[Verse 1: Nas]
Girls I got 'em locked so similar to a prison
Hear this monster jam, I be callin' it 'GANGSTERISM'

I murder you for dope, I'm the street distributor
I'm homicidal, pointin' the pump, scope to shoot you
Street connects, Mob ties on East and West

We gouge out your eye balls if you seen too much
Hopin' out drops wit blings and stuff
Wit ball players wives, Mercedes 5

Dangerous lives and haters die rollin' with convicts
Conscience who tolerate no nonsense
Fake rappers in doo-rags, get shot-up at their concert

Your (*##$ bleed, bitin' her nipples with my chipped tooth
I drink her blood, like I'm Dracula, mack in the 6-Coupe
The sky becomes red, heard y'all ^!$$%z work with the feds

Doesn't matter, blood'll splatter, everybody must dead
I got urge for self-reinvention, but I'm old-fashioned
From the corner's with the winos laughin'

Dealers and five-o blastin'
Capitalist thoughts like Presidents
I'm burnin' Bush's, Nas the realest, it's nuttin' to $#&@ wit


[Chorus: Uncredited Female (Nas)]
You think you know me but I... (Tell 'em Ma)

..Don't think so (Don't think so)
It takes a 'lil more than... (What?, what?)
What do you know about me?

(See what you don't know me you'll never will)
(And what you don't know will get yourself killed)
About me

(See what you don't know me you'll never will)
(And what you don't know will get yourself killed)
You'll never know


[Verse 2: Nas]
I smoke weed like them sixties rebellions, hippies on !@(%

Spliffs inhalin', what I speak strictly for felons
Dippin' in their 6-4, hittin' the switches
Or sittin' in their Bentley Azure's, feelin' the riches

Or just ridin', truck drivin' Impalas, Denali's
I $#&@ with those but I lust for silver Ferrari's
I $#&@ hoes with the ceilings, have mirrors to watch me

My bed shaped like a pyramid, feelin' the dry heat
Spillin' Courvoisi', I'm half slave-master
Half Apache, half African, much is what I call us Black men

Lead astray, drugs and cups of alcohol, 'cause back when
They let us off ships; the soul of man was lost or trapped in
But every ghetto, every hood, no matter where the town

It's all haunted, all on top slave burial grounds
Dead cooks, workers and maids, under this Earth in rage
Ancient !@^% houses that explain my sexual ways

Money and murder: interprets the American dream
The world loves a gangsta, I found my place in this thing
Royce's, diamonds and bosses, woman who're gorgeous

Traitors, killers and enemies, remorseless, we live this

[Chorus: Uncredited Female (Nas)]


[Verse 3: Nas]
Gypsies, preachers, choirs, churches, liquor stores

The world is full of liars, curses, people rich or poor
Without God to worship, see we would be more lost
Gotta believe in somethin', or their would be no laws

A ghetto child occasionally blunted in Mansions
My cup overflow with Cristal, hundred exotic dancers
^!$$%z is plastic, $$# gets jealous and passive

My pistol blast at; cowards, leechers, and rappers
^!$$%z I $#&@ with is 'Bravehearts', make G's
Before rap music to me, was wind blowin' the trees

Birds chirpin', rain fallin', perfect and free
But (*##$es saw my video and think they know me
These ^!$$%z bad talkin', claimin' they gon' do me

Stay out my path homey, you $#&@in' wit a true G
(*##$ "You Don't Know Me"


[Chorus: Uncredited Female (Nas)]