[00:00.00] 作词 : Nasir Jones/Eric Hudson/David Ranier Webber
[00:00.49] 作曲 : Nasir Jones/Eric Hudson/David Ranier Webber
[00:00.99]Hudson
[00:19.04]Heard you got your master's, did college up
[00:21.40]Never looked back, now that's what's happening
[00:23.39]And it's good to see you made it out the hood
[00:25.72]With a degree, a true man with passion
[00:27.63]Now you could enter the so-called
[00:29.47]"White Man's Society" and go right past them
[00:31.92]Looking in the Wall Street Journal for your face
[00:34.40]But it's always absent
[00:35.79]There he go, that's him eating flan and ambrosia
[00:38.57]Watch on his arm, golden, laughin'
[00:40.37]Try to get his attention
[00:41.86]But he's flinching,
[00:42.60]Guess my grimy clothes threw him off, so I mention
[00:44.68]We were neighbors some time ago
[00:46.38]He was kinda cold, in this restaurant
[00:48.38]Full of his kind and more
[00:49.73]He sighed, tried to look surprised, I know
[00:51.66]His side of the city where he resides, so
[00:53.85]I had to go
[00:55.00]I heard him laugh hard at some sad black jokes
[00:57.17]Hate so-called "intellectuals"
[00:59.16]No *****, he suggests we vote
[01:01.08]He stand all proud, speaking to correct his folks
[01:03.47]He want to lecture folks
[01:05.12]'Cause he professional and he suggest that we don't sell ****
[01:07.92]And I guess it's true, but who the **** are you?
[01:09.84]Who are you, tryna tell me who I am?
[01:16.42]Tryna tell me who I am?
[01:19.05]Who are you, tryna tell me what I'm not?
[01:23.17]Tryna tell me what I'm not
[01:27.50]Who are you, tryna tell me who I am?
[01:32.20]Tryna box me in, tryna find who I am
[01:35.75]I'm Idi Amin, Marcus Garvey, H. Rap Brown
[01:38.76]I'm Muhammad Ali, I'm Reginald Lewis
[01:40.67]George Washington Carver, I'm Nas with incredible music
[01:43.30]Let's do it, thinking of a master plan
[01:46.01]Sipping on disaster, smoking on gangster
[01:48.42]Watching *****s argue, chillin' on my barstool
[01:50.44]With my Hell Up in Harlem hat in hand
[01:52.32]With a girl named Pat, she more than a waitress
[01:54.77]To order your drink with
[01:55.84]She divorced a banker and bought the bar
[01:58.21]She got an automobile, she gives an order to kill
[02:01.60]You get caught and robbed
[02:03.13]We could see your walk is off, you could lose your rhythm
[02:05.72]When you outta the gutter for a while
[02:07.12]You easily go to soft from hard
[02:08.82]Now we all about hustlers, number runners
[02:10.90]Hoes and sharks and we all know the code of the block
[02:13.04]And you talking some gibberish, anti-***** ****
[02:15.50]'Cause you marched back with Rosa Parks
[02:17.29]Brother don't start, go build your Noah's Ark
[02:19.93]You could float to the end of the world
[02:21.81]And pretend what you not, but I know what you are
[02:24.19]While I roll in my car, and I'm spending my knot
[02:26.29]While my enemies plot, you ain't out of the shot
[02:28.31]Matter of fact, you're an easier target
[02:30.11]And I respect everything you accomplished
[02:32.39]But I hope I never get old and talk that nonsense
[02:34.58]So who the **** are you?
[02:35.72]Who are you, tryna tell me who I am?
[02:40.09]Tryna tell me who I am?
[02:44.40]Who are you, tryna tell me what I'm not?
[02:48.57]Tryna tell me what I'm not
[02:52.56]Who are you, tryna tell me who I am?
[02:56.64]Tryna box me in, tryna find who I am
[03:00.75]She Queen of Nzinga
[03:01.72]Winnie Mandela, Ida B. Wells
[03:03.66]Why can't you tell?
[03:05.69]Why can't you tell?
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