Nas, Mary J. Blige - Reach Out (Album Version (Explicit))

[00:00.69] DJ Hot Day [00:02.97] [00:09.67] This kind of love is a once in a lifetime groove [00:19.26] Reach out and touch the love that I have for you, aww baby [00:29.20] I see you standing there [00:31.34] So lost and all alone [00:33.97] I wanna take you in my arms [00:36.47] And tell you that you're home [00:38.85] I look into your eyes [00:41.03] I said I know you very well [00:43.65] I see a mirror of my life [00:46.35] A reflection of myself [00:48.60] 3:45 a.m., can't sleep, can't dream [00:50.76] I'm stuck, money problems pop up [00:52.57] How will I survive? [00:53.52] Guess it's best to decide not to decide [00:55.18] So that's my decision [00:56.56] Whatever happens happens [00:57.61] I keep making my millions [00:58.74] Can see myself in Presidential campaign dinners [01:01.21] But I'm passing blunts around a bunch of gang members [01:03.77] When you're too hood to be in them Hollywood circles [01:06.29] And you're too rich to be in that hood that birthed you [01:08.69] And you become better than legends you thought were the greatest [01:10.99] And outgrow women you loved and thought you could stay with [01:13.62] Life become clearer when you wipe down your mirror [01:16.03] And leave notes around for yourself to remember [01:18.38] I like to teach and build [01:19.65] With brothers about how easy it is to reach a mil [01:22.04] All you need is some skill, then it's grind time [01:24.40] Imagination better than knowledge, says Einstein [01:26.99] It's all in the mind [01:28.13] Nasty the nicest, I'm somewhat of a psychic [01:30.58] Just one minute after it's heard [01:32.16] You all'll recite it, you all'll repeat it [01:34.33] You'll call me a genius, if you didn't [01:36.31] Now that I said it I forced you to think it [01:37.92] Write in my little vignettes, sipping Moët [01:40.30] Bitch when you vision me, you vision the best [01:41.97] When I was young, they called me Olu's son [01:43.75] Now he's Nas' father, I was the good seed [01:46.24] He was the wise gardener [01:47.51] This kind of love is a once in a lifetime groove [01:57.25] Reach out and touch the love that I have for you, aww baby [02:06.41] Yo, beautiful life, often I dream that I can bring my niggas [02:10.18] Conservatives don't understand slang linguistics [02:12.56] The burbs talking like the hood will change with quickness [02:14.89] Love the skinny model chicks, but I prefer the thickness [02:17.24] So what I rap about my riches and I'm ostentatious [02:19.69] Get out a gangsta's business, seems to me your thoughts are basic [02:22.03] Try to compare what you live to the life I master [02:24.55] See the fly shit I wear, you try to rock it after [02:27.16] Big bracelets, golden Egyptian faces [02:29.21] White wine spritzers and Switzerland on vacation [02:31.65] The strip club scene favors Josephine Baker [02:34.15] Dope fiend neighbors, growing up I seen paper [02:36.83] I describe it, hope you can visualize it [02:39.19] This is reminiscent to all the parks in the project [02:41.64] When my British Knights can rival your Foamposites [02:43.89] Don't make me pull my Lottos out the closet [02:45.82] Ha-ha-ha [02:46.34] This kind of love is a once in a lifetime groove [02:56.09] Reach out and touch the love that I have for you, aww baby [03:05.86] I see you standing there [03:08.14] So lost and all alone [03:10.53] I wanna take you in my arms [03:13.08] And tell you that you're home [03:15.56] I look into your eyes [03:17.95] I said I know you very well [03:20.37] I see a mirror of my life [03:22.93] A reflection of myself [03:24.22] You remind me, oh [03:31.22] Yes, it's true baby, ahh yeah [03:40.74]