Ugly

By Nas

On Magic

Released on December 24, 2021

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[Intro]

Test, test

Yes, yes

Yeah


[Verse 1]

It's ugly outside, it's muggy, it's money outside

One hundred and five Fahrenheit, thunderous skies

The clouds shape a clown face above where you reside

Under his eye, teardrop got the ugliest cry

They call my city Gotham City, opposite of pretty

Weatherman cannot predict bullets rainin' from out the 50

It's ugly outside, Big L'd be here if it wasn't

Hell'll freezе over the day it doesn't gеt ugly out

How can we hug it out after we slugged it out?

We should be buying acres, adjusting each other's crowns

That was your brother back then, how could you gun him down?

Yeah, yeah

This what I live for, the inventor

The re-invention, I'm reincarnated, see what it hit for

Yo, even your mentor can get you sent for

Get you chipped off if it's a brick off, you hit a brick wall

Damn, big dawg, dove in that water and got hit with a cannonball

Ugly Christmas sweater party with no Santa Claus

Companies profit off of black trauma

That's ugly, mad ugly just like Sheneneh and Wanda

You been through shit, I been through shit, every day is an honor

It's ugly how Mercedes Morr lost her life to a stalker

I'm on offense every day until I see the love

KD3 on the way, this just to feed the buzz


[Chorus]

It's ugly (It's ugly, it's ugly)

It's ugly (It's ugly, it's ugly)

Shit is ugly (Shit is ugly, shit is ugly)

Yeah, one time, yeah


[Verse 2]

It's ugly outside, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I see the envy getting closer through my optics

Knew I had vision before I seen an optometrist

I seen a whole lot of shit

Never altered my confidence or my consciousness

It's ugly outside, stay dangerous, stay out the mix

Poppin' back out on niggas, homie I'm poppin' shit

Kill 'em with no accomplices

Watchin' my rearview, the envy is obvious

It's ugly outside, it's grown men jealous outside

It's grown ass women that'll have you set up to die

You really not a stepper nigga, just step to the side

While I two-step on a beat, watch a veteran slide

JMJ seen him comin', wish he ain't hit the buzzer

Marvin Gaye to Young Dolph, we taking out our brothers

Distorted faces, solemn features, we kill each other

It's Mr. Ugly Man, Marlon Wayans in In Living Color


[Chorus]

It's ugly (It's ugly, it's ugly)

It's ugly (It's ugly, it's ugly)

Shit is ugly (Shit is ugly, shit is ugly)

Yeah, one time

It's ugly (It's ugly, it's ugly)

It's ugly (It's ugly, it's ugly)

Shit is ugly (Shit is ugly, shit is ugly)

Yeah