Back When - Nas: letra, videos musicales y conciertos

Back When

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Hip-Hop/Rap

Back When fue lanzado el 1 de enero de 2012 por Def Jam Recordings como parte del álbum Life Is Good

Detalles de la canción

ÁlbumLife Is Good

Fecha de lanzamiento1 de enero de 2012

Sello discográficoDef Jam Recordings

IdiomaEnglish

Melodía

Nivel de sonidos acústicos

Valence

Capacidad para bailar

Energía

BPM93

DESCRIPCIÓN

LETRA

Créditos

ARTISTAS INTÉRPRETES

Nas

Intérprete

Steve Wyreman

Guitarra

James Poyser

Teclados

Kevin Randolph

Teclados

Kaye Fox

Voces adicionales

Hannah Sidibe

Voces adicionales

COMPOSICIÓN Y LETRA

Nas

Autoría

Ernest Wilson

Autoría

Barry Richard Forgie

Barry Richard Forgie

Autoría

Shawn Moltke

Autoría

Marlon Williams

Marlon Williams

Autoría

Chris DeGarmo

Autoría

PRODUCCIÓN E INGENIERÍA

No ID

Producción

Rob Kinelski

Ingeniería de mezcla

Anna Ugarte

Asistente de ingeniería de grabación

Keith Parry

Asistente de ingeniería de grabación

Stuart White

Ingeniería de grabación

Brandon Peralta

Brandon Peralta

Ingeniería de mezcla envolvente

Kaleb Kquick Rollins

Kaleb Kquick Rollins

Ingeniería de mezcla envolvente

Augusto Sanchez

Augusto Sanchez

Ingeniería de mezcla envolvente

Giovanni "Blu" Rottier

Giovanni "Blu" Rottier

Ingeniería de mezcla envolvente

Letra

[Verse 1]

Warning

New York

The sound

You about to hear

[Verse 2]

You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started

Got started (Start it off)

You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started

Got started (Ah, yeah)

You love to hear the story, how it all got started

Got started (Start it off, start it off, start it off, start it off)

Back when

Yeah

Yeah

[Verse 3]

The ill reminisce and think about the fly days

Nothing like them 80s summer NY days

Hop on the MB5 days

Mopeds, PRO-Keds, city split five ways

How it all started, fifth floor apartment

A jigsaw puzzle, aerial view of the projects (Back when)

A kid saw struggle, buried a few of his partners

Now I chill in resorts, enjoyin' massages (Ah, yeah)

Check out the oracle, bred from city housing

Nas, I arise the dead by thousands

I remember seein' Shan chillin' near his Audi

Hollis had Run and them, but I proudly

Put a poster up of Shan and Marley, that was art, kid (For real)

You love to hear the story how it started (Back when)

The bubbly I'm pourin' wasn't popped yet

Before there was a audience to watch us

I assure you, there was a process, yeah

[Verse 4]

You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started

(How it all got started, yeah)

Start it off

You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started

(How it, how it all got started)

Ah, yeah

You love to hear the story, how it all got started

(Hear the story, how it all)

Start it off, start it off, start it off, start it off (Back when)

(How it all got started)

Back when (Back when)

Back when (Ah, yeah)

[Verse 5]

To call 'em fake today is hate, real **** extinct

Pac left me inside a rap world with **** that wink

At other rappers, undercover **** spit every way

Won't be surprised if all they rides have federal plates (Ah, yeah)

Let alone they wardrobes and Studio 4 flow

It was real when I appeared, it would've been some jaws broke

(Back when)

Nas, my real name, stage name, same thing

How could you let these lames claim king? I'm so ashamed, mane

(Ah, yeah)

I light a L for Vernon, for **** who would burn in hell for Vernon

10th Street, 12th Street, Nightmare of Elm Street

Pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials

Of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true (Ah, yeah)

Who possesses the testicular fortitude

To blow away myths? That's a hinderance to all of you (Back when)

You blame your own shortcomings on sex and race

The mafia, homosexuals, and all the Jews (Ah, yeah)

It's hogwash point of views, stereotypical

Anti-Semitic like the foul words Gibson spewed

And it's pathetic, I don't get the credit I deserve

That's why I hate doin' interviews

But I don't sweat it, study long, study raw

My man Dion said Nas overthink the songs he writin' (Back when)

I'm not a wack performer standin' near no corny hype man

I got the donism in me, I'm here to enlighten

[Verse 6]

You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started (Yeah)

Got started (How it all got started, yeah)

Start it off

You love to hear the story, how it all, how it all got started

Got started (How it, how it all got started)

Ah, yeah

You love to hear the story, how it all got started (Hear the story)

Got started (How it all)

Start it off, start it off, start it off, start it off (Back when)

How it all got started

Back when (Back when)

Back when

Back when

Written by: Barry Richard Forgie, Chris DeGarmo, Ernest Wilson, Marlon Williams, Nas, Shawn Moltke

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