"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that" [repeat 2X]
  [--> Kool Keith from the Ultramagnetic MC's 'Ease Back']
    [Nas]
  Yo; I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret
  I rock a vest, prestigious, Cuban link flooded Jesus
  in a Lex watchin Kathie Lee and Regis
  My actions are one with the seasons
  A tec squeezin - executioner, winter time I rock a fur
  Mega popular, center of attraction
  Climaxin, my bitches they be laughin
  They high from sniffin coke off a twenty-cent Andrew Jackson
  City lights spark a New York night
  Rossi and Martini sippin, Sergio Tachinni flippin mad pies
  low price, I blow dice and throw em
  Forty-five by my scrotum, manifest the "Do or Die" slogan
  My niggaz roll in ten M3's
  Twenty Gods poppin wheelies on Kawasaki's
  Hip-Hop's got me on some ol', sprayin shots like a drumroll
  Blankin out and never miscount the shells my gun hold
  I don't stunt, I regulate
  Henny and Sprite, I seperate, watchin crab niggaz marinate
  I'm all about tecs and good jooks and sex
  Israelite books, holdin government names from Ness
  MC's are crawlin out, every hole in the slum
  You be aight like blood money in a pimp's cum
    "I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"
  "I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..
  .. for, you wack MC's"
    [Nas]
  Currency is made in trust of the Messiah
  I'm spending it to get higher
  Earth, Wind, and Fire singing reasons why I'm
  up early, trustworthy is a nine that bust early
  Sunshine on my grill, I spill
  Remi on imaginary graves, put my hat on my waves
  Latter Day Saints say religious praise
  I dolo, challenge any team or solo
  You must be buggin out, new to my shit, home on a furlough
  Ask around, who's laid up, sharp and straight up
  Mafioso, gettin niggaz wigs sprayed up
  Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
  I'll one day walk into shots drunk off champange from Sicily
  This be the drama, I'ma pause like a comma
  in a sentence, paragraph's indented
  Bloodshot red eyes, high, yellow envelopes of lye
  Openin cigars, let tobacco fly
  Condos are tuneproof, we're looking out the sky's moonroof
  Shittin like gin and prune juice
  Yo the system wants the coon's noose, hang em high
  Courtrooms filled up, it's off the hook while I
  just wrote a statement, like I'm facing twenty years
  in the basement - chilling on the via with Mumia
  for wearin chrome - I told the judge snakes slither
  like Sharon Stone, but like Capone I'm thrown (yo)
    "I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"
  "I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..
  .. for, you wack MC's"
  "I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"
  "I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..
  .. for, you wack MC's"
    [Nas]
  Lyrical, ly-lyrical mission..
  Lyrical..
  Yo the time is wastin, I use the mind elevation
  Dime sack lacin, court pen pacin
  Individual, lyrical math abrasion
  Psychic evaluation, the foulest nation
  We livin in, dangerous lives, mad leak and battered wives
  A lifestyle where bad streets is patternized
  Wise men build and destroy
  While the real McCoy dopefiend, named Detroit is still dealin boy
  Coke suppliers actin biased
  Cause rumors say that niggaz wear wires and we liars
  But every night the gat's fired, and every day a rat's hired
  I still remain the mack flyest in the phat Kani, it's --
  -- just the killer in me, slash drug dealer MC
  Ex-slug filler, semi mug peeler
  Demi, bottles of Mo', yo simply follow me flow
  Put poetry inside a crack pot and blow
  rough holes for cracked out pussies and buttholes
  Bring the G's and the D's roll, they can't touch those
  Why shoot the breeze about it, when you could be about it?
  My degrees are routed, toward the peasy haired brick houses
  instead of the fake medallions
  Rich niggaz transport in thousands
  Foreign cash exchange amountin to millions
  Doors is locked, rocks is chopped, watch the cameras in the ceilings
  Trick bitches catching mad feelings
  Peelin off in the Lex Jeep, techniques is four-wheelin
  I bet it be some shit when we connect with Stretch
  When we catch them sex niggaz with the tecs you blessed, word
  So now it's on, never wasted a slug,
  Time is money when it comes to mine, take it in blood
    "I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"
  "I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..
  .. for, you wack MC's" [repeat in background to fade]
    Yeah, Capone-N-Noreaga
  Yeah, yo, offical Queensbridge murderers
  Mobb Deep keep it real though
  Motherfuckin AZ yo
  'Mega, 'Mega, whatever
  Scarlett O'Hara
  Yo, Fox Boogie
  East New York
  Gambo, Brownsville
  Wizard, Fort Rockaway
  Big Jersey
  Connecticut, D.C., Sudan
  V.A. ?? N.C., L.A.
  So on and so on...
  Big Ha, Houston Fifth Ward
  Black Ed, keep it real Moe..