[00:02.32]Uh, you know I still run with that,
[00:06.17]that blood of a slave
[00:07.29]
[00:08.17]Boiling in my veins
[00:09.12]
[00:10.19]It's just hot until a nigga
[00:14.19]can't take it no more
[00:15.31]
[00:16.62]Blood of a slave, Heart of a King
[00:19.30]Turn my voice up
[00:20.92]Ayo, the brother is "Stillmatic"
[00:23.23]
[00:23.85]I crawled up out of that grave,
[00:25.67]wiping the dirt, cleaning my shirt
[00:27.11]They thought I'll make another "Illmatic"
[00:28.23]But it's always forward I'm moving
[00:30.45]Never backwards stupid here's another classic
[00:32.88]C-Notes is falling from the sky
[00:34.65]By now the credits roll starring
[00:36.33]Nas executive poet, produced,
[00:37.64]directed by
[00:38.51]The Kid slash Escobar
[00:39.91]Narration describes the lives and
[00:41.47]laws tribes in the ghetto trying to survive
[00:43.61]The feature opens with
[00:45.01]this young black child
[00:46.00]Finger scratch, cigarette burns on the sofa,
[00:47.69]turning the TV down
[00:48.88]Mary Jane girls, 45's playing,
[00:50.20]soft in the background
[00:51.90]Poof from C-Town's mornings was hash browns
[00:53.77]Stepped over dope fiends,
[00:54.72]walking out the door, all of us paw
[00:56.65]I learned the difference between the snitches,
[00:59.16]the real ones, and who's soft
[01:01.39]And the murderous, hungriest crews
[01:02.63]People jumping from roofs,
[01:03.88]shotguns pumping made it through my youth
[01:05.87]Walking very thin lines, ages seven and nine
[01:08.32]That's the age I was on my album cover,
[01:10.47]this is the rebirth
[01:11.53]I know the streets thirst water like Moses
[01:13.47]Walking through the ho
[01:14.85]t desert searching to be free
[01:16.23]This is my end and my new beginning Nostalgia
[01:18.85]Alpha and Omega places,
[01:20.42]it's like a glitch in the matrix
[01:22.07]I seen it at all, did it all, most of
[01:24.58]y'all been pop for a minute
[01:25.76]Spitters, sinners and the game get rid of y'all
[01:27.70]Y'all got there but y'all didn't get it all
[01:29.95], I want my style back
[01:31.23]Hate to cease y'all plan it's the rap repo-man
[01:33.92]To them double up hustlers,
[01:35.11]bidders, niggas who real
[01:36.05]Professionals, stick up
[01:36.87]child's dreaming for meals
[01:38.37]Let my words guide you, get inside you
[01:40.75]From Crips to Pirus this is survival
[01:42.58]Blood of a Slave, Heart of a King
[01:46.84]Blood of a Slave, Heart of a King
[01:52.62]
[01:54.50]Uh, uh Blood of a Slave, Heart of a King
[01:58.01]Uh, yea
[02:00.77]Huh, Braveheart