[00:00.000] 作曲 : Nas/Chauncey Hollis Jr./Rogét Chahayed/Earl Taylor/Shaka Senghor
[00:00.130][Intro: Nas]
[00:00.402]Ayo, Hit, I like this IE weather
[00:07.830][Verse 1: Hit-Boy]
[00:08.213]Hey, look
[00:09.207]Vote yes on Hit-Boy, bitch, I’m the city spokesman
[00:11.932]They see we got this shit crackin’ and now they spirit broken
[00:14.805]I’m standin’ on the green like the British Open
[00:17.833]And stackin’ ice on top of ice, but I’m not building snowmen
[00:21.430]Doctors couldn’t even detect my disorders
[00:24.117]One case, six figures on six different lawyers
[00:26.846]I put my soul in every song with limited support
[00:29.553]Focused on the output, not the outcome, big God is my source
[00:33.559]Spirit of excellence in my genetics
[00:35.537]Complexities come with my complexion
[00:38.875]‘Fore you shut me down let me reach my level first
[00:42.026]Y'all be too proud to do the devil’s work
[00:45.216]All that actin’ and fakin’, I can’t take part in it
[00:47.581]I’m washin’ my hands with the soap opera shit
[00:51.072]Set the cameras to speed, co-directed KD
[00:53.534]We know the caged bird sings and screams when it’s free
[00:56.496]Every second I spit on this I got it back in blessings
[00:59.619]You can’t stop and run no errands on the way to legend
[01:02.488][Chorus: Hit-Boy]
[01:02.880]They should've told ‘em I’m raising up on the totem
[01:05.362]Yeah, boilin’ over, pot full of yola
[01:08.133]Mix it with the cola
[01:09.470]Son of a block controlla, can’t let ‘em **** me over
[01:12.899]Gotta keep my composure look
[01:14.413][Verse 2: Nas]
[01:14.707]Had yellow jaundice when I was born
[01:16.556]Kept me in an incubator, ten days long
[01:19.157]I made up songs, I was like humming tunes ten years later
[01:22.429]Writin’ in my room ten years after that on stage like it’s too soon, but
[01:26.427]For me see, my parents met inside a nightclub
[01:29.079]Olu started to fight and then my moms broke it up
[01:31.778]She said “this boy he’s in the Navy, settle down before y'all need savin’”
[01:35.160]Pop went to war around the world, came home, we celebrated
[01:38.415]AWOL
[01:39.252]Fast forward to when I started to play ball
[01:40.976]From a place where we hate law
[01:42.415]See the Jakes and we take off (Whoop whoop)
[01:44.178]Hit the gate I get home and take my chain off
[01:47.111]Thankful I got through the day and all the evil I prayed off
[01:49.936]Everything is cause and effect
[01:51.779]Make the wrong moves in this business you lose all your respect
[01:55.128]My block is dark as it gets
[01:56.376]We all make mistakes, only a few will recover from ‘em
[01:59.382]Don’t spend your whole life runnin’ from ‘em
[02:01.807]Run up the numbers
[02:02.569][Chorus: Nas]
[02:03.037]Should've told ‘em I’m raising up on the totem
[02:04.953]Yeah, boilin’ over, pot full of yola
[02:07.971]Mix it up with the cola
[02:09.292]Son of a queen and a soldier
[02:11.056]Can’t let ‘em **** me over
[02:12.658]Gotta keep my composure, look
[02:14.154][Interlude]
[02:16.660]Keep your composure
[02:19.183]On city blocks
[02:21.057]And cell blocks
[02:22.938]Keep your composure
[02:24.820]Hold it down
[02:26.366]Hold it tight
[02:27.943]Hold it close
[02:29.730]Hold space for yourself
[02:32.044]It’s the way of the ancestors
[02:34.015]Our elders
[02:35.463]Our artists
[02:36.906]Our OGs
[02:38.417]Our dreamers
[02:39.770]Our builders
[02:40.962]With each breath internalize their successes
[02:44.399]Their struggles
[02:45.861]Their sense of self
[02:47.514]Their sense of overcoming
[02:49.118]And take that power forward through your life
[02:51.959]Remind yourself of the magnitude of your good fortune
[02:55.003]And the mere chance, one in billions, that you survived
[02:59.629]That you will thrive
[03:00.989]And even the strongest kings and queens being, yet remain unbroken
[03:05.564]Keep your composure
[03:07.367]And believe in the magic of who we are
[03:09.496]‘Cause what you believe is everything
[03:11.850]And what someone believes about you, is nothing
[03:15.034]Keep your composure
[03:17.027]I am Shaka Senghor