[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:01.95]Artist: Nas [00:02.18]Album: God's Son [00:02.41]Song: Get Down [00:02.67]Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash [00:02.90] [00:03.87]"Get-get.. get down!" - James Brown [00:06.11] [00:08.40]Uh.. uh.. uh.. [00:15.68]New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete [00:18.64]And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys admiration [00:21.37]Prince from Queens and Fritz from Harlem [00:23.44]Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from starvin [00:25.97]Pushin cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's [00:28.74]But there's a long list of high-profile celebrities [00:31.24]Worldwide on the thorough side of things [00:33.60]Livest kings, some died, one guy, one time [00:36.49]one day grabs me, as I'm about to blast heat [00:39.00]40-side of Vernon, I turned well he asked me [00:41.76]"Whatchu up to, the cops gon' bust you" [00:43.94]I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered [00:47.01]if God sent him, cause two squad cars entered the block [00:49.46]and looked at us, I ain't flinch when they watched [00:51.40]I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair [00:53.46]Starin at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do [00:57.54]Yeah man, throwin them bones [00:59.63]Hopin my ace get his case thrown [01:01.58]His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight hoein [01:04.61]While he lookin at centerfolds of pretty girls [01:07.07]showin they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's livin proof [01:10.11]The D.A. who tried him was lyin [01:12.42]A white dude, killed his mother durin the case [01:14.78]Hung jury, now the D.A. is bein replaced [01:16.68]Pre-trial hearin is over, it's real for the soldier [01:19.60]Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild [01:22.49]Triple-homicide, I sit in the back aisle [01:24.83]I wanna crack a smile when I see him [01:26.55]Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his freedom [01:29.99]He grabbed a court officer's gun and started squeezin [01:32.31]Then he grabbed the judge, screams out -- nobody leavin everybody [01:34.16] [01:34.61]"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - James Brown [01:39.85] [01:44.70]Everybody [01:45.63]"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - James Brown [01:48.42] [01:54.94]Some niggaz fuck they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em [01:57.65]Weird-ass niggaz are dangerous, so don't test 'em [01:59.94]They make you, dissapear, this a year that I won't forget [02:02.91]Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' execs [02:05.51]Southern niggaz, independent label, real killers [02:08.18]Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chillin [02:10.79]They had the coke game somethin crazy [02:12.72]Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me [02:15.58]Put me onto heron blunts, sherm or somethin [02:18.18]Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them [02:20.44]Southern niggaz ain't slow, nigga tried to play me [02:22.89]I left from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy [02:25.48]Now I'm back around the old school that raised me [02:27.88]New York gangstas, we loungin, out in L.A. see [02:30.86]A dude wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay [02:33.11]The letter say, "Nas I got your back - the fools don't play" [02:35.68]I rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral [02:38.31]Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible [02:41.55]The nigga still alive in a hospital [02:43.63]Midnight they crept in his room and shot the doctor too [02:46.42]See my cousin's in the game, thuggin and things [02:48.76]He plugged me with a dame who was half-Mexicano [02:50.85]Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano [02:53.46]She passed me the indigo, but the imbecile [02:56.00]shoulda never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed [02:58.24]Openin the hotel room do', to let her goons in [03:01.49]But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li shit [03:04.16]I let the hammers blow, wet three kids [03:06.25]See honey thought I had somethin to do, with all the drama [03:08.79]Cause I was with a crew, that had her people killed [03:11.22]Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fuckin witchu [03:13.86]He responded cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers [03:16.02] [03:16.74]"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - James Brown [03:21.02] [03:26.33]Everybody [03:27.20]"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - James Brown [03:31.81] [03:38.76]All I really gotta say is that [03:41.38]if that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? [03:45.76]How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get down? [03:49.20]A shame when you ain't look at it [03:51.38]My folk is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk [03:55.83]Somebody gotta make a change