[00:00.000] 作曲 : Chris Martin/Nasir Jones[00:04.048][Chorus: Nas & Biz Markie][00:06.686]What defines my name[00:09.138]What defines my name[00:10.911]Nas[00:12.432]N-A-S[00:14.268]What defines my name[00:15.709]Nas[00:16.710]N-A-S[00:18.034]What defines my name[00:19.880][00:20.166][Verse 1: Nas][00:21.027]Name existed forever, means victory helper, whole name means protector[00:24.438]Shorten it by two letters, without the IR at the end[00:28.406]The reincarnated Gil Scott, livin' in the bottle again[00:30.643]The World Cup in Moscow where the [blonde is?] a ten[00:33.312]Vape pen when I speak, it's like a lottery win[00:35.739]Quote my total, Muay Thai mogul[00:38.714]So fly, I could walk in any spot, every box be soakin'[00:41.120]From a time when weed was stronger, today's streets are calmer[00:44.118]They used to kill for shades, sneaks and bombers[00:47.087]Uh, my name existed forever[00:51.715]Before Christians came in America, even better[00:54.378]When click sounds of they mouths was language for humans[00:55.565]With stick figures in caves, my name's written fluent[00:56.808]Nasty like way before even Rome had a sewage[00:59.390]For fifty-thousand years ago if I could choose this origin[01:02.501]Since there's nothin' to gain by assumin', I'ma say the definition of my name, the truest[01:07.350]I shocked 'em like real bullets in prop guns[01:09.927]Creep with baddies in sequins, dresses, we're high-strung[01:12.428]Fresh off the jet, you can see my vision where I've come[01:14.855]How much time y'all got?[01:16.556]Yo, Preem, let's drop somethin'[01:17.524][01:17.728][Chorus: Nas & Biz Markie][01:18.882]What defines my name[01:21.220]What defines my name[01:23.677]Nas[01:24.674]N-A-S[01:26.584]What defines my name[01:27.676]Nas[01:29.244]N-A-S[01:30.464]What defines my name[01:30.875][01:31.089][Verse 2: Nas][01:33.441]DNA of King James, kin of Saint Michael[01:35.292]Polygamous-minded, seven wives on ridiculous timin'[01:38.024]They always share the same title, that be the whiskey talk[01:40.793]That's foul like I stopped and frisked New York[01:43.119]At twenty, I said I'd better quit by thirty[01:46.435]Then by thirty, I thought by forty rapping is corny[01:48.208]How wrong was I?[01:49.148]Never would have thought at fifty new songs by Nas would be hard and live[01:52.046]I leave 'em scared like when they hear their name called but ain't nobody there[01:56.161]The definition of my name probably started where[01:58.968]I rode the E train, fingers covered in ink stains[02:01.487]Writin' was like an escape inside [?] flame[02:04.075]It was Rakim, [?] and Chris[02:06.331]Few names like Cool James, Face, Cube, and Rick that was musically sick[02:09.012]Successful and unnatural[02:10.194]I throw they songs in a cyanide capsule, the truth is poison to any fraud[02:15.964]Demigod, rockin' suits and shoes, goin' against any odds[02:19.428]How could you hate me? I survived the '80s[02:21.871]The [?], the trauma, embalming fluid and laced weed[02:24.468]Inhale fumes from a stove, we'll cook up, the show's booked up[02:27.114]I chose to take the world over, look up[02:29.357][02:29.628][Chorus: Nas & Biz Markie][02:30.523]What defines my name[02:33.687]What defines my name[02:35.141]Nas[02:36.796]N-A-S[02:38.672]What defines my name[02:39.825]Nas[02:41.289]N-A-S[02:42.385]What defines my name[02:44.172][02:44.410][Outro: DJ Premier & Nas][02:45.202]Ayy, yo, thirty years later, Illmatic was dropped[02:47.568]Yeah— man, what the **** am I doing?[02:50.208]Ayy, yo, Preem, chill[02:51.484]I got the rhymes, you got the beats[02:53.592]Aight[02:54.209]Thirty years later, we back in the streets, we back in the lab[02:57.289]Aight then, let's go Nas[02:58.876]It's time[02:59.747]It's album time, yeah[03:01.638]It's time?[03:03.014]It's time, [blackest?] time[03:04.022]Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-pow[03:05.779]Premier album still gon' happen