My Country


American born, American raised, American made [Chorus 2X]My country shitted on me (My country)She wants to get rid of me (Naw, never)Cause the things I seen (We know too much)Cause the things I seen (We seen too much) [Verse 1 (Nas)]It was packed on the Ryker’s busThe tight cuffs is […]


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Braveheart Party


[Intro (Nas)]Yeah… ay yo Jungle… ay yo Wiz…Come on man… Let’s do thisIt’s a Braveheart party y’allC’mon [Chorus (Mary)]Throw your hands up cuz we wanna danceDon’t be afraid just take a chanceCuz this beat will rock your bodyGet up on the floor and partyNow y’all tell me what y’all wanna […]


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Smokin'


Bis-Mi-Allah A-Rahman A-Rahim(To the Gods.. to the Gods.. to the Earths)Pass that shit homey [Intro/Chorus]Now tell me what y’all smokinWhat kinda heat y’ll holdinWell is your creep move potentI got a bunch of bullets and a bag of guns I pass ’em to my niggaz c’monWe bi-coastin, keepin our po-ckets […]


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Stillmatic (The Intro)


Uh, you know I still run with that, that blood of a slaveBoiling in my veinsIt’s just hot until a nigga can’t take it no moreBlood of a slave, Heart of a KingTurn my voice up Ayo, the brother is "Stillmatic"I crawled up out of that grave, wiping the dirt, […]


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Every Ghetto


Uhh… yeah… uhh… [Verse 1 (Nas)]Blessings in life to the childrenThey say life is like 5 daysWords of a old man with silver hair in his wheel chairHis eyes were bloody while describin’ what lies before meSaid evil bitches and jealous men would try to destroy meIt occurred to me, […]


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Got Yourself A Gun


[sample singing]"Woke up this mornin’, you got yourself a gun, you got yourself a gun".. [Chorus]Yo I’m livin’ in this time behind enemy linesso I got mine, I hope you ("got yourself a gun")You from the hood, I hope you ("got yourself a gun"you want beef I hope ya ("got […]


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Rule


[talking]Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yoLife, they wonder, can they take me under?Nah, never that, nah, yo, yo I come from the housin tenement buildingsUnlimited killings, menaces marked for deathBetter known as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwellThough I owe to it my successWith survival of […]


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One Mic


[speaking softly, gradually getting louder]One time.. yeah.. yeah.. Yo, all I need is one mic, one beat, one stageOne nigga front, my face on the front pageOnly if I had one gun, one girl and one cribOne God to show me how to do things his son didPure, like a […]


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Ether


[gunshots] [Nas talking]("Fuck Jay-Z")What’s up niggas, ay yo, I know you ain’t talkin ’bout me dogYou, what?("Fuck Jay-Z")You been on my dick nigga, you love my style, nigga("Fuck Jay-Z") [Chorus](I) Fuck with your soul like ether(Will) Teach you the king you know you(Not) "God’s son" across the belly(Lose) I prove […]


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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 […]


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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 […]


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2nd Childhood


[Nas] Yeah, hahaha "Cause when I flow the for the street.." – ".. who else could it be""Nas.." [Nas]YoExplode, my thoughts were drunken from quarts of beersWas years back, before Nasir would explore a career in rapAs a music dude, I mastered this Rubik’s CubeGodzilla, fought Gargantua, eyes glued to […]


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