Nas - It Was Written Album Intro lyrics

*Yee-hah´s & whips cracking in background*
-Hey Nas, hey hey boy, you see what they done did to Jimmy & Lee.
Nas:Mmmhmm. Damn, man.
-I cannot take it man.
Nas:Sho´ can´t.
-You think this is going to eva´ change?
Nas:Man, damn this place, man! Damn these chains! These damn
chitlins every damn night.
-This cotton.
Nas:Shit!
-I cannot take it man.
Nas:Harriett done left the night befo´. It is time we go.
Ain´t no place for black folk here. Man, promise land callin´
me man.
-It is callin´ me too.
Nas:It is time we go.
-Yea, I am wichou!
Nas:Hey man, hey damn these chains, man. Damn you master, you
aint my master, man!
*Sounds of punching & bumping*
Nas:You ain´t nothin´, you ain´t nothin.

-Hey Bandit, Bandit, get the dogs! Get the hounds, we going to
have ourselves a hangin´ tonight!

Nas:Nineteen-ninety-six!
Back up in this nigga.
The right way, though, you know?
-Double-tre son, you know ain´t nothin´
coincedental or accidental, son.
Nas:No doubt!
-You know how it is goin´ down, man.
Nas:It was all written.
-No question, I am sayin´ man, I mean, how we playin´ man,
you know what I am sayin´, they dealt us in, son.
They playin´ with a fifty-four deck, you see with the
Jokers in & everything, you know what I am saying?
Nas:Son, I am playin´ with the fifty-two.
-You want to stress on how I used to play, that is how I play.
Nas:But, yo, they takin´ us into this next millenium, right now.
-I am sayin´ law, you know what I am sayin´ we´ve got to lay the law,
cause without law ain´t no order, you know what I am sayin´,
that is why these cats are slippin´
through, you know what I am sayin? They got the rules missin´,
though.
Nas:True.
-Yo, word up, though, you know what I mean?
Nas:Son, these niggas look faker than the new hundred dollars, son.
-Yea, you see that they look Monopoly money, right?
Nas:Word, with the big ass face on it.
-Yo, what I am sayin´, we see through all that, though
you know what I am sayin?
Nas:No question.
-All eyes seein´, son, you know we real.
Nas:Yo, no doubt. In the Qu´ran it says Nas, the men.
Nesa´s the woman, know? It was written.

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