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Bridging The Gap (Feat. Olu Dara)
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[Olu Dara]
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see i come from Missisippi,
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(Bam bam babam)
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I was young and running wild,
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(Bam bam babam)
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in and out of New York City
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(Bam bam babam)
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where i had my first child
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(Bam bam babam)
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I named the boy Nasir,
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(Bam bam babam)
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all the boys call him Nas
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(Bam bam babam)
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I told him as a youngster,
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(Bam bam babam)
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he'll be the greatest man alive
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(Bam bam babam)
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[Nas]
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Let's go.....
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heh heh heh heh,
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Tribrary of these rap skits, styles I mastered
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many brothers smashed it up
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' tried to match it
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but i'm still number one everyday real
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speak what i want i don't care what they feel
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coz i'm my ownnn master
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my pop told me be your own boss
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keep integrity at every cost
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and his home was Natches Missisippi,
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get it like "Miles" and "Dizzy"
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now we gettin' buzy - Bridging the gap
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from the blues to Jazz to Rap
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the history of music on this track
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born in the game
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discovered my father's music
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like Prince searches thru Rock in the 'Purple Rain'
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but Minneapolis was the bridge
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home to the "Super Kid" some were well known
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some doing bids,
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I might of ended up on the wrong side of the tracks
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If pops wouldn't of pulled me back and said Yo!
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(Greatest man alive .. Great-Great-Great-Great-Greatest man alive!)
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Blues came from Gospel, Gospel from Blues
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Slaves were harmonizin' them ah's and ooh's
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old skool new skool no skool rules
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all these years i've been voicin' my blues
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I'm an artist from the start, Hiphop got in my heart,
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Graffiti on the wall, coulda ended in (laughs)
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Juvenile Delinquent
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but pops gave me the right type of tools to think with
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books to read like 'S' ' stuff
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coz the skool's said the kids had Dislexia
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in art class i was a compulsive sketcher of.. teachers
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in my homeroom i drew pictures to mess 'em up
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coz none of them would like my style
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read more books than a curriculum profile
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saying "Mr Jones please come get your child"
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"Coz he's writing mad poems and his verses are wild"
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(haha)
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(Greatest man great great greatest man alive....)
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Heh heh heh,
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My Pop was not a Rollin' Stone
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He been around the world blowin' his horn, still he came home
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Then he got grown, changed his name to Olu
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Come on, tell 'em 'bout the places you gone to
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[Olu Dara]
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Saudi Arabia, Mozambeke, Madagascar, Paris, Greece,
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(Uh huh)
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The Middle Africa is where we lived
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better known as "Queensbridge"
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Nas, Nas, you don't stop
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'Olu Dara' in the house, you don't stop,
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'Muddy Waters,' 'Howlin' Wolf,' you don't stop,
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from the Blues to street hop, you don't stop
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Tell 'em Pa,
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[Olu Dara]
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see i come from Missisippi,
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(Bam bam babam)
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I was young and running wild,
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(Running wild!)
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(Bam bam babam)
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in and out of New York City
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(Bam bam babam)
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where i had my first child
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(Bam bam babam)
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I named the boy Nasir,
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(Bam bam babam)
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all the boys call him Nas
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(Bam bam babam)
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I told him as a youngster,
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(Bam bam babam)
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he'll be the greatest man alive
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(Bam bam babam)
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(You're the greatest pop,)
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Greatest man alive
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(You're the greatest pop,)
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Great great great great greatest man alive
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(Rest In Peace 'Ray Charles')
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