Album Intro

*Yee-hah`s and whips cracking in background*<br>-Hey Nas, hey hey boy, you see what they done did to Jimmy and Lee.<br>Nas:Mmmhmm. Damn, man.<br>-I can`t take it man.<br>Nas:Sho` can`t.<br>-You think this is gonna eva` change?<br>Nas:Man, damn this place, man! Damn these chains! These damn<br>chitlins every damn night. <br>-This cotton.<br>Nas:Shit!<br>-I can`t take it man.<br>Nas:Harriett done left the night befo`. It`s time we go. <br>Aint no place for black folk here. Man, promise land callin`<br>me man.<br>-It`s callin` me too.<br>Nas:It`s time we go.<br>-Yeah, I`m wichou!<br>Nas:Hey man, hey damn these chains, man. Damn you master, you<br>ain`t my master, man! <br>*Sounds of punching and bumping*<br>Nas:You aint nothin`, you aint nothin.<br><br>-Hey Bandit, Bandit, get the dogs! Get the hounds, we gonna<br>have ourselves a hangin` tonight!<br><br>Nas:Nineteen-ninety-six!<br>Back up in this nigga.<br>The right way, though, you know? <br>-Double-tre son, you know aint nothin`<br>coincedental or accidental, son.<br>Nas:No doubt!<br>-You know how it`s goin` down, man.<br>Nas:It was all written.<br>-No question, I`m sayin` man, I mean, how we playin` man,<br>you know what I`m sayin`, they dealt us in, son.<br>They playin` with a fifty-four deck, you see with the<br>Jokers in and everything, you know what I`m saying?<br>Nas:Son, I`m playin` with the fifty-two.<br>-You wanna stress on how I used to play, that`s how I play.<br>Nas:But, yo, they takin` us into this next millenium, right now.<br>-I`m sayin` law, you know what I`m sayin` we gotta lay the law,<br>cause without law aint no order, you know what I`m sayin`, <br>that`s why these cats are slippin`<br>through, you know what I`m sayin? They got the rules missin`,<br>though.<br>Nas:True.<br>-Yo, word up, though, you know what I mean?<br>Nas:Son, these niggas look faker than the new hundred dollars, son.<br>-Yeah, you see that they look Monopoly money, right?<br>Nas:Word, with the big ass face on it.<br>-Yo, what I`m sayin`, we see through all that, though<br>you know what I`m sayin?<br>Nas:No question.<br>-All eyes seein`, son, you know we real.<br>Nas:Yo, no doubt. In the Qu`ran it says Nas, the men.<br>Nesa`s the woman, know? It was written.