Nas - Triple Threat lyrics

[Intro: Nature] [Verse 1: Nature] Y'all know my pedigree, hoes blow the gods voluntarily We're world wide, my heart pumps where the ghettos be Young sharks be telling me, y'all n***as can't swim, y'all drowning From my hood to your hood, the anthem, y'all wilding I die for my coalition, the foes whispering Hating, Wild Gremlins and those that roll with 'em So I chose rap, we vamped to neva go back Until this life of animosity, the high velocity n***as be on the same team planning to blow shots at me Be the same mouths I try to feed I write sh**, entice it properly, 'til it hurts me The same game as James Worthy, they spread my name like it's Herpes Nature, n***as on the block boxing me, y'all not complete We take this sh** to where it gots to be, now smile philosophy [Verse 2: Nas] Sex and money go together like techs and nine shells Swiss cheese you and cover it up like Roswell Cartel, you ain't seen no iller regime The Celest team, prophecy, project warrior, owns property Crackers hate it, cops get jealous cause I stay with The '98 temporary plates on my whip The system thing is not right A rich thug could f** a cop's wife Cause I'm on television and live the pop life I rock mics, make mills, sound scan sales One point whateva records, professional sk**s Money's the root of evil but it'll make you happy Don't wanna shoot my people but still they might clap me Cause I talk like Dr. Malachi york, played the sidewalk Hold fort, diamond plate chain, gold fork Get in tune, rich life Ricky for silver spoon Frank Lopez's crib, elevators and living room [Verse 3: Noreaga] Ayo we're still in Queens, same place where we use to be Often you won't see us, cause we're usually out touring Leave the hood now the hood boring NORE, you know me, we're regulating Straight from Iraq with QB affiliated It's like a higher learning From 99th street down to Vernon Letting our heat burst burning Like henny wet, throwing up my set Catch me on star tec, 'bout to set the connect Yo s**, d**, money and murder, beers and s** Lands and Lex in the projects The 4th floor where we score through our cook-up D's shook-up, hit the block and now you look up [Verse 4: Nature] Whispers turning to screams, from screams to hollers Fans turn to fanatics, go home and dream about us My zone, I need the chronic, my habit daily Spitting, rapping fury, I got more steps then Alvin Ailey Thousands will feel me, my nickname Braille Dietec, the fakest n***as, cause their cliques ain't real Each verse be pain filled, force to taking Motrin's From the street to the screen, pictures be major motion Nature grossing, holding my square where snake's approaching React quickly, keeping gats where my dick be A buck equal a hundred, so a half is fifty Y'all do the math with me, before I hurt you It's personal, you and I know, my whole squad be U-N-I-versal From blood in to blood out, we thugged out f** a four-four, I go to snub route, leave you rubbed out [Verse 5: Nas] d**h followed him, before it swallowed him whole It was signs he should of read that was inside his soul n***as light dutches to 'em now So long miss a mutha f**a but still life goes on Hope I'm rich on my last day, clutching some a** n***a said he came in with, got a nut when he pa**ed An old man laying dead on my bed, with some young sh** Screaming out "freedom" when I slumped her chest After that, chill, be a b**h with a hex Every n***a she s**ed, be the next put to rest [Verse 6: Noreaga] Yo since a young sibling, had every flavor Timberland Always had a jump shot and always dribbling John McEnroe, Jose lay like Ca**erole Doling Mike Tys', the jungle low, cut the china white Come check ya, mixed the henny with the nectars On straight flights while y'all cats connectors If it was up to me, the whole world would be comfortably But since its not, y'all n***as stay f**ed up I think about y'all too much and be bankrupted So n***as get yours, I got mines n***as, so what, what? [Outro]