Nas - The Don

[00:00.50] He's the heartbeat of the people [00:00.77] The ghetto people, and when I say ghetto people [00:00.95] The people who cannot afford to go to big concert [00:01.12] Some of these people do not even have TV, so they can't afford cable [00:01.50] Some of them can afford a radio [00:01.95] So the only thing they can listen to is the music [00:02.41] People the ghetto, people from the projects, street people [00:03.07] Hortical ghetto youth who know what it is to sing about suffering and reality [00:03.91] New York girl, dem a mad over we [00:05.07] New York girl, dem a mad over we [00:06.88] New York girl, dem a mad over we [00:08.09] New York girl, dem a mad over we [00:10.47] Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don [00:13.30] Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don [00:15.53] Inna New York City, inna New York City [00:17.91] Inna New York City, inna New York City [00:20.31] Smoking a escubano, guzzle my second bottle [00:23.58] Hope I don't catch a homo, grossing our net [00:25.80] Simultaneously making me climb higher [00:27.45] Heinous crimes behind me, search but can't find me [00:30.75] Fuck sadness, had this been you having this lavish [00:33.65] Habitual happiness at me you wouldn't look backwards [00:36.46] You would have sex on condominium roof decks [00:39.08] So anyone move next, I'll hit you with two Tecs [00:41.52] Rocking Roberto Cavalli no shirt on convertible Mazy [00:44.72] My Colombiana mommy riding beside me [00:46.83] Every tat mean something, that's my word on my body [00:49.38] I'll have to lean something wit that Mossberg shotty [00:51.83] My niggas is ignant, put lead in yo pigment [00:54.80] Just cuz y'all was mad at all the years I was getting it [00:57.22] In 97 the six, 98 the Bentley [00:59.83] Now it's the Ghost Phantom and y'all can't stand 'em but [01:02.28] Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don [01:05.17] Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don [01:07.86] Inna New York City, inna New York City [01:10.09] Inna New York City, inna New York City [01:13.03] Army jacket swag, Army jacket green and black [01:15.17] With the square top pocket that snaps, where the gas at? [01:18.16] Pass that, not you, you hold cracks in your asscrack [01:21.06] I never did that, my sock's where my stash was at [01:23.73] Yo, I used to listen to that Red Alert and Rap Attack [01:26.65] I fell in love with all that poetry I mastered that [01:28.54] Cutting school with Preme team, the Fat Cat was at [01:31.40] Future not crystal clear yet Baccarat [01:33.76] Now I'm the one who repping Queens, way beyond your wildest dreams [01:36.67] Bottles on bottles with sparklers surround my team [01:39.21] That long cash get the baddest bitches out they jeans [01:41.68] 20 years in this game, looking 17 [01:44.25] I don't lean: no codeine, promethazine [01:47.11] I just blow green, pick which bitch to bless the king [01:49.63] Although he's on to another chapter [01:51.61] Heavy D gave this beat to Salaam for me to rap to, braah [01:54.87] Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don [01:57.29] Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don [01:59.89] Inna New York City, inna New York City [02:01.49] Inna New York City, inna New York City [02:05.02] New York is like an Island, a big Rikers Island [02:07.63] The cops be out wilding, all I hear is sirens [02:10.28] It's all about surviving, same old two step [02:13.35] Try to stay alive when they be out robbing [02:15.34] I been out rhyming since born knowledge [02:18.10] Like prophet Muhammad said the ink from a scholar [02:19.59] Worth more than the blood of a martyr [02:22.62] So I'mma, keep it on 'til I see a billion dollars [02:25.48] Keep your friends close and your enemies closer [02:27.95] Love model chocha mommy pop it like she 'pose ta [02:31.02] Eyes red shot like I'm never sober [02:33.11] Big time smoker, Indonesian doja [02:35.42] Mini me's you can hold up before you end up wet up from my soldiers [02:38.79] Don shit, under fire I remain on some calm shit [02:41.77] This for every ghetto in the hood [02:43.95] Nas the Don, Super Cat the Don Dada, understood? [02:47.04] Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don [02:49.41] Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don, Nas the Don [02:52.15] Inna New York City, inna New York City [02:54.60] Inna New York City, inna New York City [02:57.38]