Nas - The Rise And Fall Lyrics
Uh, yeah turn it up, check it out[Nas:]The transition from a young foolBroke, still on his neck, he hung jewelsLive his life in the ghetto where guns ruleIt was cool wasn't mad, I had to take out cabsMade my first LP afford an h-class, my face gassed '94Sold out in every record storeLocal hood rats who wouldn't speakNow I'm who they're checking forShowing crazy love ran up on stage with 80 thugsAfter the shows, my niggas robbed the bar and wrecked the clubsHappy, no hating, more henny, more blunts circulatingMy single in rotation on every radio stationEyes popped when I drove my first ride on the blockSummertime, block parties, cookouts, I spend my knotTruly niggas was fighting over who was closely to meHappy with the new representative of QBTo hit the top first you have to gotta fall before you make itWith for 4 minutes of your time, watch me demonstrate it[Chorus: Slick Rick & (Nas) Samples]This was the rise and fall of my fast lane style(From Nasty to Nas to Nas Escobar)(Mega popular center of attraction)I was the main event on the TV for a whileThis was the rise and fall of my fast lane style(From Nasty to Nas to Nas Escobar)(Mega popular center of attraction)I was the main event on the TV for a while[Nas:]Came alize in the winter some of us rise to great adventureI've brung New York back to real rap VeniceNew crib, diamond rings, killers on my teamInfinites for my girl for giving birth to my queen3G's worth of chronic and weed, promoters were madI stopped doing shows to spend time in the streetLoot the crime, eventually sold my shineRepo looking for my Lex, back then I wasn't buyingYou can guess niggas started saying "With all the successWhy is your mom still in the project? " I answered them best***** out my face, pistol on my car four clipI read about Pablo Escobar and got on some shitSo called mans supplied my chips, I was frontingNiggas thought I was risk and got mad 'cause they was pumpingMy assumption, niggas want me pumped in the casketKept the gun the same three/fifth that a nigga got bagged with[Chorus: Slick Rick & (Nas) Samples][Nas:]Caught a case now, I'm home staring off into spaceFlashbacks of all the jewelry, cars, crossing my faceRappers I met, hoes in video cassetteNo management, no more good life and no respectHearing crowds roar, crystal pouring mixed drinksHaunted by the thoughts; the second year album sophomore jinxWhere did I fell? Death threats, woke up in cold sweatsThinking about all these murders that know where I restFrom hanging with crazy cliques that's known to take shitBracelets, and all that beef now I'm involved, was paperlessMy cars were auctioned off, now I catch rides with kidnap niggasWho snatched babies off to get back figures, Lessons from heavenEvery night I slept with my weapon to guard my family for a minuteI forgot my profession, not from Columbia or NicaraguaDon't distribute coke from Antigua, that shipped out to PanamaPablo Escobar's bloody reign came to an endFar from my life; a kid who made his fame from a penHit the studio and change the game againWrote down all the pain within, top of the chartsTriple platinum, got the fake love back, money stacks, more plaquesHave you seen who I was? Just to know where I was atSaw both sides of the game, all the ups and downsThis goes out to the future rap kings coming up now[Chorus: Slick Rick & (Nas) Samples]
