Only the gods can watch the earth twist
I'm physically trapped down on the surface
With all the crack merchants
Snakes and serpents
Foul jakes that search us
Clowns with four pounds this ain't a circus
The black clouds over the hood, I'm on the corner with the thugs
Late night under the moon as they assume I'm slanging drugs
Cause I'm hooded up, thought a G a night wasn't good enough
Sort of wild, since a child, hope was all we had
Dreamt of plush out pads
Complaning the mental straining
How many in my crew is into gaining
Subtract the weak links up out the chaining
Rise and start reigning
Blasphemy usin Nas name in vien
Some claim supreme bein yet they lied in his name
I tried to learn the game
And the only thing I found incredible
Everything I tried to learn see I already knew
And R.Kelly stellar chorus and background vocals
Nas was spitting gems in damn near every line shyt blew the original street dreams right out the water, personal top 10 nas song IMO .
at Wiz attempting to hit that note at 1:09 
at these Hip Hop purist trying to slander IWW era Nas like he still wasn't spitting prophetic street rhymes shyt be getting on my damn nerves .
