BRIDGING THE GAP feat. OLU DARA

You see I come from Mississippi, I was young and running wild Ended up in new york city, Where I had my first child I named the boy Nasir, All the boys call him Nas I told him as a youngster, He'll be the greatest man alive Let's go Hey hey hey hey the Chuck Berry of this rap skit, Styles I mastered Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it But I'm still Number 1 every day real, Speak what I want I don't care what you all feel Cos I'm my own master, My pop told me be your own boss keep integrity at every cost And his home was Natches, Mississippi did it like Miles and Dizzy Now we getting busy bridging the gap from blues to jazz to rap, The history music on this track Born in the game discovered my father's music like Prince searching through boxes of Purple Rain, But my Minneapolis was the Bridge home of the super kid some are well known, some doin' bids Might have ended up on the wrong side of the tracks if my pops wouldn't have, pulled me back and said yo yo I come from Mississippi, I was young and running wild Ended up in new york city, Where I had my first child I named the boy Nasir, All the boys call him Nas I told him as a youngster, He'll be the greatest man alive greatest man alive greatest man alive The blues came from gospel, gospel from blues, Slaves were harmonizing with their ah's and ooh's Old school new school no school rules, All these years I've been voicin' my blues I'm an artist from the start hip-hop got in my heart, Graffiti on the wall I could have ended in Spofford, Juvenile delinquent my pop's gave me the right type of tools to think with Books to read like X and stuff, Cos the schools said the kids had dyslexia In our class I was the compulsive sketcher of teachers in my home room I, drew pics that messed them up, Cos none of them would like my style read more books than the curriculum Profiled, Said Mr. Jones please come get your child cos he's writing mad poems and his, verses are wild I was born in Mississippi, I was young and running wild Moved to new york city, Where I had my first child I named the boy Nasir, All the boys call him Nas I told him as a youngster, He'll be the greatest man alive the greatest man the great the greatest man alive My poppa was not a rolling stone, He's been around the world blowing his horn Still he came home, Then he got grown changed his name to Olu Come on tell them about all the places you been to,“I've been to Saudi Arabia Mozambique, Madagascar, Paris, Greece, but little Africa is where we live better known as Queensbridge" Nas, Nas you don't stop, Olu Dara in the house you don't stop, Muddy Waters Howlin' Wolf You don't stop, From the blues to street hop you don't stop Tell them pop Yeah I come from Mississippi, I was young and running wild Ended up in new york city, Where I had my first child I named the boy Nasir, All the boys call him Nas I told him as a youngster, He'll be the greatest man alive greatest man alive greatest man alive