Nothing To Lose
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K'NAAN, Nas
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MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN SILENCE
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DROP OUTTA SCHOOL
SINGLE PARENT HOME
NO LEADERSHIP, NO DIRECTION
NO IDEA WHERE TO
EAT, HOW TO EAT
SOON AS THEY STEP OUT THE
DOOR, IT'S A DAMN ZOO
SO THEY GOTTA DO WHAT THEY DO,
YA KNOW?
IT'S KILL OR BE KILLED. GOT
NOTHIN' TO LOSE
♪♪♪
♪ K'NAAN: UH SOMEONE
CALLED THE COPS ON HIM ♪
♪ PSH SOMEONE TOLD HIS
POPS ON HIM HE WAS ♪
♪ TALKING CROOKED AND HE
HAD SOME ROCKS ON HIM ♪
♪ TUCKED, TUCKED IN HIS
SOCKS' CORNER CHUCKS, ♪
♪ CHUCKS AND THE CHARLOTTE
HORNET CAP, WHEN HE FLOW ♪
♪ THEN THEY ALL SURPRISED
ON HIM YES HE'S A FUGEE ♪
♪ BUT HE GO ALL NAS ON EM
WELL, CAN'T GO PRAS ON ♪
♪ EM UH, AND HE GOT THAT
CROSSOVER BUT HE FROM ♪
♪ THE STREET YOU DON'T
CROSS OVER HUT, HUT TO ♪
♪ THE BLOCK SOLDIERS BUCK,
BUCK TO THE COP VULTURES ♪
♪ NOPE, NO I DON'T KNOW
PILOTS, UH, NIGGA I KNOW ♪
♪ PIRATES VIOLENCE, THE
ISLANDS, SHOUT OUT TO MY ♪
♪ IDRENS PUT YOUR HANDS UP LIKE
IT'S A MOTHAFUCKIN SIREN ♪
♪ WELL I PAID ALL MY DUES, ♪
THEY CHECKIN' FOR YOU
THEY CHECKIN FOR YOU
IN OUR OWN HOODS
THEY SEE WHAT TIME IT IS,
ALL AROUND THE WORLD,
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
WE GOT OUR OWN FLAVOR, WE GOT
OUR OWN STRUGGLES
WE GOT OUR OWN
VERSION OF HARD
WE DOIN' IT
FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE
♪ NAS: I USED TO STAND
ON VERNON AND 10, ♪
♪ BURNIN' A SPLIFF, BURNER
ON HIP, WISHING TO FLIP ♪
♪ A BIRD, YAC BURNING MY
CHEST. BLACK CERTAINLY ♪
♪ I'M DRESSED , STRICTLY
THAT ARMY SHIT FINISH MY ♪
♪ SHIFT, PACK GONE BEFORE
THE DAWN HIT ANYTHING I ♪
♪ COULD EARN ON THE STRIP,
TURN IT AND FLIP ♪
♪ WATCHING MY BACK,
COOKING THAT POT, MAKING ♪
♪ IT STRETCH DISCUSSION
WITH MY CLIQ SHOULD WE ♪
♪ DUCK TAPE THE CONNECT
IT'S ROUGH AND, K'NAAN ♪
♪ KNOWS, HE HAD THE SAME
WOES (YEP) I'M VOICING ♪
♪ MY OPINIONS, I FORGOT
YA'LL WAS THERE I AIN'T ♪
♪ KNOW YA'LL WAS STILL
LISTENIN, BE HONEST I ♪
♪ AIN'T CARE YA'LL DON'T
GET MY INNUENDOS, MY ♪
♪ INTERESTS, YA'LL ON SOME
SIMPLE SHIT THINKING I'M ♪
♪ PREACHY, YEAH MY CHURCH
IS THE WORLD CHRISTIANS ♪
♪ SIP A CUP OF THIS HOLY
WATER, STUCK AT THIS ♪
♪ PHONY BORDER IT'S CUSTOM
TO ENTER THE MAIN STREAM ♪
♪ YOU MUST FRONT AND
RECORD A POORER ORATORY, ♪
♪ YOUR LIFE STORY CORNY YO
MY SOMALI NIGGAS KNOW ♪
♪ WHAT WAR BE, WE FAM!
HOOK: WELL I PAID ALL MY ♪
♪ DUES, YEAH (NAS: YEA
PAID MY DUES) ♪
I THINK ABOUT VERNON AND 10TH,
YOU KNOW?
SO I WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT
SOMALIA
♪ I WANT YOU TO KNOW
ABOUT MOGADISHU, SUDAN,
UGANDA, KENYA, ETHIOPIA
I WANT THOSE STREETS TO BE
FAMOUS LANDMARKS TOO
♪ YOU GOT NOTHING
TO LOSE, YEAH ♪
♪ (UHH, NAS LET ME GET
EM, LET ME GET EM) ♪
♪ K'NAAN: REMEMBER WHEN
NIGGAS SAID NAS WAS ♪
♪ SOMALIAN BASEBALL
CAPS HAD THE TAGS, ♪
♪ LIKE A YARDIE AND IT
WAS WRITTEN JUST CAME ♪
♪ OUT, I WAS GNARLY THEN
NIGGAS DREADED SEEING ME ♪
♪ LIKE A RASTAFARIAN WE
DIDN'T KNOW THE DRESS ♪
♪ CODE THOUGH WE WAS
BARGAINERS, THE KNOCKOFF ♪
♪ FILAS WITH THE PUMPS AND
CHEAP CARDIGANS NIGGAS ♪
♪ LOOKED CORNY I ADMIT, WE
WAS FOREIGNERS BUT THIS ♪
♪ CORNY KID QUICK TO SEND
YOU TO THE CORONERS ♪
♪ YA'LL KNOW MY WAR STORY,
I WON'T REPEAT IT IT'S ♪
♪ JUST A INJURY MY
VICTORY'S UNDEFEATED ♪
♪ THOUGHT YOU KNEW ME
WELL, GO BACK AND DELETE ♪
♪ IT I'M IN EVERY JOINT
THIS YEAR, ORTHOPEDIC ♪
♪ AND YES THE AKS ARE
INSTRUMENTS WE DO DRUM ♪
♪ EM I'M SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
KILLA AND KING SOLOMON ♪
♪ AND THE SHADES TAKE HALF
THE FACE WE OVER STUN EM ♪
♪ AND TREAT OBSTACLES LIKE
ASS WE OVERCOME EM, UMM ♪
♪ MAN THEY REALLY MADE ME
DO THIS I WAS PEACEFUL ♪
♪ LIKE A BUDDHIST BUT THEN
NIGGAS CAME AND SCREWED ♪
♪ IT UP LIKE JUDAS NOW I'M
SUITED UP WITH LUGERS ♪
♪ RUGERS SUDDENLY
INTRUDERS TURN AROUND ♪
♪ LIKE HULA HOOPERS
FUCKING LOSERS ♪
♪ WELL I PAID ALL MY DUES,
YEAH (AND I PAID MY ♪
♪ DUES) SHONE A MILLION
SHOES, YEAH (DIFFICULTY ♪
♪ IS AN EXCUSE, THAT
HISTORY NEVER ACCEPTS) ♪
♪ 'CAUSE WHEN YOU GO
NOTHING LEFT, YEAH (SO ♪
♪ WE TRIUMPH) YOU GOT
NOTHING TO LOSE, YEAH ♪
♪ (NOTHING TO LOSE) IT'S
K'NAAN, NAS: WHAT'S UP, ♪
♪ K: WHAT'S UP, NAS:
WHAT'S UP, K: YEA THIS ♪
♪ ONE'S FOR THE WORLD THIS
ONE'S FOR YOUR GIRL THIS ♪
♪ ONE'S FOR YOUR MAMA THIS
ONE'S FOR YOUR NANA ♪
♪♪♪
