Nas

[Nas Talking - yo... its like waking up from a bad dream.. just to figure out you weren't dreaming in the first place.] 

[Verse One] 
If all I saw was gangsters 
Coming up as a youngster 
Pussy and money the only language I clung ta 
Claim ta, unrolled myself up to become one 
Ain't ya happy I chose rap 
I'm amongst tha 
Streets deceiving 
Can't believe my achievements 
Cultural strata 
Persona's that of a non-needer 
Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver 
For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless 
To my g's on the flee from the coppers 
Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors 
From the slums I come up a phoenix 
Caked up, tryna take what I'm eating 
Came up a dismissive kid 
You lucky if you allowed to witness this 
Savvy mouth 
Wild, hardly 
A man's man 
Who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties 
Jezebel's and Stella McCartney's 
For years, all that 
How could I not be dead 
This old German 
Said I was a thug with a notty head 
Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled 
With a face like he wonder where I got my bread 
Probably all these stones he see 
From my shows overseas 
From crime to rhyme 
My stories is I'm from the home of the thieves 

[Verse Two] 
Blessed 
The lord is a g, he gotta be 
Who's the God of suckers and snitches 
The economy 
Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe 
Blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro 
He'd want me to spit this 
Only the strong survive 
Nas bear witness 
The hypocrisy is all I can see 
White cop acquitted for murder 
Black cop cop a plea 
That type of shit make me stop and think 
We in chronic need of a second look of the law books 
And the whole race dichotomy 
Too many rappers, athletes, and actors 
But not enough niggas in NASA 
Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion 
But when it comes to residuals, they look past us 
Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us 
Even in white tee's, blue jeans, and red bandanas 

[Verse Three] 
Assassinations 
Diplomatic relations 
Killed indigenous people 
Built a new nation 
Involuntary labor 
Took a knife split a woman naval 
Took her premature baby 
Let her man see you rape her 
If I could travel to the 1700's 
I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite 
Through your covenant 
Love to sit in on the Senate 
And tell the whole government 
Y'all don't treat women fair 
She read about herself in the bible 
Believing she the reason sin is here 
You played her, with an apron 
Like bring me my dinner, dear 
She the nigger here 
Ain't we in the free world 
Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls 
Barbarity, I'm in the double-R casually 
Bugging how I made it out the hood, dazzle me 
How far we really from third world savagery 
When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be