Japanese Soul Bar

"Japan, I ask you, do you love hip-hop music?"

Cigars in the Japanese Soul bar

Drinkin' Scots 'til daybreak, KD 3 had gold bars

These vibranium can't break (uh)

That's the one, do music for fun

Give deals to artists (yeah)

Pull up to the office (yeah)

Yeah, I'm from the project so quadruple in my youthful

So I could boost you

Unlimited game, I could shoot you (woo)

I own my masters now but the reversions is crucial (true)

I used to wonder, was they ever jerkin' the Juice Crew?

Wanted dead or alive, should have been platinum five times (G-Rap)

A young Russell, Rick Rubin and fly Ty, ran the music biz (uh)

Andre Harrell saw the future is Hip-Hop

The Hermitage Hotel balcony, Louis flip-flops

Meetings in the mezzanine (woo)

With production companies, talkin' bout me directing things

Said I need a CAA, instead I went to ICM

Said without an agency all my chances might be slim

My humble beginnings ain't what my hunger diminished (uh-huh)

I burn out of this game before I would run into millions (sheesh)

See that's a major fumble (uh) and I made for the jungle (true)

So I called Jungle, I said, "put away the bundles" (let's go)

Truly, they gon' cry when they see this movie (I know)

No dry eyes in the theater, the viewers are livin' through me (uh)

Been thinkin' bout

Who could play me in Tokyo, Paradisio, Belize (Yeah)

Karaoke, I'm participatin', singin' Barry

White that is (Ha), on a good night like this (Yeah, yeah)

How do I write like this?

First of all, you gotta have a good life like this (woo)

A real life like this

Cigars in the Japanese Soul bar

Drinkin' Scots 'til daybreak (Uh), KD 3 had gold bars (Yeah)

These vibranium can't break

That's the one, do music for fun

Make deals to artists (Yeah)

Pull up to the office

Make deals to artists

Pull up to the office

Yeah

Konichiwa

Yeah

Japanese Soul bar, red light bulbs

A turntable, record selection

Pictures and frames from those days

Soul music

Uh

Somebody from Queens brought it live tonight

You see a lot of Bronx acts, a lot of Brooklyn acts

But you never see Queens acts in the fever really

But Nasty Nas, one of the youngest artists out right now

Who's doin' this thing, new artist

Who's keepin' it live, keepin' it real

This is Nasty Nas

And the whole Queensbridge mafia, can I say that?

Now, Nas, you have a different stock

I-I-I-I know

There's a lot of rappers out there

Who I'm sure you looked up to over the years

But right now a lot of new rappers and older rappers lookin' up to you

How do you feel to be like, u-uh, a livin' prodigy?

I mean, it's a pride, it's a blessing

I'm a product of Hip-Hop, you know what I'm sayin'?

I'm a product of the old school and the newest of the new