40-16 Building lyrics - Nas

That '70s heroin

Heroin pressed on

Teflon

I got so many kids in the game, it's like a gender revealing

I got that feeling, Lionel Richie Dancin' on the Ceilin'

Hope it resemble a Van Gogh when you paint me the villain

The hate is real, but you should know that the love is way realer

Crafty with a pen way before I could pack 'em in

Nasty with dreads, a slim teen, young, I was passionate

A brand new book, crackling sound when you open, I'm writing gems

I make gospel in the booth, it might sound like I'm writing hymns

Put designer with the Timbs, wow

They wanna run with my style

40-16 building, bussin' 'em down

And the fiends was like employees bringin' customers 'round

Hurricane waters, niggas had dreams of flooding the town

Weather report lookin' rainy, but I skate through it daily

In a new gray Mercedes, waterproof Jordan Laneys

Some sizzling, scorchin', handsomely how they gotta pay me

Every recording off the head, I'm in the studio lately

I don't bang, but I'm makin' that Crip

Let my bitch run in the Webster while I blaze in the whip

Take my quotes

I'm here to give hope

Start a company from one of my phrases

We in the age of lettin' dumb shit kill ya kingdom

Body bags for no reason

Young shit, blunts lit, slurring off of the Seagram's

Hell with it, creep through the shadows

Eyes wide open, Thai still smokin'

Brake screechin', he's tweakin'

He see himself way different than we see him

He speak as if these mean streets was only his region

Shit, everybody's squeezin'

Niggas know what I came in this game with

I'm not a entertainer, that's just a disclaimer

For what I'm 'bout to say

Famous people sayin' they hate bein' famous

Millionaires hate it

People take just to feel like they made it

Whoever claim that you changed 'cause that money came

They'd do the same if they saw their name on a hundred thangs

Pardon the haters, it's my billi behavior

If they don't say I'm the G.O.A.T., that's just silly behavior

It's the ones you grew up with

That's with the dumb shit

They want you slumped 'cause you get love

Ain't that some shit?

Twenty trucks at the awards, we be movin' so crazy

I don't buy into the hype, I'm in the studio lately

It's the ones you grew up with

That's with the dumb shit

They want you slumped 'cause you get love

Ain't that some shit?

Twenty trucks at the awards, we be movin' so crazy

I don't buy into the hype, I'm in the studio lately

I don't bang, but I'm makin' that Crip

Let my bitch run in the Webster while I blaze in the whip

I'm outta here

I told niggas I was in rare from on the last album

I ain't playin' out here

It's not a game

Woo