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Nas Lyrics for Song: No Idea's Original
 Lyrics for Album: Lost Tapes V.2 [2002]
 
 
 
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 Uhh, uhh, uhh
 
 
 
 No idea's original, there's nothin' new under the sun
 
 It's never what you do, but how it's done
 
 What you base your happiness around material, women
 
 And large paper that means you inferior, not major
 
 
 
 No idea's original, there's nothin' new under the sun
 
 It's never what you do, but how it's done
 
 What you base your happiness around material, women
 
 And large paper that means you inferior, not major
 
 
 
 Look inside my mind, you'll find
 
 Where bodies are buried, first look past the hotties who dimes
 
 Go to the center, enter with caution, past the braincell graveyard
 
 Where weed's responsible for memory loss
 
 Let's witness, the horrific, the stench'll make you nauseous
 
 See what I seen every day I live with this torture
 
 
 
 Lightin' up to stay high like 24 hours
 
 Sleep with my, wash with my in the shower
 
 My tongue is power, it thrills women, kills demons
 
 Long as I'm still breathin' I'm still winnin', I'll teach 'em
 
 The hood converted from trey bags to 20's a girl
 
 Everybody had money, every summer was real ill
 
 Four-finger rings, dealers
 
 
 
 No half steppin' with flat tops when Rakim reigned
 
 Radios on card tables, Benetton, the Gods buildin'
 
 Ask for today's mathematics, we Allah's children
 
 And this was goin' on in every New York ghetto
 
 Kids listened, five percenters said it's pork and Jell-o
 
 We coincide, we in the same life, maybe a time difference
 
 On a different coast, but we share the same sunlight
 
 Your part of the world, might be like colors and gangs
 
 
 
 While on my side, brothers'll for different things
 
 But it all revolve around, fame and shorties
 
 Stuck for your bling, stripped for your chain, the same story
 
 From, Czechoslovakia to Texas metropolis
 
 Them, treacherous rocksters in the Mexican mafias
 
 Be scrappin' with tats on they back, violent wars
 
 Nothin' less than a lethal injection if ever caught
 
 Courtrooms, eagles and flags, American style
 
 
 
 While in our world, the ghetto stays incredibly foul
 
 Watchin' for paint chips, don't want no led in yo' child
 
 But them gangstas put lead in yo' child, the bezzy be out
 
 The chain be like a hundred K
 
 Shinin' since Roxanne Shante' made 'Runaway' that's been a minute
 
 Genesis is deep, my features are that of a God
 
 It's not a facade it's a fact, these rappers wanna be Nas
 
 My Exodus doesn't exist
 
 
 
 I'll never leave the streets, it's all in my mind
 
 Even with sleep I'm duckin' in my dreams
 
 Sirens, wide awake, why'd I think it would change
 
 Can't hide when you famous or even try to do the same things like
 
 Somebody's always watchin', my life
 
 Before I, walk out the door I size up every option
 
 Eyes cut every direction, it's like God or guns
 
 Which is better protection? Can't decide, that's a hard one
 
 I mean they wanna see me in prison, the chains bamboozled
 
 Headline readin' 'Rapper Slain From a Man'
 
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