Nas, R. Kelly - Street Dreams (Remix)(2007)

[00:00.92] Yo, this remix goes out to everybody out there
[00:03.11] There call they self keeping it real
[00:04.91] For yours truly, Escobar and Big R
[00:09.54] For New York to Chi town
[00:11.26] Check it out now
[00:13.32] Commissioner Steve Stiles
[00:15.52] Track masters
[00:18.34] QB
[00:20.51] Check, yo
[00:21.77] Low profile, rap style, slick as Nu Nile
[00:23.42] Give the crew pounds, every time we cover new grounds
[00:27.43] Still surviving but there's a few down, back in the essence
[00:29.93] I'm asking questions on the phone, with jail adolescents
[00:32.98] Quiet confession, the system's applying the pressure
[00:35.25] My mind is guessing, is living and dying a lesson?
[00:37.79] But not to be obliged with the mirage of cars taking you off track
[00:41.34] From with the Gods focus on hard
[00:43.59] Laid up smoking cigars, motioning maids to bring me toast
[00:46.17] And eggs Kosher, ice chokers and wolves to smoke ya
[00:49.28] My wisdom culture lives in ultra madness
[00:51.28] Devoted coach bag bitch
[00:52.70] Broke the average nigga's hopes to get mad rich
[00:54.83] But what's the purpose?
[00:56.07] Only the Gods can watch the Earth twist
[00:57.46] I'm physically trapped down on the surface
[00:59.16] With all the crack merchants, snakes and serpents
[01:01.81] Foul jakes that search us
[01:03.34] Clowns with four pounds this ain't a circus
[01:06.32] (Street dreamer) street dreamer (oh mercy, mercy me)
[01:12.37] Ain't nothing I got for ya (ain't nothing I got for ya)
[01:16.41] Situations get heavy, heavy, heavy
[01:22.45] Trying to be a gangster (word up)
[01:26.28] The black clouds over the hood, I'm on the corner with the thugs
[01:28.73] Late night under the moon as they assume I'm slanging drugs
[01:31.39] 'Cause I'm hooded up, thought a G a night wasn't good enough
[01:34.05] Pushed my luck, yo they had a brother put in cuffs
[01:36.66] Luckily, made it out of court comfortably
[01:39.41] Judge said I need a job ain't nothing coming free
[01:41.18] Could've got a one to three
[01:43.77] I try to school these shorties under me
[01:44.49] But they can't see from life to death
[01:46.71] So know we back to where we never left the ghetto
[01:48.30] It's a damn shame, knowing it's a man's game
[01:50.32] Shorty thinks it's time to make ya plans change
[01:52.99] All that running round trying to chase
[01:54.16] What's already here, been there, it's going nowhere
[01:55.92] Pops told me knuckle up, no fear
[01:58.93] I wish some of these killings they could be prevented
[02:01.55] Whatever happens it was written meaning God meant it
[02:03.50] But during ya life you put ya heart in it
[02:05.71] Even though it seems we being targeted, let that brother R hit it
[02:08.44] (Street dreamer) street dreamer (oh mercy, mercy me)
[02:15.30] Ain't nothing I got for ya (ain't nothing I got for ya)
[02:20.14] Situations get heavy, heavy, heavy
[02:25.72] Trying to be a gangster
[02:31.37] Dream on, dream on
[02:33.41] Dream on, dream on
[02:36.23] Dream on, dream on
[02:38.82] Dream on, dream on
[02:43.14] Dream on, street dreamer
[02:48.21] Dream on
[02:51.34] Sort of wild, since a child
[02:52.58] Hope was all we had, drip the bust out past
[02:55.10] Complaining the mental straining
[02:56.68] How many in my crew is into gaining?
[02:59.28] Subtract the weak links about the chaining
[03:00.75] Rise it start raining
[03:02.24] Blasphemy, using Nas name in vain
[03:04.49] Some claim supreme being yet they lied in his name
[03:07.64] I tried to learn the game and the only thing I found incredible
[03:09.51] Everything I tried to learn see, I already knew (that's right)
[03:12.19] And it's embedded in my heart now
[03:14.25] So I can sit back, count a stack and play my part now
[03:16.62] I saw my life flash in front of my eyes, he wore disguise
[03:19.72] Put a gun to me, hungry he went on to chastize
[03:23.04] That's Nas ain't it, made it rich from entertainment
[03:26.08] Fresh Wally's painted, as he told the kid he came with
[03:28.64] My first thought was how the game flip
[03:30.88] Yo, perhaps it was somebody I smacked, drunk in a party on Yac
[03:32.54] Or was I marked for a contract for some foul act
[03:36.44] I did a while back or beyond that
[03:39.59] You got me laying face flat, saying my grace black
[03:41.49] Woke up in a cold sweat, yo, I hate that
[03:43.25] Nightmares, feeling real, word to Will
[03:46.14] My A-Alike I lost in the battlefield
[03:47.81] That's why I hit the mic with mad appeal
[03:49.83] Grab ya shield, and meet ya maker
[03:51.46] The Queens niggas die for paper
[03:53.05] Deep things, the street dreams will take ya
[03:56.05] (Street dreamer) street dreamer (oh mercy, mercy me)
[04:01.90] Ain't nothing I got for ya (ain't nothing I got for ya)
[04:06.66] Situations get heavy, heavy, heavy
[04:12.80] Trying to be a gangster
[04:17.40] Street dreamer (oh mercy, mercy me)
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