Nas - Surviving the Game

Im not sure about the names he throws out, help would be appreciated..


[Verse 1]
I was young, i was surviving the times
Waiting for my moment i was destined to shine
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I was hoping im next
Wantin bracelets never had a rope on my neck
Unless i was holding ??? chain
Rest in peace, even though that night you flipped on us
You warned us, if you came back and we still on the corners
We goners, movin onta
Move ya arm and ya watch, to another time on the block
Cause this 40 side where they say shorty rhyme
Tragedy, he use to come through all the time
Im talkin Juice Crew not what the word defined
He had a sister named Erin, for sure was fine
That was my first crush
I bought my first mic
I wrote my first verse, i was about nine
I was about my fantasize house buyin
Met Paul, he wore some big glasses
Him and Mel ??? took me where G Rap lives
I was happy gettin some answers
I ain't even know what a record advance was
I'm seein hoes secksin the studio bathroom
Where rap dude thinkin 'wow she moved me'
Same girl then right nows a groupie
back then she was like a star in a movie
Large jewelry, and expensive gucci
Next stop Paid in Full posse recruits me
Knew they was some millionaires they ¿wrotes for dookie?
Eric B man like 'touch it he'll shoot me'
You see, everytime Rob didnt show
I get to record demos of the Tip's to blow
I Wonder could they? How did they Know?
Sixteen years later, there I go

[Verse 2]
Im wit Akinyele in the street tryina get us a deal
G Rap tryina get us to sign to Cold Chill
But fly Tye didnt have the contract we wanted
Clark Kent just signed ¿Das? he didn't want us
Russel said i sounded like G, the nicca fronted
???????????????? offered me a little money
!! a little funny, Feel a little laughter
Rebel of hiphop comin through a white rappa
My boy MC Serch nevertheless
Took me to columbia back then CBS
Chris Schwartz, Ruffhouse, he was the best man
And im buggin cause the label had just dropped Def Jam
Coulda you ????? Russell needin a check man
But he smarted plotted planned for poloygram
Life is Ill, again lifes a movie
Then the rosters Cypress Hill, Nas and Fugees
Before I sold records no promotion
the rap world like, 'whats all this commotion'
Went plat, mad bottles im toastin
20/20 hindsight but how did they know then

[Verse 3]
Invincible, lyrical, miracle man
My back to the matter at hand
Ten years ago we all strived to be twenty five
Some cats didnt make it alive
Deaded some stars but respect they privacy
Cop mad cars lay back in the driver's seat
Held myself down, just steering the wheel
There I am, completed my whole record deal

[Verse 1]

Im talkin Juice Crew not what the word defined
He had a sister named Erin, for sure was fine


Im wit Akinyele in the street tryina get us a deal
G Rap tryina get us to sign to Cold Chill
But fly Tye didnt have the contract we wanted
Clark Kent just signed Das(?) he didn't want us
Russel said i sounded like G, the nicca fronted
???????????????? offered me a little money
!! a little funny, Feel a little laughter
Rebel of hiphop comin through a white rappa
My boy MC Serch nevertheless
Toook me to columbia back then CBS
Chris Schwartz, Ruffhouse, he was the best man
And im buggin cause the label had just dropped Def Jam

Props on the lyrics