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Can't Forget About You Lyrics

[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 about how life is golden
So I will 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, 8 by 10's
of the whole Rat 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 y'all
See I almost felt a tear drop

[Chorus]
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

[Hook]
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 [2x]

Ohh, I'm that history I'm that block
I'm that lifestyle I'm that spot
I'm that kid by the number spot
That's my past that made me hot
Here's my life long anthem
Can't forget about you
(Can't forget about, Can't forget about you) [2x]

[Nas]
Can't forget about the old school, Bam, Cas, Melle Mel, Flash
Rocksteady spinnin on they back
Can't forget when the first rap Grammy went to Jazzy, Fresh Prince
Fat Boys broke up, rap hasn't been the same since
So irregular, how it messed you up
when Mr. T became a wrestler
Can't forget about Jordan's retirement
The shot Robert Horry 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 make love

[Chorus]

[Hook]

[Nas]
Unforgettable, unsubmittable, I go by N now
Just one syllable, it's the end cause the game's tired
It's the same vibe, Good Times had right after James died
That's why the gangsta rhymers ain't inspired
Heinous crimes help record sales more than creative lines
And I don't wanna keep bringing 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 moon walk on Motown 25

[Chorus]

[Hook]

[Nat King Cole sample]
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too
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gplpark92 On Jan 04, 2007
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This song is very overlooked.. It's a very catchy tune to chill to... Reminds me of the old New York days when broadway was more popular then Hollywood, and when people used chariots instead of cars for transportation..so yeah.

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Oh, and Nate King was a great singer

Cover art for Can't Forget About You lyrics by Nas

One of the best songs off his new album. When i first got my hands on it, i wasn't particularly enamored with it but their's so many tracks on their that will become classics.

Peace

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Nasty Nas (or N as he refers to himself now) reflects on his two musical "parents": Queensbridge and hip-hop. He's indebted and committed to the two, and this song is a way for him to give back and proclaim his love to the communities.

The well-placed addition of the Nat King Cole sample at the end shows Nas graciously acknowledging his own accomplishments in hip-hop. Nas will always remember hip-hop... and hip-hop will always remember Nas (Illmatic made sure of that).

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could it be "these streets hold my deep disdain"? and the singing chorus be an ironic ballad about where grew up?

Cover art for Can't Forget About You lyrics by Nas

edit: i meant to say, the chorus was about the current state of what the "streets" are

Cover art for Can't Forget About You lyrics by Nas

This song gives me chills. It's sublime.

Cover art for Can't Forget About You lyrics by Nas

Nas really tells it as it is. This track however is a bit too similar to his first single hip hop is dead

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just one thing that gets me .. he's like "the past, the past, enough of it aight then" and then goes on to reminisce some more.

anyway, i'm not very knowledgeable on rap so I don't know most of what he's talking about but sounds very nostalgic. i could very easily cry to this if I had been there for all that. i like the sample at the end too.