[00:00:00] Artist: Nas [00:00:01] Album: Hip Hop is Dead [00:00:04] Yea niggaz want to talk about this rap sh*t [00:00:06] Niggaz want to talk about this money [00:00:09] About these cars these homes these labels [00:00:15] Clothes sneakers big money sh*t [00:00:19] Now everybody tryin' to get rich [00:00:21] Now get rich niggaz f**k it [00:00:23] Some rap pioneers be them crackheads [00:00:24] When they speak you see missin' teeth [00:00:27] Silver chain with a silver piece [00:00:29] Niggaz your grandfather's age [00:00:30] They pants still hangin' down they legs talkin' about they ain't paid [00:00:33] And they hate you 'cause they say you ain't pay dues [00:00:38] And *edited* *edited* was stealin' and robbin' them [00:00:40] I feel it's a problem we gotta resolve [00:00:41] Hip-Hop been dead we the reason it died [00:00:44] Wasn't Sylvia's fault or because MC's skills are lost [00:00:47] It's because we can't see ourselves as the boss [00:00:49] Deep-rooted through slavery self-hatred [00:00:51] The Jewish stick together friends in high places [00:00:54] We on some low level sh*t [00:00:56] We don't want niggaz to ever win [00:00:58] See everybody got a label [00:01:00] Everybody's a rapper but few flow fatal [00:01:02] It's f**ked up it all started from two turntables [00:01:06] When they crown you - and you rise up to your position [00:01:09] +Carry On Tradition+ [00:01:11] When they knight you - then you go to fight go to war don't petition [00:01:15] +Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+ [00:01:18] Carry on ca-carry on +Carry On tradition+ [00:01:21] +Carry On Tradition+ when you rep what we rep [00:01:25] Then +Carry On Tradition+ [00:01:27] Now some of these new rappers got their caps flipped backwards [00:01:29] Wit their fingers intertwined in some gang-sign madness [00:01:31] I got an exam let's see if y'all pass it [00:01:34] Let's see who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest [00:01:36] Some of you new rappers I don't understand your code [00:01:39] You have your man shoot you like in that Sopranos episode [00:01:41] Do anythin' to get in the game mixtapes you spit hate [00:01:45] Against bosses; hungry f**ks are moraless [00:01:47] You should be tossed in a pit full of unfortunate vocalists [00:01:49] Niggaz I coulda wrote your sh*t; I had off-time was bored wit this [00:01:54] I coulda made my double-LP just by samplin' different parts of Nautilus [00:01:57] Still came five on the charts with zero audience [00:02:00] The lane was open and y'all was droppin' that garbage sh*t [00:02:03] Y'all got awards for your bricks - it got good to ya [00:02:06] You started tellin' them bigger dogs to call it quits WHAT [00:02:09] When they crown you - and you rise up to your position [00:02:13] +Carry On Tradition+ [00:02:14] When they knight you - then you go to fight go to war don't petition [00:02:17] +Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+ [00:02:20] Carry on ca-carry on +Carry On tradition+ [00:02:24] +Carry On Tradition+ when you rep what we rep [00:02:27] Then +Carry On Tradition+ [00:02:28] Now niggaz got the studio poppin' it's mad clearer [00:02:31] Engineers got his earplugs and still hear us [00:02:33] The live-in-the-park sound versus the studio state of art sound [00:02:38] We on the charts now; from British Walkers and Argyles [00:02:41] Look at us rap stars now wit our black cars now [00:02:44] Fortune 500 listed brunches sip Cipriani's [00:02:47] Sippin' blunted with rich white guys around me [00:02:50] Thick white girls around me Chinese lined up [00:02:53] Because I'm what every dime lust [00:02:55] We used to be a ghetto secret; can't make my mind up [00:02:58] If I want that or the whole world to peep it [00:03:01] Now +Carry On tradition+ [00:03:02] F**k a bum wack rapper makin' his career out of dissin' [00:03:06] Peace to the strugglin' artists and dead one's gone we miss 'em [00:03:09] I promise I +Carry On tradition+ [00:03:11] When they crown you - and you rise up to your position [00:03:14] +Carry On Tradition+ [00:03:15] When they knight you - then you go to fight go to war don't petition