Dedicated (Explicit)

[00:00.00]Nas - Dedicated (Explicit)
[00:00.64]Written by：Hit-Boy、Nas
[00:01.51]Back by popular demand
[00:04.09]It's Magic
[00:20.93]Yeah
[00:25.55]When Carlito was dying
[00:26.71]He see the shadow of his girl dancing with the baby
[00:29.29]Like F**k it it's my time
[00:30.60]But if God save me
[00:31.65]Maybe I'll erase any vice that could potentially bring harm to me
[00:34.88]Before I make a move I think about it karmically
[00:37.31]Everything come back like a boomerang
[00:39.40]I'm black as Paul Mooney slang
[00:41.57]And all I pray for is health
[00:43.29]And a sustainable business and a faithful missus
[00:45.87]I see a lotta people try to be who they ain't
[00:48.29]We don't want money that fit in the bag we want the bank
[00:50.72]Just to spread it around like icing on the cake
[00:53.26]White tigеr in a cage Mike Tyson ing88
[00:56.37]Dedicatеd like jack boys on Melrose
[00:58.59]Smash and grab yo this world became a Hell hole
[01:01.07]Stay cool is what I tell those youngins
[01:04.03]So they don't end up in jail clothes come on
[01:05.40]I dedicated my life my life
[01:07.60]Dedicated my life my life
[01:09.57]I dedicated my my
[01:13.21]Uh uh Yo that is inspiration
[01:15.04]Dedicated my
[01:17.29]Whole d**n life if I wanted to now I could live an old man life
[01:20.73]Conforonted with how the hood can use more funding
[01:22.86]More budgets for more teachers
[01:24.45]Financial literacy see more speeches
[01:26.33]Chefs come cook for me
[01:27.80]Look what it took for me
[01:29.01]The streets had it's hooks in me
[01:30.56]Yeah people ask me what books to read
[01:32.73]Destrustion of Black civilization that's history
[01:35.26]Journal of Chris Columbus that is what interests me
[01:37.94]Juneteenth holiday finally came and it pisses me
[01:40.22]Off for the fact that we came in chains
[01:42.04]You'll be physically in pain
[01:43.26]Dedicated like Ricky Walters Dougie and Dana Dane
[01:45.66]I dedicated my life my life
[01:47.31]I dedicated my life my life
[01:49.57]I dedicated my uh
[01:54.81]Dedicated my
[01:57.44]I dedicated my life my life
[01:59.79]I dedicated my life my life
[02:02.31]I dedicated my
[02:11.04]Test test yeah yunno
[02:16.43]To get to this point
[02:20.13]I might have to write a script a manuscript
[02:24.29]Yo yo ghetto manners is you thuggin' me or asking
[02:29.66]Finessin' me or pressin' me well none of that is happenin'
[02:32.24]Accessory to murder not necessarily Manson
[02:34.72]I'm just a G in constructs a Pelle Pels or a Vanson
[02:37.86]Ratty clothes we haven't spoke in years pat his coat
[02:40.33]Check his waistline he spyin' on who has the most
[02:43.23]Best to leave me alone I get in my zone
[02:45.74]Laughin' with African presidents while over the phone
[02:48.37]Sh*t be feeling like the last days cash made
[02:51.55]Mirrors on the ceiling with a bad babe
[02:53.72]Same age with n***as be having mad grays
[02:56.08]Million Man March with real n***as never last place
[02:59.59]Blazin' gats like young Haitian Jack
[03:01.57]Me and money go together like the 80's and crack
[03:04.20]Shorty aura like Kimora rockin' Baby Phat
[03:06.78]I'm droppin bars n***a like I'm on stage with smack
[03:09.47]To my n***as who have staples from the navel up
[03:12.01]Healed up had to chill a while lay in the cut
[03:14.64]Shorty tried to wop me down in the Mercedes truck
[03:17.32]Pulled up cobblestone ground in my palatial hut
[03:19.80]Paradis for n***as still doing deals in the street
[03:22.63]Original Backwoods I fill 'em with green
[03:25.27]Am I a musician Or am I a magician
[03:27.94]No tricks just real sh*t straight out the kitchen
[03:32.17]Pure magic
[03:34.79]No tricks no tricks
[03:37.50]No tricks
[03:42.08]No tricks pure magic