[00:00.32][Intro: Nas]
[00:00.77]Damn
[00:39.28][Verse 1: Nas]
[00:39.49]What up, kid? I know **** is rough doin' your bid
[00:42.23]When the cops came you shoulda slid to my crib
[00:44.55]**** it, black, no time for lookin' back, it's done
[00:46.94]Plus, congratulations, you know you got a son
[00:49.50]I heard he looks like ya, why don't your lady write ya?
[00:52.19]Told her she should visit, that's when she got hyper
[00:55.07]Flippin', talkin' about he acts too rough
[00:57.07]He didn't listen, he be riffin' while I'm tellin' him stuff
[00:59.56]I was like, "Yeah," your girl don't care, she a snake too
[01:02.40]Messin' with them ****** from that fake crew that hate you
[01:05.28]But yo, guess who got shot in the dome-piece?
[01:07.53]Jerome's niece, on her way home from Jones Beach
[01:09.97]It's bugged, plus little Rob is sellin' drugs on the dime
[01:13.26]Hangin' out with young thugs that all carry 9's
[01:15.35]Is more trife than ever
[01:17.79]What up with Cormega? Did you see him? Are y'all together?
[01:20.63]If so, then hold the fort down, represent to the fullest
[01:23.37]Say what's up to Herb, Ice and Bullet
[01:25.41]I left a half a hundred in your commissary
[01:27.66]You was my dawg when push came to shove
[01:29.75](One what?) One love!
[01:32.24][Chorus: Nas]
[01:32.49]One love, one love, one love
[01:34.48]We should write letters to one another
[01:36.07]Now they email you from jail, right?
[01:40.26]Yeah, one love, one love, one love, one love
[01:45.93]Yeah, one love, one love, one love, one love
[01:50.56][Verse 2: Nas]
[01:50.76]Dear Born, you'll be out soon, stay strong
[01:53.36]Out in New York the same **** is goin' on
[01:56.15]The crackheads stalkin'
[01:58.63]Hold, check out the story yesterday when I was walkin'
[02:01.22]That ***** you shot last year tried to appear
[02:03.21]Like he hurtin' somethin'
[02:05.25]Word to mother
[02:06.54]And he be pumpin' on your block
[02:07.99]Your man gave him your Glock
[02:09.38]And now they run together — what up, son?
[02:12.00]Since I'm on the streets I'ma put it to a
[02:13.95]But I heard you blew a dude with a...for the phone piece
[02:16.93]Wildin' on the Island, but now in Elmira
[02:19.42]Better chill, ‘cause them ****** will put that ass on fire
[02:22.06]Last time you wrote you said they tried you in the showers
[02:24.45]But maintain, when you come home the corner's ours
[02:27.15]On the reals, all these crab dudes know the deal
[02:29.54]When we start the revolution all they probably do is squeal
[02:31.98]But chill, see you on the next V-I
[02:34.12]I gave your mom dukes loot for kicks, plus sent you flicks
[02:37.16]Your brother's buckwildin' in 4-Main, he wrote me
[02:39.70]He might beat his case, 'til he come home he'll play it lowkey
[02:42.48]So stay civilized, time flies
[02:44.43]Though incarcerated your mind dies
[02:46.07]I hate it when your moms cries
[02:47.63]It kinda makes me want to murder, for reala
[02:49.72]I even got a mask and gloves to bust slugs
[02:52.71][Chorus: Nas]
[02:52.91]One love, one love, one love, one love
[02:56.70]We keep it 100
[02:57.69]One love, one love, one love, one love
[03:02.62]Yeah, one love, one love, one love, one love
[03:07.80]Here's the summary, for the whole ****
[03:12.87][Verse 3: Nas]
[03:13.12]Sometimes I sit back with a Buddha sack
[03:14.91]Mind's in another world, thinkin'
[03:16.45]"How can we exist through the facts?"
[03:18.25]Written in school text books, bibles, et cetera
[03:20.40]**** a school lecture, the lies get me vexed-er
[03:22.98]So I be ghost from my projects
[03:25.02]I take my pen and pad for the weekend
[03:26.88]Hittin' L's while I'm sleepin'
[03:28.17]A two-day stay, you may say I need the time alone
[03:30.61]To relax my dome, no phone, left the 9 at home
[03:33.31]You see the streets had me stressed somethin' terrible
[03:35.69]******' with the corners have a ***** up in Bellevue
[03:38.63]Or H..., hit with numbers from 8 to 10
[03:40.72]A future in a maximum state pen is grim
[03:43.26]So I comes back home, nobody's out but Shorty Doo-Wop
[03:45.86]Rollin' two phillies together: in the Bridge we call 'em
[03:48.34]He said: "Nas, ****** caught me bustin' off the roof
[03:50.73]So I wear a bulletproof and pack a black tre-deuce."
[03:53.07]He inhaled so deep, shut his eyes like he was sleep
[03:55.62]Started coughin', one eye peeked to watch me speak
[03:58.06]I sat back like The Mack, my army suit was black
[04:00.55]I was chillin' on the corner
[04:02.09]Where he pumped his loose cracks
[04:03.28]I took the L when he passed it, this little bastard
[04:06.28]Keeps me blasted and starts talkin' mad ****
[04:08.77]Told him don't let ****** fool him
[04:11.60]‘Cause when the pistol blows
[04:12.40]The one that's murdered be the
[04:13.80]Tough luck when ****** are..., families ****** up
[04:16.09]Coulda caught your man, but didn't look when you bucked up
[04:18.68]Mistakes happen, so take heed, never bust up
[04:21.02]At the crowd, catch him solo
[04:23.36]Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul
[04:25.90]Only twelve, tryin' to tell me that he liked my style
[04:28.30]Then I rose, wipin' the blunt's ash from my clothes
[04:30.98]Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose
[04:33.57]And told my little man I'ma ghost, I broze
[04:36.01]Left some jewels, he can sell if he chose
[04:38.45]Words of wisdom from Nas: try to rise up above
[04:41.19]Keep an eye out for Jake, Shorty Wop, one love
[04:43.72][Chorus: Nas]
[04:44.23]One love, one love, one love, one love
[04:49.21]One love, one love, one love, one love
[04:54.25]One love, one love, one love, one love
[04:59.44]One love, one love, one love, one love
[05:05.21]Real ****
[05:06.11]"Represent"
[05:07.95]"Represent"
[05:12.19][Outro: Nas]
[05:12.39]Lot of dudes I wrote about on that album have passed on
[05:15.27]And that's [?] specifically
[05:18.67]Damn, my man George
[05:22.30]Marty, Yammie
[05:26.33]There so many of them