
Date of issue: 20.09.2018
Record label: 1st and 15th, Thirty Tigers
Song language: English
King Nas |
Ghetto mythologies colonize my mind constantly |
I shine sonically in the Chi, divine comedy |
I vibe consciously to override suicide inside |
Honestly 'cause they don’t wanna honor me and honesty |
Black king poetic with Nat King’s aesthetic |
Half-dream, half-machine where the black queens get naked |
For a dollar from a scholar like me |
Not at all bothered by what outsider might see |
Flippin', a thousand grams get dissolved in the kitchen |
Heart wrenchin', part played, took away from my ascension |
Crooked ways brought from car lookaways from tooken Js |
But it’s too late for your prevention 'cause I’m playin' my position |
I’m the man now (man now, man now, man now) |
I’m the man… now |
I’m the man… now |
If you the man, let me see your fuckin' hands now |
Not the man then keep your mother fuckin' hands down (man now) |
I’m the man… now |
Uh |
Killer friends, dope dealers concealing sins |
Sin and swim in my trunk like jumps deeper ends |
We the gems, your daughter, we’ll teach her hymns |
From the annals of crime channels that dismantle |
Her wants for weaker men, send 'em back, a livin', I’m feelin' trapped |
We know religion but brimmin' with brilliant facts, so we map |
Cast distorted role of a lady with no control, let it go, hold onto baby |
I wanna see it all, never half asleep some niggas can’t see the walls |
'Cause of the masterpiece my data breach like hacker leaks |
Delete the McAfees and slam the backdoors in back of me |
Social engineer appears steer her to give a chat to me, happily |
Actually activated off accolades of my apogee and act yakkity |
Then deeply speak it back to me, then move it further |
We can have a junta or a jerga |
I smurf it and spoof the server, reboot and produce a cursor |
I’m a man now (man now, man now, man now) |
I’m the man… now |
I’m the man… now |
If you the man, let me see your fuckin' hands now |
Not the man then keep your mother fuckin' hands down (man now) |
Ghetto, ghetto, I’m the man… now |
Deny the service and a little blue from the boycott |
Advertise rum, space available on my toy box |
But no sleepin' on me, dig deeper than reachin' shorties |
Scheme for giant green, getting CREAM sweeter than bein' corny |
Know the difference between bein' in love and bein' horny |
Bein' hated, bein' human, bein' a teen but bein' forty |
They like to get 'em young like I’m Brigham’s son |
Be more man that my attitudes, no ladder rather have a youth |
Like the OGs pullin' Benzos out |
They make 'em put they pussies out like Fred Flintstone’s house |
Heart blacker than the back of Fred Flintstone mouth |
I may be more like Baba Kwesi, take the TEMBO route |
To be a man now |
I’m the man… now |
I’m the man… now |
If you the man, let me see your fuckin' hands now |
Not the man then keep your mother fuckin' hands down (man now) |
Ghetto, ghetto, I’m the man… now |
From the ghetto, oooh |
Qul a’uudhi bi rabbin naas |
Malikin naas |
Ilaahin naas |
Min sharril wawaasil khannas |
Alladhee yuwaswisu fee suduurin naas |
Minal Jinnati wa naas |
Ghetto |
From the ghetto (ghetto) |
Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto) |
From the ghetto |
Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto) |
Not goin' down to the ghetto, the ghetto |
When we gon' bring back God to the ghetto? |
You’re the man now |
You’re the man now |
You are the man now |
You the man |
You’re the man now (now, now) |
lookin' at |
Whatchu lookin at? |
Huh, whatchu lookin at? |
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