Nas - Hollywood Gangsta(2021)

[00:01.04] Shout my young New York niggas out there on that drill shit
[00:09.90] Yeah, yeah, ayo
[00:16.46] Yo, let me try this shit out right here
[00:20.27] The scars of martyrs, the path of bastard seeds
[00:22.51] Effects of absentee fathers passed on with ease
[00:24.88] Hope the babies eat healthier, and may we get wealthier
[00:27.75] Take what's not given, we ask for forgiveness, not permission
[00:30.01] Whole clique is each other's counselor
[00:31.83] Holdin' sticks without a hockey puck
[00:33.61] Can't co-sign 'em, them niggas not with us
[00:35.77] Hop on a private jet with 12 tenants
[00:37.59] Right when I land, the chopper to Manhattan is 12 minutes
[00:40.99] I put the "real" in "real nigga" that's on my momma though
[00:43.59] Homie you gotta feel me from Cali out to the Calliope
[00:45.72] Slicker than Desi Arnez on my Copa Cabana flow
[00:48.63] In Houston with a thick one eatin' at Pappadeaux
[00:51.08] Shit, it was written, choppin' up competition
[00:53.35] Palms itchin', Bohemian Grove couldn't get Nas to visit
[00:56.44] I seen both ends of the ladder, ain't see no silver platter
[00:58.80] Fiction don't even matter, we don't act for the cameras
[01:01.49] Guess they used to the ego havin' head in the air
[01:04.02] Hollywood gangsta, goons with 'em everywhere
[01:06.59] I'm the opposite, smooth, not spreading fear
[01:08.95] Silver spoons never fed Nasir, I'm on top and I surprise 'em
[01:15.52] I'm on top and I surprise 'em
[01:21.72] Velour fashions, world tour jackets
[01:24.02] I turned to a hoarder I don't need more baggage
[01:26.89] Everybody lyin' telling stories backwards
[01:29.07] Like my song Rewind, in-store autographin'
[01:31.45] To take it back in time to today, I'm smashin'
[01:34.34] Flick out ashes, flip girls on a mattress
[01:37.11] We get it crackin' without the attachments
[01:39.25] Her and my heart is cold as Aspen
[01:40.50] Both of us laughin'
[01:42.68] I put the "New" in "New York", I'm home
[01:44.96] All of the watches stay on the Eastern Time Zone
[01:47.78] Throwin' parties whenever I'm feeling godly
[01:49.54] White linen parties for whenever we make a million dollars
[01:52.48] "Nas think he too good to pull up on us"
[01:54.72] See me at a baby shower with some OGs from Corona
[01:57.15] Sippin' liquor, taking photos then I slid with a cougar
[01:59.46] Coulda pulled a young love, but I took who was choosing
[02:02.01] Esco relaxed in the hood I ain't come with a shooter
[02:04.65] They asked what I'm doin' they said I was already proven
[02:07.45] Who said I'm too comfortable around on my regular shit?
[02:10.53] You know I'm a rare nigga but ghetto as shit
[02:12.98] Guess they used to the ego havin' head in the air
[02:15.45] Hollywood Gangsta, goons with 'em everywhere
[02:18.09] I'm the opposite, smooth, not spreading fear
[02:20.42] Silver spoons never fed Nasir, I'm on top and I surprise 'em
[02:23.75] And I surprise 'em
[02:24.58] (I ain't sayin' don't have your goons with you)
[02:26.35] Uh, yeah, I'm on top, that's not surprising
[02:28.83] (But when you get a lil' older, you move different)
[02:31.33] Yeah, I'm on top and I keep rising (rising)
[02:36.28] Uh-huh (early morning)
[02:37.96] I'm on top (to the dawn and, I'm on top)
[02:41.25] Yeah (I can't be stopped, why even try?)
[02:47.87] Hollywood gangsta
[02:50.92] (I'm the opposite of that) tah!
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