It's Like That

[Nas samples] (Hook)

"You know it's like that, you never get the mic back

I got it hemmed, When I...When I...attack

There ain't a army that could strike back"

[Nature]

Ayo, on hot summer days I sit under AC

Slow mo, bumping Jo-Jo KC

Life shit be the theme cut, clean cut image

When me and Ali teamed up you can't fuck with us

Fuck niggas if they can't accept it

Under paid need to check in the mail every twenty days

Watching the funny ways of them record execs (executives)

Get em hog tied and thrown in the trunk for a long ride

Never let a wrong slide, two wrongs don't make a right

Fuck your whole cassette, two songs don't make you tight

Need at least eight or nine of them, possibly ten

Stay rewinding em, they pop go then you cop one again

It don't stop until your pay checks gone

Bootleggers in the street wait for Nat's next song

I stay warm, until the day that I decide to cool off

Who lost?, we be the hottest muthafuckas out of New York

[Hook (Nas samples)]

[Ali Vegas]

Ayo, I kick poetic scriptures

Fake willies get Mote off bitches

I throw up at yo sister's on my quest for riches

Put some lead through snitches

I'm from the same home the Giants, Yankees, Mets, and Knicks is

Still surviving the block, putting pies in the pot

Nature still fighting with cops

Got real niggas that'll gag your wife with a sock

Get your little mans sliced with an ox

Risk life in the box, just to get near the ice on your watch

Stay with cool intentions, fuck trials and school suspensions

Only listen to rap if the jewels ain't mentioned

They know my pen is flawless like my women

Gorgeous Kim's in George Prince

Wolves stay with chrome four-fifths

I rap professionally now

Commentators ask the specialist how...

Long it took before perfecting my style

Even with a deal I got more bills than Destiny's Child

Y'all know it's like that, so fight back

I'm reckless and wild

[Hook (Nas samples)]