2nd Childhood (Explicit)-Nas

[ti:2nd Childhood]
[ar:Nas]
[al:Stillmatic]
[by:]
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[00:09.03]"Cause when I flow the for
[00:10.10]The street" -" who else could it be"
[00:11.53]"Nas"
[00:11.78]Yo
[00:13.76]Explode my thoughts were
[00:14.38]Drunken from quarts of beers
[00:15.51]Was years back before Nasir
[00:16.57]Would explore a career in rap
[00:18.32]As a music dude
[00:19.56]I mastered this Rubik's Cube
[00:21.25]Godzilla fought Gargantua
[00:22.44]Eyes glued to the tube
[00:24.37]Was a long time ago John Boy Ice
[00:27.80]Geronimo po-lice jumpin out Chryslers
[00:29.92]Easywider paper
[00:31.30]Pops puffin his sess
[00:32.98]Punchin his chest like a gorilla
[00:34.66]Outside was psychoes killers
[00:36.72]Saw Divine Goon and Chungo
[00:38.60]Lil' Turkey
[00:40.03]R I P Tyrone 'member
[00:41.66]No cursin front of Ms Vercey
[00:43.47]Big Percy Crazy Paul the Sledge Sisters
[00:45.77]My building was 40-16
[00:47.08]Once in the blue hallways was clean
[00:49.20]I knew all that I'd seen had meant somethin
[00:51.45]Learned early to fear
[00:53.07]None little Nas was huntin
[00:54.76]Livin carefree laughin
[00:56.13]Got jokes on the daily
[00:57.82]Y'all actin like some
[00:59.38]Old folks y'all don't hear me
[01:00.81]Yo I'm in my second childhood
[01:02.25]"Cause when I flow the fo
[01:03.81]The street" -" who else could it be"
[01:05.37]"N-A-S" -"Nas"
[01:05.93]"Resurrect through the birth of
[01:09.05]My seed" -"Queensbridge"
[01:11.23]"Make everything right" -"Get yours ni**a"
[01:14.35]"Cause when I flow the for
[01:16.72]The street" -" who else could it be"
[01:18.47]"N-A-S" -"Nas"
[01:19.91]"Resurrect through the birth of
[01:21.03]My seed" -"Queensbridge"
[01:22.53]"Make everything right" -"
[01:24.71]Get yours ni**a"
[01:25.65]Yo dude is 31 livin in his moms crib
[01:27.96]Ex-convict was paroled
[01:29.45]There after his long bid
[01:31.26]Cornrows in his hair still slingin got a crew
[01:35.32]They break his moms furniture
[01:36.44]Watchin Comicview
[01:37.38]Got babies by different ladies
[01:39.50]High smokin L's
[01:40.81]In the same spot he stood since
[01:42.87]Eighty-five well
[01:43.87]When his stash slow he be crazy
[01:46.93]Say he by his moms
[01:48.49]Hit her on her payday
[01:49.98]Junior high school dropout
[01:51.36]Teachers never cared
[01:52.98]They was paid just to show up
[01:55.16]And leave no one succeeds
[01:57.03]So he moves with his peers
[01:58.91]Different blocks different years
[01:59.97]Sittin on different benches
[02:00.78]Like it's musical chairs
[02:01.84]All his peoples moved on in life
[02:03.59]He's on the corners at night
[02:05.21]With young dudes it's them
[02:06.58]He wanna be like
[02:07.95]It's sad but it's fun to him right
[02:09.95]He never grew up
[02:11.07]31 and can't give his youth
[02:12.82]He's in his second childhood
[02:14.01]"Cause when I flow the for
[02:16.02]The street" -" who else could it be"
[02:17.83]"N-A-S" -"Nas"
[02:18.65]"Resurrect through the birth of
[02:20.45]My seed" -"Queensbridge"
[02:21.70]"Make everything right" -"
[02:23.89]Get yours ni**a"
[02:24.94]"Cause when I flow the for
[02:26.94]The street" -" who else could it be"
[02:29.13]"N-A-S" -"Nas"
[02:30.12]"Resurrect through the birth of
[02:31.87]My seed" -"Queensbridge"
[02:33.68]"Make everything right" -"
[02:35.31]Get yours ni**a"
[02:36.55]Baby girl she's always talkin
[02:38.18]Name droppin hangin late
[02:39.67]Drinkin smokin hates
[02:41.11]Her baby daddy craves shoppin
[02:42.86]E poppin e*****y takin
[02:43.98]Won't finish her education
[02:45.10]Best friend she keeps changin
[02:46.72]Stuck with limitations
[02:47.60]Lustin men many hotels Fendi Chanel
[02:50.53]With nothin in her bank
[02:52.09]Account frontin she do well
[02:54.15]Her kid suffers he don't
[02:55.21]Get that love he deserve
[02:58.02]He the Sun she the Earth
[03:00.89]Single mom even worse
[03:02.38]No job never stay workin mad purty
[03:05.01]Shorty they call her the brain surgeon
[03:07.44]Time flyin she the same person
[03:09.00]Never matures
[03:10.00]All her friends married doin well
[03:11.74]She's in the streets yakkety
[03:13.80]Yakkin like she was 12
[03:15.55]Honey is twenty-seven argues fights
[03:17.61]Selfish in her own right polite
[03:19.62]Guess she's in her second childhood
[03:21.68]"Cause when I flow the for
[03:23.31]The street" -" who else could it be"
[03:24.99]"N-A-S" -"Nas"
[03:25.61]"Resurrect through the birth of
[03:27.55]My seed" -"Queensbridge"
[03:29.11]"Make everything right" -"Get yours ni**a"
[03:31.10]"Cause when I flow the for
[03:34.54]The street" -" who else could it be"
[03:36.66]"N-A-S" -"Nas"
[03:37.34]"Resurrect through the birth of
[03:39.90]My seed" -"Queensbridge"
[03:41.65]"Make everything right" -"Get yours ni**a"
[03:45.71]"Who else could it be" -"N-A-S" -"Nas"