Lirik NAS Back When

  • nothing like them 80s summer n.y. days
  • hop on the nb5 days
  • mopeds, pro keds, city split five ways
  • how it all started, fifth floor apartment
  • a jigsaw puzzle aerial view of the projects
  • a kid saw struggle, buried a few of his partners
  • now chill in resorts, enjoying massages
  • check out the oracle bred from city housing
  • nas, i'll rise the deads by thousands
  • i remember seeing shan chilling near his audi
  • hollis ave, run and them but i proudly
  • put a poster up of shan and marley, that was art kid
  • you love to hear the story how it started
  • the bubbly i'm pouring wasn't popped yet
  • before there was a audience to watch us
  • i assure you, there was a process
  • “you love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started”
  • how it all got started, yeah
  • “you love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started”
  • how it, how it all got started
  • “you love to hear the story how it all, how it all got started”
  • hear the story, started off
  • started off, started off
  • how it all got started
  • “back when, back when, back when, back when
  • back when, back when, back when, back when”
  • to call them fake today is hate, real niggas extinct
  • pac left me inside a rap world with niggas that wink
  • at other rappers, undercover niggas spit every way
  • won't be surprised if all their rides have federal plates
  • let alone their wardrobes and studio 4 flow
  • it was real when i appeared, it would've been some jaws broke
  • nas, my real name, stage name, same thing
  • how could you let these lames claim king? i'm so ashamed, man
  • i light a l for vernon, for niggas who would burn in hell
  • for vernon; 10th street, 12th street, nightmare on elm street
  • pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials
  • of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true
  • who possesses the testicular fortitude
  • to blow away myths that's a hindrance to all of you
  • you blame your own shortcomings on sex and race
  • the mafia, homosexuals and all the jews
  • it's hogwash point of views, stereotypical
  • anti-semitic like the foul words gibson spewed
  • and it's pathetic, i don't get the credit i deserve
  • that's why i hate doing interviews
  • but i don't sweat it, study long, study raw
  • my man dion said “nas over-think the songs he writing”
  • i'm not a wack performer standing near a corny hype man
  • i got the donism in me, i'm here to enlighten
  • “you love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started”
  • how it all got started, yeah
  • “you love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started”
  • how it, how it all got started
  • “you love to hear the story how it all, how it all got started”
  • hear the story, started off
  • started off, started off
  • how it all got started
  • “back when, back when, back when, back when
  • back when, back when, back when, back when”

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