New World

Uh, it’s a new world, it’s a new world, It’s a new world, it’s a new worldUh, it’s a new world, it’s a new world Yo, celebrate the new lifeNew ways to make moneyNew ways to break dummiesForge they name and take moneyComputers ain’t that smartWhatever man built could be taken apartAnything new can get […]


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Destroy & Rebuild

This is a journey into the worlds most largestAnd notorious projects, QueensbridgeListen while Nas saves his hood from the mostCowardest rappers [Nas]He held a mass appeal and a little boy smileDepressed has a complex his mouth was foulYou need to stay around I feel like telling some storiesFirst theres this arrogent fuck, his names CoryHung […]


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Some Of Us Have Angels

[Chorus: Nas (repeat 2X)] Some of us have angels — the kingdom, the powerSome of us have angels — the power, the glorySome of us have demons — greed, and lustSome of us have demons — lust, temptation [Nas]Now this is you, dressed in all black, fatigue hat, ready for combatA good nigga, you don’t […]


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Rewind

Listen up gangstas and honeys with ya hair donePull up a chair hon’ and put it in the air sonDog, whatever they call you, god, just listenI spit a story backwards, it starts at the ending The bullet goes back in the gunThe bullet hole’s closin this chest of a niggaNow he back to square […]


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Halftime

(Right..) (Right..)Check me out y’all, Nasty Nas in your areaAbout to cause mass hysteria [Nas]Before a blunt, I take out my frontsThen I start to front, matter of fact, I be on a manhuntYou couldn’t catch me in the streets without a ton of reeferThat’s like Malcolm X, catchin the Jungle FeverKing poetic, too much […]


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Suspect

[45 seconds of talking/skit] [Nas]It was a murderJake just hit the corner people swarmingThree in the morning I jumped out my cab like "Fuck, niggaz is buck," mega bloodshed, the tapes redI heard some bird whisper, "Yo he should have ducked"I puffed the lilla, just before I hit the scene for rillaI’m all high it’s […]


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Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)

(Check that shit)Aight fuck that shit, word wordFuck that other shit, youknowhatI’msayin?We gon’ do a little somethin like this, yaknahmsayin?(Is they up on this?)Keep it on and on and on and on and..KnowhatI’msayin? Big Nas, Grand Wizard, God what it is?(What it is like?) Hah, knowhatI’msayin?Yo go ‘head, do that shit nigga [Nas]I rap for […]


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Doo Rags

Uhh [Nas]Pushin drop-tops, Stacy Lattisaw tapes, the 80’s had us all apesYoungest gorillas up to bat at home plateThat was a uncanny era, guns in my pantsYeah X-Clan hair, with dreads at the top of my fadeHomicide and feds on the blocks where I played, b-ballThat’s when I wondered was I here for the cause, […]


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Shootouts

Yo, release what’s in meBesides the Henny, it’s eyes that’s seen plentyFiends get skinny as if Queens was a Craig JennyInstead of diet plans it’s crack 200 gramsI pump a G-pack, peeping for where the D’s atIt’s slow, lookin for Rambo, the cop who got grazedBack in the days, chasin niggaz through my project mazeThat […]


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Fetus

YeahI want all my niggas to come journey with meMy name is Nas, and the year is 1973Beginning of me, therefore I could seeThrough my belly button window who I am… I existed in a womb, just like an abyssCame straight from spirit land, my hands balled in a fistPunching on my moms stomach, kicking […]


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