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The ill reminisce and think about the fly days |
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Nothing like them 80s summer N.Y. days |
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Hop on the NB5 days |
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Mopeds, Pro Keds, city split five ways |
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How it all started, fifth floor apartment |
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A jigsaw puzzle aerial view of the projects |
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A kid saw struggle, buried a few of his partners |
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Now chill in resorts, enjoying massages |
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Check out the oracle bred from city housing |
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Nas, I'll rise the deads by thousands |
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I remember seeing Shan chilling near his Audi |
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Hollis Ave. running them, but I probably |
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Put a poster up of Shan and Marley, that was art, kid |
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You love to hear the story how it started |
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The bubbly I'm pouring wasn't popped yet |
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Before there was a audience to watch us |
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I assure you, there was a process |
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"You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started" |
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How it all got started, yeah |
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"You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started" |
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How it, how it all got started |
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"You love to hear the story how it all, how it all got started" |
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Hear the story, started off |
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Started off, started off |
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How it all got started |
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"Back when, back when, back when, back when |
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Back when, back when, back when, back when" |
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To call them fake today is hate, real n*ggas extinct |
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Pac left me inside a rap world with n*ggas that's weak |
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And other rappers, undercover n*ggas spit every way |
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Won't be surprised if all their rides have federal plates |
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Let alone their wardrobes are Studio 4 flow |
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It was real when I appeared, it would've been some jaws broke |
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Nas, my real name, stage name, same thing |
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How could you let these lames claim king? I'm so ashamed, man |
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I light a L for Vernon, for n*ggas who would burn in Hell |
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For Vernon; 10th Street, 12th Street, Nightmare on Elm Street |
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Pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials |
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Of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true |
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Who possesses the testicular fortitude |
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To blow away myths that's a hindrance to all of you? |
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You blame your own shortcomings on section, race |
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The mafia, homosexuals and all the Jews |
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It's hogwash point of views, stereotypical |
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Anti-Semitic like the foul words Gibson spewed |
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And it's pathetic, I don't get the credit I deserve |
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That's why I hate doing interviews |
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But I don't sweat it, study long, study raw |
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My man Deon said "Nas over-think the songs he writing" |
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I'm not a wack performer standing behind a corny hype man |
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I got the Donism, I'm here to enlighten |
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"You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started" |
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How it all got started, yeah |
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"You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started" |
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How it, how it all got started |
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"You love to hear the story how it all, how it all got started" |
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Hear the story, started off |
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Started off, started off |
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How it all got started |
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"Back when, back when, back when, back when |
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Back when, back when, back when, back when" |
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