[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
 tec squeezin - executioner, winter time I rock a fur
 Mega popular, center of attraction
 Climaxin, my [bad word] they be laughin
 They high from sniffin coke 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 [bad word]  manifest the "Do or Die" slogan
 My niggaz roll in ten M3's
 Twenty Gods poppin wheelies on Kawasaki's
 Hip-Hop's got me on some ol', sprayin shots like a [bad word]  Blankin out and never miscount the shells my gun hold
 I don't stunt, I regulate
 Henny and Sprite, I seperate, watchin crab niggaz marinate
 I'm all about tecs and good jooks and 
 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 [bad word] 
 "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 [bad word] of the Messiah
 I'm spending it to get higher
 Earth, Wind, and Fire singing reasons why I'm
 up early, [bad word] 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 [bad word]  home on a furlough
 Ask around, who's laid up, sharp and straight up
 Mafioso, gettin niggaz wigs sprayed up
 Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
 I'll one day walk into shots [bad word] off champange from Sicily
 This be the drama, I'ma pause like [bad word]  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
 [bad word] like gin and [bad word] 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 basement - 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
 lifestyle where bad streets is patternized
 Wise men build and destroy
 While the real McCoy dopefiend, named Detroit is still dealin boy
 Coke suppliers actin biased
 [bad word] say that niggaz 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 [bad word] 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 pussies 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