Nas - What This All Really Means lyrics

I finally see, see what it all mean, yeah

The feelin' of the first time seein'
Your name on a flyer it just was yesterday
Picture that on the day you retire
And they still shocked and amazed
I made it up higher
'Cause, I came up with them hot
Heads that played with the fire

Product of the '80s
Prada Milan store for the lady
I'm a carnivore
Constantly come with concepts to pay me
I'm responsible for they
Most cockiest behavior
My DNA in they G'd up ways
And they surveyin' us
Showed 'em my scrotum is goldеn
Rap game stomach was swollen
I left thеse bastards on your doorsteps
Behold 'em ideas come and go away but
I already thought 'em so years later
They still new when I go record 'em
I done hooked up with a beast
Never stingy with the beats
Experimental, accident records wind up
Killin' the streets
"Black and Proud" shirts
White Jesus pieces on cuban links
Civil war chick, yo
She black and white on Egyptian sheets

And I can see the jealousy
I think they really scared of me
Do what I do and let it be
And that's the way I always
Been since I was seventeen
I finally see what this all really means

Did a double album when rap
Double albums was startin'
They bootlegged I Am
An album I put my heart in
Nipsey met me to do a doc
About it 'fore he departed
He talked to Stoute about it too 'cause
He was 'part of that project, yeah
Back then, we charted with the CDs and tapes
And I still come out the field
You either scrape or get scraped
You either in and out
You rollin' or you just in the way
What this all really means
I had to reload the Drac'
Eighty years old, I'm still
Gon' have a chain, a kilo it weigh
Speedos on the beach
My belly out when I land in Capri
Wearin' black owned designer
(Uh) math on my mind (Okay)
It's a while 'fore I get there
Almost passed forty-nine
I be on the block easy with
A glass full of wine
Red Chrome Heart lenses to see
I'm in my third prime the Q-U double E-N-S
Y'all gon' need some EMS when we
Drop this and that's a bet

The feelin' of the first time seein'
Your name on a flyer it just was yesterday
Picture that on the day you retire
And they still shocked and amazed
I made it up higher
'Cause, I came up with them hot
Heads that played with the fire (It's facts)

And I can see the jealousy
I think they really scared of me
Do what I do and let it be (Uh)
And that's the way I always
Been since I was seventeen
I finally see what this all really means

It's everything, from the hard times
(I finally know what this all really means)
The bad times (Anthony Saleh, we got a team)
The better times, all mixed in between
Sunshine and rain, yeah, yeah
Tough people last, tough times don't, yeah
Tough people last, tough times don't
Now I see