I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that
I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that

Yo
I never brag how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret
I rock a vest prestigious, Cuban link flooded Jesus
In a Lex, watchin' Kathie Lee and Regis
My actions are one with the seasons
A TEC squeezin' executioner
Wintertime, I rock a fur
Mega popular center of attraction
Climaxing my bitches, they be laughing
They high from sniffing coke off a twenty-cent Andrew Jackson
City lights spark a New York night
Rossi and Martini sipping, Sergio Tacchini
Flippin' mad pies, low price, I blow dice and throw them
.45 by my scrotum, manifest the Do or Die slogan
My niggas roll in ten M3's
Twenty Gods poppin' wheelies on Kawasaki's
Hip hop's got me on some ol', spraying shots like a drum roll
Blankin' out and never miscount the shells my gun hold
I don't stunt, I regulate
Henny and Sprite, I separate
Watchin' crab niggas marinate
I'm all about TEC's, a good jux and sex
Israelite books, holdin' government names from Ness
MC's are crawlin' out every hole in the slum
You be aight like blood money in a pimp's cum

I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that
I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that
For you wack MC's

Currency is made in the trust of the Messiah
I'm spendin' it to get higher
Earth, Wind and Fire singing Reasons why I'm
Up early, trustworthy is a nine that bust early
Sunshine on my grill, I spill
Remy on imaginary graves
Put my hat on my waves
Latter Day Saints say religious praise
I, dolo, challenge any team or solo
You must be buggin' out, new to my shit, home on a furlough
Ask around who's laid up, sharp and straight up
Mafioso, gettin' niggas' wakes sprayed up
Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
I'll one day walk into shots, drunk off champagne from Sicily
This be the drama, I'ma pause like a comma in a sentence
Paragraph's indented
Bloodshot red eyes, high
Yellow envelopes of lye
Openin' cigars, let tobacco fly
Condos are tune-proof, we're looking out the sky's moonroof
Shittin' like gin and prune juice
Yo, the system wants the coon's noose, hang 'em high
Courtrooms filled up
It's off the hook while I just wrote a statement
Like I'm facing twenty years in the basement
Chillin' on the VI with Mumia, for wearin' chrome
I told the judge snakes slither like Sharon Stone
But like Capone, I'm thrown, yo

I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that
I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that
For you wack MC's
I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that (lyrical, ly-lyrical shine)
I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that
For you wack MC's

Yo, the time is wastin', I use the mind elevation
Dime sack lacin', court pen pacin'
Individual, lyrical math abrasion
Psychic evaluation, the foulest nation we livin' in
Dangerous lives, mad leak and battered wives
A lifestyle on bad streets is patternized
Wise men build and destroy
While the real McCoy dope fiend named Detroit is still dealin' boy
Coke suppliers actin' biased
'Cause rumors say that niggas wear wires and we liars
But every night the gat's fired, and every day a rat's hired
I still remain the mack flyest in the phat Kani, it's
Just the killer in me, slash drug dealer, MC
Ex-slug filler, semi mug peeler
Demi, bottles of Mo'
Yo, simply follow me flow, put poetry inside a crack pot and blow
Rough hoes pull crack out pussies and butt-holes
Bring the G's and the D's roll, they can't touch those
Why shoot the breeze about it, when you could be about it
My degrees are routed toward the peasy haired brick houses
And studded-up, thicke medallions
Rich niggas transportin' thousands
Foreign cash exchange amountin' to millions
Doors is locked, rocks is chopped, watch the cameras in the ceilings
Trick bitches catchin' mad feelings
Peeling off in the Lex Jeep, techniques is four-wheelin'
I bet it be some shit when we connect with Stretch
When we catch them sex niggas with the TEC's you blessed, word
So now it's on, never wasted a slug
Time is money when it comes to mine, take it in blood

Yea, Capone-n-Noreaga
Yeah, yo, offical Queensbridge murderers
Mobb Deep keep it real though
Mothafuckin' AZ, yo
'Mega, 'Mega, whatever
Scarlett O'Hara, Fox Boogie
East New York
Yambo, Brownsville
Wizard, Far Rockaway
Big Bo, Jersey
Connecticut, DC, Sudan
VA, NC, LA
So on and so on
Big Ha, Houston Fifth Ward
Black Ed, keep it real, Moe


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Take It In Blood Lyrics as written by Wallace Childs Nasir Jones

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    This is my favorite hip hop song of all time. The beat is simple but powerful, and NaS just wont quit.

    He is basically saying that whatever happens, he will be himself. Nothing changes him.

    ZestyMordanton October 03, 2006   Link
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    I've recently found a new appreciation for this song, I've known it for like 3 years but now I really think it's dope. to me it's just a big stream of consciousness with what he sees and how he lives.

    sixstringshredderon May 11, 2007   Link
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    Lupe Fiasco's favorite song of all time, just an interesting tidbit for everyone who loves this song as much as I do.

    LennonFiascoon November 10, 2008   Link

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