[ti:Carry On Tradition]
[ar:Nas]
[al:Hip Hop is Dead]

[00:02.03]Artist: Nas
[00:02.32]Album:  Hip Hop is Dead
[00:02.57]Song:   Carry On Tradition
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[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
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[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]And *edited* *edited* was stealin’ and robbin’ them
[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
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[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+
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[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?
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[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+
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[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+
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