Let There Be Light-Nas

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[00:00.00]Let There Be Light - Nas
[00:02.50]Yeah check check testing
[00:06.22]It's clear out there Yeah
[00:16.35]It's like
[00:16.68]I'm hang gliding over the hood ha
[00:25.81]Never worry (ohhh no no no)
[00:30.93]Check let there be light
[00:34.04]No gang banging in New York tonight
[00:36.12]Just murals of Biggie Smalls
[00:37.67]Bigger then life
[00:38.82]Turn up the kid mic cuz
[00:40.21]Ya'll ain't listening right
[00:41.81]What's all this talk that Nas got bought
[00:44.08]I'd rather outline my body in white chalk
[00:46.93]Ain't nobody been where I been
[00:48.41]They at a stand still
[00:49.87]This is all overseen by my man Will
[00:51.30]As I walk through the shadow of death
[00:54.18]I know that
[00:54.83]I ain't got much time left
[00:56.97]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[00:59.12]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[01:01.97](And I)
[01:02.50]I know my business so my sins great
[01:04.11](And I)
[01:04.90]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[01:07.27](And I) Forgive 'em all
[01:08.26]They did they best to hate
[01:10.27]Oh let there be light
[01:12.73]This ain't the glorified
[01:13.49]Just painting the street picture
[01:14.77]There's no God in sir Bibles
[01:16.02]Just blunt and switches
[01:17.24]Gillettes cut pain in kitchen
[01:19.19]Now every rapper wanna claim he
[01:20.99]Hang with Kenneth ＂Supreme＂ Griffith
[01:22.30]It's like the same difference cept
[01:23.89]When niggaz get arraigned
[01:25.18]They don't want the same sentence
[01:26.58]Niggaz get to snitchin
[01:27.81]If I could reverse the monsters
[01:29.45]And turn forward the razas
[01:30.85]And bring back the niggaz who was livest
[01:32.68]Old hustlers
[01:33.73]Reminscing on better days
[01:35.58]They home doing nothing
[01:36.59]Might as well be in a cage
[01:38.20]Hating on young brothers
[01:39.41]One foot in the grave
[01:40.54]They used to love us till
[01:41.72]We found our own way thru the maze
[01:43.14]New York set trippin and flaggin
[01:45.11]Got the West Coast laughing now Esco's asking
[01:47.73]What happened My homegirl from upper Manhattan
[01:50.23]She remembers the quarters that's Latin
[01:52.05]Alotta rat-a-tat-tatting
[01:53.35]This is all overseen by my man Will
[01:55.03]As I walk through the shadow of death
[01:56.48]I know that
[01:57.32]I ain't got much time left
[01:58.88]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[02:01.06]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[02:03.90](And I)
[02:04.36]I know my business so my sins great
[02:06.06](And I)
[02:06.97]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[02:09.10](And I) Forgive 'em all
[02:10.19]They did they best to hate
[02:12.08]Oh let there be light
[02:14.28]The son of the audio cassette era
[02:15.78]Tech wearer
[02:16.62]Bullets and begets Binzbo's speaker terror
[02:19.34]Till man I get mine till I'm dead
[02:21.11]So I can drive sumpthin red
[02:22.48]Like that horse standing on it's hind legs
[02:24.18]Since Arnold and Willis in they bunk beds
[02:26.18]I wanted bread like Wonder
[02:27.49]Not manned-a-wanno like the parent of Lionel
[02:29.88]Nas is the Ghetto American Idol
[02:31.91]No matter what you do
[02:33.31]You're never getting my title
[02:34.78]I can't sound smart cuz ya'll'll run away
[02:36.84]They say I ain't hungry no more
[02:38.60]And I don't talk about 'ye
[02:39.85]Like there's no other way for a ex-hustler
[02:41.95]Cake ya the x-ray splitter to touch ya
[02:44.13]I beg to differ
[02:45.18]When you're four years into the game
[02:46.51]We can have a conversation
[02:47.74]Eight years in the game
[02:48.85]I invite ya on vacation
[02:49.93]Ten years in the game
[02:51.29]After I've enjoyed my fame
[02:53.25]Only then I let ya pick my brain niggaz
[02:55.60](And I) Right about now (And I)
[02:59.00](They don't really know)
[03:00.46](And I) (They don't really see)
[03:03.30](No no no) We getting real right ya know
[03:06.22](And I)
[03:06.97]That is Tre Williams ladies and gentlemen
[03:09.15](They should fear no)
[03:11.15](And I)
[03:12.69]Focus on good things man
[03:14.08]Good times Heh-heh alright
[03:15.83]This is all overseen by my man Will
[03:17.41]As I walk through the shadow of death
[03:18.90]I know that
[03:19.48]I ain't got much time left
[03:21.42]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[03:23.71]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[03:26.66]I know my business so my sins great
[03:28.89]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[03:31.85]Forgive 'em all
[03:32.84]They did they best to hate
[03:35.09]Oh let there be light
[03:36.96]This is all overseen by my man Will
[03:38.18]As I walk through the shadow of death
[03:39.44]I know that
[03:40.02]I ain't got much time left
[03:42.18]And they don't really wanna see the good in me
[03:44.25]Ain't satisfied until they see the fool in me
[03:47.05](And I)
[03:47.72]I know my business so my sins great
[03:49.66](And I)
[03:50.59]I thank the hood for all the love they gave
[03:52.62](And I) Forgive 'em all
[03:53.56]They did they best to hate
[03:55.69]Oh let there be light
[04:01.84]Oh let it be let it be yeah
[04:07.55]Let it be let it be