Not Going Back

Yeah my man Kool G Rap told me

Son do not look back

Chill up in the mansion with a fat glutious max relax

When people act schoolin' with facts tell 'em

At this point in my life I'm all about chillin'

Ridin' around in something sick and the dress flies

And twist homie's hermano just died I gotta let it ride

That's what I got the public thinkin' my n***a

Just 'cause I ain't in the hood don't mean s**t my n***a

I know who died before the body dropped

I know the guns that were used

How much money the shooter got

'Cause on the private yacht I'm still within earshot of it all

The top ten list of the most grimiest guys of all time

Is all we talk when we talk in New York y'all

Who to call and who to stay away from

Whose mother's address to have just to play it safe son

Women they lust up so quick to give 'em up

What cars and what trucks they drive in

What towns they spend the most time in when they grindin'

I found out most of them are cowards

They hidin' behind reputations that's sour I'm not going back

Kelis/Nas：

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

I'm not going back

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

I'm not going back

Nas：

First thing that happen when you make a little paper

You think the Marriot is livin' in a skyscraper

Till you come across some ever more flyer paper

Realize that five-star tellies are even greater

Terry-cloth robes elegance movie s**t

Heated-up marble floors with Jacuzzis in it

First-class flights diamonds in your crucifixes

All those things you still ain't really doing s**t kid

'Cause in reality I'll earn my salary

The way I flaunted it then would now embarrass me

It kinda make me wanna hate bling

It's a race thing how they sell blacks to bootleg s**t

In fact real millionaires spend 60 mil on paintings

W***es charge n***as with raping

'Cause we come out doors of Maybach cars

Watch us make bets on race tracks smokin' cigars

So they counter the laws to take what's ours

'Bout 500K on a lawyer to beat the charge

So you can't stop us from making a billion dollars

Instead of going back I'm buying the projects

But I'm not going back

The hood's in me forever y'all but I'm not going back

Kelis/Nas：

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

I'm not going back

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

Nas：

And of course y'all know what I'm not going back to

Those no friends of mine

And I'm not going back to

Ten carat gold it shine

And I'm never going back to

Sony if they don't have dough to sign

Not going back to

Y'all know that I'm not going back to

Those liars who would

Not going back to

Not help you if they could

Not going back to

Coke on the stove in the hood

Y'all should know that I'm not going back

The hood's in me forever y'all but I'm not going back

Kelis/Nas：

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

I'm not going back

The streets keep tryin' to say

Come back around this way

I've already gone that way

I won't go back today

I'm not going back