Represent

[00:00.00]Represent - Nas/J.Period
[00:00.57]Represent represent
[00:01.95]Straight up s**t is real
[00:02.62]And any day could be your last in the jungle
[00:05.00]Get murdered on a humble guns'll blast n***as tumble
[00:07.48]The corners is the hot spot full of mad criminals
[00:09.89]Who don't care guzzling beers we all stare
[00:12.52]At the out-of-towners
[00:13.21]Who that they better break North
[00:14.32]Before we get the four pounders and take their face off
[00:16.96]The streets is filled with undercovers
[00:18.64]Homicide chasing brothers
[00:20.00]The D's on the roof tryin' to watch us and knock us
[00:22.66]And killer coppers even come through in helicopters
[00:25.10]I drink a little vodka spark a L and hold a glock
[00:27.48]For the fronters wannabe ill n***as and spot runners
[00:30.16]Thinking it can't happen 'til I trap 'em and clap 'em
[00:32.85]And leave 'em done won't even run about Gods
[00:34.77]I don't believe in none of that s**t
[00:36.67]Your facts are backwards
[00:37.82]Nas is a rebel of the street corner
[00:40.13]Pulling a TEC out the dresser
[00:41.57]Police got me under pressure
[00:43.29]Represent represent
[00:44.60]Party on
[00:45.79]Represent represent
[00:47.10]You got it
[00:48.31]Represent represent
[00:50.81]Represent represent
[00:53.09]Yo they call me Nas I'm not your legal type of fella
[00:55.42]Moët drinking m*******a smoking street dweller
[00:58.06]Who's always on the corner rolling up blessed
[01:00.49]When I dress it's never nothing less than guess
[01:02.95]Cold be walking with a bop and my hat turned back
[01:05.51]Love committing sins and my friends sell crack
[01:07.98]This n***a raps with a razor keep it under my tongue
[01:10.37]The school drop-out never liked the s**t from day one
[01:12.76]'Cause life ain't s**t but stress
[01:14.20]Fake n***as and crab stunts
[01:15.72]So I guzzle my Hennessy while pulling on mad blunts
[01:18.21]The brutalizer crew de-sizer accelerator
[01:20.90]The type of n***a who be pissing in your elevator
[01:23.48]Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game
[01:26.01]Used to sport bally's and Cazals with black frames
[01:28.45]Now I'm into fat chains sex and TECs
[01:30.84]Fly new chicks and new kicks Heines and beck's
[01:33.81]Represent represent
[01:36.22]Represent represent
[01:37.95]We both
[01:38.90]Represent represent
[01:40.35]No doubt see my stacks are fat
[01:42.17]This is what it's about
[01:43.24]Before the BDP conflict with MC Shan
[01:45.84]Around the time when Shante dissed the Real Roxanne
[01:48.31]I used to wake up every
[01:49.28]Morning see my crew on the block
[01:50.88]Every day's a different plan
[01:52.13]That had us running from cops
[01:53.42]If it wasn't hanging out in front of c*****e spots
[01:56.02]We was at the candy factory breaking the locks
[01:58.50]Nowadays I need the green in
[01:59.79]A flash just like the next man
[02:01.45]F**k a yard God let me see a hundred grand
[02:04.12]Could use a gun son but f**k being the wanted man
[02:06.18]But if I hit rock bottom then
[02:07.64]I'ma be the son of Sam
[02:09.08]Then call the crew to get live too with swoop
[02:11.15]Bokeem my brother jungle
[02:12.50]Big bo cooks up the blow
[02:14.24]Mike'll chop it Mayo you count the profit
[02:16.33]My s**t is on the streets
[02:17.30]This way the Jakes'll never stop it
[02:18.69]It's your brain on drugs to all fly b***hes and thugs
[02:21.06]'Nuff respect to the projects I'm ghost one love
[02:23.75]Represent y'all represent
[02:26.25]Represent y'all represent
[02:28.59]Represent y'all represent
[02:31.06]Represent y'all represent
[02:33.87]Yeah then
[02:35.04]One time for your mothaf**kin' mind
[02:37.37]This goes out to everybody in New York
[02:39.68]That's living the real f**king
[02:40.79]Life and every projects all over