Escobar ’97 - NAS

[00:00.0]Escobar '97 - Nas
[00:06.48]Honies, cash, w**d, cars
[00:09.8]Ghetto celebrities, hood movie stars
[00:11.37]Gat slingers now rap singers are who we are
[00:13.87]Went from Nasty to Nas, to Nas to Escobar
[00:16.55]The path we all walk, starts out long it's like a boardwalk
[00:19.58]Monopoly, some make it around, some go down, it's prophecy
[00:23.2]Happy days balancing with life's atrocities
[00:25.62]Hoppin' in V's, knowin' some day
[00:26.92]I got to lead properly
[00:27.98]High up in a five realizing the price paid
[00:30.38]For this life laid in the light shade
[00:32.7]One might say, top of the world's two whips,
[00:35.08]A crib and a girl
[00:36.26]Quick to celebrate it, poppin' corks like they made it
[00:38.26]Pretentious, arrogant niggas is senseless
[00:41.48]Pro-ball players with white wives, peep they night lives
[00:44.41]While you could catch me in a crisp white five
[00:46.28]Dark tinted, dijon-scented, with Al Green on,
[00:48.76]My theme song
[00:50.2]Love and happiness, how can it seem wrong?
[00:52.22]I mean before this, I used to rock a taurus
[00:54.51]With the donuts
[00:55.42]Now I grown up, got it chromed up
[00:57.36]Got the rap game sewn up, sho-nuff
[01:00.32]Niggas acting cool but it's really no love
[01:02.14]I feel a slow buzz, off the dutch
[01:03.91]This is everyday, every second
[01:05.28]Got to make it pay, every lesson I learnt
[01:07.37]Got me open while most of these rappers'll stay burnt
[01:10.25]Honies, cash, w**d, cars
[01:13.43]Ghetto celebrities, hood movie stars
[01:16.06]Gat slingers now rap singers are who we are
[01:18.68]Went from Nasty to Nas, to Nas to Escobar
[01:21.37]Money, cash, w**d, cars
[01:23.97]Ghetto celebrities, hood movie stars
[01:26.82]Gat slingers now rap singers are who we are
[01:29.49]Went from Nasty to Nas, to Nas to Escobar
[01:32.17]With so much drama in QBC
[01:34.82]It's kinda hard being Escobarro
[01:36.89]Elderado Red, sippin Dom out the bottle
[01:39.57]My life is like a Donald Goines novel
[01:41.130005]We wave glasses like bravo
[01:43.0]Drunk niggas with mad problems, and shot pockets
[01:45.61]My niggas from the block rock this
[01:48.03]Box coc*ine, cook it and chop it
[01:49.229996]Looking to profit, in different ways
[01:51.34]Goin through this difficult stage, called life
[01:53.729996]But each year my physical's praised
[01:55.240005]Some fell beyond the reach of help
[01:57.18]Cut in the street, thinkin they could teach theyself
[01:59.490005]When all we wanted was a piece of wealth
[02:01.64]And randomly, feed our family, the streets are insanity
[02:04.57]Amply, living in this thug's fantasy
[02:07.28]Richest ni**a in show biz is what I plan to be
[02:10.06]Heavy chain and my QB sway, living this king's life
[02:13.13]Magazines write about me, in this dream it's all tight
[02:15.83]Honies, cash, w**d, cars
[02:17.99]Ghetto celebrities, hood movie stars
[02:20.55]Gat slingers now rap singers are who we are
[02:23.44]Went from Nasty to Nas, to Nas to Escobar
[02:26.17]Money, cash, w**d, cars
[02:28.85]Ghetto celebrities, hood movie stars
[02:31.55]Gat slingers now rap singers are who we are
[02:34.26]Went from Nasty to Nas, to Nas to Escobar
[02:36.92]Now the main thing that boggle my brain be
[02:38.99]All the bottles of pain
[02:40.26]Iced the chain and all the followers came
[02:42.1]They tried to throw me off track but I caught that
[02:44.66]They thought I lost that but I'm continuing to
[02:46.6]Make more stacks
[02:47.45]Halftime, New York state of mind, it was written was hittin
[02:50.5]Trips overseas, southeast, diamond and riches
[02:53.17]Sleepin on the plane wake up when we land
[02:55.52]Feelin real scared, on the ground
[02:56.97]Rollie flush, princess cuts, and large rounds
[02:59.2]The crews up, findin time to shine rocks
[03:01.97]It's real, you violate, be in a pine box
[03:04.14]If it go there, I lay you before you lay me, it's crazy
[03:07.01]I didn't make the game, the game made me
[03:09.44]Records for the babies so they raised up in mansions
[03:12.1]Haters keep hating, and ladies'll keep glancing
[03:15.74]Y'all know the routine out this (Incomprehensible),
[03:19.2]Word up