[Hook: Nas]
Live now, niggas✦
There's✦ no promise✦ of a second✦ time around,✦ put it down
We'll just (live), live now, there's✦ no reason✦ why you shouldn't
Everything✦ is up to you
All you gotta✦ do is just (live), live now, we spending✦
Not under✦ the ground yet, we enjoying✦ every✦ second,✦ yo (Uh)
Live now, don't forget✦ to, bro
Yeah, 'cause I promise✦ you you'll regret✦ it, bro
[Verse 2: Scarlett]
It's been a long time since you came through to see ya sis
You know I love you, I've been a fan since Genesis
God, I respect you 'cause you never✦ tried to smash
Since we met a while back, and your style was mack
Now I see that you a man after✦ all you been through
A stand-up dude, held me down after✦ Sekou✦
Need more brothers like you in the hood, would have wifed✦ you if I could
But the white cells in my blood were no good
Said I had it ten years, but I was just a carrier
I thought, "Me a victim?",✦ could never✦ be my character
It's ill Se' passed✦ the way he did, didn't know how to tell him
Just happy✦ it ain't get in our kid
But all the things I did was the flyest
Experiences were priceless, remember days of diamond cuts
Nugget✦ rings, clubs in Queens, Jetta✦ cars
Used✦ to love them things, Barbados, Belize✦
I stayed over✦ seas, shopping sprees, credit✦ cards
Pockets of G's, left the hood, fattest cribs
To platinum from silver,✦ came back
Bitches calling me the black Liz Taylor, imagine that, rob me?
My nigga✦ would kill ya, they knew the rules✦
All the planes✦ I flew, niggas✦ I ran through
Lot of unprotected sex, don't know where it came from
Grimy✦ niggas,✦ rich niggas,✦ damn, it ain't a game, son
From the Cayman✦ Islands✦ to the Virgin✦ Islands✦
Gucci suitcases (coughs), a chick did it, F the screw faces✦
Critics and fans, they need to get a life
You doin' the right thing, settle down, get a wife now
I grew with you, so you know you make me proud
And most of all, you gotta✦ live now
[Hook: Scarlett]
Live now, nigga✦
Ain't no promise✦ of a second✦ time around,✦ put it down, would you
Live now, ain't no reason✦ why you shouldn't
Everything✦ is up to you
All you gotta✦ do is just live now, keep spending✦
Not under✦ the ground yet, keep enjoying✦ every✦ minute,✦ yo
Gotta✦ live it up to the limit,✦ yo
'Cause I promise✦ you, you'll regret✦ it, bro
[Outro: Scarlett]
Son, come close, lemme talk to you
I got music, put it out to the world, let 'em hear it
Look out for little me, one