Bridging the Gap - Nas/Olu Dara.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Olu Dara/Nasir Jones/Salaam Gibbs
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Olu Dara/Nasir Jones/Salaam Gibbs
[00:00.00]Bridging The Gap （小差距）-Nas
[00:02.550]The light is there
[00:09.50]See I come from Mississippi
[00:11.939]I was young and runnin'wild
[00:14.979]Ended up in New York City where I had my first child
[00:21.209]I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas
[00:27.709]I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive
[00:33.469]Let's go Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey
[00:44.199]Tribrary of these rap skits styles I mastered
[00:46.438]Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it
[00:49.247]But I'm still number one everyday real
[00:51.777]Speak what I want I don't care what y'all feel
[00:54.187]Cause I'm my own master my Pop told me be your own boss
[00:57.756]Keep integrity at every cost and his home was Natchez Mississippi
[01:02.96]Did it like Miles and Dizzy now we gettin'busy
[01:04.726]Bridging The Gap from the blues to jazz to rap
[01:07.515]The history of music on this track
[01:10.414]Born in the game discovered my father's music
[01:12.994]Like Prince searchin'through boxes of Purple Rain
[01:15.514]But my Minneapolis was The Bridge home of the Superkids
[01:18.383]Some are well-known some doin'bids
[01:20.213]I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks
[01:22.473]If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo
[01:25.511]See I come from Mississippi
[01:28.71]I was young and runnin'wild
[01:30.631]Ended up in New York City where I had my first child
[01:36.90]I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas
[01:41.10]I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive
[01:46.480]Greatest man alive （Nas Yeah turn it up ）
[01:50.130]Gre-Gre-Gre-Gre-Greatest man alive
[01:50.900]The blues came from gospel gospel from blues
[01:53.750]Slaves are harmonizin'them ah's and ooh's
[01:55.890]Old school new school know school rules
[01:58.990]All these years I been voicin'my blues
[02:00.989]I'm a artist from the start Hip-Hop guided my heart
[02:03.659]Graffiti on the wall coulda ended in Spoffard juvenile delinquent
[02:08.748]But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with
[02:11.628]Books to read like X and stuff
[02:13.847]Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia
[02:16.317]In art class I was a compulsive sketcher of
[02:18.987]Teachers in my homeroom I drew pix to mess them up
[02:21.976]Cause none'a them would like my style
[02:24.56]Read more books than the curriculum profile
[02:26.596]Said Mr Jones please come get your child
[02:29.145]Cause he's writin'mad poems and his s are wild
[02:32.714]See I come from Mississippi
[02:34.874]I was young and runnin'wild
[02:37.354]Ended up in New York City where I had my first child
[02:42.604]I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas
[02:47.704]I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive
[02:52.934]Greatest man The great-greatest man alive
[02:56.333]Hey-Hey-Hey --My Poppa was not a Rollin'Stone
[02:59.571]He been around the world blowin'his horn still he came home
[03:02.301]Then he got grown changed his name to Olu
[03:05.251]Come on tell 'em 'bout the places you gone to
[03:07.741]I been to Saudi Arabia Mozambique
[03:10.430]Madagascar Paris Greece
[03:13.60]The Middle Africa is where we lived
[03:15.810]Better known as Queenbridge
[03:18.569]Nas Nas you don't stop
[03:20.559]Olu Dara in the house you don't stop
[03:23.109]Muddy Waters'Howling Wolf you don't stop
[03:25.677]From the Blues to Street Hop you don't stop
[03:28.17]Tell 'em Pop
[03:28.757]See I come from Mississippi （Let 'em know）
[03:31.447]I was young and runnin'wild （Runnin'wild）
[03:34.167]Ended up in New York City （Yeah ）
[03:36.437]Where I had my first child （That's me）
[03:39.57]I named the boy Nasir （Yeah Daddy ）
[03:41.846]All the boys call him Nas （Luh ya boy）
[03:44.376]I told him as a youngster
[03:46.605]He'll be the greatest man alive （You the greatest Pop）
[03:49.105]Greatest man alive （You the greatest Pop）
[03:51.893]Gre-Gre-Gre-Gre-Greatest man alive