Purple (Explicit)-Nas

[ti:Purple(Clean Version)] [ar:Nas] [al:The Lost Tapes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Purple (Explicit) - Nas [00:03.08]Light it uhh [00:04.11] [00:05.49]Light it up uhh [00:06.71] [00:07.91]The whole city is mine prettiest Don [00:09.82] [00:10.33]I don't like the way P Diddy did Shyne with different lawyers [00:13.25]Why it's mentioned in my rhymes F**k it it's just an intro [00:17.19]Hate it or love it like it bump it or dump it [00:19.39]Writing across the stomach spell GOD son [00:20.84]Life is like a jungle black it's like the habitat of Tarzan [00:23.28]Matter of fact it's harder than most can imagine [00:25.19]Most of my niggaz packed in correctional facilities [00:27.62]Half of them passed on mack strong couple of shots [00:30.19]May the ghost leave a body now they hauntin the block [00:32.58]Where they used to stand at somebody's takin they place [00:35.00]A younger man perhaps hand slaps can't understand that [00:37.51]Same walk same talk I wonder can that be possible [00:40.67]A thug dies another step inside his shoes [00:42.70]And they will hurt you layin low with a bottle [00:46.24]I'm blowin circles my state of mind purple [00:47.90] [00:53.07]Light it light it uhh [00:55.18] [01:00.11]Yeah light it up light it up uhh [01:04.47] [01:07.82]Y'all just wanna deal with drama [01:09.24]Talk about niggaz who got things y'all ready to kill his momma [01:12.24]Everything you went to is underworld related [01:13.94] [01:14.46]You sell your man out not even your girl is sacred [01:18.05]You don't trust a soul hold up you moldin soldiers [01:20.31]To pull guns quick and always look behind the shoulder [01:22.35]Think of how many dudes died tryin to be down with you [01:24.80]Everybody's under six feet of ground but you [01:26.94]Still standin still roamin through the streets that's real [01:29.44]You a survivor knowin all the beef is ill [01:31.95]You got a bunch of thugs witchu even now that's ready [01:34.62]Trustin your judgment quick to put it down they deadly [01:37.01]The hood love you but behind your back they pray for the day [01:39.85]A bullet hit your heart and ambulances take you away [01:42.10]That ain't love it's hate think of all the mothers at wakes [01:44.72]Whose sons you killed and you ain't got a cut on your face [01:47.57]Unmarked police cars roam the streets hard the heat is God [01:50.04]Somebody tell these shorties reach for the stars [01:51.79]Instead they tell 'em how to reach through the bars holdin a mirror [01:54.80]Lookin down a tear in jail makin weapons to kill ya [01:57.03] [01:57.96]We smoke three tokes ni**a pour more Henny [01:59.85]He sighs with eyes that seen a war too many [02:02.16]Cold-blooded murderers universal [02:03.73]Hood to hood blowin smoke state of mind is purple [02:06.29] [02:08.63]Light it up light it up light it up uhh [02:12.36] [02:13.67]Light it up light it up light it up uhh [02:17.36] [02:19.26]Uhh uhh uhh light it light it uhh [02:25.01] [02:26.63]These hot-headed youngsters always get into trouble [02:29.00]Reactin before thinkin they easily irritated [02:30.68] [02:31.54]And murder's premeditated it's a fact that we sinkin [02:34.42]When we should be climbin in a nutshell it's just jail [02:36.72]Drug sales liquor and diamonds niggaz rewindin [02:38.89]Instead of movin forward to blow up so what's the science [02:41.63]People shoutin police pushin the crowd [02:43.23] [02:43.75]And on the ground's a young soldier with meat hangin out him [02:46.51]Am I hallucinatin off the hazin [02:48.15]Or did I just see a ni**a shoot another ni**a's face in [02:51.17]It's a ugly nation cops circle the block with mug shots [02:53.87]Photograph pictures of suspect faces [02:55.10] [02:56.02]It's usually two or three niggaz who innocent [02:58.18] [02:58.91]But if they lock the wrong ones up then someone'll snitch [03:01.66]A divide and fall strategy they aren't fair [03:03.64]I dig in my bag of w**d that's covered with orange hair [03:06.36]This Color Purple'll make Whoopi give me the p**sy [03:08.77]( ) Oprah and Danny Glover gots to feel me [03:11.06]This is how I escape the madness too much of anything'll hurt you [03:14.56]So my state of mind's all purple