Nas - Come Get Me lyrics

And as a special treat this evening
I have asked America's foremost young poet
To read his latest poem for us

"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus" "Everybody watch him"
"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus"
"We-we-we came a long way"
"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus" "Everybody watch him"
"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus"

Yo yo yo
Power and crime
The thugs slinging powder and dimes
Twenties of D
Is yo' niggas wilder than mine?
My niggas bust nines
Puff lye and stick up cowards


For they shine, you resist
Then you push up flowers
I'm like Luca Brasi, Vito's best hit man
That's "Godfather" shit, back seat
Next lit plans
Revolvers spit, I'm too tough to bargain with
And you don't want the God to pull up
The cars are sick
Arms and wrists is lit up, Queensbridge King
Plaques, awards, applause when I do my thing
Streets is black as midnight
The concrete gray
With stains of blood and germ
And piss all day
Come on the ave, get sized up, plus appraised
Duck and pray that my guns
Don't bust your way
Niggas with names, living off reputation
Sometimes gotta remind you
Ain't nothing changing

"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus" "Everybody watch him"

If you ill come get me
'cause I ain't running
If your gun's off the hook
Then we'll both be gunning
Come get me if you real
'cause I ain't scared
It's all fair in love and
War and I'm well prepared
If you ill come get me
'cause I ain't running
If your gun's off the hook
Then we'll both be gunning
Come get me if you real
'cause I ain't scared
It's all fair in love and war
We can take it there

You don't like me clown? Now
You wanna take me down?
If I bring my face around
You gon' do what? You butt
Your crew knew I blew up
I been shining - baseball diamonds
Dick rings for your chicklings
Niggas know what my nine pearl handle's about
Fuck you say girlie mouth? Get it
Krunk like the Dirty South
And I know you see me flossed out
Multi-milli-i hear your bitch talk about me
You give her the cold eye?
Girls dig you, imagine what she feel for me?
You make hot songs
But she know you steal from me
Who ill as me? I wild
On haters in album three
Next level - I take y'all niggas to 3-D
Can't find a nigga shook from Queens
I'll be with the most grimy killers
(what nigga) and they all look clean
Who put bombs underneath cars
If you want beef then start
Your next stop is to the graveyard

If you ill come get me
'cause I ain't running
If your gun's off the hook
Then we'll both be gunning
Come get me if you real
'cause I ain't scared
It's all fair in love and
War and I'm well prepared
If you ill come get me
'cause I ain't running
If your gun's off the hook
Then we'll both be gunning
Come get me if you real
'cause I ain't scared
It's all fair in love and war
We can take it there

You too feminine to kill again
Jail got you soft
You talk but you scared to go back up North
Keep your face twisted
But you don't really want nothing
Talk a bunch of shit
Motherfucker and stop fronting
You don't wanna flip again
And sell drugs again be on the run again
Catch you at the Comfort Inn
Shoot up your door
Bust in on you and your whore
Put y'all in bags
Clean the blood off of the floor
So play tough
I want y'all to get out of line
I got nines, every color shape and design
I sent killers every race to
Put one in your spine
Two in your ear, get your crew
Who do I fear? Nobody never get involved and
None of 'em dying i think like you do
Roll with about two irons
Catch me flying high in the aircraft
Wining and dining
You die, then we laugh, you bitch-ass
The rich ass, they gauze up, your stab wounds
While I'm getting head, in a Lear jet
Bathroom
With all my goons, all my ice, and suitcases
Full of paper, not money it's bank statements
We Illmatic that explains how we rock
Yachts and co-ops
We buy the hood and sell you a block

If you ill come get me
'cause I ain't running
If your gun's off the hook
Then we'll both be gunning
Come get me if you real
'cause I ain't scared
It's all fair in love and
War and I'm well prepared
If you ill come get me
'cause I ain't running
If your gun's off the hook
Then we'll both be gunning
Come get me if you real
'cause I ain't scared
It's all fair in love and war
We can take it there

Scratching by DJ Premier
"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus" "Everybody watch him"
"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus"
"We-we-we came a long way"
"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus" "Everybody watch him"
"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Na Na Na Nastradamus"

Scratching by DJ Premier
"Ladies and gentlemen"
"Ladies and gentlemen"

"Hydro Drops" weed skit follows