Represent (Live) - Intellectual

[Intro: Nas]

"Represent to the fullest"

Let's represent forever

"Represent"

We gon represent forever

"Represent"

I will represent forever

"Represent"

Yeah, say what?

What you say?

"Represent"

What we do?

"Represent"

Represent

[Verse 1: Nas]

Any day could be your last in the jungle

Get murdered on a humble, guns'll blast, niggas tumble

The corners is the hot spot, full of criminals

Who don't care, guzzling beers, we all stare

At the out-of-towners, they better break North

Before we get the four pounders and take their face off

The streets is filled with undercovers

Homicide chasing brothers

The D's on the roof tryin' to watch us and lock us

And killer coppers even come through in helicopters

I drink a little vodka, spark a L and hold a Glock

For the fronters, wannabe ill niggas and spot runners

Thinking it can't happen 'til I trap 'em and clap 'em

And leave 'em done, won't even run about

I don't believe in none of that shit, your facts are backwards

Nas is a rebel of the street corner

Pulling a TEC out the dresser; police got me under pressure

[Chorus: Nas]

Represent, represent

Yeah

[Verse 2: Nas]

Yo, they call me Nas, I'm not your legal type of fella

Moët drinking, marijuana smoking street dweller

Who's always on the corner, rolling up blessed

When I dress, it's never nothing less than Guess

Cold be walking with a bop and my hat turned back

Love committing sins and my friends sell crack

This nigga raps with a razor, keep it under my tongue

The school drop-out, never liked the shit from day one

‘Cause life ain't shit but stress, fake niggas, crab stunts

So I guzzle my Hennessy while pulling on mad blunts

The brutalizer, crew de-sizer, accelerator

The type of brother who be pissing in your elevator

Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game

Used to sport Bally's and Cazals with black frames

Now I'm into fat chains, sex and TECs

Fly new chicks and new kicks, Heines and Beck's

[Chorus: Nas]

I represent y'all, yeah

I represent y'all

[Verse 3: Nas]

This is what it's about

Before the BDP conflict with MC Shan

Around the time when Shante dissed the Real Roxxane

I used to chill on the corner, on the block

Every day's a different...that had us running from cops

If it wasn't hanging out in front of cocaine spots

We was at the candy factory, breaking the locks

Nowadays, I need the cash in the hand just like the next man

Fuck a yard, God, let me see a hundred grand

Could use a gun, son, but fuck being the wanted man

But if I hit rock bottom then I'ma be the Son of Sam

Then call the crew to get live too, with Swoop

Bokeem, my brother Jungle, Big Bo cooks up the blow

Mike'll chop it; Mayo, you count the profit

My shit is on the streets, this way the Jakes'll never stop it

It's your brain on, to all fly bitches and thugs

'Nuff respect to the projects, I'm ghost, one love

[Chorus: Nas]

I represent y'all

[Outro: Nas]

This one goes

To the Queen rich crew, the 40 side of Vernon

The 41st side of Vernon, The Goodfellas

My man Cee-Lo from the Don, Lakey the Kid

My whole crew, Big Dove

[?] yeah baby

To my whole crew from the Northside, from the Southside

Way out the [?] projects

[?] Wood

The whole Long Island city, we here baby (we here)

And of course to you D.C

"Represent"

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"Represent"

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"Represent"

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Oh, we represent to

Represent to the fullest