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Nas
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[Intro: Nas]
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Yea, niggaz want to talk about this rap shit
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Niggaz want to talk about this money
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About these cars, these homes, these labels
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Clothes, sneakers, big money shit
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Now everybody tryin' to get rich
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Now get rich niggaz, fuck it
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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Some rap pioneers, be them crackheads
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When they speak, you see missin' teeth
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Silver chain with a silver piece
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Niggaz your grandfather's age
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They pants still hangin' down they legs talkin' about they ain't paid
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And they hate you, 'cause they say, you ain't pay dues
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And..... Was stealin' and robbin' them
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I feel it's a problem we gotta resolve
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Hip-Hop been dead, we the reason it died
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Wasn't Sylvia's fault or because mc's skills are lost
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It's because we can't see ourselves as the boss
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Deep-rooted through slavery, self-hatred
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The Jewish stick together, friends in high places
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We on some low level shit
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We don't want niggaz to ever win
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See, everybody got a label
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Everybody's a rapper but few flow fatal
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It's fucked up, it all started from two turntables
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[Hook: Nas]
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When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
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(Carry On Tradition)
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When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
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(Carry On Tradition) - (Carry On Tradition)
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Carry on, ca-carry on, (Carry On Tradition)
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(Carry On Tradition), when you rep what we rep
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Then (Carry On Tradition)
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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Now some of these new rappers got their caps flipped backwards
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Wit their fingers intertwined in some gang-sign madness
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I got an exam, let's see if y'all pass it
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Let's see who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest
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Some of you new rappers, I don't understand your code
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You have your man shoot you, like in that Sopranos episode
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Do anythin' to get in the game, mixtapes, you spit hate
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Against bosses; hungry fucks are moraless
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You should be tossed in a pit full of unfortunate vocalists
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Niggaz, I coulda wrote your shit; I had off-time, was bored wit this
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I coulda made my double-Lp, just by samplin' different parts of Nautilus
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Still came five on the charts with zero audience
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The lane was open and y'all was droppin' that garbage shit
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Y'all got awards for your bricks - it got good to ya
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You started tellin' them bigger dogs to call it quits?! What?
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[Hook: Nas]
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When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
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(Carry On Tradition)
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When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
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(Carry On Tradition) - (Carry On Tradition)
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Carry on, ca-carry on, (Carry On Tradition)
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(Carry On Tradition), when you rep what we rep
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Then (Carry On Tradition)
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[Verse 3: Nas]
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Now niggaz got the studio poppin', it's mad clearer
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Engineers got his earplugs and still hear us
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The live-in-the-park sound, versus the studio state of art sound
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We on the charts now; from British Walkers and Argyles
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Look at us rap stars now, wit our black cards now
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Fortune 500 listed, brunches, Cipriani's
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Sippin', blunted, with rich white guys around me
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Thick white girls around me, Chinese lined up
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Because I'm what?, every dime lust
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We used to be a ghetto secret; can't make my mind up
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If I want that or the whole world to peep it
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Now (Carry On Tradition)
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Fuck a bum wack rapper makin' his career out of dissin'
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Peace to the strugglin' artists and dead one's gone, we miss 'em
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I promise I (Carry On Tradition)
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[Hook: Nas]
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When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
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(Carry On Tradition)
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When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
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(Carry On Tradition) - (Carry On Tradition)
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Carry on, ca-carry on, (Carry On Tradition)
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(Carry On Tradition), when you rep what we rep
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Then (Carry On Tradition)
Carry On Tradition
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