[00:00.00]Bridging The Gap (小差距)-Nas [00:02.550]The light is there [00:09.50]See I come from Mississippi [00:11.939]I was young and runnin'wild [00:14.979]Ended up in New York City where I had my first child [00:21.209]I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas [00:27.709]I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive [00:33.469]Let's go Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey [00:44.199]Tribrary of these rap skits styles I mastered [00:46.438]Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it [00:49.247]But I'm still number one everyday real [00:51.777]Speak what I want I don't care what y'all feel [00:54.187]Cause I'm my own master my Pop told me be your own boss [00:57.756]Keep integrity at every cost and his home was Natchez Mississippi [01:02.96]Did it like Miles and Dizzy now we gettin'busy [01:04.726]Bridging The Gap from the blues to jazz to rap [01:07.515]The history of music on this track [01:10.414]Born in the game discovered my father's music [01:12.994]Like Prince searchin'through boxes of Purple Rain [01:15.514]But my Minneapolis was The Bridge home of the Superkids [01:18.383]Some are well-known some doin'bids [01:20.213]I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks [01:22.473]If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo [01:25.511]See I come from Mississippi [01:28.71]I was young and runnin'wild [01:30.631]Ended up in New York City where I had my first child [01:36.90]I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas [01:41.10]I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive [01:46.480]Greatest man alive (Nas Yeah turn it up ) [01:50.130]Gre-Gre-Gre-Gre-Greatest man alive [01:50.900]The blues came from gospel gospel from blues [01:53.750]Slaves are harmonizin'them ah's and ooh's [01:55.890]Old school new school know school rules [01:58.990]All these years I been voicin'my blues [02:00.989]I'm a artist from the start Hip-Hop guided my heart [02:03.659]Graffiti on the wall coulda ended in Spoffard juvenile delinquent [02:08.748]But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with [02:11.628]Books to read like X and stuff [02:13.847]Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia [02:16.317]In art class I was a compulsive sketcher of [02:18.987]Teachers in my homeroom I drew pix to mess them up [02:21.976]Cause none'a them would like my style [02:24.56]Read more books than the curriculum profile [02:26.596]Said Mr Jones please come get your child [02:29.145]Cause he's writin'mad poems and his s are wild [02:32.714]See I come from Mississippi [02:34.874]I was young and runnin'wild [02:37.354]Ended up in New York City where I had my first child [02:42.604]I named the boy Nasir all the boys call him Nas [02:47.704]I told him as a youngster he'll be the greatest man alive [02:52.934]Greatest man The great-greatest man alive [02:56.333]Hey-Hey-Hey --My Poppa was not a Rollin'Stone [02:59.571]He been around the world blowin'his horn still he came home [03:02.301]Then he got grown changed his name to Olu [03:05.251]Come on tell 'em 'bout the places you gone to [03:07.741]I been to Saudi Arabia Mozambique [03:10.430]Madagascar Paris Greece [03:13.60]The Middle Africa is where we lived [03:15.810]Better known as Queenbridge [03:18.569]Nas Nas you don't stop [03:20.559]Olu Dara in the house you don't stop [03:23.109]Muddy Waters'Howling Wolf you don't stop [03:25.677]From the Blues to Street Hop you don't stop [03:28.17]Tell 'em Pop [03:28.757]See I come from Mississippi (Let 'em know) [03:31.447]I was young and runnin'wild (Runnin'wild) [03:34.167]Ended up in New York City (Yeah ) [03:36.437]Where I had my first child (That's me) [03:39.57]I named the boy Nasir (Yeah Daddy ) [03:41.846]All the boys call him Nas (Luh ya boy) [03:44.376]I told him as a youngster [03:46.605]He'll be the greatest man alive (You the greatest Pop) [03:49.105]Greatest man alive (You the greatest Pop) [03:51.893]Gre-Gre-Gre-Gre-Greatest man alive