Nas - Just a Moment lyrics

[Produced by L.E.S] [Verse 1: Quan] Can we please have a moment of silence That's for my n***as doing years in confinement And for my soldiers who pa**ed over, no longer living That couldn't run whenever the reaper came to get em Can we please pour out some liquor Symobolizing let's take in time to consider that Though our thugs ain't here, the love is here And we gon' rep til slugs k** us here This for my dawgs stuck in the struggle trying to gain Smoking trauma, sniffing Ra while selling c**aine Trapped in the game, not knowing how to stop and get by To live it alive, so instead they live it to die Can we please have a moment of peace For every G that fell for his flag in the streets Blooding and thugging, folking and loking Cryping and creeping, Latin and Kinging Or just for poor righteous teaching [Hook: Quan] As day comes and night falls For the rest of our life we'll miss y'all And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn While wishing y'all were home [Verse 2: Nas] Yeah and can we have another moment of silence For brothers who died from Black-on-Black violence From here to the Dark Continent where rebels sell diamonds To clients allover the world, got little Black girls dying And can we please pour some more liquors For Will, Bokeem, Bar, Pappy my n***as Here's another Warrior Song from Nasty and Quan It's to him I pa** the baton to carry this on Street's Disciple, salute to those who's gone with bullets And I promise through rhyming Quan gon' rep his life to the fullest And can we please have a moment of truth For soldiers and troops away with helmets and boots And families back home who pray they make it home safe Hoping that they don't get hit with a stray or missiles This is just a moment to let you all know that we miss you Mommy I'm still here, wishing I was there with you Let's take em home [Hook] [Verse 3: Quan] And can we please have a moment to mourn For Pac, Biggie and Pun, cause through us they live on Jam Master Jay, Freaky Tah and Aaliyah Big L and Left Eye, when we die we hope to see ya Can we please have a moment for children Who got raped or murdered or trapped in the system Who never knew their father, never learned to dream But was guided by drug dealers, k**ers and crack fiends For single mothers that's forced to play mom and dad Busting her a** to give her kids sh** she never had For my n***as in the pen hoping rhymes'll get em signed So when released, they can say bye to a life of crime For every mother that held a son in the street bleeding Crying a song of sorrow to dark and deep for speaking Just a moment outside the day to day struggle To let the ones we really care about know that we love em [Hook]