Bridging The Gap (Album)-Nas

[ti:Bridging The Gap(Album Version] [ar:Nas] [al:Street's Disciple] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bridging The Gap (Album Version) - Nas [00:02.90]The light is there [00:08.77]See I come from Mississippi [00:09.71] [00:11.82]I was young and runnin' wild [00:15.00]Ended up in New York City where I had my first child [00:21.30]I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas [00:27.60]I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive [00:33.48]Let's go Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey -- [00:44.38]Tribrary of these rap skits styles I mastered [00:46.31]Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it [00:49.38]But I'm still number one everyday real [00:51.56]Speak what I want I don't care what y'all feel [00:54.07]Cause I'm my own master my Pop told me be your own boss [00:57.75]Keep integrity at every cost and his home was Natchez Mississippi [01:00.74]Did it like Miles and Dizzy now we gettin' busy [01:04.49]Bridging The Gap from the blues to jazz to rap [01:07.42]The history of music on this track [01:09.79]Born in the game discovered my father's music [01:12.66]Like Prince searchin' through boxes of Purple Rain [01:15.16]But my Minneapolis was The Bridge home of the Superkids [01:18.15]Some are well-known some doin' bids [01:20.03]I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks [01:22.40]If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo [01:25.14] [01:36.37]Greatest man alive (Nas Yeah turn it up ) [01:38.05] [01:39.67]Gre-Gre-Gre-Gre-Greatest man alive [01:50.90]The blues came from gospel gospel from blues [01:53.03]Slaves are harmonizin' them ah's and ooh's [01:55.35]Old school new school know school rules [01:58.41]All these years I been voicin' my blues [02:00.84]I'm a artist from the start Hip-Hop guided my heart [02:03.27]Graffiti on the wall coulda ended in Spoffard juvenile delinquent [02:06.21]But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with [02:10.39]Books to read like X and stuff [02:13.63]Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia [02:16.07]In art class I was a compulsive sketcher of [02:18.69]Teachers in my homeroom I drew pix to mess them up [02:21.62]Cause none'a them would like my style [02:23.86]Read more books than the curriculum profile [02:26.36]Said Mr Jones please come get your child [02:28.92]Cause he's writin' mad poems and his s are wild [02:31.60] [02:33.16]Greatest man The great-greatest man alive [02:56.37]Hey-Hey-Hey -- My Poppa was not a Rollin' Stone [02:59.48]He been around the world blowin' his horn still he came home [03:02.61]Then he got grown changed his name to Olu [03:05.04]Come on tell 'em 'bout the places you gone to [03:07.53]I been to Saudi Arabia Mozambique [03:09.22]Madagascar Paris Greece [03:11.85]The Middle Africa is where we lived [03:15.28]Better known as Queenbridge [03:18.46]Nas Nas you don't stop [03:19.83]Olu Dara in the house you don't stop [03:22.77]Muddy Waters' Howling Wolf you don't stop [03:25.26]From the Blues to Street Hop you don't stop [03:27.82]Tell 'em Pop [03:28.88]See I come from Mississippi (Let 'em know) [03:30.63]I was young and runnin' wild (Runnin' wild) [03:34.06]Ended up in New York City (Yeah ) [03:36.68]Where I had my first child (That's me) [03:39.24]I named the boy Nasir (Yeah Daddy ) [03:41.24]All the boys call him Nas (Luh ya boy) [03:44.67]I told him as a youngster [03:45.73] [03:46.75]He'll be the greatest man alive (You the greatest Pop) [03:49.63]Greatest man alive (You the greatest Pop) [03:52.13]Gre-Gre-Gre-Gre-Greatest man alive [03:54.07]Rest In Peace Ray Charles