- Artist: Nas
- Album: Hip Hop is Dead
- Song: Carry On Tradition
- Yea, niggaz want to talk about this rap shit
- Niggaz want to talk about this money
- About these cars, these homes, these labels
- Clothes, sneakers, big money shit
- Now everybody tryin' to get rich
- Now get rich niggaz, fuck it
- Some rap pioneers, be them crackheads
- When they speak, you see missin' teeth
- Silver chain with a silver piece
- Niggaz your grandfather's age
- They pants still hangin' down they legs talkin' about they ain't paid
- And they hate you, 'cause they say, you ain't pay dues
- I feel it's a problem we gotta resolve
- Hip-Hop been dead, we the reason it died
- Wasn't Sylvia's fault or because MC's skills are lost
- It's because we can't see ourselves as the boss
- Deep-rooted through slavery, self-hatred
- The Jewish stick together, friends in high places
- We on some low level shit
- We don't want niggaz to ever win
- See, everybody got a label
- Everybody's a rapper but few flow fatal
- It's fucked up, it all started from two turntables
- When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
- +Carry On Tradition+
- When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
- +Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+
- Carry on, ca-carry on, +Carry On tradition+
- +Carry On Tradition+, when you rep what we rep
- Then +Carry On Tradition+
- Now some of these new rappers got their caps flipped backwards
- Wit their fingers intertwined in some gang-sign madness
- I got an exam, let's see if y'all pass it
- Let's see who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest
- Some of you new rappers, I don't understand your code
- You have your man shoot you, like in that Sopranos episode
- Do anythin' to get in the game, mixtapes, you spit hate
- Against bosses; hungry fucks are moraless
- You should be tossed in a pit full of unfortunate vocalists
- Niggaz, I coulda wrote your shit; I had off-time, was bored wit this
- I coulda made my double-LP, just by samplin' different parts of Nautilus
- Still came five on the charts with zero audience
- The lane was open and y'all was droppin' that garbage shit
- Y'all got awards for your bricks - it got good to ya
- You started tellin' them bigger dogs to call it quits?! WHAT?
- When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
- +Carry On Tradition+
- When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
- +Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+
- Carry on, ca-carry on, +Carry On tradition+
- +Carry On Tradition+, when you rep what we rep
- Then +Carry On Tradition+
- Now niggaz got the studio poppin', it's mad clearer
- Engineers got his earplugs and still hear us
- The live-in-the-park sound, versus the studio state of art sound
- We on the charts now; from British Walkers and Argyles
- Look at us rap stars now, wit our black cars now
- Fortune 500 listed, brunches, sip Cipriani's
- Sippin', blunted, with rich white guys around me
- Thick white girls around me, Chinese lined up
- Because I'm what?, every dime lust
- We used to be a ghetto secret; can't make my mind up
- If I want that or the whole world to peep it
- Now +Carry On tradition+
- Fuck a bum wack rapper makin' his career out of dissin'
- Peace to the strugglin' artists and dead one's gone, we miss 'em
- I promise I +Carry On tradition+
- When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
- +Carry On Tradition+
- When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
- +Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+
- Carry on, ca-carry on, +Carry On tradition+
- +Carry On Tradition+, when you rep what we rep
- Then +Carry On Tradition+
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- [00:02.03]Artist: Nas
- [00:02.32]Album: Hip Hop is Dead
- [00:02.57]Song: Carry On Tradition
- [00:03.30]
- [00:04.32]Yea, niggaz want to talk about this rap shit
- [00:06.78]Niggaz want to talk about this money
- [00:09.69]About these cars, these homes, these labels
- [00:15.33]Clothes, sneakers, big money shit
- [00:19.39]Now everybody tryin' to get rich
- [00:21.30]Now get rich niggaz, fuck it
- [00:22.10]
- [00:23.16]Some rap pioneers, be them crackheads
- [00:25.35]When they speak, you see missin' teeth
- [00:27.43]Silver chain with a silver piece
- [00:29.38]Niggaz your grandfather's age
- [00:30.99]They pants still hangin' down they legs talkin' about they ain't paid
- [00:34.05]And they hate you, 'cause they say, you ain't pay dues
- [00:36.87]
- [00:39.73]I feel it's a problem we gotta resolve
- [00:42.01]Hip-Hop been dead, we the reason it died
- [00:44.51]Wasn't Sylvia's fault or because MC's skills are lost
- [00:47.81]It's because we can't see ourselves as the boss
- [00:49.82]Deep-rooted through slavery, self-hatred
- [00:52.54]The Jewish stick together, friends in high places
- [00:55.05]We on some low level shit
- [00:56.86]We don't want niggaz to ever win
- [00:58.72]See, everybody got a label
- [01:00.71]Everybody's a rapper but few flow fatal
- [01:03.09]It's fucked up, it all started from two turntables
- [01:03.87]
- [01:06.22]When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
- [01:09.05]+Carry On Tradition+
- [01:11.32]When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
- [01:14.83]+Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+
- [01:17.85]Carry on, ca-carry on, +Carry On tradition+
- [01:21.59]+Carry On Tradition+, when you rep what we rep
- [01:24.71]Then +Carry On Tradition+
- [01:25.52]
- [01:26.64]Now some of these new rappers got their caps flipped backwards
- [01:28.82]Wit their fingers intertwined in some gang-sign madness
- [01:31.54]I got an exam, let's see if y'all pass it
- [01:33.93]Let's see who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest
- [01:36.76]Some of you new rappers, I don't understand your code
- [01:39.30]You have your man shoot you, like in that Sopranos episode
- [01:42.01]Do anythin' to get in the game, mixtapes, you spit hate
- [01:45.15]Against bosses; hungry fucks are moraless
- [01:47.80]You should be tossed in a pit full of unfortunate vocalists
- [01:50.16]Niggaz, I coulda wrote your shit; I had off-time, was bored wit this
- [01:54.49]I coulda made my double-LP, just by samplin' different parts of Nautilus
- [01:57.87]Still came five on the charts with zero audience
- [02:00.39]The lane was open and y'all was droppin' that garbage shit
- [02:03.33]Y'all got awards for your bricks - it got good to ya
- [02:06.04]You started tellin' them bigger dogs to call it quits?! WHAT?
- [02:07.02]
- [02:08.76]When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
- [02:11.91]+Carry On Tradition+
- [02:14.03]When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
- [02:17.38]+Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+
- [02:20.97]Carry on, ca-carry on, +Carry On tradition+
- [02:24.61]+Carry On Tradition+, when you rep what we rep
- [02:27.16]Then +Carry On Tradition+
- [02:28.05]
- [02:29.14]Now niggaz got the studio poppin', it's mad clearer
- [02:31.78]Engineers got his earplugs and still hear us
- [02:34.60]The live-in-the-park sound, versus the studio state of art sound
- [02:38.74]We on the charts now; from British Walkers and Argyles
- [02:41.76]Look at us rap stars now, wit our black cars now
- [02:44.71]Fortune 500 listed, brunches, sip Cipriani's
- [02:47.58]Sippin', blunted, with rich white guys around me
- [02:50.29]Thick white girls around me, Chinese lined up
- [02:53.47]Because I'm what?, every dime lust
- [02:55.15]We used to be a ghetto secret; can't make my mind up
- [02:58.18]If I want that or the whole world to peep it
- [03:00.82]Now +Carry On tradition+
- [03:02.63]Fuck a bum wack rapper makin' his career out of dissin'
- [03:05.66]Peace to the strugglin' artists and dead one's gone, we miss 'em
- [03:08.97]I promise I +Carry On tradition+
- [03:09.78]
- [03:11.33]When they crown you - and you rise up to your position
- [03:14.55]+Carry On Tradition+
- [03:16.45]When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition
- [03:19.99]+Carry On Tradition+ - +Carry On Tradition+
- [03:23.26]Carry on, ca-carry on, +Carry On tradition+
- [03:27.22]+Carry On Tradition+, when you rep what we rep
- [03:30.36]Then +Carry On Tradition+
- [03:31.16]