Can't Forget About You (feat. Nas)

1st VERSE (Nas)

There comes a day in your life

When you wanna kick back

Straw hat on the porch when you old perhaps

Wanna gather your thoughts have a cold one, brag

To your grandkids on how life is golden

So I'ma light a cigar in the corridor of the crib

Pictures on the wall of all the things that I did

All the money and fame, eight by tens

Of the whole Brat Pack inside of a big frame

Collidin' with big names that could've made your career stop

All that, and your man is still here and I'm still hot

Wow, I need a moment ya'll, see I almost felt a tear drop

CHORUS

(Nas)

When was the last time you heard a real anthem?

Nas, The Millionaire, The Mansion?

When was the last time you heard your boy, Nas, rhyme?

Never on schedule, but always on time

(Chrisette Michele)

These streets hold my deepest days

This 'hood taught me golden ways

Made me (truly, this is what made me)

Break me (not a thing's gonna break me)

These streets hold my deepest days

This 'hood taught me golden ways

Made me (truly, this is what made me)

Break me (not a thing's gonna break me)

Oh, I'm that history, I'm that block

I'm that lifestyle, I'm that spot

I'm that kid by the numbered spot

That's my past that made me hot

Here's my lifelong anthem... Can't forget about you

2nd VERSE (Nas)

Can't forget about the old school

Bam, Caz, Melly Mel, Flash

Rock Steady spinnin' on they back

Can't forget when the first rap Grammy went to Jazzy

Fresh Prince, Fat Boyz broke up

Rap hasn't been the same since

So irregular, how it mess you up when Mr. T became a wrestler

Can't forget about Jordan's retirement

The shot Robert Horry hit to win the game in the finals, kid

Some things are forever, some things are not

It's the things we remember that gave the world shock

They stay in a place in your mind so snug

Like who the person was with whom you first made love

CHORUS

(Nas)

When was the last time you heard a real anthem?

Nas, The Millionaire, The Mansion?

When was the last time you heard your boy, Nas, rhyme?

Never on schedule, but always on time

(Chrisette Michele)

These streets hold my deepest days

This 'hood taught me golden ways

Made me (truly, this is what made me)

Break me (not a thing's gonna break me)

These streets hold my deepest days

This 'hood taught me golden ways

Made me (truly, this is what made me)

Break me (not a thing's gonna break me)

Oh, I'm that history, I'm that block

I'm that lifestyle, I'm that spot

I'm that kid by the numbered spot

That's my past that made me hot

Here's my lifelong anthem... Can't forget about you

3rd VERSE (Nas)

Unforgettable, unsubmittable

I go by "N" now, just one syllable

It's the "N" 'cuz the game's tired, it's the same vibe

Good Times had right after James died

That's why the gangster rhymers ain't inspired

Heinous crimes help record sales more than creative lines

And I don't wanna keep bringin' up the greater times

But I'm a dreamer, nostalgic with the state of mind

The past the past, enough of it, 'aight then

But nothing gives me chills like Douglas and Tyson

Or Mike when his talk was live

Or when he first did the moonwalk on Motown 25

CHORUS

(Nas)

When was the last time you heard a real anthem?

Nas, The Millionaire, The Mansion?

When was the last time you heard your boy, Nas, rhyme?

Never on schedule, but always on time

(Chrisette Michele)

These streets hold my deepest days

This 'hood taught me golden ways

Made me (truly, this is what made me)

Break me (not a thing's gonna break me)

These streets hold my deepest days

This 'hood taught me golden ways

Made me (truly, this is what made me)

Break me (not a thing's gonna break me)

Oh, I'm that history, I'm that block

I'm that lifestyle, I'm that spot

I'm that kid by the numbered spot

That's my past that made me hot

Here's my lifelong anthem... Can't forget about you

OUTRO (Nat King Cole)

That's why darling

It's incredible

That someone so unforgettable

Thinks that I am unforgettable... too