Highly Favored - Nas

Patient

My faith is highly favored by the father, love to all

Rest in peace to Zanu, the barber brought cases

Celebrate and take us back to thought

The real New York, death to rapists and rats

The touch school to Brooklyn stories

The kings, the lifers, the lords of Queens

Or the stories on Puerto Rican righteous, I heard things

Know some people who know people

Getting money, the broke people claim you owe some people

It’s easy to explain anything to a real liver of life

Who live where you live and see shit the same

Gotta watch who you joke with or get checked

We easily mistake jokes for disrespect

Where I’m from, it’s never over if somebody dies

Somebody gon' ride, years later, somebody son, double 4−5

You laid up in ICU, hoping you survive

Too many stories like this one

What’s shaking?

My faith is highly favored by the father, peace to all (Peace to all, yeah)

Patience

My faith is highly favored by the father, peace to 'yall (Peace to y’all, yeah)

What’s shaking?

My faith is highly favored by the father, peace to all (Peace to all, yeah)

What’s shaking?

What’s shaking?

Uh, yeah

Some are caricatures, amateur boys

I’m like a classic pianist with a handful of sores

Bandages on my finger, still managing chords

Like a live band, performing in a sand storm

Blind, but I still hit the right keys

Swift as a life breeze, dripping

In fear of God, scented in Diptyque fragrance

Some nights Creed flavors, I am motivation

I don’t talk on the next man, I am never hating

This daily bread, holy bread

Alphabetical numerals, codes of red

What’s more dense, gold or lead?

What’s more expensive?

The OG said, «No matter what it is, rent it

And never buy it, it’s all temporary possessions

We don’t own nothing on this Earth but our soul and that’s the lesson»

Project apartment parties, rest in peace to Marley

Try not to get booked by Officer Laverty

What’s shaking?

My faith is highly favored by the father, peace to all (Peace to all, yeah)

Patience

My faith is highly favored by the father, peace to y’all (Peace to y’all, yeah)

What’s shaking?

My faith is highly favored by the father, peace to all (Peace to all, yeah)

What’s shaking?

What’s shaking?