Nas - Bridging the gap

Izvajalec besedila pesmi je Nas.

[Olu Dara]
see i come from Missisippi,
(Bam bam babam)
I was young and running wild,
(Bam bam babam)
in and out of New York City
(Bam bam babam)
where i had my first child
(Bam bam babam)
I named the boy Nasir,
(Bam bam babam)
all the boys running wild
(Bam bam babam)
I told him as a youngster,
(Bam bam babam)
he'll be the greatest man alive
(Bam bam babam)


Let's go.....
heh heh heh heh,
how dareo this rap gets,
sounds Amastic
many brothers smashed it up
'n tried to match it
but i'm still number one everyday real
speak what i want i don't care what they build
coz i'm my ownnn master
my pop told me be your own boss
keep integrity at every cost
and his home was Natches Missisippi,
get it like 'Miles' and 'Dizzy'
now we gettin' buzy - Bridging the gap
from the blues to Jazz to Rap
the history of music on this track
born in the game
discovered my father's music
like Prince searches thru Rock in the 'Purple Rain'
but Minneapolis was the bridge
home to the 'Super Kid' some were well known
some doing things,
i might of ended up on the wrong side of the tracks
If pops wouldn't of pulled me back and said Yo!

(Praise my life..Praise my life...)

Blues came from Gospel, Gospel from Blues
playing and harmonising for them ah's and oo's
old skool new skool no skool rules
all these years i've been wasting my blues
I'm an artist from the start, Hiphop got in my heart,
Graffiti on the wall, coulda ended in (laughs)
Juvenile Delinquent
but pops gave me the right type of tools to dig with
books to read like 'S' n' stuff
coz the skool's said the kids had Dislexia
in our class i was a compulsive sketcher of.. teachers
in my own room i drew pictures to mess 'em up
coz none of them would like my style
read more books than a curriculum profile
saying 'Mr Jones please pick up your child'
'Coz he's writing mad poems and his verses are wild'
(haha)

(Greatest man great great greatest man alive....)

Heh heh heh,
my papa was not a rolling stone
he'd been around the world blowing his horn
still he came home,
then he got grown chasers they all don't know
C'mon tell 'em 'bout all the places you gone to

[Olu Dara]
Saudi Arabia, Mozambeke, Madagascar, Paria's Reach,
(Uh huh)
Middle of Africa that's where we live
little known as 'Queensbridge'

Nas, Nas, you don't stop
'Olu Dara' in the house, you don't stop,
'Muddy Waters,' 'Howlin' Wolf,' you don't stop,
from the Blues to street hop, you don't stop
Tell 'em Pa,

[Olu Dara]
see i come from Missisippi,
(Bam bam babam)
I was young and running wild,
(Running wild!)
(Bam bam babam)
in and out of New York City
(Bam bam babam)
where i had my first child
(Bam bam babam)
I named the boy Nasir,
(Bam bam babam)
all the boys running wild
(Bam bam babam)
I told him as a youngster,
(Bam bam babam)
he'll be the greatest man alive
(Bam bam babam)

(You're the greatest pop,)
Greatest man alive

(You're the greatest pop,)
Great great great great greatest man alive

(Rest In Peace 'Ray Charles')

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