Poppa Was A Playa (Clean)-Nas

[ti:Poppa Was A Playa(Clean Version)] [ar:Nas] [al:The Lost Tapes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Poppa Was A Playa (Clean) - Nas [00:04.69]To My Ni**a who brought me in this world [00:08.77] [00:09.98]Taught us right Ni**a [00:11.04] [00:12.27]My old dad imported to the family structure [00:14.76]Provide her God [00:15.42] [00:16.00]My moms a queen at university civaliza [00:17.85] [00:18.37]My pops maybe was late but always came home [00:21.15] [00:21.75]My moms would put us to bed and she would wait on [00:25.03]Soon as he walk in the door she barking [00:27.13]I turned out the Jonny Carson [00:28.99]Jumped out the bed [00:30.10]We grabbed both his legs [00:31.32]Me and my brother [00:32.46]Not knowing the pain he gave my mother [00:34.37]Night after night fighting yelling at each other [00:36.40] [00:37.26]My papa played the street all day [00:39.43]Mama was either home at work while we played inside the hall way [00:43.42]She sacrifices all she got to feed us [00:45.63]When she was alone she cried by the phone pepping out the window heeding [00:49.20] [00:49.76]But still I didn't see it [00:51.44]Mama hid it from us [00:53.04]We was kids younger [00:54.56]Till we got bigger on to [00:56.20]Bigger things that we knew what the time was [00:58.31] [00:59.20]That daddy was leaving the crib and moms love [01:02.45]Papa was player player wasn't papa [01:04.61] [01:05.29]Papa loved the ladies [01:06.57]Never got enough of [01:08.07]Pretty brown round [01:08.85] [01:09.46]Running round town (Shhhhh) [01:11.48] [01:12.08]Don't tell your mother what's going down [01:13.88] [01:14.47]Papa was player player wasn't papa [01:17.01] [01:17.58]Papa loved the ladies [01:19.16]Never got enough of [01:20.76]Pretty brown round [01:21.56] [01:22.10]Running round town (Shhhhh) [01:23.85]Don't tell your mother what's going down [01:26.14] [01:26.84]So many kids I knew never knew what Pap was [01:29.59]That's why I show my pop love [01:31.25]He was still around when I f**ked up [01:32.86] [01:33.61]He could have left [01:34.70]My moms pregnant shock to death but stayed [01:36.37]Watch me crawl till I took my first step to the first grade [01:39.23]To my first fist fight [01:40.47]Right behind me he would stand [01:42.22]No matter how big or tall he made me fight you like a man [01:45.42]Throw dirt in your eye swing my right scoop your a** and slam [01:48.69]He watched me so I wouldn't get jumped by shorty's fam [01:51.65]Roaches and w**d all over my crib him and moms relaxing [01:54.64] [01:55.25]Next thing you know he packing [01:56.87] [01:57.72]So then I asked him [01:59.02]What's this white sh*t on that plate and your facing [02:01.10]Papa why you butt a** from the waist [02:02.89]And who's this lady I'm facing [02:04.28]Dark skin you're not my mommy [02:05.73]He grabbed me up to run some smooth words by me [02:08.52]Promise things that he would buy me [02:10.23]If I kept my mouth close and don't tell mommy [02:12.71]He said one day I'll understand little me [02:14.75]Was in you to side me [02:16.54]Papa was player player wasn't papa [02:19.32] [02:19.96]Papa loved the ladies [02:21.30]Never got enough of [02:22.90]Pretty brown round [02:24.16]Running round town (Shhhhh) [02:26.13] [02:26.66]Don't tell your mother what's going down [02:28.32] [02:29.48]Papa was player player wasn't papa [02:31.45] [02:32.33]Papa loved the ladies [02:33.66]Never got enough of [02:35.17]Pretty brown round [02:37.03]Running round town (Shhhhh) [02:39.14]Don't tell your mother what's going down [02:40.85] [02:41.84]Pop's told me hold my own [02:43.79]Pop's told me value home [02:45.15]Could I help it papa was a rolling stone [02:47.23]Who loved the pretty brown round [02:48.62]Out of town bound [02:49.66]Jumping in his jazz Benz he touring [02:51.46]At home I play his latest recordings [02:53.65]And it's strange now how I do my thing now [02:56.38]I'm in the game now [02:57.49]And heard of it his brain pow [02:58.97]To pull strings and gain power [03:00.28]From w**d habits are same now [03:01.67]No white lines to trumpets to tight rhymes [03:03.38]And beats that be pumping [03:04.82]Before he left he taught me something [03:06.47]A child's young years the most important time to be there [03:09.42]That's why he stayed till we grew up respect is still here [03:12.47]I'm older now see what having a father's about [03:14.54] [03:15.16]One day they can be in your life next day they be out [03:18.62]It's not because of you you know the deal [03:20.82]Him and your moms feel [03:21.97]If they stay together then someone will get killed [03:24.70]I love you still [03:25.71]Always will [03:26.51]Cause that's my ni**a [03:27.42] [03:27.94]Although you felt you was wrong [03:29.57]I still feel you kid [03:30.99]Life gose on