Get Down-Nas

[ti:Get Down(Explicit Version)] [ar:Nas] [al:God's Son] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Get Down - Nas [00:15.81]New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete [00:18.25]And Pappy Mason gave the young boys admiration [00:21.39]Prince from Queens and Fritz from Harlem [00:23.44]Street legends the drugs kept the hood from starvin' [00:26.13]Pushin' cars Nicky Barnes was the 70's [00:28.81]But there's a long list of high profile celebrities [00:30.62]Worldwide on the thorough side of things [00:33.62]Livest kings some died one guy one time one day grabs me [00:37.61]As I'm about to blast heat [00:39.48]40 side of Vernon I turned well he asked me [00:41.79]"Whatchu up to The cops gon' bust you" [00:43.97]I was a teen drunk off brew stumbled I wondered [00:46.97]If God sent him 'cause two squad cars entered the block [00:49.22]And looked at us I ain't flinch when they watched [00:51.15]I took it upstairs the bathroom mirror brushed my hair [00:53.95]Starin' at a young disciple I almost gave my life to what the dice do [00:57.39]Yeah man throwin' them bones [00:59.58]Hopin' my ace get his case thrown [01:01.57]His girl ain't wait for him she in the world straight hoein' [01:04.25]While he lookin' at centerfolds of pretty girls [01:06.93]Showin' they little cooch gangstas don't die he's livin' proof [01:09.75]The D A who tried him was lyin' [01:11.93]A white dude killed his mother durin' the case [01:14.42]Hung jury now the D A is bein' replaced [01:16.74]Pre trial hearin' is over it's real for the soldier [01:19.60]Walks in the courtroom the look in his eyes is wild [01:22.48]Triple homicide I sit in the back aisle [01:24.84]I wanna crack a smile when I see him [01:27.09]Throw up a fist for black power 'cause all we want is his freedom [01:29.47]He grabbed a court officer's gun and started squeezin' [01:32.14]Then he grabbed the judge screams out nobody leavin' everybody [01:33.96]Get down get down get down get down [01:38.70] [01:40.01]Get get get get ge-get get get get down [01:44.88](Everybody) [01:45.06]Get down get down get down get down [01:49.00] [01:50.01]Get ge-get get get get get get down [01:55.00]Some niggaz f**k they enemies in they a** when they catch 'em [01:57.56]Weird a** niggaz are dangerous so don't test 'em [02:00.12]They make you disappear this a year that I won't forget [02:02.67]Sold CD's double platinum met mo' execs [02:05.17]Southern niggaz independent label real killers [02:07.98]Know the business ran Tennessee for years now they chillin' [02:09.98]They had the coke game somethin' crazy [02:12.54]Sold music out the trunk of they car that sh*t amazed me [02:15.72]Put me onto heron blunts sherm or somethin' [02:17.53]Took a puff what the f**k I turned to punch them [02:20.34]Southern niggaz ain't slow ni**a tried to play me [02:22.59]I left from around them dudes they cool but they crazy [02:25.39]Now I'm back around the old school that raised me [02:27.83]New York gangstas we loungin' out in L A see [02:30.69]A dude wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay [02:32.89]The letter say "Nas I got your back the fools don't play" [02:35.62]I rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral [02:38.43]Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible [02:40.87]The ni**a still alive in a hospital [02:43.42]Midnight they crept in his room and shot the doctor too [02:46.36]See my cousin's in the game thuggin' and things [02:48.66]He plugged me with a dame who was half Mexicano [02:51.10]Gave the a** up I'm a mack daddy Soprano [02:53.54]She passed me the indigo but the imbecile [02:55.22]Shoulda never tippy toed thought my eyes were closed [02:58.09]Openin' the hotel room door to let her goons in [03:01.03]But I moved in a manner on some Jet Li sh*t [03:04.07]I let the hammers blow wet three kids [03:06.20]See honey thought I had somethin' to do with all the drama [03:08.89]'Cause I was with a crew that had her people killed [03:11.32]Called up my cousin told him I ain't f**kin' witchu [03:13.69]He responded cool but told me out here this how motherf**kers [03:17.37]Get down get down get down get down [03:20.62] [03:21.56]Get get get get ge-get get get get down [03:26.61](Everybody) [03:26.80]Get down get down get down get down [03:30.73] [03:32.10]Get ge-get get get get get get down [03:36.35] [03:38.90]All I really gotta say is that [03:40.84]If that's how our people gon' get down how we ever gon' get up [03:44.64] [03:45.70]How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get down [03:48.74] [03:49.61]A shame when you ain't look at it [03:51.74]My folk is yo' folk but we all kinfolk [03:53.29] [03:55.60]Somebody gotta make a change