nas, we push it, mush âem
Queen*****ridge to Bushwick
Harlem, Bronx, all that
You ainbe âout t hereeven supposed to
You know where you at?
At night, New York, eat a slice too hot
Use my tongue to tear the skin hanginâ from the roof of my mouth
Shit was Falicimo, melted pot, city sweltering hot
Staggerinâ drunker than those cops that 2pac shot
I was a crook by the train with that iron thing, concealed
Reachinâ, soon as I heard them iron wheels screechinâ
When it came to a halt whoever walked off got caught
Toker man safe behind a locked door for sure
Minor theif shit, minor league shit, beastinâ
Lookinâ for the young, but now we older chiefinâ
In my truck, play The Greatest Adventures of Slick Rick
Bugginâ on how his imagination was so sick
Itâs ghetto beef, sinister niggas snicker through yellow teeth
Alchohol aginâ my niggas faster than felonies
How dare I? Must be, somethinâ in the air that corrupts me
Look at my upkeep, owned and sublease
Iâm here ya'll
This for my trapped in the 90âČs niggas
For my trapped in the 90âČs niggas
Ha, for ya'll niggas