[00:02.50]Yeah, check check, testing
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[00:06.22]It's clear out there? Yeah
[00:08.77]
[00:16.35]It's like
[00:16.68]I'm hang gliding over the hood, ha
[00:17.93]
[00:25.82]Never worry (ohhh, no, no, no)
[00:28.77]
[00:30.94]Check, let there be light
[00:33.20]
[00:34.04]No gang banging in New York tonight
[00:36.13]Just murals of Biggie Smalls,
[00:37.68]bigger then life
[00:38.83]Turn up the kid mic cuz
[00:40.22]ya'll ain't listening right
[00:41.14]
[00:41.81]What's all this talk that Nas got bought?
[00:43.53]
[00:44.09]I'd rather outline my body in white chalk
[00:45.66]
[00:46.93]Ain't nobody been where I been,
[00:48.42]they at a stand still
[00:49.88]This is all overseen by my man Will
[00:51.31]As I walk through the shadow of death
[00:54.18]I know that
[00:54.84]I ain't got much time left
[00:56.98]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[00:59.13]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[01:01.98](And I)
[01:02.51]I know my business, so my sins great
[01:04.12](And I)
[01:04.90]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[01:07.27](And I) Forgive 'em all,
[01:08.27]they did they best to hate
[01:10.27]Oh, let there be light
[01:12.73]This ain't the glorified,
[01:13.50]just painting the street picture
[01:14.77]There's no God in sir Bibles,
[01:16.03]just blunt and switches
[01:17.24]Gillettes cut pain in kitchen
[01:19.20]Now every rapper wanna claim he
[01:21.00]hang with Kenneth ＂Supreme＂ Griffith
[01:22.31]It's like the same difference cept
[01:23.89]when niggaz get arraigned
[01:25.19]They don't want the same sentence,
[01:26.58]niggaz get to snitchin
[01:27.82]If I could reverse the monsters
[01:29.46]and turn forward the razas
[01:30.86]And bring back the niggaz who was livest
[01:32.69]Old hustlers,
[01:33.73]reminscing on better days
[01:35.58]They home, doing nothing,
[01:36.59]might as well be in a cage
[01:38.21]Hating on young brothers,
[01:39.42]one foot in the grave
[01:40.55]They used to love us till
[01:41.73]we found our own way thru the maze
[01:43.14]New York, set trippin and flaggin
[01:45.12]Got the West Coast laughing, now Esco's asking
[01:47.73]What happened? My homegirl from upper Manhattan
[01:50.24]She remembers the quarters that's Latin,
[01:52.05]alotta rat-a-tat-tatting
[01:53.35]This is all overseen by my man Will
[01:55.03]As I walk through the shadow of death
[01:56.48]I know that
[01:57.32]I ain't got much time left
[01:58.88]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[02:01.07]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[02:03.90](And I)
[02:04.36]I know my business, so my sins great
[02:06.07](And I)
[02:06.97]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[02:09.10](And I) Forgive 'em all,
[02:10.19]they did they best to hate
[02:12.08]Oh, let there be light
[02:14.28]The son of the audio cassette era,
[02:15.78]tech wearer
[02:16.62]Bullets and begets, Binzbo's speaker terror
[02:19.34]Till man I get mine till I'm dead,
[02:21.12]so I can drive sumpthin red
[02:22.49]Like that horse standing on it's hind legs
[02:24.19]Since Arnold and Willis in they bunk beds
[02:26.19]I wanted bread like Wonder,
[02:27.49]not manned-a-wanno like the parent of Lionel
[02:29.89]Nas is the Ghetto American Idol
[02:31.91]No matter what you do
[02:33.32]you're never getting my title
[02:34.78]I can't sound smart cuz ya'll'll run away
[02:36.85]They say I ain't hungry no more
[02:38.61]and I don't talk about 'ye
[02:39.85]Like there's no other way for a ex-hustler
[02:41.95]Cake ya, the x-ray splitter to touch ya,
[02:44.14]I beg to differ
[02:45.19]When you're four years into the game,
[02:46.51]we can have a conversation
[02:47.74]Eight years in the game,
[02:48.85]I invite ya on vacation
[02:49.93]Ten years in the game,
[02:51.29]after I've enjoyed my fame
[02:53.26]Only then I let ya pick my brain, niggaz
[02:55.60](And I) Right about now (And I)
[02:59.00](They don't really know)
[03:00.46](And I) (They don't really see)
[03:02.64]
[03:03.30](No, no, no) We getting real right, ya know?
[03:06.22](And I)
[03:06.97]That is Tre Williams ladies and gentlemen
[03:09.16](They should fear no)
[03:10.59]
[03:11.15](And I)
[03:11.73]
[03:12.70]Focus on good things man,
[03:14.08]good times, Heh-heh, alright
[03:15.83]This is all overseen by my man Will
[03:17.42]As I walk through the shadow of death
[03:18.90]I know that
[03:19.48]I ain't got much time left
[03:21.42]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[03:23.72]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[03:26.66]I know my business, so my sins great
[03:28.90]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[03:31.85]Forgive 'em all,
[03:32.85]they did they best to hate
[03:35.10]Oh, let there be light
[03:36.96]This is all overseen by my man Will
[03:38.18]As I walk through the shadow of death
[03:39.44]I know that
[03:40.03]I ain't got much time left
[03:42.18]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[03:44.26]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[03:47.05](And I)
[03:47.73]I know my business, so my sins great
[03:49.67](And I)
[03:50.60]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[03:52.62](And I) Forgive 'em all,
[03:53.57]they did they best to hate
[03:55.16]
[03:55.69]Oh, let there be light
[03:59.68]
[04:01.84]Oh let it be, let it be, yeah
[04:05.71]
[04:07.55]Let it be, let it be