High - Intellectual

[Intro: Nas]

The wild Gremlins

Y'all know the ep., right?

[Verse 1]

It's when the winner lose, and the losers win

Nobody scores, a few good men, but everybody sins

A lot of young die, fall in the trap

Strung high, try to go legal but the hood callin' you back

It's good to be back 'cause I miss it — for example

Watchin' baseheads wildin' on my first sample

I elevated up since snakes in my circumference

Now I hit my niggas with cakes and say, "Pump this"

Thank God for cracks, corners and marijuana

Hood rats and good gats to carry on ya

I got dead friends, misled friends, crackhead friends

Wild Gremlins who 'bust led' friends

Silent weapons for quiet wars, or loud gats

You tussle too long, somethin' shiny moves the crowd back

It's powerful, niggas would die over respect

And money's secondary to that whole aspect

Hear me?

[Hook: Nas]

I love it when I'm... hiiigh

I'm at my best when I'm... hiiigh

Yo, I like my sex when I'm... hiiigh

Cash checks, blast TEC's

When I ride through ya projects and clap at sets

A nigga... hiiigh

North, South, East, West riders get... hiiigh

I take y'all niggas on a lyrical... hiiigh

I twist it up, listen up to the real shit

Feel this realness!

[Verse 2]

Niggas rushin' to the top, not knowin' what it takes to be

King of the industry, the wise move patiently

Ya niggas hatin' me, won't be happy 'til I'm back witcha

Sellin' crack witcha, half & half on a pack witcha

My pen and pad paint a black picture

Of young goons passin' liquor, after-hour stores mass of niggas

Street corner comvos, staggerin' winos

Tahoe's comin' through, blastin' songs I know

Niggas scheme, most girls pregnant by sixteen

Cliques out to get rich, empty clips for C.R.E.A.M.

Same funeral home for different stiff bodies

Once a month, a new family goes there, it don't surprise me

Cried 'til the tears dried up inside me

Revenge to the end's laws in NYC

Got up, by the way I used to be apartment five deep

Where dope fiends in the hall try your knob when you sleep

Surveillance cameras in my house now watch when you creep

Spot you from deep, guns for all possible beef

Niggas try to rock you to sleep

Kidnap your whole fam for a week

Askin' for ransom, niggas starvin', dyin' to eat