[Intro: N.O.R.E.]
Yo! Large Pro!
It's my first Large Pro beat!
You a genius, nigga
I'm honored!
And with them gray's in your beard
You look even more like a genius!
Queens shit (Lemme talk to 'em!)
[Verse 1: N.O.R.E.]
Flushing Meadow Park, Drama Heights, Astor'
We played baseball, then we slangin' 8 balls
Mission: Impossible;
Alley Cat, he shot niggas, got shot too
Locked at the hospital
Jamaican Ave., chicken patty with the cocoa bread
I know Jamaicans on drugs, call 'em cocoa-heads
Since "Lookin' At The Front Door," I'd always want more
So I got drugs and pumped more
This is my belief, my philosophy, geography
Ecology, biology, psychology
I used to spit Gillette razors
Hand to hand with my Pakistan man, we made papers
Fish scales from Jackson Heights Colombians
I.S. 61, was raised with no Republicans
And I don’t mean to get all political
But Mitt Romney don’t plan to do shit for you
[Hook: Large Professor]
What the theory is
Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest
Tell 'em what it really is
Built pyramids
Ground-up from the streets, it’s that Q talk, serious
What the theory is
Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest
Tell 'em what it really is
Built pyramids
Ground-up from the streets, it’s that Q talk, serious
[Verse 2: N.O.R.E.]
(Second verse, yo... yo...)
See I’m a Student Of The Game how I pay attention
You so poor that you can’t afford to pay attention
Catch me downtown by L.E.S.
Or up in Flatbush, Fort Greene by D.Y.S. ("Who you be with?!")
My niggas I was locked up in Spofford with
Killers that'll kill killers marvelous
I know niggas never used a gun but got bodies
You can do the math, go and ask who you ask
A-1 nigga, since day 1, just ask
G-Shock watch, flooded with the black diamonds
Louboutins with the spikes is for weirdos
I’m a hood nigga, I don’t wear those
Still a Dapper Dan design, still immaculate
Gucci ain’t make that, nah, but it’s they fabric
And still I get cabbage with
Pun style – gold piece Lazarus
[Hook: Large Professor]
What the theory is
Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest
Tell 'em what it really is
Built pyramids
Ground-up from the streets, it’s that Q talk, serious
What the theory is
Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest
Tell 'em what it really is
Built pyramids
Ground-up from the streets, it’s that Q talk, serious
[Verse 3: N.O.R.E.]
Yo... yo, you wanna fly in the city, you gotta go to Queens
Fly out of the city, you gotta come to Queens
My borough birthed John Gotti
And other killers, big drug dealers, wild ball players
Lamar Odom, World Peace Artest
Kenny Anderson, Kenny Smith, Lefrak the best, yea
Rafer Alston, Anthony Mason, Mark Jackson
On the lay-up line, they got action
Supreme Court, where I fought
But these ball-playing niggas rep Queens on a court (Respect! Salute!)
Taliek and Kimani could've made it
And Rahim, mad shout, the fuckin' hood favorite
Orchestrated, we sort of related
Black and Puerto Rican, like loc's we stay faded, cuz
Yeah, on the real to the real, on the real to the real
[Hook: Large Professor]
What the theory is
Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest
Tell 'em what it really is
Built pyramids
Ground-up from the streets, it’s that Q talk, serious
What the theory is
Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest
Tell 'em what it really is
Built pyramids
Ground-up from the streets, it’s that Q talk, serious