[00:03.05][Spoken: Nas]
[00:03.65]Yeah, yeah
[00:08.69]Brings me back
[00:11.03]As you come outside on the block
[00:13.76]The basketball court was crack and you still played ball
[00:17.94]Shooting on the rusty rim
[00:21.48]I lived on the fourth floor
[00:25.22]Wow, remember those days like yesterday
[00:30.90]Memories man
[00:33.10]They feed the soul
[00:35.84]Yeah
[00:48.14][Verse 1: Nas]
[00:55.75]I rap for listeners, bluntheads, fly ladies, and prisoners
[00:59.30]Henessey-holders and old-school *****s, then I be dissin' a
[01:00.84]Unofficial that smoke Woolie Thai
[01:02.73]I dropped out of Cooley High, gassed up by a cokehead cutie pie
[01:05.77]Jungle survivor, **** who's the live-er
[01:08.06]My man put the battery in my back, a difference from Energizer
[01:11.09]Sentence begins indented with formality
[01:14.03]My duration's infinite, moneywise or physiology
[01:16.48]Poetry, that's a part of me, retardedly bop
[01:18.72]I drop the ancient manifested hip-hop straight off the block
[01:21.55]I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat
[01:24.44]I can see him drop in my **** smoke
[01:27.04]It's real, grew up in trife life, murderous night times
[01:29.48]And knife fights invite crimes
[01:33.40]Chill on the block with Cognac, hold strap
[01:35.39]With my peeps that's into drug money market interact
[01:37.98]No sign of the beast in the blue Chrysler
[01:40.32]I guess that means peace
[01:41.32]For *****s, no sheisty vice to just snipe ya
[01:42.82]Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo
[01:45.85]With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below
[01:48.44]Peace God – now the **** is explained
[01:50.78]I'm takin' *****s on a trip straight through memory lane
[01:54.52]It's like that, y'all
[01:56.41]It's like that, y'all
[01:56.96]It's like that, y'all, yeah
[01:58.80][Chorus: Nas]
[01:59.05]Now let me take a trip down memory lane
[02:03.09]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"
[02:04.43]Now let us take a trip down memory lane
[02:08.16]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"
[02:09.45]Now let us take a trip down memory lane
[02:13.90]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"
[02:14.25]Now let us take a trip down memory lane
[02:18.83]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"
[02:19.62]Lemme explain
[02:20.52][Verse 2: Nas]
[02:21.12]One for the money, two for ***** and foreign cars
[02:22.52]Three for Alizé, *****s deceased or behind bars
[02:25.11]I rap divine, God, check the prognosis: is it real or showbiz?
[02:27.58]My window faces shootouts, drug overdoses
[02:30.09]Live amongst no roses, only the drama
[02:32.14]For real, a nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja
[02:35.37]Here's my basis, my razor embraces, many faces
[02:37.91]You're telephone blown, black, stitches or fat shoelaces
[02:40.55]Peoples are petro, dramatic automatic .44 I let blow
[02:43.43]And back down po-po when I'm vexed so
[02:45.82]My pen taps the paper, then my brain's blank
[02:48.11]I see dark streets, hustlin' brothers who keep the same rank
[02:51.11]Pumpin' for somethin', some'll prosper, some fail
[02:53.35]Judges hangin' *****s, uncorrect bails for direct sales
[02:56.33]My intellect prevails from a hangin' cross with nails
[02:58.87]I'll reinforce the frail with lyrics that's real
[03:01.31]Word to Christ, a disciple of streets, trifle on beats
[03:03.95]I decipher prophecies through a mic and say "peace"
[03:06.24]I hung around the older crews while they sling smack to dingbats
[03:09.42]They spoke of Fat Cat; that *****'s name made bell rings, black
[03:12.12]Some fiends scream about Supreme Team, a Jamaica Queens thing
[03:14.31]Uptown was Alpo, son, heard he was kingpin
[03:17.29]Yo, ****, rap is real! Watch the herbs stand still
[03:19.44]Never talkin' to snakes, ‘cause the words of man kill
[03:21.83]True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins
[03:24.27]I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane
[03:28.35]It's like that, y'all
[03:29.00]It's like that, y'all
[03:32.04]Memory lane
[03:35.53]Nothing like the memories boy
[03:37.67]Lemme take a trip down (memory lane)
[03:41.26]Uh, comin' outta Queensbridge
[03:42.50][Chorus: Nas]
[03:42.75]Now let me take a trip down memory lane
[03:46.34]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"
[03:48.33]Remember lookin' out my window pane
[03:51.47]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"
[03:52.72]Now let us take a trip down memory lane
[03:56.60]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"
[03:57.94]Now let me take a trip down memory lane
[04:02.51]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"
[04:10.38]"Comin' outta Queensbridge"