Not Going Back (feat. Kelis)

[Nas]

What nigga! What bitch-ass niggaz! What! Babe, babe, start the car!

[Kelis]

Nasir, come on let's go! Get in the car now, let's go! Throw it out, let's go!

[Nas]

Aight, aight, aight, yeah. But I got 'em. But I got 'em, though.

[Kelis]

This is crazy, why didn't you just throw it out of the car?

This is so stupid, what are you doing? Why are we even out here?

Why are we out here? What's going on? This is retarded, yo we gotta..

This is crazy. Never again. You'd throw everything away, for what?

[Nas: laughs]

Yeah, my man Kool G Rap told me son do not look back

Chill up in the mansion with a fat glutious max, relax

When people act schoolin' with facts, tell 'em

At this point in my life I'm all about chillin'

Ridin' around in something sick and the dress flies

And twist, homie's hermano just died I gotta let it ride

That's what I got the public thinkin' my nigga

Just cause I ain't in the hood don't mean shit my nigga

I know who died before the body dropped

I know the guns that were used how much money the shooter got

Cause on the private yacht I'm still within earshot of it all

The top ten list of the most grimiest guys of all time

Is all we talk when we talk of New York y'all

Who to call and who to stay away from

Whose mother's address to have just to play it safe son

Women they lust up so quick to give 'em up

What cars and what trucks they drive in what towns

They spend the most time in when they grindin'

I found out most of them are cowards they hidin'

Behind reputations that's sour

Not going back

[Kelis]

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

[Nas] I'm not goin' back

[Kelis]

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

[Nas] I'm not goin' back

[Nas]

First thing that happen when you make a little paper

You think the Marriot is livin' in a skyscraper

Till you come across some ever more flyer paper

Realize that five-star 'tellies are even greater

Terry-cloth robes, elegance, movie shit

Heated-up marble floors with jacuzzis in it

First-class flights, diamonds in your crucifixes

All those things you still ain't really doin' shit kid

Cause in reality I'll earn my salary

The way I flaunted it then would now embarrass me

It kinda make me wanna hate bling it's a race thing

How they sell blacks to bootleg shit infact

Real millionaires spend 60 mil on paintings

Whores charge niggaz with raping

Cause we come out doors of Maybach cars

Watch us make bets on race tracks smokin' cigars

So they counter the laws to take what's ours

Bout 500K on a lawyer to beat the charge

So you can't stop us from making a billion dollars

Instead of goin' back I'm buying the projects

But I'm not going back

The hood's in me forever y'all

But I'm not going back

[Kelis]

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

[Nas] I'm not goin' back

[Kelis]

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

[Nas]

And of course y'all know what I'm not going back to

Those no friends of mine..

(And I'm not going back to)

Ten carat gold it shine..

(And I'm never going back to)

Sony if they don't have dough to sign..

(Not going back to)

Y'all know that I'm not going back to

Those liars who would..

(Not going back to)

Not help you if they could..

(Not going back to)

Coke on the stove in the hood..

Y'all should know that I'm not going back

The hood's in me forever y'all

But I'm not going back

[Kelis]

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

[Nas] I'm not goin' back

[Kelis]

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

[Nas] I'm not goin' back