Ghetto Reporter (Explicit)

Ghetto Reporter (Explicit) - Nas

Composed by：Nasir Jones/Chauncey Hollis Jr

Close your eyes

Listen

They get n***as time like it's lunch down there

You go down there looking for justice that's what you find just us

It's comedy it's hilarious

Look yourself in the mirror tell me times ain't the scariest

For me droppin' album after album like it's a various artist compilation

But it's just me and HB and this **** take concentration

N***as know I don't drop this often so cherish it

So cherish it

Like your daughter's graduation kids marriages

When the culture vulture swooped down they start exploitin' the sound

They drew up contracts for our n***as drew hill to drew down

And I'm prayin' they set

Instead most artists don't live as good as the execs

And they end up depressed

Scarred by A&Rs the music be changin'

And the culture be shiftin' so you gotta move with it

Call me the party crasher that plan spoiler

That Malcolm C and Maya Angelou and God are holdin' a camcorder

Ghetto reporter live from 40 Side you know my storyline

First project rapper triple platinum with New York at pride

King's disease

Most of us catch it at one point or another

But evolve

Find a new formula

One that takes everythin' in you to make

The audacity masterfully crafted these classics so naturally

Had to be nasty back at it

They argue KD1 KD2 and Magic what's harder when

KD3 go harder than all of them

Back in the not-nose barely rubbed elbows with CEO's

I was dolo I bet it shocked y'all to see me grow

And all those O's I sell ain't attend much industry dinners

Had to attend to my business go past the sky's limit

The hate gon' rise quicker so how could I manage this disadvantage

N***as Planet Hollywood I came from a different planet

Leave it up to me to break the news you won't see on the screen

Chuckle at you ************* we the last of the kings

Shout to the real ones like us it's a shortage it seems

I'm underground and overground and it's never been seen

Real council my streams

Got real people tappin' in so that's what that means indeed

It means I got nothin' but the real checkin' in

We locked in all the way

Just applaud this yeah

Trappin' about you know what I'm sayin'

Like I couldn't get out if I wanted to

All these rappers are trapped

And if we can't get out you know what I'm sayin'

'Til we over 'til it's dead 'til we in the dirt

When I'm fifty years old I wanna have fifty-year old fans

Sixty-year old fans and sixteen-year old fans