[00:05.991]To my *************s that went out in line on duty
[00:08.525]21-gun salute! One love, one thug
[00:10.392]One nation (Let's get down, let's do this!)
[00:11.708]21-gun salute! (Come on, yeah, let's do this!)
[00:14.344]21-gun salute! (Come on, come on)
[00:16.891]All the time I be… (Let's do this!)
[00:18.219]Hopin' my true mother******s know
[00:20.110]This be the realest *************t I ever wrote
[00:22.602](Against all odds)
[00:23.341]Up in the studio, gettin' blowed
[00:25.358]To the truest *************t I ever spoke
[00:27.129]21-gun salute, dressed in fatigues
[00:29.292]Black jeans and boots
[00:30.529]Disappeared in the crowd
[00:31.927]All you seen was troops
[00:33.077]This little ************* named Nas
[00:34.404]Think he live like me
[00:35.747]Talking 'bout he left the hospital
[00:37.110]Took five like me
[00:38.194]You live in fantasies, *************
[00:39.517]I reject your deposit
[00:40.691]We shook Dre punk ass
[00:42.185]Now he out of the closet
[00:43.411]Mobb Deep wonder
[00:44.417]Why a ************* blowed 'em out
[00:45.893]Next time grown folks talk
[00:47.246]*************, close your mouth!
[00:48.564]Peep me, I take this war *************t deeply
[00:50.707]Done seen too many real players fall
[00:52.413]To let these ************* *************s beat me
[00:53.777]Puffy, let's be honest, you a punk
[00:55.572]Or you will see me with gloves
[00:57.000]Remember that *************t you said
[00:57.709]To Vibe about me being a thug?
[00:59.429]And you can tell the people you roll with
[01:01.062]Whatever you want
[01:02.138]But you and I know what's goin' on
[01:04.510]Payback
[01:05.286]I knew you ************* *************s from way back
[01:06.959]Witness me strapped with MAC's
[01:08.404]Knew I wouldn't play that
[01:09.744]All you old rappers tryin' to advance
[01:11.754]It's all over now, take it like a man
[01:14.446]*************s lookin' like Larry Holmes
[01:16.008]Flabby and sick (Look at DaLa Soul)
[01:17.009]Tryin' to player hate on my *************t
[01:18.752]You eat a fat *************, let it be known
[01:20.671]This is how you made me
[01:21.830]Lovin' how I got you *************s crazy
[01:24.291]Against all odds
[01:25.281]Hopin' my thug mother******s know
[01:27.210]This be the realest *************t I ever wrote
[01:29.507]Against all odds
[01:30.459]Up in the studio, gettin' blowed
[01:32.627]To the truest *************t I ever spoke
[01:34.662]Against all odds
[01:35.531]Hopin' my true mother******s know
[01:37.475]This be the realest *************t I ever wrote
[01:39.798]I heard he was light skinned, stocky
[01:41.765]With a Haitian accent. Jewelry, fast cars
[01:44.099]And he's known for fla*************n'
[01:45.626]Listen while I take you back
[01:47.087]And lace this rap
[01:48.072]A real live tale about a snitch
[01:49.764]Named Haitian Jack
[01:50.993]Knew he was workin' for the feds
[01:52.483]Same crime, different trials, *************,
[01:54.034]picture what he said. And did I mention?
[01:56.106]Promised to payback
[01:57.096]Jimmy Henchman, in due time
[01:58.743]I know you ************* *************s is listenin’
[02:00.345]The world is mine
[02:01.228]Set me up, wet me up
[02:02.412]*************s stuck me up, heard the guns bust
[02:04.715]But you tricks never shut me up
[02:06.264]Touch one of mine, on everything I own
[02:08.520]I'll destroy everything you touch
[02:10.533]Play the game, *************
[02:11.616]All out warfare, eye for eye
[02:13.896]Last words to a ************* *************:
[02:15.555]"Why you lie?"
[02:16.355]Now you gotta watch your back
[02:17.617]Now watch your front, here we come
[02:19.591]Gunshots to Tut, now you stuck
[02:21.795]************* the rap game, *************, this M.O.B
[02:24.021]So believe me, we enemies
[02:25.891]I go against all odds
[02:27.171]I'm hopin' my true mother******s know
[02:29.193]This be the realest *************t I ever wrote
[02:31.345]Against all odds
[02:32.266]Up in the studio, gettin' blowed
[02:34.603]To the truest *************t I ever spoke
[02:36.602]Against all odds
[02:37.476]I'm hopin' my true mother******s know
[02:39.495]This be the realest *************t I ever wrote
[02:41.633]Against all odds
[02:42.545]Puffy gettin' bribed like a *************
[02:44.251]To hide that fact
[02:45.232]He did some *************t he shouldn't have did
[02:46.605]So we ridin' for that
[02:48.003]And that ************* that was down for me
[02:49.659]Restin' dead, switched sides
[02:51.179]Guess his new friends wanted him dead
[02:53.001]Probably be murdered for the *************t that I said
[02:54.961]I bring the real, be a legend
[02:56.827]Breathin' or dead. Lord, listen to me
[02:58.680]God don't like ugly, it was written
[03:00.457]Ayo, Nas, your whole damn style is bitten
[03:02.796]You heard my melody
[03:03.745]Read about my life in the papers
[03:05.365]All my run-ins with authorities
[03:06.855]Felonious capers
[03:08.093]Now you wanna live my life
[03:09.743]So what's a "Hausa", Nas?
[03:10.886]*************s that don't rhyme right
[03:12.297]You've seen too many movies
[03:13.442]Load 'em up against the wall
[03:14.794]Close his eyes, since you lie, you die
[03:17.606]Goodbye! Let the real live *************s
[03:19.478]Hear the truth from me
[03:20.779]What would you do if you was me?
[03:22.588]*************, against all odds
[03:23.956]Hopin' my true mother******s know
[03:25.895]This be the realest *************t I ever wrote
[03:28.215]Against all odds
[03:29.041]Up in the studio gettin' blowed
[03:31.339]To the truest *************t I ever spoke
[03:33.323]Against all odds
[03:34.143]Hopin' my true mother******s know
[03:36.276]This be the realest *************t I ever wrote
[03:38.452]Against all odds
[03:39.361]Up in the studio gettin' blowed
[03:41.571]To the truest *************t I ever spoke
[03:43.591]Against all odds (21-gun salute)
[03:45.261]One love to my true thug *************s
[03:47.156]21-gun salute to my *************s (Outlaw, outlaw!)
[03:48.587]That die in the line of duty (Outlaw!)
[03:49.930]Representin' to the fullest
[03:51.072]Being soldiers with military minds
[03:52.502]That play the rules of the game
[03:54.011]21-gun salute, I salute you
[03:56.072]My *************s, stay strong
[03:57.435]I ride for you, I rhyme for you
[03:59.528]I roll for you, it's all for you
[04:02.049]To all you *************-made *************s
[04:03.644]I'm comin' for you, against all odds
[04:06.267]I don't care who the ************* you is
[04:07.723]You touch me I'm at you
[04:08.967]I know you mother******s didn't think I forgot
[04:11.027]Hell nah, I ain't forgot, *************
[04:12.939]I just remember what you told me
[04:14.112]You said don't go to war
[04:15.115]Unless I got my money right
[04:16.276]Aight, I got my money right now
[04:18.088]Now I want war