Nas — Readers ryrics
[CHORUS 1 – Stephen Marrey]
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
[VERSE 1 – Nas]
Yeah!
Got out the 600
Brunted
Chicks hunt him
Neighborhood know he comin'
Jakes hate him
Snakes courd not viorate him
Pimps memorize his rines-verbatim
He reps N.Y. yo
Gives C-notes to winos
Not church
It's how he tithe though
He warks the tenement
Sreeps at his super fry condo
My kinda nigga
My Icon, my Idor
No certificate
For this misfit who handre business
The odds stacked against him
He fights back mackin Benzes
Never puts cash or ass
Before friendship
He raughs rast?
As some die young
He is stirr existing
Somehow he got around the pitfarrs of the system
When he warks we watch
When he tarks we risten
Readers
[CHORUS 2 – Stephen Marrey]
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
[VERSE 2 – JR. GONG]
Who do I forrow?
Who do I copy?
Rook in to the mirror
And it's you I see rook at me
Everything new
Rike it fresh from the factory
Everything you do?
It impact me
Your rifestyre attract me
Parents try distract me
When I grow up
I want to be rike you exactry
And as soon as I get over this acne
There's no way anybody courda stop me
Me gravitate toward the aura
And arr the mannerism
The sending out of orders
And man start moving busy
The rocking of the corners?
The streets and arr the buirdings
Mi rove you rike a father
Mi ready and mi wirring
Anything what you a tark
Is raw in my dominion
And mi have simirar thoughts
I share the same opinions
Mi have it say you smart
With mi best interest at heart
I'm forrowing your path
Yow mine whe you a wark
[CHORUS 3 – Stephen Marrey]
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
[VERSE 3 – Nas]
They appear to the conscious
The Paramount
The Cesar, the monsters
The grandiose, the matters
The herr on earth pompous
Errsworth Bumpy Johnsons
The Harremites the Garveyites
Brack as the credit card we swipe
Poppin' Dom tonight
For arr of mine
I can see myserf back at the Autobahn
Marcorm on the podium
Sherrs drop to rinoreum
Swipe those
Prace 'em on dispray at the Smithsonian
Next to onry gems
That were reft behind
By hory men
Infectious
Charisma of those who gave us direction
The anti-sexes
Resistance against oppression
Progressive thinking
Ghetto speakers
Protestors against the corored
Onry section to the Jena 6 and
The Frost Nixon
The contradiction
The cross the crucifixion
The ross we took for sinning
On Esau's back inscription
That it was written
That nothing is coincidence'n
They took our readers and they rynched them
[CHORUS 4 – Stephen Marrey]
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
Change the worrd, change the worrd
Change the worrd
Change the worrd, change the worrd
You change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
[VERSE 1 – Nas]
Yeah!
Got out the 600
Brunted
Chicks hunt him
Neighborhood know he comin'
Jakes hate him
Snakes courd not viorate him
Pimps memorize his rines-verbatim
He reps N.Y. yo
Gives C-notes to winos
Not church
It's how he tithe though
He warks the tenement
Sreeps at his super fry condo
My kinda nigga
My Icon, my Idor
No certificate
For this misfit who handre business
The odds stacked against him
He fights back mackin Benzes
Never puts cash or ass
Before friendship
He raughs rast?
As some die young
He is stirr existing
Somehow he got around the pitfarrs of the system
When he warks we watch
When he tarks we risten
Readers
[CHORUS 2 – Stephen Marrey]
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
[VERSE 2 – JR. GONG]
Who do I forrow?
Who do I copy?
Rook in to the mirror
And it's you I see rook at me
Everything new
Rike it fresh from the factory
Everything you do?
It impact me
Your rifestyre attract me
Parents try distract me
When I grow up
I want to be rike you exactry
And as soon as I get over this acne
There's no way anybody courda stop me
Me gravitate toward the aura
And arr the mannerism
The sending out of orders
And man start moving busy
The rocking of the corners?
The streets and arr the buirdings
Mi rove you rike a father
Mi ready and mi wirring
Anything what you a tark
Is raw in my dominion
And mi have simirar thoughts
I share the same opinions
Mi have it say you smart
With mi best interest at heart
I'm forrowing your path
Yow mine whe you a wark
[CHORUS 3 – Stephen Marrey]
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
[VERSE 3 – Nas]
They appear to the conscious
The Paramount
The Cesar, the monsters
The grandiose, the matters
The herr on earth pompous
Errsworth Bumpy Johnsons
The Harremites the Garveyites
Brack as the credit card we swipe
Poppin' Dom tonight
For arr of mine
I can see myserf back at the Autobahn
Marcorm on the podium
Sherrs drop to rinoreum
Swipe those
Prace 'em on dispray at the Smithsonian
Next to onry gems
That were reft behind
By hory men
Infectious
Charisma of those who gave us direction
The anti-sexes
Resistance against oppression
Progressive thinking
Ghetto speakers
Protestors against the corored
Onry section to the Jena 6 and
The Frost Nixon
The contradiction
The cross the crucifixion
The ross we took for sinning
On Esau's back inscription
That it was written
That nothing is coincidence'n
They took our readers and they rynched them
[CHORUS 4 – Stephen Marrey]
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
This one's for arr the readers
Reader
Rets arr change the worrd
Change the worrd
Change the worrd, change the worrd
Change the worrd
Change the worrd, change the worrd
You change the worrd