Set Up - It Was Written
[Nas] Uhh.. (yeah, yeah, yeah) Q.B. since 1933 (know dat) To nine-six (nine-six motherfucker) Check the shit [Havoc] Nine-six Escobar 600 [Nas] Check the shit My mindset, son got wet, I’m vexed really They snatched off his Rolex, smacked his bitch silly Why niggaz actin illy word to Will he bout to feel it I […]
Intro: Nas (Lauryn Hill singing in the background) Life….. I wonder…. Will it take me under…. I don’t know Verse One: Nas Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin Imagine going to court with no trial Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our […]
[Nas] They never realized, how real Nas, is so decisive It’s just the likeness, of Isrealites mist, that made me write this A slight twist, of lime rhyme, be chasin down your prime time Food for thought or rather mind wine The Don Juan, features the freak shit, my thesis on how we creep quick, […]
[Nas] Uhh.. (yeah, yeah, yeah) Q.B. since 1933 (know dat) To nine-six (nine-six motherfucker) Check the shit [Havoc] Nine-six Escobar 600 [Nas] Check the shit My mindset, son got wet, I’m vexed really They snatched off his Rolex, smacked his bitch silly Why niggaz actin illy word to Will he bout to feel it I […]
Fake thug, no love, you get the slug, CB4 Gusto Your luck low, I didn’t know til I was drunk though You freak niggaz played out, get fucked and ate out Prostitute turned bitch, I got the gauge out 96 ways I made out, Montana way The Good-F-E-L-L-A, verbal AK spray Dipped attache, jumped out […]
"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I’m livin like that" [repeat 2X] [–> Kool Keith from the Ultramagnetic MC’s ‘Ease Back’] [Nas] Yo; I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it’s the best secret I rock a vest, prestigious, Cuban link flooded Jesus in a Lex watchin Kathie Lee […]
Suspect - It Was Written
[45 seconds of talking/skit] [Nas] It was a murder Jake just hit the corner people swarming Three in the morning I jumped out my cab like "Fuck, niggaz is buck," mega bloodshed, the tapes red I heard some bird whisper, "Yo he should have ducked" I puffed the lilla, just before I hit the scene […]
Uhh, what, what, uhh.. [Chorus: Nas (set to Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams")] Street dreams are made of these Niggaz push Beemers and 300 E’s A drug dealer’s destiny is reachin a key Everybody’s lookin for somethin.. Street dreams are made of these Shorties on they knees, for niggaz with big G’s Who am I to disagree? […]
[Chorus: (X4)] [whisper] Silent, silent Murder [Nas] It’s sort of like the conclusion, the color purple Niggas is losing, confusion, with one time all pursuit moves in Grabbing niggas up in this movement to rule shit Cop verses the block, shorties is too quick Lesson number one. If you’re arrested and hung Where niggas is […]
Yo, release what’s in me Besides the Henny, it’s eyes that’s seen plenty Fiends get skinny as if Queens was a Craig Jenny Instead of diet plans it’s crack 200 grams I pump a G-pack, peeping for where the D’s at It’s slow, lookin for Rambo, the cop who got grazed Back in the days, […]
