Nostalgia

[00:09.63] Yo, what's up Marco?
[00:12.73] What's up Brooklyn?
[00:15.35] Filthy rich
[00:18.35] People in the audience, Masta Ace the name
[00:21.03] I write rhymes and insert them inside your vein
[00:23.59] They run through your bloodstream, get inside your brain
[00:25.95] 'Cause I first put my name up inside the train
[00:28.28] My mic control has been unprecedented
[00:30.85] And you wrong if you thought you was the best that did it
[00:33.40] See I just started messing with it, I been married to the game since '88
[00:36.90] You just committed
[00:38.29] The entire fate of the whole Empire States
[00:40.82] Into hands of a man that's here to inspire hate
[00:43.13] Hate for the state of the music
[00:45.00] And all these other cats looking for another way to abuse it
[00:48.02] I wake you up like a gun in the face
[00:50.41] I'm just here to let you know who's like running the place
[00:53.36] And everywhere that I perform and do a show
[00:55.48] As long as you know
[00:57.24] "This is for those that don't know the half"
[01:02.79] "Backtrack turn back the page"
[01:04.69] "Let me show y'all new rappers"
[01:06.00] "That's how the game go"
[01:07.69] "This is for those that don't know the half"
[01:12.29] "Backtrack turn back the page"
[01:14.76] "Don't be missing any word I say"
[01:17.21] You love to hear the story, again and again
[01:19.30] How it all got started from beginning to end
[01:22.00] When cats used to run in a pack and slaughter
[01:24.53] The rooftop, Union Square and the latin quarter
[01:26.93] And if you came alone then your chain was gone
[01:29.38] Unless you was from the hood and your name was known (Yup)
[01:32.10] And even then you was taking a risk
[01:34.08] They would rush you for your chain while you was taking a piss
[01:36.34] Hip hop used to be so thick in the air
[01:39.05] When it was there you ain't even need a kick and a snare
[01:41.12] It could have been finger snaps and hand claps
[01:43.41] But nowadays it feels a little different when a man raps
[01:46.60] The track commence and these cats are french
[01:48.84] The media lacking sense, what I rap's intense and
[01:51.62] I be the best in these rap events
[01:53.47] And how I got this far?
[01:54.79] It's called experience, come on
[01:56.72] "This is for those that don't know the half"
[02:01.00] "Backtrack turn back the page"
[02:03.38] "Let me show y'all new rappers"
[02:04.98] "That's how the game go"
[02:06.29] "This is for those that don't know the half"
[02:10.98] "Backtrack turn back the page"
[02:13.12] "Don't be missing any word I say"
[02:15.30] Yo it's the Ace in the flesh, of course I'm fresh
[02:17.92] Oh you thought that I was rotten?
[02:19.31] Huh, you must have gotten a bad sack of weed cause I track your speed
[02:22.83] I run up, fondle your wife and smack your seed
[02:25.25] I've been a star since Pat Benatar
[02:27.94] And I still want the house, the boat, the truck and the car
[02:30.71] The limousine with the big screen and the bar
[02:33.10] I'm trying to eat, watch it pour on like vine-gar
[02:35.57] 'Cause I'm old and grey, control the day
[02:37.68] I'm kinda like the light cause I show the way
[02:40.02] I'm the one to collect the funds and hold the pay
[02:42.60] The kind that fold away than I stroll the way
[02:44.82] Shit, I can't name all the hits we charted
[02:47.32] That crazy ass Crooklyn ass shit, we got it
[02:50.08] We came here tonight to get started
[02:52.14] To cold act ill and get retarded
[02:55.05] "This is for those that don't know the half"
[02:59.66] "Backtrack turn back the page"
[03:01.90] "Let me show y'all new rappers"
[03:03.48] "That's how the game go"
[03:04.76] "This is for those that don't know the half"
[03:09.39] "Backtrack turn back the page"
[03:11.37] "Don't be missing any word I say"
[03:14.38] "This is for those that don't know the half"
[03:19.37] "Backtrack turn back the page"
[03:23.97] "This is for those who don't know the half"
[03:30.77] "In this rap game"
[03:32.58] "This might be my last"