Represent, represent

Represent, represent

Represent, represent

Represent, represent

Straight up, shit is real

And any day could be your last in the jungle

Get murdered on a humble, guns'll blast, **** tumble

The corners is the hot spot, full of mad criminals

Who don't care, guzzling beers

We all stare at the out-of-towners

They better break North before we get the four pounders

And take their face off

The streets is filled with undercovers

Homicide chasing brothers

The Ds on the roof tryin' to watch us and knock us

And killer coppers even come through in helicopters

I drink a little vodka, spark a L and hold a Glock

For the fronters, wannabe ill **** and spot runners

Thinking it can't happen till I trap 'em and clap 'em

And leave 'em done

Won't even run about Gods

I don't believe in none of that shit, your facts are backwards

Nas is a rebel of the street corner

Pulling a TEC out the dresser

Police got me under pressure

Represent, represent

Represent, represent

Represent, represent

Represent, represent

Yo, they call me Nas, I'm not your legal type of fella

Moet drinking, marijuana smoking street dweller

Who's always on the corner rolling up blessed

When I dress it's never nothing less than Guess

Cold be walking with a bop and my hat turned back

Love committing sins and my friends sell crack

This **** raps with a razor, keep it under my tongue

The school dropout, never liked the shit from day one

'Cause life ain't shit but stress, fake **** and crab stunts

So I guzzle my Hennessy while pulling on mad blunts

The brutalizer, Brutus-izer, accelerator

The type of **** who be pissing in your elevator

Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game

Used to sport Bally's and Cazals with black frames

Now I'm into fat chains, sex and TECs

Fly new chicks and new kicks, Heine's and Beck's

Represent, represent

Represent, represent

Represent, represent

No doubt, see my stacks are fat

This is what it's about

Before the BDP conflict with MC Shan

Around the time when Shante dissed the real Roxanne

I used to wake up every morning see my crew on the block

Everyday's a different plan that had us running from cops

If it wasn't hanging out in front of cocaine spots

We was at the candy factory breaking the locks

Nowadays I need the green in a flash just like the next man

Fuck a yard, God, let me see a hundred grand

Could use a gun, son, but fuck being the wanted man

But if I hit rock bottom then I'ma be the son of Sam

Then call the crew to get live too with Swoop Bokeem

My brother Jungle, Big Bo cooks up the blow

Mike'll chop it, Mayo, you count the profit

My shit is on the streets, this way the Jakes'll never stop it

Is your brain on drugs to all fly bitches and thugs?

'Nough respect to the projects, I'm ghost, one love

Represent y'all, represent

Represent y'all, represent

Represent y'all, represent

Represent y'all, represent

One time for your motherfuckin' mind

This goes out to everybody in New York

That's living the real fucking life and every projects, all over

To my man Big Will, who's still here

The forty side of Vernon

My man Big LES

Big Cee-Lo from the dime

Shawn Penn, the forty busters

My crew shorty busters

The forty-first side of Vernon posse

The Goodfellas

My man Cormega, Lakey the Kid

Can't forget Draws, the Hillbillies

My man Slate, Wallethead, Black Jay, Big Oogi

Crazy various spot, Big Thug

We rock shit a lot, Ph D

And my man Preemo from Gang Starr

'94, real shit y'all

Fuck y'all crab ass **** though

Bitch ass ****

Bitch ass ****

Bitch ass motherfuckers

Come to Queensbridge, motherfucker

Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yo, let's go

Let's bring it back

That's just to, that's just to warm us up, man

'Cause I-, 'cause we buggin'