《Bridging the Gap》歌词

[00:00:01] Bridging The Gap - Nas

[00:00:02] The light is there

[00:00:09] See I come from Mississippi

[00:00:11] I was young and runnin' wild

[00:00:14] Ended up in New York City where I had my first child

[00:00:21] I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas

[00:00:27] I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive

[00:00:33] Let's go Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey

[00:00:44] Tribrary of these rap skits styles I mastered

[00:00:46] Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it

[00:00:49] But I'm still number one everyday real

[00:00:51] Speak what I want I don't care what y'all feel

[00:00:54] Cause I'm my own master my Pop told me be your own boss

[00:00:57] Keep integrity at every cost and his home was Natchez Mississippi

[00:01:02] Did it like Miles and Dizzy now we gettin' busy

[00:01:04] Bridging The Gap from the blues to jazz to rap

[00:01:07] The history of music on this track

[00:01:10] Born in the game discovered my father's music

[00:01:12] Like Prince searchin' through boxes of Purple Rain

[00:01:15] But my Minneapolis was The Bridge home of the Superkids

[00:01:18] Some are well-known some doin' bids

[00:01:20] I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks

[00:01:22] If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo

[00:01:25] See I come from Mississippi

[00:01:28] I was young and runnin' wild

[00:01:30] Ended up in New York City where I had my first child

[00:01:36] I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas

[00:01:41] I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive

[00:01:46] Greatest man alive (Nas Yeah turn it up )

[00:01:50] Gre-Gre-Gre-Gre-Greatest man alive

[00:01:50] The blues came from gospel gospel from blues

[00:01:53] Slaves are harmonizin' them ah's and ooh's

[00:01:55] Old school new school know school rules

[00:01:58] All these years I been voicin' my blues

[00:02:00] I'm a artist from the start Hip-Hop guided my heart

[00:02:03] Graffiti on the wall coulda ended in Spoffard juvenile delinquent

[00:02:08] But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with

[00:02:11] Books to read like X and stuff

[00:02:13] Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia

[00:02:16] In art class I was a compulsive sketcher of

[00:02:18] Teachers in my homeroom I drew pix to mess them up

[00:02:21] Cause none'a them would like my style

[00:02:24] Read more books than the curriculum profile

[00:02:26] Said Mr Jones please come get your child

[00:02:29] Cause he's writin' mad poems and his s are wild

[00:02:32] See I come from Mississippi

[00:02:34] I was young and runnin' wild

[00:02:37] Ended up in New York City where I had my first child

[00:02:42] I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas

[00:02:47] I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive

[00:02:52] Greatest man The great-greatest man alive

[00:02:56] Hey-Hey-Hey -- My Poppa was not a Rollin' Stone

[00:02:59] He been around the world blowin' his horn still he came home

[00:03:02] Then he got grown changed his name to Olu

[00:03:05] Come on tell 'em 'bout the places you gone to

[00:03:07] I been to Saudi Arabia Mozambique

[00:03:10] Madagascar Paris Greece

[00:03:13] The Middle Africa is where we lived

[00:03:15] Better known as Queenbridge

[00:03:18] Nas Nas you don't stop

[00:03:20] Olu Dara in the house you don't stop

[00:03:23] Muddy Waters' Howling Wolf you don't stop

[00:03:25] From the Blues to Street Hop you don't stop

[00:03:28] Tell 'em Pop

[00:03:28] See I come from Mississippi (Let 'em know)

[00:03:31] I was young and runnin' wild (Runnin' wild)

[00:03:34] Ended up in New York City (Yeah )

[00:03:36] Where I had my first child (That's me)

[00:03:39] I named the boy Nasir (Yeah Daddy )

[00:03:41] All the boys call him Nas (Luh ya boy)

[00:03:44] I told him as a youngster

[00:03:46] He'll be the greatest man alive (You the greatest Pop)

[00:03:49] Greatest man alive (You the greatest Pop)

[00:03:51] Gre-Gre-Gre-Gre-Greatest man alive