Live Now

[Hook: Nas]

Live now, niggas

There's no promise of a second time around, put it down

We'll just (live), live now, there's no reason why you shouldn't

Everything is up to you

All you gotta do is just (live), live now, we spending

Not under the ground yet, we enjoying every second, yo (Uh)

Live now, don't forget to, bro

Yeah, 'cause I promise you you'll regret it, bro

[Verse 1: Nas]

Picture my last days will be so grim

My daughter at my bedside, respirator in me

Eyes dilated, looking skinny, trying to smile

Trying to say something, whole room will quiet down

Just to hear my last words, tears fall down my facial

Why fear anything, it's now too late to

I'm dreaming of a time I was silked out

At the peak of my career, but I always choked out

Leaving mad money on the table at crazy amounts

I would hit the scene for a second and bounce

Admit I did live a little bit, sweet pickle dick

Freaks licked on it, lips I dripped on it, sex, I shot pearl necklaces

On necks and tits, traveled half the world

Wish I traveled the rest of it from QB to Mecca, kid

So if you knew me, you'd be proud to say I left you

With enough memories to resurrect me with

So live now, nigga

[Hook: Nas]

Live now, niggas

There's no promise of a second time around, put it down

We'll just (live), live now, there's no reason why you shouldn't

Everything is up to you

All you gotta do is just (live), live now, we spending

Not under the ground yet, we enjoying every second, yo (Uh)

Live now, don't forget to, bro

Yeah, 'cause I promise you you'll regret it, bro

[Verse 2: Scarlett]

It's been a long time since you came through to see ya sis

You know I love you, I've been a fan since Genesis

God, I respect you 'cause you never tried to smash

Since we met a while back, and your style was mack

Now I see that you a man after all you been through

A stand-up dude, held me down after Sekou

Need more brothers like you in the hood, would have wifed you if I could

But the white cells in my blood were no good

Said I had it ten years, but I was just a carrier

I thought, "Me a victim?", could never be my character

It's ill Se' passed the way he did, didn't know how to tell him

Just happy it ain't get in our kid

But all the things I did was the flyest

Experiences were priceless, remember days of diamond cuts

Nugget rings, clubs in Queens, Jetta cars

Used to love them things, Barbados, Belize

I stayed over seas, shopping sprees, credit cards

Pockets of G's, left the hood, fattest cribs

To platinum from silver, came back

Bitches calling me the black Liz Taylor, imagine that, rob me?

My nigga would kill ya, they knew the rules

All the planes I flew, niggas I ran through

Lot of unprotected sex, don't know where it came from

Grimy niggas, rich niggas, damn, it ain't a game, son

From the Cayman Islands to the Virgin Islands

Gucci suitcases (coughs), a chick did it, F the screw faces

Critics and fans, they need to get a life

You doin' the right thing, settle down, get a wife now

I grew with you, so you know you make me proud

And most of all, you gotta live now

[Hook: Scarlett]

Live now, nigga

Ain't no promise of a second time around, put it down, would you

Live now, ain't no reason why you shouldn't

Everything is up to you

All you gotta do is just live now, keep spending

Not under the ground yet, keep enjoying every minute, yo

Gotta live it up to the limit, yo

'Cause I promise you, you'll regret it, bro

[Outro: Scarlett]

Son, come close, lemme talk to you

I got music, put it out to the world, let 'em hear it

Look out for little me, one