[00:00:00] Poppa Was A Playa (Explicit Version) - Nas (奈斯) [00:00:04] To My Ni**a who brought me in this world [00:00:09] Taught us right Ni**a [00:00:12] My old dad imported to the family structure [00:00:14] Provide her God [00:00:15] My moms a queen at university civaliza [00:00:18] My pops maybe was late but always came home [00:00:21] My moms would put us to bed and she would wait on [00:00:24] Soon as he walk in the door she barking [00:00:26] I turned out the Jonny Carson [00:00:28] Jumped out the bed [00:00:29] We grabbed both his legs [00:00:30] Me and my brother [00:00:32] Not knowing the pain he gave my mother [00:00:34] Night after night fighting yelling at each other [00:00:37] My papa played the street all day [00:00:38] Mama was either home at work [00:00:41] While we played inside the hall way [00:00:43] She sacrifices all she got to feed us [00:00:45] When she was alone she cried [00:00:47] By the phone pepping out the window heeding [00:00:49] But still I didn't see it [00:00:51] Mama hid it from us [00:00:53] We was kids younger [00:00:54] Till we got bigger on to [00:00:55] Bigger things that we [00:00:57] Knew what the time was [00:00:59] That daddy was leaving the [00:01:00] Crib and moms love [00:01:02] Papa was player player wasn't papa [00:01:05] Papa loved the ladies [00:01:06] Never got enough of [00:01:08] Pretty brown round [00:01:09] Running round town (Shhhhh) [00:01:12] Don't tell your mother what's going down [00:01:14] Papa was player player wasn't papa [00:01:17] Papa loved the ladies [00:01:19] Never got enough of [00:01:20] Pretty brown round [00:01:22] Running round town (Shhhhh) [00:01:24] Don't tell your mother what's going down [00:01:26] So many kids I knew [00:01:27] Never knew what Pap was [00:01:29] That's why I show my pop love [00:01:30] He was still around when I f**ked up [00:01:32] He could have left [00:01:34] My moms pregnant shock to death but stayed [00:01:35] Watch me crawl till I took my first step [00:01:37] To the first grade [00:01:39] To my first fist fight [00:01:40] Right behind me he would stand [00:01:42] No matter how big or tall he [00:01:43] Made me fight you like a man [00:01:45] Throw dirt in your eye swing [00:01:46] My right scoop your a** and slam [00:01:48] He watched me so [00:01:49] I wouldn't get jumped by shorty's fam [00:01:51] Roaches and w**d all over my [00:01:53] Crib him and moms relaxing [00:01:54] Next thing you know he packing [00:01:56] So then I asked him [00:01:57] What's this white sh*t [00:01:58] On that plate and your facing [00:02:00] Papa why you butt a** from the waist [00:02:02] And who's this lady I'm facing [00:02:03] Dark skin you're not my mommy [00:02:05] He grabbed me up to run [00:02:07] Some smooth words by me [00:02:08] Promise things that he would buy me [00:02:10] If I kept my mouth [00:02:11] Close and don't tell mommy [00:02:12] He said one day I'll understand little me [00:02:14] Was in you to side me [00:02:16] Papa was player player wasn't papa [00:02:19] Papa loved the ladies [00:02:21] Never got enough of [00:02:22] Pretty brown round [00:02:24] Running round town (Shhhhh) [00:02:26] Don't tell your mother what's going down [00:02:29] Papa was player player wasn't papa [00:02:32] Papa loved the ladies [00:02:33] Never got enough of [00:02:35] Pretty brown round [00:02:36] Running round town (Shhhhh) [00:02:38] Don't tell your mother what's going down [00:02:41] Pop's told me hold my own [00:02:42] Pop's told me value home [00:02:44] Could I help it papa was a rolling stone [00:02:46] Who loved the pretty brown round [00:02:48] Out of town bound [00:02:49] Jumping in his jazz Benz he touring [00:02:51] At home I play his latest recordings [00:02:53] And it's strange now how I do my thing now [00:02:55] I'm in the game now [00:02:56] And heard of it his brain pow [00:02:58] To pull strings and gain power [00:03:00] From w**d habits are same now [00:03:01] No white lines to trumpets to tight rhymes [00:03:03] And beats that be pumping [00:03:04] Before he left he taught me something [00:03:06] A child's young years the