One Love (One L Main Mix|Explicit)-Nas

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[00:01.22]Artist: Nas
[00:01.78]Album: Illmatic
[00:02.28]Song: One Love
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[00:21.11]Whattup kid? I know sh*t is rough doing your bid
[00:23.73]When the cops came you shoulda slid to my crib
[00:26.36]F**k it black, no time for looking back it's done
[00:28.92]Plus congratulations you know you got a son
[00:31.53]I heard he looks like you, why don't your lady write you?
[00:34.16]Told her she should visit, that's when she got hyper
[00:36.78]Flippin, talk about he acts too rough
[00:39.09]He didn't listen he be riffin' while I'm telling him stuff
[00:41.65]I was like yeah, shorty don't care, she a snake too
[00:44.65]F**king with the niggaz from that fake crew that hate you
[00:47.39]But yo, guess who got shot in the dome-piece?
[00:49.82]Jerome's niece, on her way home from Jones Beach - it's bugged
[00:53.25]Plus little Rob is selling *** on the dime
[00:55.37]Hangin out with young thugs that all carry 9's
[00:58.13]At night time there's more trife than ever
[00:59.81]Whattup with Cormega, did you see 'em, are y'all together?
[01:04.05]If so then hold the fort down, represent to the fullest
[01:06.18]Say whassup to Ice Herb, and Bullet
[01:07.78]I left a half a hundred in your commissary
[01:09.96]You was my ni**a when push came to shove
[01:12.39]One what? one love
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[01:33.48]Dear Born, you'll be out soon, stay strong
[01:36.24]Out in New York the same sh*t is goin on
[01:38.72]The crack-heads stalking, loud-mouths is talking
[01:40.85]Hold, check out the story yesterday when I was walking
[01:43.84]The ni**a you shot last year tried to appear like he hurtin somethin
[01:47.40]Word to mother, I heard him frontin
[01:49.90]And he be pumping on your block
[01:51.08]Your man gave him your glock
[01:51.82]And now they run together, what up son, whatever
[01:53.89]Since I'm on the streets I'ma put it to a cease
[01:56.58]But I heard you blew a ni**a with a ox for the phone piece
[01:59.44]Whylin on the Island, but now with Elmira
[02:01.81]Better chill cause them niggaz will put that a** on fire
[02:04.56]Last time you wrote you said they tried you in the showers
[02:07.37]But maintain when you come home the corner's ours
[02:09.17]On the reels, all these crab niggaz know the deal
[02:11.19]When we start the revolution all they probably do is squeal
[02:14.76]But chill, see you on the next V-I
[02:17.14]I gave your mom dukes loot for kicks, plus sent you flicks
[02:20.00]Your brother's buck whylin' in four maine he wrote me
[02:22.61]He might beat his case, 'til he come home I play it low key
[02:25.62]So stay civilised, time flies
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[02:27.40]Though incarcerated your mind
[02:28.97]I hate it when your mum cries
[02:30.71]It kinda wants to make me murder, for real-a
[02:32.96]I've even got a mask and gloves to bust slugs for one love
[02:55.21]Sometimes I sit back with a buddha sack
[02:58.27]Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts
[03:01.51]Written in school text books, bibles, et cetera
[03:03.64]F**k a school lecture, the lies get me vexed-er
[03:06.01]So I be ghost from my projects
[03:08.31]I take my pen and pad for the week and hittin L's while I'm sleepin
[03:11.73]A two day stay, you may say I need the time alone
[03:14.35]To relax my dome, no phone, left the 9 at home
[03:17.04]You see the streets have me stressed somethin terrible
[03:19.37]F**kin with the corners have a ni**a up in Bellevue
[03:22.17]Or h.d.m., hit with numbers from 8 to 10
[03:24.54]A future in a maximum state pen is grim
[03:26.66]So I comes back home, nobody's out but shorty doo-wop
[03:28.73]Rollin two phillies together in the Bridge we called 'em oowops
[03:32.00]He said,........