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[00:02.08]【Intro】
[00:02.33]Yo, yeah
[00:07.21]It's that Queens shit, the real shit
[00:15.09]Illmatic
[00:25.41]It's the N-A-S, yes
[00:30.54]Yo
[00:31.19]【Chorus】
[00:31.43]I wake up every morning
[00:32.68]Thinking what we gonna do today (what we gonna do today)
[00:35.99]There's got to be a better way (got to be a better way)
[00:38.24]To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
[00:41.88]Maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
[00:50.60]【Verse】
[00:50.89]1, 2... I never knock a brother, I'm anti-jail for real
[00:54.48]Smooth criminal skill, locked in a human flesh shield
[00:57.08]Watching niggas get rich beside me
[00:59.12]Pushing a 5 B-Y me up in the passenger seat
[01:01.72]But I see me as Hallie Selassie in my kingdom
[01:04.25]Sipping Asti Spumante, dripped in, reality kicks in
[01:07.50]I need the papes to start clicking
[01:09.28]Got a connect out in Richmond, ain't nigga in the fam will pitch in
[01:12.77]It's on, word is bond, that's my name, big Nas, all wise to civilize
[01:17.35]From the Northern Hemisphere of the earth
[01:20.59]Peace to my seed and thanks for her birth
[01:23.00]Destiny, that's her name
[01:25.63]It's going on, you know my name
[01:27.71]Big Nas in the house, y'all, on the freestyle tip
[01:31.11]When I finish this shit, it's sure to be a hit
[01:33.84]Peace, peace