Nas - Back When (Album Version (Explicit))

[00:00.80] Warning, Warning... [00:02.12] New York, New York [00:04.40] The sound, the sound [00:05.86] You're about to hear, to hear... [00:09.12] You love to hear the story [00:11.43] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [00:14.45] You love to hear the story [00:16.70] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [00:19.11] You love to hear the story [00:21.64] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [00:23.90] Start it off, start it off, start it off [00:25.84] Back when, back when, back when, back when [00:28.52] Back when, back when, back when, back when [00:30.47] The ill reminisce and think about the fly days [00:33.21] Nothing like them 80s summer NY days [00:36.03] Hop on the NB5 days [00:38.32] Mopeds, Pro Keds, city split five ways [00:41.03] How it all started, fifth floor apartment [00:43.81] A jigsaw puzzle aerial view of the projects [00:46.34] A kid saw struggle, buried a few of his partners [00:49.08] Now I chill in resorts, enjoying massages [00:51.60] Check out the oracle bred from city housing [00:53.98] Nas, I arise the dead by thousands [00:56.48] I remember seeing Shan chilling near his Audi [00:59.45] Hollis Ave, Run and them, but I proudly [01:01.54] Put a poster up of Shan and Marley, that was art, kid [01:04.39] You love to hear the story how it started [01:06.84] The bubbly I'm pouring wasn't popped yet [01:08.92] Before there was a audience to watch us [01:10.79] I assure you, there was a process [01:12.55] You love to hear the story [01:13.62] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [01:16.22] You love to hear the story [01:18.14] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [01:21.28] You love to hear the story [01:23.64] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [01:25.58] Start it off, start it off, start it off [01:27.14] Back when, back when, back when, back when [01:29.24] Back when, back when, back when, back when [01:32.59] To call them fake today is hate, real niggas extinct [01:34.99] Pac left me inside a rap world with niggas that wink [01:37.55] At other rappers, undercover niggas spit every way [01:40.04] Won't be surprised if all their rides have federal plates [01:42.61] Let alone their wardrobes and Studio 4 flow [01:45.23] It was real when I appeared, it would've been some jaws broke [01:47.86] Nas, my real name, stage name, same thing [01:50.65] How could you let these lames claim king? I'm so ashamed, man [01:53.55] I light a L for Vernon, for niggas who would burn in Hell [01:56.30] For Vernon; 10th Street, 12th Street, Nightmare on Elm Street [01:59.16] Pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials [02:01.40] Of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true [02:03.99] Who possesses the testicular fortitude [02:06.36] To blow away myths that's a hindrance to all of you? [02:09.08] You blame your own shortcomings on sex and race [02:11.67] The mafia, homosexuals and all the Jews [02:14.12] It's hogwash point of views, stereotypical [02:16.42] Anti-Semitic like the foul words Gibson spewed [02:20.17] And it's pathetic [02:21.36] I don't get the credit I deserve [02:22.95] That's why I hate doing interviews [02:24.36] But I don't sweat it, study long, study raw [02:26.61] My man Dion said "Nas over-think the songs he writing" [02:29.76] I'm not a wack performer standing near a corny hype man [02:32.38] I got the Donism [02:33.56] I'm here to enlighten [02:35.05] You love to hear the story [02:35.84] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [02:38.34] You love to hear the story [02:40.91] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [02:43.78] You love to hear the story [02:46.14] How it all, how it all, got started, got started [02:49.49] Start it off, start it off, start it off [02:51.73] Back when, back when, back when, back when [02:53.18] Back when, back when, back when, back when [02:56.41]