[00:00:00] Remember - Nature [00:00:05] Yo Nate shit is crazy I shook hands with mad dead niggas yo all the [00:00:12] Niggas that used to be on the block ill will Marty black ed yo son [00:00:17] Mad niggas is gone rest in peace though [00:00:20] Fifty two blocks gazelle frames [00:00:22] Bald heads and heavy chains [00:00:23] Somehow caught in the game [00:00:25] Back in 83 before cable TV [00:00:27] When these so called thug played in the street [00:00:30] I used to hear the stories [00:00:31] Live take before me [00:00:33] Like the rich porters the fat cats the Pauly's [00:00:35] Outlaw league from the street to the pen [00:00:38] Eyes glossy only speak when they bent [00:00:40] Off the perfect mixture [00:00:41] Forcing down herbs and liquor [00:00:43] Only hot slugs I'll hurt ya quicker [00:00:45] Think it out and elevate I gave years to the state [00:00:48] As a 92 R 7478 it set me straight [00:00:51] The changing of a stubborn cat [00:00:53] The one that used to hustle on the block mad hard and loved to rap [00:00:56] In goose down coats and wool hats the youth in me [00:00:58] I guess life on the streets ain't what it used to be [00:01:01] I remember I remember [00:01:04] When used to live it up live it up [00:01:08] Flashing dough all night [00:01:11] I remember I remember [00:01:14] When didn't give a f**k getting drunk [00:01:18] Shooting guns all night [00:01:21] Straight shots of hen with no chaser [00:01:23] Mo paper stubborn hard headed like Joe Frazier [00:01:26] The gremlins the pack that I come with [00:01:28] Keep gats by the stomach [00:01:30] Act up and stack hundreds [00:01:31] Niggas don't want it see me I be the ring leader lion tamer [00:01:35] Do the bank head and Macarena [00:01:36] A black entertainer bottom line [00:01:39] Ya'll niggas know who got the hottest rhymes [00:01:41] Face it I got the whole globe on some Nate shit [00:01:43] Straight from the corners to the covers of the latest rap pages [00:01:47] Turn the projects to black Vegas [00:01:49] Don kinging niggas make em sign blank papers [00:01:51] It's the American way do my enemies pray or is it just me [00:01:55] Hustling hoping the fiends trust me [00:01:57] Talking to us hold up let me walk you through this [00:02:00] Wannabe pimps hoes often shooters [00:02:02] Niggas need to know what the truth is [00:02:04] F**k the sarcasm [00:02:05] I miss my nigga mark but god has em [00:02:07] When I see his flics I start spazzing [00:02:09] I learned to let it go [00:02:10] But I guess living this life a nigga never know [00:02:12] I remember I remember [00:02:15] When niggas used to live it up live it up [00:02:20] Flashing dough all night [00:02:22] I remember I remember [00:02:26] When niggas didn't give a f**k getting drunk [00:02:30] Shooting guns all night [00:02:32] I used to love starters thug garments [00:02:34] Bopping into Spofford R O R on drug charges [00:02:38] Writing on walls florescent markers and krylon [00:02:40] Saving my loot to buy a firearm [00:02:42] Broken safety borough hall and jay street [00:02:44] Hopped the train not knowing that a fall awaits me [00:02:47] Problems came when I started slinging [00:02:49] Late night I hear revolvers ringing [00:02:51] The echos cause cops to start Rodney kinging [00:02:53] Many riots is there any silence [00:02:55] Everybody sipped Henny hustled with many clients [00:02:58] Growing up on the same block my pops was raised [00:03:00] Rocked waves blend tapes playing on hot days [00:03:03] Brought the speakers out [00:03:04] Police made us put the wrieffer out [00:03:06] Peep it I was too young to leave the house [00:03:08] I'm trying to see the world running the streets without a care [00:03:10] I remember it well cause I was there [00:03:13] I remember I remember [00:03:16] When niggas used to live it up live it up [00:03:21] Flashing dough all night [00:03:23] I remember I remember [00:03:27] When niggas didn't give a f**k getting drunk [00:03:31] Shooting guns all night [00:03:33] I remember I remember [00:03:37] When niggas used to live it up live it up [00:03:41] Flashing dough all night