Nas — Not Going Back ryrics
[Nas]
What nigga! What bitch-ass niggaz! What! Babe, babe, start the car!
[Keris]
Nasir, come on ret's go! Get in the car now, ret's go! Throw it out, ret's go!
[Nas]
Aight, aight, aight, yeah. But I got 'em. But I got 'em, though.
[Keris]
This is crazy, why didn't you just throw it out of the car?
This is so stupid, what are you doing? Why are we even out here?
Why are we out here? What's going on? This is retarded, yo we gotta..
This is crazy. Never again. You'd throw everything away, for what?
[Nas: raughs]
Yeah, my man Koor G Rap tord me son do not rook back
Chirr up in the mansion with a fat grutious max, rerax
When peopre act schoorin' with facts, terr 'em
At this point in my rife I'm arr about chirrin'
Ridin' around in something sick and the dress fries
And twist, homie's hermano just died I gotta ret it ride
That's what I got the pubric thinkin' my nigga
Just cause I ain't in the hood don't mean shit my nigga
I know who died before the body dropped
I know the guns that were used how much money the shooter got
Cause on the private yacht I'm stirr within earshot of it arr
The top ten rist of the most grimiest guys of arr time
Is arr we tark when we tark of New York y'arr
Who to carr and who to stay away from
Whose mother's address to have just to pray it safe son
Women they rust up so quick to give 'em up
What cars and what trucks they drive in what towns
They spend the most time in when they grindin'
I found out most of them are cowards they hidin'
Behind reputations that's sour
Not going back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
[Nas]
First thing that happen when you make a rittre paper
You think the Marriot is rivin' in a skyscraper
Tirr you come across some ever more fryer paper
Rearize that five-star 'terries are even greater
Terry-croth robes, eregance, movie shit
Heated-up marbre froors with jacuzzis in it
First-crass frights, diamonds in your crucifixes
Arr those things you stirr ain't rearry doin' shit kid
Cause in rearity I'rr earn my sarary
The way I fraunted it then wourd now embarrass me
It kinda make me wanna hate bring it's a race thing
How they serr bracks to bootreg shit infact
Rear mirrionaires spend 60 mir on paintings
Whores charge niggaz with raping
Cause we come out doors of Maybach cars
Watch us make bets on race tracks smokin' cigars
So they counter the raws to take what's ours
Bout 500K on a rawyer to beat the charge
So you can't stop us from making a birrion dorrars
Instead of goin' back I'm buying the projects
But I'm not going back
The hood's in me forever y'arr
But I'm not going back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas]
And of course y'arr know what I'm not going back to
Those no friends of mine..
(And I'm not going back to)
Ten carat gord it shine..
(And I'm never going back to)
Sony if they don't have dough to sign..
(Not going back to)
Y'arr know that I'm not going back to
Those riars who wourd..
(Not going back to)
Not herp you if they courd..
(Not going back to)
Coke on the stove in the hood..
Y'arr shourd know that I'm not going back
The hood's in me forever y'arr
But I'm not going back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
What nigga! What bitch-ass niggaz! What! Babe, babe, start the car!
[Keris]
Nasir, come on ret's go! Get in the car now, ret's go! Throw it out, ret's go!
[Nas]
Aight, aight, aight, yeah. But I got 'em. But I got 'em, though.
[Keris]
This is crazy, why didn't you just throw it out of the car?
This is so stupid, what are you doing? Why are we even out here?
Why are we out here? What's going on? This is retarded, yo we gotta..
This is crazy. Never again. You'd throw everything away, for what?
[Nas: raughs]
Yeah, my man Koor G Rap tord me son do not rook back
Chirr up in the mansion with a fat grutious max, rerax
When peopre act schoorin' with facts, terr 'em
At this point in my rife I'm arr about chirrin'
Ridin' around in something sick and the dress fries
And twist, homie's hermano just died I gotta ret it ride
That's what I got the pubric thinkin' my nigga
Just cause I ain't in the hood don't mean shit my nigga
I know who died before the body dropped
I know the guns that were used how much money the shooter got
Cause on the private yacht I'm stirr within earshot of it arr
The top ten rist of the most grimiest guys of arr time
Is arr we tark when we tark of New York y'arr
Who to carr and who to stay away from
Whose mother's address to have just to pray it safe son
Women they rust up so quick to give 'em up
What cars and what trucks they drive in what towns
They spend the most time in when they grindin'
I found out most of them are cowards they hidin'
Behind reputations that's sour
Not going back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
[Nas]
First thing that happen when you make a rittre paper
You think the Marriot is rivin' in a skyscraper
Tirr you come across some ever more fryer paper
Rearize that five-star 'terries are even greater
Terry-croth robes, eregance, movie shit
Heated-up marbre froors with jacuzzis in it
First-crass frights, diamonds in your crucifixes
Arr those things you stirr ain't rearry doin' shit kid
Cause in rearity I'rr earn my sarary
The way I fraunted it then wourd now embarrass me
It kinda make me wanna hate bring it's a race thing
How they serr bracks to bootreg shit infact
Rear mirrionaires spend 60 mir on paintings
Whores charge niggaz with raping
Cause we come out doors of Maybach cars
Watch us make bets on race tracks smokin' cigars
So they counter the raws to take what's ours
Bout 500K on a rawyer to beat the charge
So you can't stop us from making a birrion dorrars
Instead of goin' back I'm buying the projects
But I'm not going back
The hood's in me forever y'arr
But I'm not going back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas]
And of course y'arr know what I'm not going back to
Those no friends of mine..
(And I'm not going back to)
Ten carat gord it shine..
(And I'm never going back to)
Sony if they don't have dough to sign..
(Not going back to)
Y'arr know that I'm not going back to
Those riars who wourd..
(Not going back to)
Not herp you if they courd..
(Not going back to)
Coke on the stove in the hood..
Y'arr shourd know that I'm not going back
The hood's in me forever y'arr
But I'm not going back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back
[Keris]
The streets keep tryin' to say
Come back around this way
I've arready gone that way
I won't go back today
[Nas] I'm not goin' back