Represent - Nas

[00:10.040]Represent, represent
[00:12.260]Represent, represent
[00:14.780]Represent, represent
[00:17.310]Represent, represent
[00:19.870][Verse 1]
[00:20.230]Straight up s**t is real and any day could be your last in the jungle
[00:23.100]Get murdered on a humble, guns'll blast, ****** tumble
[00:25.630]The corners is the hot spot, full of mad criminals
[00:28.460]Who don't care, guzzling beers, we all stare
[00:30.840]At the out-of-towners, they better break North
[00:33.010]Before we get the four pounders and take their face off
[00:35.430]The streets is filled with undercovers, homicide chasing brothers
[00:38.610]The D's on the roof tryna watch us and knock us
[00:41.280]And killer coppers, even come through in helicopters
[00:43.960]I drink a little vodka, spark a L and hold a Glock
[00:46.700]For the fronters, wannabe ill ****** and spot runners
[00:48.880]Thinking it can't happen 'til I trap 'em and clap 'em
[00:51.520]And leave 'em done, won't even run about Gods
[00:54.120]I don't believe in none of that s**t, your facts are backwards
[00:56.750]Nas is a rebel of the street corner
[00:58.930]Pulling a Tec out the dresser, police got me under pressure
[01:02.100]Represent, represent(X4)
[01:11.620][Verse 2]
[01:12.020]Yo, they call me Nas, I'm not your legal type of fella
[01:15.260]Moet drinking, m****a smoking street dweller
[01:17.870]Who's always on the corner, rolling up blessed
[01:20.330]When I dress, it's never nothing less than Guess
[01:22.760]Cold be walking with a bop and my hat turned back
[01:25.370]Love committing sins and my friends sell crack
[01:27.750]This ***** raps with a razor, keep it under my tongue
[01:30.240]The school drop-out, never liked the s**t from day one
[01:32.810]Cause life ain't s**t but stress, fake ******, and crab stunts
[01:35.730]So I guzzle my Hennesey while pulling on mad blunts
[01:38.350]The brutalizer, Brutus-izer, accelerator
[01:41.220]The type of ***** who be pissing in your elevator
[01:43.720]Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game
[01:46.140]Used to sport Bally's and Cazals with black frames
[01:48.460]Now I'm into fat chains, *** and Tecs
[01:50.930]Fly new chicks and new kicks, Heine's and Beck's
[01:54.310]Represent, represent(X3)
[01:59.230][Verse 3]
[02:01.200]No doubt, see my stacks are fat, this is what it's about
[02:03.990]Before the BDP conflict with MC Shan
[02:06.480]Around the time when Shante dissed the Real Roxxane
[02:09.310]I used to wake up every morning, see my crew on the block
[02:11.730]Every day's a different plan that had us running from cops
[02:14.300]If it wasn't hanging out in front of c*****e spots
[02:16.920]We was at the candy factory, breaking the locks
[02:19.440]Nowadays, I need the green in a flash just like the next man
[02:22.420]**** a yard God, let me see a hundred grand
[02:25.100]Could use a gun son, but **** being the wanted man
[02:27.610]But if I hit rock bottom then I'mma be the Son of Sam
[02:30.080]Then call the crew to get live too with Swoop, Bokeem
[02:33.070]My brother Jungle, Big Bo, cooks up the blow
[02:35.500]Mike'll chop it, Mayo, you count the profit
[02:37.830]My s**t is on the streets, this way the Jakes'll never stop it
[02:40.290]It's your brain on drugs, to all fly b*****s and thugs
[02:42.870]'Nuff respect to the projects, I'm ghost, one love
[02:45.450]Represent, represent(X4)
[02:55.590][Outro]
[02:56.350]One time for your ***********' mind
[02:58.690]This goes out to everybody in New York
[03:00.990]That's living the real ******* life and every projects, all over
[03:05.690]To my man, Big Will he's still here
[03:08.560]The 40 side of Vernon, my man Big L.E.S
[03:12.290]Big Cee-Lo from the Don, Shawn Penn, the 40 busters
[03:16.490]My crew the shorty busters, the 41st side of Vernon posse
[03:20.570]The Goodfellas, my man Cormega, Lakey the Kid
[03:24.260]Can't forget Draws, the Hillbillies
[03:27.280]My man Slate, Wallethead, Black Jay, Big Oogi
[03:31.270]Crazy barrio spot, (Big Dove), we rock s**t, Ph.D
[03:37.940]And my man Primo, from Gang Starr
[03:41.130]'94 real s**t y'all, (word up Harry O), **** y'all crab-ass ****** though
[03:47.570]***** ass ****** (***** ass ******, young ***** ass *************)
[03:52.210]Come to Queensbridge ************! (yeah, yeah)
[03:55.180]Let's bring it back, that's just a warm up cause I can-
[04:09.420]On anybody anybody