original text pronunciation

[Verse 1-1: Nas]

  • [00:27.24] lights, cameras, and action, glamour, glitters, and gold / I
  • [00:29.96] unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe / When I’m
    • stampede = 〔大勢の人に〕衝動で［熱狂的に］行動させる
  • [00:32.67] deceased, by then the beast arise like yeast / To conquer
    • yeast = 酵母、大騒ぎ
  • [00:35.38] peace leaving savages to roam in the streets / Live on the

[Verse 1-2: Nas]

  • [00:38.09] run, police paying me to give in my gun
    • give in = 降参する、受け入れる
  • [00:40.8] Trick my wisdom, with the system that imprisoned my son
  • [00:43.52] Smoke a gold leaf, I hold heat, nonchalantly / I’m
    • hold heat = 拳銃を所持する
    • nonchalantly = 無頓着に
  • [00:46.23] raunchy, but things I do is real it never haunts me
    • ranchy = ひわいな、汚い
    • haunt = 出没する、悩ませる

[Verse 1-3: Nas]

  • [00:48.94] While, funny style niggas roll in the pile / Rooster
  • [00:51.65] heads profile on a bus to Rikers Isle / Holdin’
  • [00:54.36] weed inside they pussy with they minds on the / Pretty things in
  • [00:57.08] life, gettin props is a true thug’s wife / It’s like a
  • [00:59.79] cycle, niggas come home, some’ll go in / Do a
    • do a bullet = 1 年刑務所に入ることのスラングっぽい
  • [01:02.5] bullet, come back and do the same shit again / From the
  • [01:05.21] womb to the tomb, I presume the unpredictable
  • [01:07.92] Guns salute life, rapidly, that’s the ritual

[Hook 1]

  • [01:10.63] Here’s a toast to my foes, trees, &
  • [01:13.35] women (Déjà Vu) It’s Like A Whole New Beginning…
  • [01:10.63] Here’s a toast to my foes, trees, &
  • [01:13.35] women (Déjà Vu) It’s Like A Whole New Beginning…
  • [01:10.63] Here’s a toast to my foes, trees, &
  • [01:13.35] women (Déjà Vu) It’s Like A Whole New Beginning…
  • [01:10.63] Here’s a toast to my foes, trees, &
  • [01:13.35] women (Déjà Vu) It’s Like A Whole New Beginning…

[Verse 2-1: Nas]

  • [01:32.33] thugs and alcohol, what a mixture / Just picture, ya
  • [01:35.04] life as a whole judged in court they convict ya / They
  • [01:37.75] telling you your state of mind, like you worthless / so he
  • [01:40.47] curses, his mom saying Bible verses / That’s all she

[Verse 2-2: Nas]

  • [01:43.18] works with / But miracles never leave the churches
  • [01:45.89] Instead, it hits the pockets of the Preacher just to purchase / A
  • [01:48.6] house, with a swimming pool, labels me a sinning fool
  • [01:51.31] I’m just a nigga who inherited a winning jewel

[Verse 2-3: Nas]

  • [01:54.02] To be a trendsetter, whenever subject to
    • trendsetter = (ファッションなどの) 流行をつくる人
  • [01:56.74] respect / This and all respect through is the essential / To
  • [01:59.45] street life, hustlin’ the struggle-broke ghettos
  • [02:02.16] Boiling coke settles, slow inside a glass kettle / There’s a

[Verse 2-4: Nas]

  • [02:04.87] Lee V on my T.V / Lifestyles of living easy / Go my
  • [02:07.58] crew tense, plottin’ to jips, to get whips with BBS / Pushing
  • [02:10.3] cakes, knew anorexics with ten plates / Cele-
  • [02:13.01] brating elevation in the seeds that we make / So How You Like That?

[Hook 2]

  • [02:15.72] Here’s a toast to my foes, trees, &
  • [02:18.43] women (Déjà Vu) It’s Like A Whole New Beginning…
  • [02:15.72] Here’s a toast to my foes, trees, &
  • [02:18.43] women (Déjà Vu) It’s Like A Whole New Beginning…
  • [02:15.72] Here’s a toast to my foes, trees, &
  • [02:18.43] women (Déjà Vu) It’s Like A Whole New Beginning…
  • [02:15.72] Here’s a toast to my foes, trees, &
  • [02:18.43] women (Déjà Vu) It’s Like A Whole New Beginning…

[Verse 3-1: Nas]

  • [02:37.41] Escobar life, gems and raw Tims / Gators for
  • [02:40.13] pretty boy haters / In Vegas with chicks trickin’ fortunes / I’m
  • [02:42.84] glistening, bells of cops whistling / Still I’m
  • [02:45.55] drifting in a high, blunts is like insulin / 9-

[Verse 3-2: Nas]

  • [02:48.26] 5-I, I drive high zoning / Stash box
  • [02:50.97] zoning my trunk, I flash not, teeth golden
  • [02:53.69] Look at me now Ma / Blowin’ but for how far? / Cars, Cash, and
  • [02:56.4] Bitches got me out more / And thins you never dreamed I can

[Verse 3-3: Nas]

  • [02:59.11] vouch for / Snake niggas, slither on the A-alikes
  • [03:01.82] I ain’t a Christian, but I find that we pray alike
  • [03:04.53] Never the one to ask for the time to a saint
  • [03:07.24] A mask and Nine, I think, will make my problems sink

[Verse 3-4: Nas]

  • [03:09.96] Down a canal, similar to how we drink
  • [03:12.67] Distinct diamond-flooded Sphinx shines on my links / Drug
  • [03:15.38] money, snortin’ bitches, in the end of times / Got my
  • [03:18.09] nine, till I flatline, nigga give me mine

[Outro]