Carry On Tradition-Nas

[ti:Carry On Tradition] [ar:Nas] [al:Hip Hop Is Dead] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.73]Artist: Nas [00:01.13]Album: Hip Hop is Dead [00:03.32] [00:04.13]Yea niggaz want to talk about this rap sh*t [00:06.75]Niggaz want to talk about this money [00:09.25]About these cars these homes these labels [00:14.06] [00:15.61]Clothes sneakers big money sh*t [00:19.17]Now everybody tryin' to get rich [00:21.29]Now get rich niggaz f**k it [00:23.23]Some rap pioneers be them crackheads [00:24.60]When they speak you see missin' teeth [00:27.47]Silver chain with a silver piece [00:29.28]Niggaz your grandfather's age [00:30.40]They pants still hangin' down they legs talkin' about they ain't paid [00:33.96]And they hate you 'cause they say you ain't pay dues [00:36.23] [00:38.41]And *edited* *edited* was stealin' and robbin' them [00:40.16]I feel it's a problem we gotta resolve [00:41.59]Hip-Hop been dead we the reason it died [00:44.40]Wasn't Sylvia's fault or because MC's skills are lost [00:47.52]It's because we can't see ourselves as the boss [00:49.58]Deep-rooted through slavery self-hatred [00:51.52]The Jewish stick together friends in high places [00:54.82]We on some low level sh*t [00:56.63]We don't want niggaz to ever win [00:58.69]See everybody got a label [01:00.44]Everybody's a rapper but few flow fatal [01:02.88]It's f**ked up it all started from two turntables [01:06.18]When they crown you - and you rise up to your position [01:09.37]+Carry On Tradition+ [01:11.30]When they knight you - then you go to fight go to war don't petition [01:15.17]+Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+ [01:18.29]Carry on ca-carry on +Carry On tradition+ [01:21.02] [01:21.90]+Carry On Tradition+ when you rep what we rep [01:25.39]Then +Carry On Tradition+ [01:27.02]Now some of these new rappers got their caps flipped backwards [01:29.13]Wit their fingers intertwined in some gang-sign madness [01:31.63]I got an exam let's see if y'all pass it [01:34.25]Let's see who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest [01:36.98]Some of you new rappers I don't understand your code [01:39.41]You have your man shoot you like in that Sopranos episode [01:41.99]Do anythin' to get in the game mixtapes you spit hate [01:45.07]Against bosses; hungry f**ks are moraless [01:47.45]You should be tossed in a pit full of unfortunate vocalists [01:49.88]Niggaz I coulda wrote your sh*t; I had off-time was bored wit this [01:54.08]I coulda made my double-LP just by samplin' different parts of Nautilus [01:57.14]Still came five on the charts with zero audience [02:00.78]The lane was open and y'all was droppin' that garbage sh*t [02:03.58]Y'all got awards for your bricks - it got good to ya [02:06.27]You started tellin' them bigger dogs to call it quits WHAT [02:09.44]When they crown you - and you rise up to your position [02:13.05]+Carry On Tradition+ [02:14.37]When they knight you - then you go to fight go to war don't petition [02:17.60]+Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+ [02:20.35]Carry on ca-carry on +Carry On tradition+ [02:23.97] [02:24.53]+Carry On Tradition+ when you rep what we rep [02:27.72]Then +Carry On Tradition+ [02:28.83]Now niggaz got the studio poppin' it's mad clearer [02:31.27]Engineers got his earplugs and still hear us [02:33.64]The live-in-the-park sound versus the studio state of art sound [02:38.57]We on the charts now; from British Walkers and Argyles [02:41.70]Look at us rap stars now wit our black cars now [02:44.69]Fortune 500 listed brunches sip Cipriani's [02:47.24]Sippin' blunted with rich white guys around me [02:50.24]Thick white girls around me Chinese lined up [02:53.24]Because I'm what every dime lust [02:55.24]We used to be a ghetto secret; can't make my mind up [02:58.43]If I want that or the whole world to peep it [03:01.11]Now +Carry On tradition+ [03:02.60]F**k a bum wack rapper makin' his career out of dissin' [03:06.41]Peace to the strugglin' artists and dead one's gone we miss 'em [03:09.15]I promise I +Carry On tradition+ [03:11.28]When they crown you - and you rise up to your position [03:14.71]+Carry On Tradition+ [03:15.90]When they knight you - then you go to fight go to war don't petition [03:19.75]+Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+ [03:23.37]Carry on ca-carry on +Carry On tradition+ [03:27.05]+Carry On Tradition+ when you rep what we rep [03:30.36]Then +Carry On Tradition+