Clear Black Nights
Mobb Deep
3:39Aye yo call me the inveterate gambler who runs the Carolinas The fans come, throwbacks, this law and order rap shit, just slow gas it Bring water like the Johnny Pumps that flow nasty Hit sewers with shooters, the audacity Fascinating, appealing, underworld, with Wondergirl Dope fiends love shooting these nuggets up Extreme criminality, I'm like the Rothstein, the offsprings All of this tuck inside my galaxy, Frankie Yale of the jail Silks, diamond spiders we master writers who dumb out Relentless on the come out Nocturnal habits, the mavens I'm too insulated, this is just a crusade, n*gga we made it Night of the Long Knives, focus the gun tote us The folder's getting over, it's over now, eating hummus & rovers he's tweaking, fumbling Gophers get rocked in their loafers tryna stunt Blunt front, knowing n*ggas notice we jewel kings hate to bother you, robbin' you, don't even argue with us, slide it off, make a move, you noddin' off Drinking makers, the paintbrushes, we cake makers, Louis luggage, puffin' the dewy brothers We straight haters Farragamo's glass, shoe taze what's this? Just a silk in the crunch wrist, your lunch n*ggas Call the chef, and it's leftovers, they eat everything Some n*ggas get caught in their best moments We the examples, we who we said we was Never faked it, ones who wore jewelry, they couldn't play with The ones who stay rich, details of my revolutionary ways Probably gets studied, some CIA shit Who has true power? The Torah or Synnagogue leaders? Quran readers or palm readers? Witchcrafters or Christian Pastors? Rich rappers? Marks said religion's the opiate of the masses Well Nas says I got thoughts, as if a therapist said "What time you on?" to learn what's in my head Well I'm reclining, I'm just stating facts as I respond like when an army walks With assault rifles at army bases far beyond New York Or foreign blocks like Hamas guys in emergency triage Extended magazine now targets off Heart beatin stops, car speedin Cops pull you over to check for warrants, so give your best performance Nobody got time for petty in the city of bosses Sirens is my psychiatry office This morning I woke feeling great so I went to an auction To get lost in a different scene, spent a ticket on art So interesting, a painting of a fiend in Hudson Yard Another painting was black natives before Central Park You know the claims, this was all native terrain And the year was like 16 something So could this mean hustling began When the Indian finessed the Dutch man With Opium on horseback, this way before Crack We always been the Mecca for supply and demand In every era legends and this land was going hand in hand, damn It's mind-boggling who we are, divided kings It get spooky in Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, and all of Queens In Staten Island, real type shit, dying species are real men I feel that shit yo