Bridging the Gap-Nas/Olu Dara

[00:00.00] The light is there, yeah yeah [00:08.52]See I come from [00:09.39]Mississippi [00:11.58]I was young and runnin' wild [00:14.88]Ended up in [00:15.48]New York City, where [00:18.15]I had my first child [00:21.21]I named the boy [00:22.11]Nasir, all the boys call him [00:25.50]NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive [00:33.15]Let's go, hey hey hey hey [00:43.74]Tribrary of these rap skits, styles [00:45.81]I mastered [00:46.53]Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it [00:49.08]But I'm still number one, everyday real [00:51.63]Speak what [00:52.20]I want, I don't care what y'all feel' [00:53.82]Cause I'm my own master [00:55.68]My Pop told me, "Be your own boss keep integrity at every cost" [00:59.19]And his home was [01:00.06]Natchez Mississippi [01:01.95]Did it like [01:02.58]Miles and [01:03.06]Dizzy, now we gettin' busy [01:04.65]Bridging The [01:05.16]Gap from the blues, to jazz, to rap [01:07.56]The history of music on this track [01:09.93]Born in the game, discovered my father's music [01:12.63]Like Prince searchin' through boxes of [01:14.22]Purple Rain [01:15.12]But my Minneapolis was [01:16.44]The Bridge, home of the [01:17.34]SuperkidsSome are well-known, some doin' bids [01:19.86]I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks [01:22.38]If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo [01:25.53]See I come from [01:26.16]Mississippi [01:28.11]I was young and runnin' wild [01:30.72]Ended up in [01:31.26]New York City, where [01:33.45]I had my first child [01:35.70]I named the boy [01:36.66]Nasir, all the boys call him [01:39.27]NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive [01:43.86]Greatest man alive, gre-gre-gre-gre-greatest man alive [01:50.64]The blues came from gospel, gospel from blues [01:53.25]Slaves are harmonizin' them ah's and ooh's [01:55.83]Old school, new school, know school rules [01:58.71]All these years [01:59.46]I been voicin' my blues [02:00.69]I'm a artist from the start, hip-hop guided my heart [02:03.39]Graffiti on the wall, coulda ended in [02:05.43]Spoffard, juvenile delinquent [02:08.46]But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with [02:11.25]Books to read, like [02:12.60]X and stuff' [02:13.50]Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia [02:15.93]In art class [02:16.77]I was a compulsive sketcher of [02:18.78]Teachers in my homeroom, [02:20.13]I drew pix to mess them up' [02:21.96]Cause none'a them would like my style [02:23.82]Read more books than the curriculum profile [02:26.31]Said, " Mr. Jones please come get your child'Cause he's writin' mad poems and his verses are wild" [02:32.19]I was born in [02:32.97]Mississippi [02:34.86]I was young and runnin' wild [02:37.26]Moved to New [02:38.10]York City, where [02:40.26]I had my first child [02:42.48]I named the boy [02:43.41]Nasir, all the boys call him [02:46.02]NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive [02:52.47]Greatest man, the great -greatest man alive [02:55.92]Hey hey hey, my [02:57.27]Poppa was not a [02:58.08]Rollin' Stone [02:59.19]He been around the world blowin' his horn, still he came home [03:02.55]Then he got grown, changed his name to [03:04.26]OluCome on, tell 'em 'bout all the places you gone to [03:07.26]I been to [03:07.59]Saudi Arabia, [03:08.88]Mozambique [03:10.23]Madagascar, [03:11.31]Paris, Greece [03:12.72]The Middle [03:13.23]Africa is where we lived [03:15.45]Better known as [03:16.83]Queenbridge [03:18.30]Nas, Nas you don't stop [03:20.16]Olu Dara in the house, you don't stop [03:22.71]Muddy Waters' [03:23.49]Howling Wolf you don't stop [03:25.29]From the Blues to [03:26.04]Street Hop you don't stop [03:27.60]Tell 'em Pop [03:28.77]See I come from [03:29.37]Mississippi [03:31.29]I was young and runnin' wild [03:33.93]Ended up in [03:34.47]New York City, where [03:36.72]I had my first child [03:38.97]I named the boy [03:39.87]Nasir, all the boys call him [03:42.51]NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive [03:48.42]Greatest man alive, gre -gre-gre -gre-greatest man alive [03:54.42]Rest in peace [03:54.90]Ray Charles