"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that" [repeat 2X]
[--> Kool Keith from the Ultramagnetic MC's 'Ease Back']


[Nas]
Yo; I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret
I rock a vest, prestigious, Cuban link flooded Jesus

in a Lex watchin Kathie Lee and Regis
My actions are one with the seasons
A tec squeezin - executioner, winter time I rock a fur

Mega popular, center of attraction
Climaxin, my (*##$es they be laughin
They high from sniffin !@%!e off a twenty-cent Andrew Jackson

City lights spark a New York night
Rossi and Martini sippin, Sergio Tachinni flippin mad pies
low price, I blow dice and throw em

Forty-five by my scrotum, manifest the "Do or Die" slogan
My ^!$$%z roll in ten M3's
Twenty Gods poppin wheelies on Kawasaki's

Hip-Hop's got me on some ol', sprayin shots like a drumroll
Blankin out and never miscount the shells my gun hold
I don't stunt, I regulate

Henny and Sprite, I seperate, watchin crab ^!$$%z marinate
I'm all about tecs and good jooks and sex
Israelite books, holdin government names from Ness

MC's are crawlin out, every hole in the slum
You be aight like blood money in a pimp's###


"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"
"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..
.. for, you wack MC's"


[Nas]
Currency is made in trust of the Messiah

I'm spending it to get higher
Earth, Wind, and Fire singing reasons why I'm
up early, trustworthy is a nine that bust early

Sunshine on my grill, I spill
Remi on imaginary graves, put my hat on my waves
Latter Day Saints say religious praise

I dolo, challenge any team or solo
You must be buggin out, new to my %#@!, home on a furlough
Ask around, who's laid up, sharp and straight up

Mafioso, gettin ^!$$%z wigs sprayed up
Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
I'll one day walk into shots drunk off champange from Sicily

This be the drama, I'ma pause like a comma
in a sentence, paragraph's indented
Bloodshot red eyes, high, yellow envelopes of lye

Openin cigars, let tobacco fly
Condos are tuneproof, we're looking out the sky's moonroof
%#@!tin like gin and prune juice

Yo the system wants the coon's noose, hang em high
Courtrooms filled up, it's off the hook while I
just wrote a statement, like I'm facing twenty years

in the ba!@&(t - chilling on the via with Mumia
for wearin chrome - I told the judge snakes slither
like Sharon Stone, but like Capone I'm thrown (yo)


"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"
"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..

.. for, you wack MC's"
"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"
"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..

.. for, you wack MC's"

[Nas]

Lyrical, ly-lyrical mission..
Lyrical..
Yo the time is wastin, I use the mind elevation

Dime sack lacin, court pen pacin
Individual, lyrical math abrasion
Psychic evaluation, the foulest nation

We livin in, dangerous lives, mad leak and battered wives
A lifestyle where bad streets is patternized
Wise men build and destroy

While the real McCoy dopefiend, named Detroit is still dealin boy
!@&@e suppliers actin biased
Cause rumors say that ^!$$%z wear wires and we liars
But every night the gat's fired, and every day a rat's hired
I still remain the mack flyest in the phat Kani, it's --

-- just the killer in me, slash drug dealer MC
Ex-slug filler, semi mug peeler
Demi, bottles of Mo', yo simply follow me flow
Put poetry inside a crack pot and blow
rough holes for cracked out !@#( and buttholes

Bring the G's and the D's roll, they can't touch those
Why shoot the breeze about it, when you could be about it?
My degrees are routed, toward the peasy haired brick houses
instead of the fake medallions
Rich ^!$$%z transport in thousands

Foreign cash exchange amountin to millions
Doors is locked, rocks is chopped, watch the cameras in the ceilings
Trick (*##$es catching mad feelings
Peelin off in the Lex Jeep, techniques is four-wheelin
I bet it be some %#@! when we connect with Stretch

When we catch them sex ^!$$%z with the tecs you blessed, word
So now it's on, never wasted a slug,
Time is money when it comes to mine, take it in blood

"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"
"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..

.. for, you wack MC's" [repeat in background to fade]

Yeah, Capone-N-Noreaga
Yeah, yo, offical Queensbridge murderers
Mobb Deep keep it real though
Mother$#&@in AZ yo
'Mega, 'Mega, whatever

Scarlett O'Hara
Yo, Fox Boogie
East New York
Gambo, Brownsville
Wizard, Fort Rockaway
Big Jersey
Connecticut, D.C., Sudan

V.A. ?? N.C., L.A.
So on and so on...
Big Ha, Houston Fifth Ward
Black Ed, keep it real Moe..