No Introduction - Nas

PS 111 had free lunch

Embarrassed but managed to get a plate…

We was kids hungry

Mom’s working, I was famished

She getting home late…

So I decided now I’m in charge

Either stay full or starve

Corner store like «Mister, spare-a-quarter»

Before Air Jordans, Kareem Abdul-Jabbars

Trying to cop quarters and trying to move that hard

Roll with a shooting squad

How could I not succumb?

How could I not partake?

Fifteen, I got a gun

Sixteen, I robbed a train

Licked off a shot for fun

What’s got inside my brain?

A hustler’s job ain’t done, til he becomes a king

But I’m a righteous son, despite I’m in the midst of

Dudes who switch up and change

They wanna carry me like I’m some kind of lame

I never let them though, I just forgive them though

Either that or the pistol blow

«Say YEAH!

Haha, thank ya!

Ahhh, Hallelujah!

Y’all don’t hear me now!

Somebody help me!»

I remember early mornings, syrup sandwiches, sugar water, yeah

Walking up the dark stairwells, elevators was out of order, yeah

Worth two hundred million now

Bicentennial nigga, flat screens and condominiums

Brazilian women on Xannies they pulling off panties

I’m pushing forty, she only twenty-one

Don’t applaud me, I’m exhausted G

Me and my red cup, my blunt and my red cup

Y’all wouldn’t know me without one, I keep a fresh cut

Remember talking to Biggie inside his Lex truck

Said stay fly when you bummy, keep your pajamas Armani

Hood forever, I just act like I’m civilized

Really what’s in my mind is organizing a billion Black motherfuckers

To take over J.P. and Morgan, Goldman and Sachs

And teach the world facts and give Saudi they oil back

«Say YEAH!

Haha, thank ya!

Ahhh, Hallelujah!

Y’all don’t hear me now!

Somebody help me!»

1990's Polo Ralph Lauren on him

Gone a few years, the whole world snoring on him

Girls all up on him

I spread em, hit 'em and dead 'em

She says, third leg from a legend is sheer heaven

She says, it is the greatest loving

The tales you hear is the truth on me

Who wasn’t the most faithful husband

Reveal my life, you will forgive me

You will love me, hate me, judge me, relate to me

Only a few will, this how it sounds when you’re too real

They think it’s just music still

Well I am a graphic classic song composer

Music notes on sheets, I wrote this piece to get closure

Some of y’all might know Kelis, this goes to her with love

Also goes to y’all, let’s see

The craziest things already happened to me

So either you’ll be laughing at me or you’re laughing with me, ha

«Say YEAH!

Haha, thank ya!

Ahhh, Hallelujah!

Y’all don’t hear me now!

Somebody help me!»