Not Going Back

[Intro: Nas and Kelis]

What nigga!? *Gunshots*

What bitch-ass niggas!? *gunshots*

What! Babe, babe, start the car!

*Car engine starts*

Nasir, come on, let's go!(Bitch-ass niggas!)

Yeah! Now what? Haha!

Get in the car now, let's go! Yeah let's go

*car door closes* Throw it out, let's go!

Aight, aight, aight, yeah

But I got 'em. But I got 'em, though

This is crazy, why didn't you just throw it out of the car?

This is so stupid, what are you doing?

Why are we even out here?

Why are we out here? What's going on?

This is retarded, yo, we gotta…

This is crazy. Never again

You'd throw everything away, for what?

[Verse 1: Nas]

Yeah, my man Kool G Rap told me, "Son, do not look back"

Chill up in the mansion with a fat gluteus max, relax

When people act, school 'em with facts, tell 'em

At this point in my life I'm all about chillin'

Ridin' around in something sick and the dress flies

And twist, homie's hermano just died, I gotta let it ride

That's what I got the public thinkin', my nigga

Just 'cause I ain't in the hood don't mean shit, my nigga

I know who died before the body dropped

I know the guns that were used

How much money the shooter got

'Cause on the private yacht I'm still within earshot of it all

The top ten list of the most grimiest guys of all time

Is all we talk when we talk in New York, y'all

Who to call and who to stay away from

Whose mother's address to have just to play it safe, son

Women they lust up so quick to give 'em up

What cars and what trucks they drive in

What towns they spend the most time in when they grindin'

I found out most of them are cowards

They hidin' behind reputations that's sour; I'm not going back

[Chorus: Kelis and Nas]

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't come back again

I'm not going back!

Streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't come back again

I'm not going back!

[Verse 2: Nas]

First thing that happen when you make a little paper

You think the Marriott is livin' in a skyscraper

Till you come across some even more flyer paper

Realize that five-star tellies are even greater

Terry-cloth robes, elegance, movie shit

Heated-up marble floors with jacuzzis in it

First-class flights, diamonds in your crucifixes

All those things, you still ain't really doing shit, kid

'Cause in reality, I'll earn my salary

The way I flaunted it then would now embarrass me

It kinda make me wanna hate bling

It's a race thing how they sell blacks to bootleg shit

In fact, real millionaires spend 60 mil on paintings

Whores charge niggas with raping

'Cause we come out doors of Maybach cars

Watch us make bets on race tracks, smokin' cigars

So they counter the laws to take what's ours

'Bout 500K on a lawyer to beat the charge

So you can't stop us from making a billion dollars

Instead of going back, I'm buying the projects

But I'm not going back

The hood's in me forever y'all, but I'm not going back

[Chorus: Kelis and Nas]

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't come back again

I'm not going back!

Streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't come back again

I'm not going back!

[Bridge: Nas]

And of course y'all know what I'm not going back to

Those no friends of mine… (And I'm not going back to)

Ten carat gold, no shine… (And I'm never going back to)

Sony, if they don't have dough to resign…

(Not going back to)

Y'all know that I'm not going back to

Those liars who would… (Not going back to)

Not help you if they could… (Not going back to)

Coke on the stove in the hood…

Y'all should know that I'm not going back

The hood's in me forever y'all, but I'm not going back

[Chorus: Kelis and Nas]

The streets keep tryin' to say (Ugh)

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way (That's right)

I won't come back again

I'm not going back!

Streets keep tryin' to say (Get off me!)

Come back around this way (Don't try to pull me down man)

I've already gone that way (I already did it)

I won't come back again

I'm not going back!