[00:02.500]Yeah, check check, testing
[00:04.960]
[00:06.220]It's clear out there? Yeah
[00:08.770]
[00:16.350]It's like
[00:16.680]I'm hang gliding over the hood, ha
[00:17.930]
[00:25.820]Never worry （ohhh, no, no, no）
[00:28.770]
[00:30.940]Check, let there be light
[00:33.200]
[00:34.040]No gang banging in New York tonight
[00:36.130]Just murals of Biggie Smalls,
[00:37.680]bigger then life
[00:38.830]Turn up the kid mic cuz
[00:40.220]ya'll ain't listening right
[00:41.140]
[00:41.810]What's all this talk that Nas got bought?
[00:43.530]
[00:44.090]I'd rather outline my body in white chalk
[00:45.660]
[00:46.930]Ain't nobody been where I been,
[00:48.420]they at a stand still
[00:49.880]This is all overseen by my man Will
[00:51.310]As I walk through the shadow of death
[00:54.180]I know that
[00:54.840]I ain't got much time left
[00:56.980]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[00:59.130]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[01:01.980]（And I）
[01:02.510]I know my business, so my sins great
[01:04.120]（And I）
[01:04.900]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[01:07.270]（And I） Forgive 'em all,
[01:08.270]they did they best to hate
[01:10.270]Oh, let there be light
[01:12.730]This ain't the glorified,
[01:14.700]just painting the street picture
[01:15.370]There's no God in sir Bibles,
[01:16.630]just blunt and switches
[01:17.840]Gillettes cut pain in kitchen
[01:19.800]Now every rapper wanna claim he
[01:21.600]hang with Kenneth ＂Supreme＂ Griffith
[01:22.910]It's like the same difference cept
[01:24.490]when niggaz get arraigned
[01:25.790]They don't want the same sentence,
[01:27.180]niggaz get to snitchin
[01:28.420]If I could reverse the monsters
[01:30.060]and turn forward the razas
[01:31.460]And bring back the niggaz who was livest
[01:33.290]Old hustlers,
[01:34.330]reminscing on better days
[01:36.180]They home, doing nothing,
[01:37.190]might as well be in a cage
[01:38.810]Hating on young brothers,
[01:40.020]one foot in the grave
[01:41.150]They used to love us till
[01:42.330]we found our own way thru the maze
[01:43.740]New York, set trippin and flaggin
[01:45.720]Got the West Coast laughing, now Esco's asking
[01:48.330]What happened? My homegirl from upper Manhattan
[01:50.840]She remembers the quarters that's Latin,
[01:52.650]alotta rat-a-tat-tatting
[01:53.950]This is all overseen by my man Will
[01:55.630]As I walk through the shadow of death
[01:57.080]I know that
[01:57.920]I ain't got much time left
[01:59.480]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[02:01.670]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[02:04.500]（And I）
[02:04.960]I know my business, so my sins great
[02:06.670]（And I）
[02:07.570]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[02:09.700]（And I） Forgive 'em all,
[02:10.790]they did they best to hate
[02:12.680]Oh, let there be light
[02:14.880]The son of the audio cassette era,
[02:16.380]tech wearer
[02:17.220]Bullets and begets, Binzbo's speaker terror
[02:19.940]Till man I get mine till I'm dead,
[02:21.720]so I can drive sumpthin red
[02:23.090]Like that horse standing on it's hind legs
[02:24.790]Since Arnold and Willis in they bunk beds
[02:26.790]I wanted bread like Wonder,
[02:28.090]not manned-a-wanno like the parent of Lionel
[02:30.490]Nas is the Ghetto American Idol
[02:32.510]No matter what you do
[02:33.920]you're never getting my title
[02:35.380]I can't sound smart cuz ya'll'll run away
[02:37.450]They say I ain't hungry no more
[02:39.210]and I don't talk about 'ye
[02:40.450]Like there's no other way for a ex-hustler
[02:42.550]Cake ya, the x-ray splitter to touch ya,
[02:44.740]I beg to differ
[02:45.790]When you're four years into the game,
[02:47.110]we can have a conversation
[02:48.340]Eight years in the game,
[02:49.450]I invite ya on vacation
[02:50.530]Ten years in the game,
[02:51.890]after I've enjoyed my fame
[02:53.860]Only then I let ya pick my brain, niggaz
[02:56.200]（And I） Right about now （And I）
[02:59.600]（They don't really know）
[03:01.060]（And I） （They don't really see）
[03:03.240]
[03:03.900]（No, no, no） We getting real right, ya know?
[03:06.820]（And I）
[03:07.570]That is Tre Williams ladies and gentlemen
[03:09.760]（They should fear no）
[03:11.190]
[03:11.750]（And I）
[03:12.330]
[03:13.300]Focus on good things man,
[03:14.680]good times, Heh-heh, alright
[03:16.430]This is all overseen by my man Will
[03:18.020]As I walk through the shadow of death
[03:19.500]I know that
[03:20.080]I ain't got much time left
[03:22.020]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[03:24.320]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[03:27.260]I know my business, so my sins great
[03:29.500]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[03:32.450]Forgive 'em all,
[03:33.450]they did they best to hate
[03:35.700]Oh, let there be light
[03:37.560]This is all overseen by my man Will
[03:38.780]As I walk through the shadow of death
[03:40.040]I know that
[03:40.630]I ain't got much time left
[03:42.780]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[03:44.860]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[03:47.650]（And I）
[03:48.330]I know my business, so my sins great
[03:50.270]（And I）
[03:51.200]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[03:53.220]（And I） Forgive 'em all,
[03:54.170]they did they best to hate
[03:55.760]
[03:56.290]Oh, let there be light
[04:00.280]
[04:02.440]Oh let it be, let it be, yeah
[04:06.310]
[04:08.150]Let it be, let it be