[ti:Shootouts] [ar:Nas] [al:It Was Written (clean version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shootouts (Explicit) - Nas [00:04.80]Yo release what's in me [00:06.31]Besides the Henny it's eyes that's seen plenty [00:08.81]Fiends get skinny as if Queens was a Craig Jenny [00:11.56]Instead of diet plans it's crack 200 grams [00:14.25]I pump a G-pack peeping for where the D's at [00:17.00]It's slow lookin for Rambo the cop who got grazed [00:19.81]Back in the days chasin niggaz through my project maze [00:22.50]That cop he got a death wish [00:23.91]He run behind niggaz until you breathless [00:26.16]Everyday he makin ten arrests sheeit [00:28.02]My ni**a check this I know the b**ch he rest with [00:30.84]I even blessed it forty-dash-ten inspect it [00:33.40](Already checked it Dunn near his ankle you could see his gun) [00:36.65]Peep he parked his Jeep in the back of the slum [00:38.96]To check Tanisha fat a** real fly with the blonde caesar [00:41.84]Vetacini summer gear she push the two-seater [00:44.02]I heard she brag about the way he eat her [00:46.77]A Irish man short slim with a tan they say he laced her cheeba [00:50.40]She do be lookin weaker now her teeth are foul [00:52.52]Speakin loud peep her style in and out of every ** cloud [00:55.58]Fat a** dissolvin like cotton candy in a mouth that's starvin [00:58.77]Rock the same gear daily like a soldier in my squadron [01:01.58]I heard she let Jake investigate from her window [01:04.39]Cause she's a nympho suckin dick and coughin up info [01:07.39]So now it's set up her and the beast to get wet up [01:10.33]I know he vest up we blazin from the neck up [01:12.83](Yo let me knock first) Soon as he open it your glock burst [01:15.33]They had the chains on son hit the lock first [01:17.64]We busted in the cop jerked [01:19.02]Jungle popped one in his shirt [01:20.52]I grabbed the b**ch by her tits she tried to say she Earth [01:23.65]We saw the cameras tape recorders and the monitors [01:25.84]They eyein us (Nas yo he survived one from the fo'-five) [01:28.71]Pull his shades down they seen his last days now [01:31.02]There's no way now we can be treated just like a slave now [01:34.02]Two in the dome he's laid down aiyyo the b**ch is saved now [01:37.71]She's living in a snitch grave now [01:39.97]Shootouts is similar to Wild West [01:42.47]Broad daylight face to face without a vest [01:45.09]You know the episodes thugs camouflage the spectacles [01:47.84]Please God to save the life that the Devil sold [01:51.03]See +It Was Written+ but was never told [01:53.16]Peep the jewels black man it's even better than gold [01:56.16]Niggaz roll with iron police roll in hot pursuit [01:58.91]Tryin to stop the loot f**k Jake cock and shoot [02:01.98]Still on the streets with my peeps so deep [02:03.98]We threw a block party for my man goin up creek [02:06.79]To do his two to four niggaz show love from all around the board [02:09.92]Peace Lord Sony Handi-Cam on record [02:11.99]Pop a bottle cause when you come home we still got it sewn [02:15.50]We can watch the tape play back and just zone [02:17.94]Film all the b**ches on the benches with ill extensions [02:21.14]We block the streets off only crew cars can enter [02:23.95]Music was loud and it was crowded [02:25.89]Barbecued wings we fed the fiends (gamble in the back) Killa shouted [02:29.02]And Frank tried to stop the bank loss about what a Roley cost [02:32.89]Guzzled his drink and staggered off [02:34.52]He's a Big Will used to slang krill now he own the hill [02:37.64]Couldn't take losin his cash and I could feel [02:39.89]Somethin in the air yeah Frank returned with Pierre [02:42.20]A gun slinger who niggaz hadn't seen in a year [02:45.46]I usually be holdin - 'specially this type of weekend [02:47.85]And everyone except for me had started reachin [02:50.91]They had gats in each others faces with kids [02:53.60]And grandmothers around Frank's only concern was his paper [02:56.79]My man Killa let off half of them fake niggaz jet off [02:59.92]Police blitz quick waitin for that to set off [03:02.31]Runnin the static it got me mad cause they a bunch of faggots [03:05.38]Startin sh*t in my hood I can't have it [03:07.56]Yo High get the 40-cali stainless Jake is still out [03:10.94]Let's make it real and still make them niggaz famous [03:12.77]Dip behind trees in fatigues and squeeze dodge and weave [03:16.39]Hearin Jake retaliatin and Wiz was up the alley waitin [03:19.35]We breeze jump in the ride heard Pierre died [03:21.72]Internal bleedin inside and ain't been back since ninety-five [03:24.65]Shootouts is similar to Wild West [03:27.28]Broad daylight face to face without a vest [03:29.91]You know the episodes thugs camouflage the spectacles [03:33.20]Please God to save the life that the Devil sold [03:35.88]See +It Was Written+ but was never told [03:37.95]Peep the jewels black man it's even better than gold [03:41.05]Niggaz roll with iron police roll in hot pursuit [03:43.29]Tryin to stop the loot f**k Jake cock and shoot