[Intro]
Its time to take it to the other side
The side you gotta watch A&E cable television for homie

But we live this %#@!

I'm not a star

But thats a lie
I've seen a man raise his hand on the stand he testify
Spoke on a homocide

AMongst other things
Even shared my triple beam dreams


[Nas]
A project minded individual criminal tactics
Us blacks kids born with birth defects, we hyperactive

Mentally sex-crazed dysfunctional they describe us
They liars, the end of the day, we $#&@ing survivors
I remember watching Scarface the first time

Look at that big house, that Porsche paid for by crime
How could I sell this poison to peoples in my mind
They dumb to destroy themselves is how I rationalise

In a !@$(ised nation, Magnum 4.5 carrying
Where I'm from, aint far from Washington Heights the cop Aryan
A rookie boy the cookie didn't make no profit

A stranger to the block I damn near had to make them cop it
It only took a fiend to taste it once to say it's garbage
I brought it back to poppy, aint tryna take no losses

He focuses on my emotionless young dealer face then pauses
He gives me powder he has faith in Nases
Ambition's to distribute !@%!e

Had additions to gold chains, Mercedes Benz hopes
But I'm again broke
This %#@! aint cut for me, other dealers they up their orders

Barely at 62′s they already up they quotas
They out there everyday, some true hustlas for ya
I'm at it halfway, none of my customers are loyal

Picturin' piping out the seats of a Pathfinder
Powerful pursuit for #~!!@ cash, the flash diamonds
My junior high school class, wish I stayed there