NAS LYRICS - Take It In Blood

"Take It In Blood"



"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that" [repeat 2X]

[--> Kool Keith from the Ultramagnetic MC's 'Ease Back']



[Nas]

Yo; I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret

I rock a vest, prestigious, Cuban link flooded Jesus

in a Lex watchin Kathie Lee and Regis

My actions are one with the seasons

A tec squeezin - executioner, winter time I rock a fur

Mega popular, center of attraction

Climaxin, my bitches they be laughin

They high from sniffin coke off a twenty-cent Andrew Jackson

City lights spark a New York night

Rossi and Martini sippin, Sergio Tachinni flippin mad pies

low price, I blow dice and throw em

Forty-five by my scrotum, manifest the "Do or Die" slogan

My niggaz roll in ten M3's

Twenty Gods poppin wheelies on Kawasaki's

Hip-Hop's got me on some ol', sprayin shots like a drumroll

Blankin out and never miscount the shells my gun hold

I don't stunt, I regulate

Henny and Sprite, I seperate, watchin crab niggaz marinate

I'm all about tecs and good jooks and sex

Israelite books, holdin government names from Ness

MC's are crawlin out, every hole in the slum

You be aight like blood money in a pimp's cum



"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"

"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..

.. for, you wack MC's"



[Nas]

Currency is made in trust of the Messiah

I'm spending it to get higher

Earth, Wind, and Fire singing reasons why I'm

up early, trustworthy is a nine that bust early

Sunshine on my grill, I spill

Remi on imaginary graves, put my hat on my waves

Latter Day Saints say religious praise

I dolo, challenge any team or solo

You must be buggin out, new to my shit, home on a furlough

Ask around, who's laid up, sharp and straight up

Mafioso, gettin niggaz wigs sprayed up

Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy

I'll one day walk into shots drunk off champange from Sicily

This be the drama, I'ma pause like a comma

in a sentence, paragraph's indented

Bloodshot red eyes, high, yellow envelopes of lye

Openin cigars, let tobacco fly

Condos are tuneproof, we're looking out the sky's moonroof

Shittin like gin and prune juice

Yo the system wants the coon's noose, hang em high

Courtrooms filled up, it's off the hook while I

just wrote a statement, like I'm facing twenty years

in the basement - chilling on the via with Mumia

for wearin chrome - I told the judge snakes slither

like Sharon Stone, but like Capone I'm thrown (yo)



"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"

"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..

.. for, you wack MC's"

"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"

"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..

.. for, you wack MC's"



[Nas]

Lyrical, ly-lyrical mission..

Lyrical..

Yo the time is wastin, I use the mind elevation

Dime sack lacin, court pen pacin

Individual, lyrical math abrasion

Psychic evaluation, the foulest nation

We livin in, dangerous lives, mad leak and battered wives

A lifestyle where bad streets is patternized

Wise men build and destroy

While the real McCoy dopefiend, named Detroit is still dealin boy

Coke suppliers actin biased

Cause rumors say that niggaz wear wires and we liars

But every night the gat's fired, and every day a rat's hired

I still remain the mack flyest in the phat Kani, it's --

-- just the killer in me, slash drug dealer MC

Ex-slug filler, semi mug peeler

Demi, bottles of Mo', yo simply follow me flow

Put poetry inside a crack pot and blow

rough holes for cracked out pussies and buttholes

Bring the G's and the D's roll, they can't touch those

Why shoot the breeze about it, when you could be about it?

My degrees are routed, toward the peasy haired brick houses

instead of the fake medallions

Rich niggaz transport in thousands

Foreign cash exchange amountin to millions

Doors is locked, rocks is chopped, watch the cameras in the ceilings

Trick bitches catching mad feelings

Peelin off in the Lex Jeep, techniques is four-wheelin

I bet it be some shit when we connect with Stretch

When we catch them sex niggaz with the tecs you blessed, word

So now it's on, never wasted a slug,

Time is money when it comes to mine, take it in blood



"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that"

"I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm livin like that..

.. for, you wack MC's" [repeat in background to fade]



Yeah, Capone-N-Noreaga

Yeah, yo, offical Queensbridge murderers

Mobb Deep keep it real though

Motherfuckin AZ yo

'Mega, 'Mega, whatever

Scarlett O'Hara

Yo, Fox Boogie

East New York

Gambo, Brownsville

Wizard, Fort Rockaway

Big Jersey

Connecticut, D. C., Sudan

V. A. ?? N. C., L. A.

So on and so on...

Big Ha, Houston Fifth Ward

Black Ed, keep it real Moe..