Nas - QueensBridge Politics lyrics

[Verse] Talking to this cutie on facetime Trying to figure out if she gon' give me that face time I don't wanna tour, I wanna chill with my son more Teach him about Egypt and tranquility, critically an*lyze black lives and respectability Why Prodigy mural get vandalized?, why Prodigy? The project politics obviously Demagogue democracy, in the fog I see the mob represented into the light Back to the source where all energy comes Ya enemy done What's eternal? A disease that needs a vaccination, plagues, black season The industry ain't as friendly as it first seems When you dream of drivin' your whip to ya house in Florida Keys On behalf of me and Queens and all of the Gs Bandana P will always stand as tall as the trees First things first, this should be understood QueensBridge, just ain't any other hood It's music, legacy is incredibly high pedigree I don't mean this disrespectfully alphabetically If it's hard to swallow and the credits of B street singing this Bernard Fowler He sang with the Rolling Stones, background for Bootsy Collins Marley Marl's advanced raps sound perfect timing The early 80's, we babies, Pebblee Poo dropped The beat was crazy and Marly was changing hip-hop Then Marly and Shanté caught a body, UTFO She cold, "Roxanne's Revenge", she was 14 years old Then came the Juice Crew and the who's whos G Rap, Rakim and Kane, beats made in the QU I was probably playing with .32s in the lobby It's QueensBridge over everything and everybody I wish the 'book never came out And everything got straightened out Before you left, I saw you, it was all love Except we needed to build more and get things correct Now I gotta accept it, cause there's honor in death Wish you was here with us P [Outro] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Shout out to Havoc, shout out to Pone Shout out to Jungle Shout out to Jeff Shout out to Big Lord The big dog (Lord) Free Bar, Spark (Bar, Spark) It's a lot going on Free the kings It's a lot going on man, it's heavy Goodfellas man Prodigy man It's heavy man We need to lighten it up To all ya My bros