[00:00.00] 作词 : Nasir Jones/Olu Dara/Salaam Remi
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Nasir Jones/Olu Dara/Salaam Remi
[00:00.00] The light is there, yeah  yeah
[00:10.50]See I come from
[00:11.37]Mississippi
[00:13.56]I was young and runnin' wild
[00:16.89]Ended up in
[00:17.46]New York City, where
[00:20.13]I had my first child
[00:23.19]I named the boy
[00:24.09]Nasir, all the boys call him
[00:27.51]NasI  told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive
[00:35.13]Let's go, hey  hey  hey  hey
[00:45.72]Tribrary of these rap skits, styles
[00:47.79]I mastered
[00:48.51]Many brothers snatched it up  and tried to match it
[00:51.06]But I'm still number one, everyday real
[00:53.61]Speak what
[00:54.21]I want, I don't care what y'all feel'
[00:55.80]Cause I'm my own master
[00:57.66]My Pop told me, "Be your own boss keep integrity at every cost"
[01:01.17]And his home was
[01:02.04]Natchez  Mississippi
[01:03.93]Did it like
[01:04.56]Miles and
[01:05.07]Dizzy, now we gettin' busy
[01:06.63]Bridging The
[01:07.14]Gap from the blues, to jazz, to rap
[01:09.54]The history of music on this track
[01:11.91]Born in the game, discovered my father's music
[01:14.61]Like Prince searchin' through boxes of
[01:16.20]Purple Rain
[01:17.10]But my Minneapolis was
[01:18.45]The Bridge, home of the
[01:19.32]SuperkidsSome are well-known, some doin' bids
[01:21.84]I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks
[01:24.36]If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo
[01:27.51]See I come from
[01:28.14]Mississippi
[01:30.12]I was young and runnin' wild
[01:32.70]Ended up in
[01:33.21]New York City, where
[01:35.43]I had my first child
[01:37.68]I named the boy
[01:38.67]Nasir, all the boys call him
[01:41.28]NasI  told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive
[01:48.03]Greatest man alive, gre- gre-gre-gre-greatest man alive
[01:52.77]The blues came from gospel, gospel from blues
[01:55.23]Slaves are harmonizin' them ah's and ooh's
[01:57.81]Old school, new school, know school rules
[02:00.69]All these years
[02:01.44]I been voicin' my blues
[02:02.70]I'm a  artist from the start, hip-hop guided my heart
[02:05.40]Graffiti on the wall, coulda ended in
[02:07.41]Spoffard, juvenile delinquent
[02:10.44]But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with
[02:13.23]Books to read, like
[02:14.58]X and stuff'
[02:15.51]Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia
[02:17.94]In art class
[02:18.75]I was a compulsive sketcher of
[02:20.76]Teachers  in my homeroom,
[02:22.11]I drew pix to mess them up'
[02:23.94]Cause none'a them would like my style
[02:25.80]Read more books than the curriculum profile
[02:28.29]Said, " Mr. Jones please come get your child'Cause he's writin' mad poems and his verses are wild"
[02:34.17]I was born in
[02:34.95]Mississippi
[02:36.84]I was young and runnin' wild
[02:39.24]Moved to New
[02:40.08]York City, where
[02:42.27]I had my first child
[02:44.49]I named the boy
[02:45.39]Nasir, all the boys call him
[02:48.00]NasI  told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive
[02:54.45]Greatest man, the great -greatest man alive
[02:57.90]Hey  hey  hey, my
[02:59.25]Poppa was not a
[03:00.09]Rollin' Stone
[03:01.20]He been around the world blowin' his horn, still he came home
[03:04.56]Then he got grown, changed his name to
[03:06.24]OluCome on, tell 'em 'bout all the places you gone to
[03:09.24]I been to
[03:09.57]Saudi Arabia,
[03:10.86]Mozambique
[03:12.21]Madagascar,
[03:13.32]Paris, Greece
[03:14.70]The Middle
[03:15.21]Africa  is where we lived
[03:17.43]Better known as
[03:18.84]Queenbridge
[03:20.28]Nas, Nas you don't stop
[03:22.14]Olu Dara in the house, you don't stop
[03:24.72]Muddy Waters'
[03:25.47]Howling Wolf you don't stop
[03:27.30]From the Blues to
[03:28.02]Street Hop you don't stop
[03:29.58]Tell 'em Pop
[03:30.69]See I come from
[03:31.35]Mississippi
[03:33.27]I was young and runnin' wild
[03:35.91]Ended up in
[03:36.42]New York City, where
[03:38.64]I had my first child
[03:40.95]I named the boy
[03:41.85]Nasir, all the boys call him
[03:44.49]NasI  told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive
[03:50.40]Greatest  man alive, gre -gre-gre -gre-greatest  man alive
[03:57.27]Rest in peace
[03:58.32]Ray Charles