[00:01:00] The Message - Nas
[00:10:00] Fake thug  no love  you get the slug  CB4 Gusto
[00:14:00] Your luck low  I didn't know til I was drunk though
[00:16:00] You freak niggaz played out  get f**ked and ate out
[00:19:00] Prostitute turned bitch  I got the gauge out
[00:21:00] 96 ways I made out  Montana way
[00:24:00] The Good-F-E-L-L-A  verbal AK spray
[00:27:00] Dipped attache  jumped out the Range  empty out the ashtray
[00:30:00] A glass of 'ze make a man Cassius Clay
[00:32:00] Red dot plots  murder schemes  thirty-two shotguns
[00:35:00] Regulate wit my Dunn's  17 rocks gleam from one ring
[00:38:00] Yo let me let y'all niggaz know one thing
[00:40:00] There's one life  one love  so there can only be one King
[00:43:00] The highlights of livin  Vegas style roll dice in linen
[00:46:00] Antera spinnin on Milleniums  twenty G bets I'm winnin them
[00:49:00] Threats I'm sendin them  Lex with TV sets the minimum
[00:52:00] Ill sex adrenaline
[00:54:00] Party with villians  a case of Demi-Sec to chase the Henny
[00:57:00] Wet any clique  with the semi-tech who want it
[00:59:00] Diamonds I flaunt it  chickenheads flock I lace em
[01:02:00] Fried broiled with basil  taste em  crack the legs
[01:04:00] Way out of formation  it's horizontal how I have em
[01:07:00] F**kin me in the Benz wagon
[01:09:00] Can it be Vanity from Last Dragon
[01:11:00] Grab your gun it's on though
[01:13:00] Shit is grimy  real niggaz buck in broad daylight
[01:16:00] With the broke Mac it won't spray right
[01:18:00] Don't give a f**k who they hit  as long as the drama's lit
[01:21:00] Yo  overnight thugs  bug cause they ain't promised shit
[01:24:00] Hungry-ass hooligans stay on that piranha shit
[01:26:00] "I never sleep  cause sleep is the cousin of death"
[01:28:00] "I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin"
[01:31:00] "I never sleep  cause sleep is the cousin of death"
[01:34:00] "I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin"
[01:37:00] "I never sleep  cause sleep is the cousin of death"
[01:39:00] "I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin"
[01:42:00] "I never sleep  cause sleep is the cousin of death"
[01:44:00] "I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin"
[01:47:00] I peeped you frontin  I was in the Jeep
[01:50:00] Sunk in the seat  tinted with heat  beats bumpin
[01:52:00] Across the streat you was wildin
[01:54:00] Talkin bout how you ran the Island in eighty-nine
[01:56:00] Layin up  playin the yard with crazy shine
[01:58:00] I cocked a baby 9 that nigga grave be mine  clanked him
[02:01:00] What was he thinkin on my corner when it's pay me time
[02:04:00] Dug em you owe me cousin somethin told me plug him
[02:06:00] So dumb  felt my leg burn  then it got numb
[02:09:00] Spun around and shot one  heard shots and dropped son
[02:12:00] Caught a hot one  somebody take this biscuit 'fore the cops come
[02:15:00] Then they came askin me my name  what the f**k
[02:17:00] I got stitched up and went through
[02:19:00] Left the hospital that same night  what
[02:21:00] Got my gat back  time to backtrack
[02:23:00] I had to drop so how the f**k I get clapped
[02:25:00] Black was in the Jeep watchin all these scenes speed by
[02:28:00] It was a brown Datsun  and yo nobody in my hood got one
[02:31:00] That clown nigga's through  blazin at his crew daily
[02:34:00] The 'Bridge touched me up severely hear me 
[02:36:00] So when I rhyme it's sincerely yours
[02:37:00] Be lightin L's sippin Coors  on all floors in project halls
[02:41:00] Contemplatin war niggaz I was cool with before
[02:44:00] We used to score together  Uptown coppin the raw
[02:46:00] But uhh  a thug changes  and love changes
[02:50:00] And best friends become strangers  word up
[02:52:00] "Y'all know my steelo"
[02:55:00] "There ain't an army that could strike back"
[02:58:00] "Y'all know my steelo"
[03:01:00] "There ain't an army that could strike back"
[03:03:00] "Y'all know my steelo"
[03:06:00] "There ain't an army that could strike back"
[03:08:00] "Y'all know my steelo"
[03:11:00] "There ain't an army that could strike back"
[03:15:00] Yo  to them thug niggaz gettin it on in the world you know 
[03:19:00] To them niggaz that's locked down
[03:21:00] Doin they thing survivin yaknowmsayin 
[03:23:00] To my thorough niggaz  New York and world wide
[03:27:00] Yo to the Queensbridge Militia
[03:30:00] 9-6 shit   The Firm clique  Illmatic nigga
[03:35:00] It Was Written though
[03:38:00] It's been a long time comin
[03:41:00] Y'all fake niggaz  tryin to copy
[03:43:00] Better come with the real though
[03:46:00] Fake ass niggaz yo  
[03:49:00] Bring the shit man  live man
[03:52:00] Nine-six shit