NYCHA - Dave East, Nas

We livin' life like we stars

Constantly medical come right out them drawers

Deserve a medal for surviving these scars

I’m ducking trifling broads

The gun store ain’t seen a rifle this large

Computer thugs you niggas typing too hard

We backspace and delete a nigga

Them A list parties I never see them niggas

That weed and liquor blurry your vision

You’ll never see the picture

Don’t be defensive

L told me nigga just be consistent

From Little Caesar’s splitting

Niggas change you see 'em different

Aim for the top though

First class plane to Morocco

The change came I ain’t change

I might cop a Picasso

I’m after bags I’m eating crabs on blocks they will not go

These niggas sad

And you can smell it on me I am not broke

Roll up the nitro

Only coppin' coke when the price low

In the Maybach told the driver follow where Artie Bike go

Learn survival before you meet your idols as far as I know

This pistol my insurance ain’t no need for calling Geico

Take you to kitchens where they actually cook

Nobody knew you then you had to get booked

Shoot at the car hit the driver

Now the passenger shook

This pack just came in from Cali

I ain’t passing this kush

Remember sitting in the court like damn I’m back in these cuffs

From having arguments with smokers I ain’t have enough dust

Early morning 50 baggies hit the Ave in a rush

We tryna get it might do credit

Just don’t ask for too much

Hundreds we touch

New York City housing authority honor me

Property of the ghetto

Choppers poppin

I should receive a medal for surviving

If you snooze sleep with your snub nose

I did receive a medal from Harvard and rose above those

Obstacle courses where cops and shots will stop you from reaching your full

potential

You dreaming life will pinch you

This with no sheet of paper

No pen or pencil straight off the mental

Off the fly

Often they falsify what they been through

I’m on that old flyness

Slidin' in Benz’s

Minding my business

My time is expensive

My dogs locked down they surviving through pictures

I could take you to kitchens where they actually cook

Nobody knew you then you had to get booked

Shoot at the car hit the driver

Now the passenger shook

This pack just came in from Cali

I ain’t passing this kush

Remember sitting in the court like damn I’m back in these cuffs

From having arguments with smokers I ain’t have enough dust

Early morning 50 baggies hit the Ave in a rush

We tryna get it might do credit

Just don’t ask for too much

Hundreds we touch