N.I.E.R. (The Slave And The Master)-Nas

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具] [offset:0] [00:00.00]N.I.E.R. (The Slave And The Master) - Nas [00:15.80]Much more still we choose to ignore [00:18.32]The obvious man this history don't acknowledge us [00:21.95]We were scholars long before colleges [00:24.43]They say we N-I double G-E-R we are [00:28.23]Much more but still we choose to ignore [00:30.92]The obvious we are the slave and the master [00:34.37]What you lookin for You the question and the answer [00:37.12]We trust no black leaders use the stove to heat us [00:41.03]Powdered eggs and government cheeses [00:43.18] [00:43.94]The calendars with Martin JFK and Jesus [00:47.08]Gotta be fresh to go to school with fly sneakers [00:49.85]Schools with outdated books we are the forgotten [00:53.41]Summers coolin off by the fire hydrant [00:58.61]Yeah I'm from the ghetto [01:00.85] [01:01.43]To see photos of dead homie's funerals [01:05.81]Aluminium foil on TV antennas [01:08.33]Little TV sit on top the big TV eating TV dinners [01:21.54]Girls die their hair with Kool-Aid [01:23.54] [01:25.07]They gave us lemons we made lemonade [01:29.18] [01:29.75]But this nigger's payed ancestral slaves [01:39.69] [01:40.59]Put rims on everything where tims on every scene [01:51.75] [01:52.79]Do I mean it like a slave master ni**er [01:54.87] [01:55.81]No I'm gangsta gotta eat rappers [01:58.58]My abbreviation was young when I caught the cases [02:01.64]That should mean the court could see my changes take off the bracelets [02:05.16]Savers went broke smokes our diesel need no Bowflex [02:08.20]My chest still cut up like a bag of d**e [02:11.41]Bought patterns consist of boss matters [02:13.62]Spit Moses' lost commandments like a growth sandwich out my mouth [02:17.67]Toast to government cameras peepin us every week I must [02:20.94]Have my cars homes and phones squeaked for bugs [02:23.71]But this is what I was dreamin of [02:26.02]Between cuttin hard coke with new razors slicin my fingers up [02:31.36] [02:32.51]They used to string us up we wanted everything [02:42.23] [02:43.03]But the one bringin us cake be the snakes like the [02:51.40] [02:51.97]Like the New Jack City wedding scene [02:54.92] [02:55.50]No time for mistakes tryin to get it like Medellin [03:06.64] [03:07.92]People afraid of criticism [03:09.95]But I always put myself in a sacrificial position [03:13.05] [03:13.60]They been know I ain't just rappin for fame [03:15.98]I got my old homie hasslin to father askin for chains [03:19.42]Yep I get it cash up this paper don't matter [03:22.10]They see me from skinny to fatter when I rap about war [03:25.30]They got a tendency to scatter they ain't my backup no more [03:29.14]So now my enemies are at my front door [03:31.55]Cause anytime we mention our condition our history or existence [03:35.80]They callin it reverse racism [03:39.89] [03:40.67]You'll always know where to find me [03:46.31]They say the close ones will hurt you [03:48.29] [03:49.90]So let's keep a small circle [03:58.79]On the road to riches and diamond rings [04:03.78] [04:04.45]In the land of the blind the man with one eye is the king