Grand Wizard and Nas: (Check that sh**) Aight f** that sh**, word word f** that other sh**, you know what I'm sayin'? We gon' do a little somethin' like this, you know what I'm sayin'? (Is they up on this?) Keep it on and on and on and on and Know what I'm sayin'? Big Nas, Grand Wizard, God what is it? Ha, know what I'm sayin'? Yo go 'head, do that sh** n***a Nas: I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners Hennessey holders and old school n***as, then I be dissing a Unofficial that smoke woolie Thai I dropped out of Cooley High, ga**ed up by a cokehead cutie pie Jungle survivor, f** who's the liver My man put the battery in my back, a difference from Energizer Sentence begins indented, with formality My duration's infinite, money wise or physiology Poetry, that's a part of me, retardedly bop I drop the ancient manifested hip hop, straight off the block I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat Childhood lesson make me see him drop in my weed smoke It's real, grew up in trife life, did times or white lines The hype vice, murderous night times, and knife fights invite crimes Chill on the block with Cognac, hold strap With my peeps that's into drug money, market into rap No sign of the beast in the blue Chrysler, I guess that means peace For n***as no sheisty vice to just snipe ya Start off the dice-rolling mats for craps to cee-lo With side bets, I roll a deuce, nothing below (Peace God) Peace God, now the sh** is explained I'm taking n***as on a trip straight through memory lane It's like that y'all, it's like that y'all, it's like that y'all Biz Markie and Craig G.: Now let me take a trip down memory lane (Comin' outta Queensbridge) Now let me take a trip down memory lane (Comin' outta Queensbridge) Now let me take a trip down memory lane (Comin' outta Queensbridge) Now let me take a trip down memory lane (Comin' outta Queensbridge) Nas: One for the money Two for p**y and foreign cars Three for Alizé, n***as deceased or behind bars I rap divine, God, check the prognosis, is it real or showbiz? My window faces shootouts, drug overdoses Live amongst no roses, only the drama, for real A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja Here's my basis, my razor embraces, many faces Your telephone blown, black stitches or fat shoelaces Peoples are petrol, dramatic automatic .44 I let blow And back down po-po when I'm vexed so My pen taps the paper then my brain's blank I see dark streets, hustling brothers who keep the same rank Pumping for something, some will prosper, some fail Judges hanging n***as, incorrect bails, for direct sales My intellect prevails from a hanging cross with nails I reinforce the frail, with lyrics that's real Word to Christ, a disciple of streets, trifle on beats I decipher prophecies through a mic and say peace I hung around the older crews while they sling smack to dingbats They spoke of Fat Cat, that n***a's name made bell rings, black Some fiends scream, about Supreme Team, a Jamaica Queens thing Uptown was Alpo, son, heard he was kingpin, yo f** "Rap is real", watch the herbs stand still Never talking to snakes cause the words of man k** True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane Biz Markie and Craig G.: Now let me take a trip down memory lane (Comin' outta Queensbridge) Now let me take a trip down memory lane (Comin' outta Queensbridge) Now let me take a trip down memory lane (Comin' outta Queensbridge) Now let me take a trip down memory lane (Comin' outta Queensbridge) Nas and Craig G.: (Comin' outta Queensbridge) The most dangerous MC is (Comin' outta Queensbridge) The most dangerous MC is (Comin' outta Queensbridge) The most dangerous MC is (Comin' outta Queensbridge) The most dangerous MC is Me number one and you know where me from