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[Hook:]
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"You love to hear the story"
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"How it all, how it all, got started, got started"
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(Repeat x3)
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Start it off, start it off, start it off
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"Back when, back when, back when, back when
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Back when, back when, back when, back when"
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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The I'll reminisce and think about the fly days
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Nothing like them 80s summer ny days
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Hop on the nb5 days
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Mopeds, Pro Keds, city split five ways
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How it all started, fifth floor apartment
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A jigsaw puzzle aerial view of the projects
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A kid saw struggle, buried a few of his partners
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Now I chill in resorts, enjoying massages
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Check out the oracle bred from city housing
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Nas, I arise the dead by thousands
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I remember seeing Shan chilling near his Audi
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Hollis Ave, Run and them, but I proudly
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Put a poster up of Shan and Marley, that was art, kid
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You love to hear the story how it started
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The bubbly I'm pouring wasn't popped yet
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Before there was a audience to watch us
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I assure you, there was a process
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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To call them fake today is hate, real niggas extinct
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Pac left me inside a rap world with niggas that wink
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At other rappers, undercover niggas spit every way
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Won't be surprised if all their rides have federal plates
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Let alone their wardrobes and Studio 4 flow
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It was real when I appeared, it would've been some jaws broke
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Nas, my real name, stage name, same thing
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How could you let these lames claim king? I'm so ashamed, man
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I light a L for Vernon, for niggas who would burn in Hell
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For Vernon; 10th Street, 12th Street, Nightmare on Elm Street
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Pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials
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Of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true
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Who possesses the testicular fortitude
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To blow away myths that's a hindrance to all of you?
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You blame your own shortcomings on s** and race
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The mafia, homosexuals and all the Jews
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It's hogwash point of views, stereotypical
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Anti-Semitic like the foul words Gibson spewed
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And it's pathetic
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I don't get the credit I deserve
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That's why I hate doing interviews
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But I don't sweat it, study long, study raw
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My man Dion said "Nas over-think the songs he writing"
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I'm not a wack performer standing near a corny hype man
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I got the Donism
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I'm here to enlighten
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[Hook:]
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