Nas - What This All Really Means Lyrics

I finally see
See what it all mean
Yeah

The feeling of the first time seeing your name on a flier
It just was yesterday picture that on the day you retire
And they still shocked and amazed, I made it up higher
'Cause I came up with them hotheads that played with the fire
Product of the 80's, Prada, Milan, store for the lady
I'm a carnivore constantly come with concepts to pay me
I'm responsible for they most cockiest behavior
My DNA in they G'd up ways, and they surveyin'
I showed 'em, my scrotum is golden
Rap game stomach was swollen
I left these bastards on your doorsteps
Behold 'em
Ideas come and go away, but I already thought 'em
So, years later they still new when I go record 'em
I done hooked up with a beast
Never stingy with the beats
Experimental accident records wind up killing the streets
Black and proud shirts, white Jesus pieces on Cuban links
Civil war chick, yo, she black and white on Egyptian sheets

And I can see the jealousy
I think they really scared of me
Do what I do and let it be
And that's the way I always been since I was seventeen
I finally see what this all really means

Did a double album when rap double albums was startin'
They bootlegged "I Am " a album I put my heart in
Nipsey met me to do a doc about it, 'fore he departed
He talked to Stoute about it too, 'cause he was part of that project (yeah)
Back then we charted with the CDs and tapes
And I still come out the field, you either scrape or get scraped
You either in or out, you rollin' or you just in the way
What this all really means, I had to reload the drake
Eighty years old, I'm still gon' have a chain, a kilo it weigh
Speedos on the beach, my belly out when I land in Capri
Wearing black owned designer (uh)
Math on my mind (ok)
It's a while 'fore I get there, almost past forty nine
I be on the block easy with a glass full of wine
Red chrome, heart lenses to see I'm in my third prime
The Q-U-double E-N-S
Y'all gon' need some EMS when we drop this and that's a bet

The feeling of the first time seeing your name on a flier
It just was yesterday, picture that on the day you retire
And they still shocked and amazed I made it up higher
'Cause I came up with them hotheads that play with the fire (it's facts)

And I can see the jealousy
I think they really scared of me
Do what I do and let it be, uh
And that's the way I always been since I was seventeen
I finally see what this all really means

It's everything
From the hard times
I finally know what this all really means
The bad times
Anthony Saleh, we got a team
The better times
All mixed in between
Sunshine and rain
Yeah
Yeah
Tough people last, tough times don't
Yeah
Tough people last, tough times don't
Now I see