It Was Written lyrics

[Yee-hah`s and whips cracking in background]
-Hey Nas, hey hey boy,
you see what they done did to Jimmy and Lee.
[Nas:] Mmmhmm. Damn,
man.
-I can`t take it man.
[Nas:] Sho` can`t.
-You think this is
gonna eva` change?
[Nas:] Man, damn this place, man! Damn these
chains! These damn
chitlins every damn night.
-This
cotton.
[Nas:] Shit!
-I can`t take it man.
[Nas:]
Harriett done left the night befo`. It`s time we go.
Aint no place for black
folk here. Man, promise land callin`
me man.
-It`s callin` me
too.
[Nas:] It`s time we go.
-Yeah, I`m wichou!
[Nas:]
Hey man, hey damn these chains, man.
Damn you master, you
ain`t my
master, man!
[Sounds of punching and bumping]
[Nas:] You
aint nothin`, you aint nothin.

-Hey Bandit, Bandit, get the dogs! Get the
hounds, we gonna
have ourselves a hangin` tonight!

[Nas:]
Nineteen-ninety-six!
Back up in this nigga.
The right way, though, you
know?
-Double-tre son, you know aint nothin`
coincedental or accidental,
son.
[Nas:] No doubt!
-You know how it`s goin` down,
man.
[Nas:] It was all written.
-No question, I`m sayin` man, I
mean, how we playin` man,
you know what I`m sayin`, they dealt us in,
son.
They playin` with a fifty-four deck, you see with the
Jokers in and
everything, you know what I`m saying?
[Nas:] Son, I`m playin` with the
fifty-two.
-You wanna stress on how I used to play, that`s how I
play.
[Nas:] But, yo, they takin` us into this next millenium, right
now.
-I`m sayin` law, you know what I`m sayin` we gotta lay the law,
cause
without law aint no order, you know what I`m sayin`,
that`s why these cats
are slippin`
through, you know what I`m sayin? They got the rules
missin`,
though.
[Nas:] True.
-Yo, word up, though, you know
what I mean?
[Nas:] Son, these niggas look faker than the new hundred
dollars, son.
-Yeah, you see that they look Monopoly money,
right?
[Nas:] Word, with the big ass face on it.
-Yo, what I`m
sayin`, we see through all that, though
you know what I`m
sayin?
[Nas:] No question.
-All eyes seein`, son, you know we
real.
[Nas:] Yo, no doubt. In the Qu`ran it says Nas, the
men.
Nesa`s the woman, know? It was written.
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