Song | Let There Be Light |
Artist | Nas |
Artist | Tre Williams |
Album | Hip Hop Is Dead |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
[00:02.500] | Yeah, check check, testing |
[00:04.960] | |
[00:06.220] | It's clear out there? Yeah |
[00:08.770] | |
[00:16.350] | It's like |
[00:16.680] | I'm hang gliding over the hood, ha |
[00:17.930] | |
[00:25.820] | Never worry (ohhh, no, no, no) |
[00:28.770] | |
[00:30.940] | Check, let there be light |
[00:33.200] | |
[00:34.040] | No gang banging in New York tonight |
[00:36.130] | Just murals of Biggie Smalls, |
[00:37.680] | bigger then life |
[00:38.830] | Turn up the kid mic cuz |
[00:40.220] | ya'll ain't listening right |
[00:41.140] | |
[00:41.810] | What's all this talk that Nas got bought? |
[00:43.530] | |
[00:44.090] | I'd rather outline my body in white chalk |
[00:45.660] | |
[00:46.930] | Ain't nobody been where I been, |
[00:48.420] | they at a stand still |
[00:49.880] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[00:51.310] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[00:54.180] | I know that |
[00:54.840] | I ain't got much time left |
[00:56.980] | And they don't really wanna see the good in me |
[00:59.130] | Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[01:01.980] | (And I) |
[01:02.510] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[01:04.120] | (And I) |
[01:04.900] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[01:07.270] | (And I) Forgive 'em all, |
[01:08.270] | they did they best to hate |
[01:10.270] | Oh, let there be light |
[01:12.730] | This ain't the glorified, |
[01:14.700] | just painting the street picture |
[01:15.370] | There's no God in sir Bibles, |
[01:16.630] | just blunt and switches |
[01:17.840] | Gillettes cut pain in kitchen |
[01:19.800] | Now every rapper wanna claim he |
[01:21.600] | hang with Kenneth "Supreme" Griffith |
[01:22.910] | It's like the same difference cept |
[01:24.490] | when niggaz get arraigned |
[01:25.790] | They don't want the same sentence, |
[01:27.180] | niggaz get to snitchin |
[01:28.420] | If I could reverse the monsters |
[01:30.060] | and turn forward the razas |
[01:31.460] | And bring back the niggaz who was livest |
[01:33.290] | Old hustlers, |
[01:34.330] | reminscing on better days |
[01:36.180] | They home, doing nothing, |
[01:37.190] | might as well be in a cage |
[01:38.810] | Hating on young brothers, |
[01:40.020] | one foot in the grave |
[01:41.150] | They used to love us till |
[01:42.330] | we found our own way thru the maze |
[01:43.740] | New York, set trippin and flaggin |
[01:45.720] | Got the West Coast laughing, now Esco's asking |
[01:48.330] | What happened? My homegirl from upper Manhattan |
[01:50.840] | She remembers the quarters that's Latin, |
[01:52.650] | alotta rat-a-tat-tatting |
[01:53.950] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[01:55.630] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[01:57.080] | I know that |
[01:57.920] | I ain't got much time left |
[01:59.480] | And they don't really wanna see the good in me |
[02:01.670] | Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[02:04.500] | (And I) |
[02:04.960] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[02:06.670] | (And I) |
[02:07.570] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[02:09.700] | (And I) Forgive 'em all, |
[02:10.790] | they did they best to hate |
[02:12.680] | Oh, let there be light |
[02:14.880] | The son of the audio cassette era, |
[02:16.380] | tech wearer |
[02:17.220] | Bullets and begets, Binzbo's speaker terror |
[02:19.940] | Till man I get mine till I'm dead, |
[02:21.720] | so I can drive sumpthin red |
[02:23.090] | Like that horse standing on it's hind legs |
[02:24.790] | Since Arnold and Willis in they bunk beds |
[02:26.790] | I wanted bread like Wonder, |
[02:28.090] | not manned-a-wanno like the parent of Lionel |
[02:30.490] | Nas is the Ghetto American Idol |
[02:32.510] | No matter what you do |
[02:33.920] | you're never getting my title |
[02:35.380] | I can't sound smart cuz ya'll'll run away |
[02:37.450] | They say I ain't hungry no more |
[02:39.210] | and I don't talk about 'ye |
[02:40.450] | Like there's no other way for a ex-hustler |
[02:42.550] | Cake ya, the x-ray splitter to touch ya, |
[02:44.740] | I beg to differ |
[02:45.790] | When you're four years into the game, |
[02:47.110] | we can have a conversation |
[02:48.340] | Eight years in the game, |
[02:49.450] | I invite ya on vacation |
[02:50.530] | Ten years in the game, |
[02:51.890] | after I've enjoyed my fame |
[02:53.860] | Only then I let ya pick my brain, niggaz |
[02:56.200] | (And I) Right about now (And I) |
[02:59.600] | (They don't really know) |
[03:01.060] | (And I) (They don't really see) |
[03:03.240] | |
[03:03.900] | (No, no, no) We getting real right, ya know? |
[03:06.820] | (And I) |
[03:07.570] | That is Tre Williams ladies and gentlemen |
[03:09.760] | (They should fear no) |
[03:11.190] | |
[03:11.750] | (And I) |
[03:12.330] | |
[03:13.300] | Focus on good things man, |
[03:14.680] | good times, Heh-heh, alright |
[03:16.430] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[03:18.020] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[03:19.500] | I know that |
[03:20.080] | I ain't got much time left |
[03:22.020] | And they don't really wanna see the good in me |
[03:24.320] | Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[03:27.260] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[03:29.500] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[03:32.450] | Forgive 'em all, |
[03:33.450] | they did they best to hate |
[03:35.700] | Oh, let there be light |
[03:37.560] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[03:38.780] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[03:40.040] | I know that |
[03:40.630] | I ain't got much time left |
[03:42.780] | And they don't really wanna see the good in me |
[03:44.860] | Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[03:47.650] | (And I) |
[03:48.330] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[03:50.270] | (And I) |
[03:51.200] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[03:53.220] | (And I) Forgive 'em all, |
[03:54.170] | they did they best to hate |
[03:55.760] | |
[03:56.290] | Oh, let there be light |
[04:00.280] | |
[04:02.440] | Oh let it be, let it be, yeah |
[04:06.310] | |
[04:08.150] | Let it be, let it be |
[00:02.500] | Yeah, check check, testing |
[00:04.960] | |
[00:06.220] | It' s clear out there? Yeah |
[00:08.770] | |
[00:16.350] | It' s like |
[00:16.680] | I' m hang gliding over the hood, ha |
[00:17.930] | |
[00:25.820] | Never worry ohhh, no, no, no |
[00:28.770] | |
[00:30.940] | Check, let there be light |
[00:33.200] | |
[00:34.040] | No gang banging in New York tonight |
[00:36.130] | Just murals of Biggie Smalls, |
[00:37.680] | bigger then life |
[00:38.830] | Turn up the kid mic cuz |
[00:40.220] | ya' ll ain' t listening right |
[00:41.140] | |
[00:41.810] | What' s all this talk that Nas got bought? |
[00:43.530] | |
[00:44.090] | I' d rather outline my body in white chalk |
[00:45.660] | |
[00:46.930] | Ain' t nobody been where I been, |
[00:48.420] | they at a stand still |
[00:49.880] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[00:51.310] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[00:54.180] | I know that |
[00:54.840] | I ain' t got much time left |
[00:56.980] | And they don' t really wanna see the good in me |
[00:59.130] | Ain' t satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[01:01.980] | And I |
[01:02.510] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[01:04.120] | And I |
[01:04.900] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[01:07.270] | And I Forgive ' em all, |
[01:08.270] | they did they best to hate |
[01:10.270] | Oh, let there be light |
[01:12.730] | This ain' t the glorified, |
[01:14.700] | just painting the street picture |
[01:15.370] | There' s no God in sir Bibles, |
[01:16.630] | just blunt and switches |
[01:17.840] | Gillettes cut pain in kitchen |
[01:19.800] | Now every rapper wanna claim he |
[01:21.600] | hang with Kenneth Supreme Griffith |
[01:22.910] | It' s like the same difference cept |
[01:24.490] | when niggaz get arraigned |
[01:25.790] | They don' t want the same sentence, |
[01:27.180] | niggaz get to snitchin |
[01:28.420] | If I could reverse the monsters |
[01:30.060] | and turn forward the razas |
[01:31.460] | And bring back the niggaz who was livest |
[01:33.290] | Old hustlers, |
[01:34.330] | reminscing on better days |
[01:36.180] | They home, doing nothing, |
[01:37.190] | might as well be in a cage |
[01:38.810] | Hating on young brothers, |
[01:40.020] | one foot in the grave |
[01:41.150] | They used to love us till |
[01:42.330] | we found our own way thru the maze |
[01:43.740] | New York, set trippin and flaggin |
[01:45.720] | Got the West Coast laughing, now Esco' s asking |
[01:48.330] | What happened? My homegirl from upper Manhattan |
[01:50.840] | She remembers the quarters that' s Latin, |
[01:52.650] | alotta ratatattatting |
[01:53.950] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[01:55.630] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[01:57.080] | I know that |
[01:57.920] | I ain' t got much time left |
[01:59.480] | And they don' t really wanna see the good in me |
[02:01.670] | Ain' t satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[02:04.500] | And I |
[02:04.960] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[02:06.670] | And I |
[02:07.570] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[02:09.700] | And I Forgive ' em all, |
[02:10.790] | they did they best to hate |
[02:12.680] | Oh, let there be light |
[02:14.880] | The son of the audio cassette era, |
[02:16.380] | tech wearer |
[02:17.220] | Bullets and begets, Binzbo' s speaker terror |
[02:19.940] | Till man I get mine till I' m dead, |
[02:21.720] | so I can drive sumpthin red |
[02:23.090] | Like that horse standing on it' s hind legs |
[02:24.790] | Since Arnold and Willis in they bunk beds |
[02:26.790] | I wanted bread like Wonder, |
[02:28.090] | not mannedawanno like the parent of Lionel |
[02:30.490] | Nas is the Ghetto American Idol |
[02:32.510] | No matter what you do |
[02:33.920] | you' re never getting my title |
[02:35.380] | I can' t sound smart cuz ya' ll' ll run away |
[02:37.450] | They say I ain' t hungry no more |
[02:39.210] | and I don' t talk about ' ye |
[02:40.450] | Like there' s no other way for a exhustler |
[02:42.550] | Cake ya, the xray splitter to touch ya, |
[02:44.740] | I beg to differ |
[02:45.790] | When you' re four years into the game, |
[02:47.110] | we can have a conversation |
[02:48.340] | Eight years in the game, |
[02:49.450] | I invite ya on vacation |
[02:50.530] | Ten years in the game, |
[02:51.890] | after I' ve enjoyed my fame |
[02:53.860] | Only then I let ya pick my brain, niggaz |
[02:56.200] | And I Right about now And I |
[02:59.600] | They don' t really know |
[03:01.060] | And I They don' t really see |
[03:03.240] | |
[03:03.900] | No, no, no We getting real right, ya know? |
[03:06.820] | And I |
[03:07.570] | That is Tre Williams ladies and gentlemen |
[03:09.760] | They should fear no |
[03:11.190] | |
[03:11.750] | And I |
[03:12.330] | |
[03:13.300] | Focus on good things man, |
[03:14.680] | good times, Hehheh, alright |
[03:16.430] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[03:18.020] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[03:19.500] | I know that |
[03:20.080] | I ain' t got much time left |
[03:22.020] | And they don' t really wanna see the good in me |
[03:24.320] | Ain' t satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[03:27.260] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[03:29.500] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[03:32.450] | Forgive ' em all, |
[03:33.450] | they did they best to hate |
[03:35.700] | Oh, let there be light |
[03:37.560] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[03:38.780] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[03:40.040] | I know that |
[03:40.630] | I ain' t got much time left |
[03:42.780] | And they don' t really wanna see the good in me |
[03:44.860] | Ain' t satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[03:47.650] | And I |
[03:48.330] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[03:50.270] | And I |
[03:51.200] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[03:53.220] | And I Forgive ' em all, |
[03:54.170] | they did they best to hate |
[03:55.760] | |
[03:56.290] | Oh, let there be light |
[04:00.280] | |
[04:02.440] | Oh let it be, let it be, yeah |
[04:06.310] | |
[04:08.150] | Let it be, let it be |
[00:02.500] | Yeah, check check, testing |
[00:04.960] | |
[00:06.220] | It' s clear out there? Yeah |
[00:08.770] | |
[00:16.350] | It' s like |
[00:16.680] | I' m hang gliding over the hood, ha |
[00:17.930] | |
[00:25.820] | Never worry ohhh, no, no, no |
[00:28.770] | |
[00:30.940] | Check, let there be light |
[00:33.200] | |
[00:34.040] | No gang banging in New York tonight |
[00:36.130] | Just murals of Biggie Smalls, |
[00:37.680] | bigger then life |
[00:38.830] | Turn up the kid mic cuz |
[00:40.220] | ya' ll ain' t listening right |
[00:41.140] | |
[00:41.810] | What' s all this talk that Nas got bought? |
[00:43.530] | |
[00:44.090] | I' d rather outline my body in white chalk |
[00:45.660] | |
[00:46.930] | Ain' t nobody been where I been, |
[00:48.420] | they at a stand still |
[00:49.880] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[00:51.310] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[00:54.180] | I know that |
[00:54.840] | I ain' t got much time left |
[00:56.980] | And they don' t really wanna see the good in me |
[00:59.130] | Ain' t satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[01:01.980] | And I |
[01:02.510] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[01:04.120] | And I |
[01:04.900] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[01:07.270] | And I Forgive ' em all, |
[01:08.270] | they did they best to hate |
[01:10.270] | Oh, let there be light |
[01:12.730] | This ain' t the glorified, |
[01:14.700] | just painting the street picture |
[01:15.370] | There' s no God in sir Bibles, |
[01:16.630] | just blunt and switches |
[01:17.840] | Gillettes cut pain in kitchen |
[01:19.800] | Now every rapper wanna claim he |
[01:21.600] | hang with Kenneth Supreme Griffith |
[01:22.910] | It' s like the same difference cept |
[01:24.490] | when niggaz get arraigned |
[01:25.790] | They don' t want the same sentence, |
[01:27.180] | niggaz get to snitchin |
[01:28.420] | If I could reverse the monsters |
[01:30.060] | and turn forward the razas |
[01:31.460] | And bring back the niggaz who was livest |
[01:33.290] | Old hustlers, |
[01:34.330] | reminscing on better days |
[01:36.180] | They home, doing nothing, |
[01:37.190] | might as well be in a cage |
[01:38.810] | Hating on young brothers, |
[01:40.020] | one foot in the grave |
[01:41.150] | They used to love us till |
[01:42.330] | we found our own way thru the maze |
[01:43.740] | New York, set trippin and flaggin |
[01:45.720] | Got the West Coast laughing, now Esco' s asking |
[01:48.330] | What happened? My homegirl from upper Manhattan |
[01:50.840] | She remembers the quarters that' s Latin, |
[01:52.650] | alotta ratatattatting |
[01:53.950] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[01:55.630] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[01:57.080] | I know that |
[01:57.920] | I ain' t got much time left |
[01:59.480] | And they don' t really wanna see the good in me |
[02:01.670] | Ain' t satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[02:04.500] | And I |
[02:04.960] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[02:06.670] | And I |
[02:07.570] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[02:09.700] | And I Forgive ' em all, |
[02:10.790] | they did they best to hate |
[02:12.680] | Oh, let there be light |
[02:14.880] | The son of the audio cassette era, |
[02:16.380] | tech wearer |
[02:17.220] | Bullets and begets, Binzbo' s speaker terror |
[02:19.940] | Till man I get mine till I' m dead, |
[02:21.720] | so I can drive sumpthin red |
[02:23.090] | Like that horse standing on it' s hind legs |
[02:24.790] | Since Arnold and Willis in they bunk beds |
[02:26.790] | I wanted bread like Wonder, |
[02:28.090] | not mannedawanno like the parent of Lionel |
[02:30.490] | Nas is the Ghetto American Idol |
[02:32.510] | No matter what you do |
[02:33.920] | you' re never getting my title |
[02:35.380] | I can' t sound smart cuz ya' ll' ll run away |
[02:37.450] | They say I ain' t hungry no more |
[02:39.210] | and I don' t talk about ' ye |
[02:40.450] | Like there' s no other way for a exhustler |
[02:42.550] | Cake ya, the xray splitter to touch ya, |
[02:44.740] | I beg to differ |
[02:45.790] | When you' re four years into the game, |
[02:47.110] | we can have a conversation |
[02:48.340] | Eight years in the game, |
[02:49.450] | I invite ya on vacation |
[02:50.530] | Ten years in the game, |
[02:51.890] | after I' ve enjoyed my fame |
[02:53.860] | Only then I let ya pick my brain, niggaz |
[02:56.200] | And I Right about now And I |
[02:59.600] | They don' t really know |
[03:01.060] | And I They don' t really see |
[03:03.240] | |
[03:03.900] | No, no, no We getting real right, ya know? |
[03:06.820] | And I |
[03:07.570] | That is Tre Williams ladies and gentlemen |
[03:09.760] | They should fear no |
[03:11.190] | |
[03:11.750] | And I |
[03:12.330] | |
[03:13.300] | Focus on good things man, |
[03:14.680] | good times, Hehheh, alright |
[03:16.430] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[03:18.020] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[03:19.500] | I know that |
[03:20.080] | I ain' t got much time left |
[03:22.020] | And they don' t really wanna see the good in me |
[03:24.320] | Ain' t satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[03:27.260] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[03:29.500] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[03:32.450] | Forgive ' em all, |
[03:33.450] | they did they best to hate |
[03:35.700] | Oh, let there be light |
[03:37.560] | This is all overseen by my man Will |
[03:38.780] | As I walk through the shadow of death |
[03:40.040] | I know that |
[03:40.630] | I ain' t got much time left |
[03:42.780] | And they don' t really wanna see the good in me |
[03:44.860] | Ain' t satisfied until they see the fool in me |
[03:47.650] | And I |
[03:48.330] | I know my business, so my sins great |
[03:50.270] | And I |
[03:51.200] | I thank the hood for all the love they gave |
[03:53.220] | And I Forgive ' em all, |
[03:54.170] | they did they best to hate |
[03:55.760] | |
[03:56.290] | Oh, let there be light |
[04:00.280] | |
[04:02.440] | Oh let it be, let it be, yeah |
[04:06.310] | |
[04:08.150] | Let it be, let it be |