Nas - No Introduction (Album Version (Explicit))

[00:04.06] P.S. 111 at free lunch, embarrassed but managed to get a plate [00:08.94] [00:36.82] We was kids hungry, Mom's working I was famished, she getting home late [00:42.65] So I decided now I'm in charge [00:44.85] Either stay full or starve, corner store like Mr. Spare-a-Quarter [00:47.58] Before Air Jordans, Kareem Abdul-Jabbars [00:49.37] Trying to cop quarters and trying to move that hard [00:53.26] Roll with a shooting squad [00:54.87] How could I not succumb? [00:56.36] How could I not partake? [00:57.52] 15 I got a gun, 16 I robbed a train [01:00.11] Licked off a shot for fun, what's got inside my brain? [01:02.65] A hustler's job ain't done, 'til he becomes a king [01:05.44] But I'm a righteous son, despite I'm in the mist of [01:08.08] Dudes who switch up and change [01:09.55] They want to carry me like I'm some kind of lame [01:12.29] I never let them know, I just forgive them though [01:14.82] Either that or the pistol blow [01:34.68] I remember early mornings - syrup sandwiches, sugar water, yeah [01:37.34] [01:42.73] Walking up the dark stairwells, elevators was out of order, yeah [01:47.88] Worth 200 million now, bicentennial nigga, flat screens and condominiums [01:52.35] Brazilian women on Xannies they pulling off panties [01:55.03] I'm pushing 40, she only 21 [01:57.67] Don't applaud me, I'm exhausted G [02:00.17] Me and my red cup, my blunt and my red cup [02:02.55] Y'all wouldn't know me without one, I keep a fresh cut [02:05.36] Remember talking to Biggie inside his Lex truck [02:08.26] Said stay fly when you bummy, keep your pajamas Armani [02:09.86] Hood forever, I just act like I'm civilized [02:13.26] Really what's in my mind is organizing a billion black motherfuckers [02:16.32] To take over JP and Morgan Goldman and Sachs [02:19.69] And teach the world facts and give Saudi they oil back [02:22.37] [02:40.63] 1990's Polo Ralph Lauren on him [02:43.50] [02:46.75] Gone a few years, the whole world snoring on him [02:48.94] Girls all up on him, I spread them, hit them and dead them [02:51.38] She says, "third leg from a legend is sheer heaven" [02:53.73] She says, "it is the greatest loving" [02:55.82] The tales you hear is the truth, on me [02:57.74] Who wasn't the most faithful husband [03:00.50] Reveal my life, you will forgive me [03:02.48] You will love me, hate me, judge me, relate to me [03:05.67] Only a few will, this how it sounds when you too real [03:08.92] They think it's just music still [03:10.83] Well I am a graphic classic song composer [03:13.42] Music notes on sheets, I wrote this piece to get closure [03:17.01] Some of y'all might know Kelis - this goes to her with love [03:20.39] Also goes to y'all, let's see [03:22.51] The craziest things already happened to me [03:25.03] So either you'll be laughing at me or you're laughing with me, ha [03:25.52]