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