Nas - Dedicated(2021)

[00:01.09] Back by popular demand, it's Magic
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[00:18.73] Ded-, ded-, dedicated (yeah)
[00:25.02] When Carlito was dying
[00:26.33] He see the shadow of his girl dancing with the baby
[00:28.98] Like, "Fuck it, it's my time"
[00:30.33] But if God save me
[00:31.20] Maybe I'll erase any vice that could potentially bring harm to me
[00:34.52] Before I make a move, I think about it karmically
[00:37.24] Everything come back like a boomerang
[00:39.29] I'm black as Paul Mooney slang
[00:41.67] And all I pray for is health and a sustainable business
[00:44.35] And a faithful missus
[00:45.69] I see a lot of people try to be who they ain't
[00:48.03] We don't want money that fit in the bag, we want the bank
[00:50.47] Just to spread it around like icing on the cake
[00:52.86] White tiger out the cage, Mike Tyson in '88
[00:55.95] Dedicated like jack boys on Melrose
[00:58.03] Smash and grab, yo this world became a hellhole
[01:00.85] "Stay cool" is what I tell those, (word) youngins
[01:03.24] So they don't end up in jail clothes, c'mon
[01:04.51] I dedicated my life, my life
[01:07.36] Dedicated my life, my life (dedicated)
[01:09.57] I dedicated my, my, uh, uh (you know what that is? It's the inspiration)
[01:14.72] Dedicated my (uh)
[01:16.88] Whole damn life
[01:17.75] If I wanted to now I could live an old man life
[01:20.31] Confronted with how the hood can use more funding
[01:22.53] More budgets for more teachers
[01:23.91] Financial literacy, more speeches
[01:26.27] Chefs come cook for me
[01:27.59] Look what it took for me
[01:28.89] The streets had its hooks in me
[01:30.19] Yeah
[01:31.02] People ask me what books to read
[01:32.53] Destruction of Black civilization, that's history
[01:34.98] Journal of Chris Columbus, that is what interests me
[01:37.45] Juneteenth holiday finally came and it pisses me
[01:40.04] Off, for the fact that we came in chains
[01:41.50] You'll be physically in pain
[01:42.89] Dedicated like Ricky Walters, Dougie and Dana Dane
[01:44.83] I dedicated my life, my life
[01:46.99] I dedicated my life, my life
[01:49.45] I dedicated my, uh
[01:54.82] Dedicated my (dedicated)
[01:56.91] I dedicated my life, my life
[01:59.42] I dedicated my life, my life
[02:02.19] I dedicated my
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[02:10.57] Test, test, yeah, you know?
[02:15.96] To get to this point
[02:19.94] I might have to write a script, a manuscript
[02:24.12] Yo
[02:26.45] Yo, ghetto manners is you thuggin' me or asking?
[02:29.10] Finessin' me or pressin' me, when none of that is happenin'
[02:32.08] Accessory to murder not necessarily Manson
[02:34.66] I'm just a G in constructs, a Pelle Pel, or a Vanson
[02:37.68] Ratty clothes we haven't spoke in years, pat his coat
[02:40.34] Check his waistline, he spyin' on who has the most
[02:42.88] Best to leave me alone, I get in my zone
[02:45.32] Laughin' with African presidents while over the phone
[02:48.05] Shit be feeling like the last days, cash made
[02:50.96] Mirrors on the ceiling with a bad babe
[02:53.51] Same age with niggas be having mad grays
[02:55.65] Million Man March for real niggas, never last place
[02:59.15] Blazin' gats like young Haitian Jack
[03:01.23] Me and money go together like the 80s and crack
[03:03.98] Shorty aura like Kimora rockin' Baby Phat
[03:06.54] I'm droppin' bars nigga like I'm on stage with smack
[03:09.29] To my niggas who have staples from the navel up
[03:11.82] Healed up, had to chill awhile, lay in the cut
[03:14.44] Shorty tried to wop me down in the Mercedes truck
[03:16.88] Pulled up, cobblestone ground in my palatial hut
[03:19.75] Paradis for niggas still doing deals in the street
[03:22.53] Original Backwoods I fill 'em with green
[03:25.23] Am I a musician? Or am I a magician?
[03:27.88] No tricks, just real shit, straight out the kitchen
[03:31.55] Pure magic
[03:34.55] No tricks, no tricks
[03:36.97] No tricks
[03:41.52] No tricks, pure magic
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