(feat. Puff Daddy)
[Puff] Escobar season has returned...


[Nas]
It's been a long time, been a long time comin
Looks like the death of me now

But you know, there's no turning back now
This is what makes me - this is what I am


[Puff] Feel me? Let's go

[Base Chorus: Puff Daddy]

You can hate me now.. but I won't stop now..
Cause I can't stop now.. you can hate me now..
But I won't stop now.. cause I can't stop now..

You can hate me now.. you can hate me NOWWWW..

[1st Chorus: add Nas after each pause]

Q.B., real ^!$$%s, Bravehearts, c'mon

[1st Chorus: after Nas add Puff Daddy ad lib]

Well you hate me I'm gon' hate you too
It's as simple as that
Die mother$#&@er die mother$#&@er die

You don't give a $#&@ I don't give a $#&@
Go down any way you want it to go down (do it now)
Weak, jealous mother$#&@ers (do it now, do it now)

$#&@ y'all!

[Verse 1]

Don't hate me, hate the money I see, clothes that I buy
Ice that I wear, clothes that I try, close your eyes
Picture me rollin, sixes, money foldin

(*##$es honies that swollen to riches, Nas get in ya
Most critically acclaimed Pulitzer, prize winner
Best storyteller thug narrator my style's greater

Model dater, big threat to a lot of you haters
Commentators ringside try watchin my paper
Almost a decade, quite impressive

Most of the best is in the essence
for this rap %#@! that I stand for
Expandin more to the big screen, Bill Gates dreams

But it seems you'd rather see me in jail with state greens
Want me off the scene fast, but good things last
like your favorite MC still makin some mean cash

First rapper to bring a platinum plaque, back to the projects
but you still wanna hate, be my guest, I suggest


[Puff Daddy]
Money is power mother$#&@er
I got millions of thugs on salary, (*##$ (do it now)


[Base Chorus]


[2nd Chorus: add Puff Daddy after each pause]
I won't stop
I can't stop

You can hate me
I hate you too
You can hate me now..

You can hate me now..

[Nas] Do it now, I told you do it now

[Puff] Let's go

[Verse 2]

You wanna hate me then hate me; what can I do
but keep gettin money, funny I was just like you
I had to hustle hard never give up, until I made it

Now y'all sayin that's a clever ^!$$%, nuttin to play with
Hate on me, I blew but I'm the same ol G
People warn me, when you're on top there's envy

Took my ^!$$%s out the hood, but you doubt on us
Sayin we left the hood but can't get it out of us
My bad, should I step out my shoes, give 'em to you?

Here's my cars and my house, you can live in that too
Criticize when I flow for the streets, hate my dress code
Gucci this, Fendi that, what you expect hoe?
Nickname Esco', took this game to its threshold
Best flow I bet the whole U.S. know

Try to make it like you the realest, but who the illest?
Think we all know the answer to that, cause ^!$$%s feel this right

[Puff Daddy]
You think I'ma come this far, and let you ^!$$%s stop me now?

I hate you too!! (Do it now!)

[Base Chorus]

[3rd Chorus: add Puff Daddy after each pause]

I won't stop
I can't stop
You can hate me
I hate you too
You can hate me now..

You can hate me now..

[Puff] I like this.. I like the way this feels

[Verse 3]
It's a thin line between paper and hate

friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights
Hell or the pearly gates; I was destined to come
Predicted, blame God, he blew breath in my lungs
Second to none, wicked turn wives to widows
Shoot through satin pillows, the desolate one
Took a little time to claim my spot
Chairman of the board until this game stop, and I side with the Lord

Ride for the cause while drivin ^!$$%s shot at my doors
Plottin I'm sure to catch me with they glocks to my jaws
Tried, stickin me up, but I flipped on these ducks (you tried)
Instead of me, ambulances were picking them up (that's what you get)
^!$$%s fear what they don't understand, hate what they can't conquer
Guess it's just the fury of man
Became a monster, on top of the world, never fallin

I'm as real as they come, from day one, forever ballin
C'mon

[Puff Daddy]
You ain't never seen a ^!$$% like me, ever in your life
And that's what you can't understand!


[Base Chorus]

[4th Chorus: start w/ Puff Daddy, then after each pause]
You can hate me now
I won't stop
I can't stop
You can hate me

I hate you too
You can hate me now..
You can hate me now..

[Puff] You can hate me now
[Nas] C'mon ^!$$%s
[Puff] But I won't stop now

[Nas] Do it now! Get this %#@! over with
[Puff] But I won't stop now..
[Nas] It ain't gon' never stop ^!$$%s
[Puff] I can't stop..