DJ Shadow, Nas - Systematic(2017)

[00:09.52] The system will defeat itself
[00:11.47] Nothing stays in a steady state, it overheats and melts
[00:13.11] It only feeds itself, the system
[00:16.03] Yo, I think it exists just because, like a pit eats its pups
[00:19.32] Eats its own litter up
[00:21.03] The system's fucked, it's corrupt
[00:22.71] It's for its own survival, it's genocidal
[00:24.44] No place or origin, no beginning cycle
[00:26.58] Let's occupy all streets
[00:28.20] It's crazy to think in the '80s
[00:29.78] I wanted minks, and a Benz to listen to Michael
[00:31.48] And Grand Puba Maxwell and get cash while
[00:33.75] I'm sippin' on drinks
[00:35.44] In Nike sweatsuits and Gucci links
[00:36.99] I'm like a Russian mob figure, I'm mad low
[00:39.15] In the shadows, big up to Shadow
[00:41.71] DJ Shadow arose to throw blows
[00:44.29] Can't see me but Nas moving the fastest
[00:47.25] I'm a 3D movie, no need of glasses
[00:50.02] I'm a 3D movie, no need of glasses
[00:52.92] Hold your breath for fifteen seconds
[00:55.34] Close your eyes, cover your ears, do not listen
[00:57.48] Try to feel what I'm saying
[00:59.74] To make you feel is my new expression
[01:01.78] Hold your breath for fifteen seconds
[01:05.04] Close your eyes, cover your ears, do not listen
[01:08.34] Try to feel what I'm saying
[01:11.39] To make you feel is my new expression
[01:13.49] Systematic
[01:20.15] Systematic
[01:23.94] I wish I was an arms dealer to sell illegal arms in the hood
[01:26.31] No backup check, put cash in my palms and we good
[01:28.73] Lack of respect get you to fall where you stood
[01:31.86] Mathematics is God's language, it's in my blood
[01:34.55] Art, music, letters and numbers
[01:36.55] I'm a vessel, I'm humble
[01:38.10] Meeting startups, I invest if I want to
[01:39.96] Transforming global markets with all of my partners
[01:42.20] Methodical corporate culture, straight out the projects
[01:45.99] What's the ingredients to the realest?
[01:47.96] Place two cups of cranberry in the skillet
[01:50.28] A half a cup of water, add some Henny
[01:51.87] Let it cook for eight minutes, but you ain't finished
[01:54.82] Let it simmer 'til the cranberry pop a little
[01:57.42] Keep stirring, sip it, it's art like Keith Haring
[02:00.17] It gets in your blood, you start to feel what I'm feeling
[02:02.96] Don't listen, just try to feel what I'm feeling
[02:05.94] Hold your breath for fifteen seconds
[02:08.26] Close your eyes, cover your ears, do not listen
[02:11.31] Try to feel what I'm saying
[02:13.27] To make you feel is my new expression
[02:16.28] Hold your breath for fifteen seconds
[02:20.06] Close your eyes, cover your ears, do not listen
[02:21.85] Try to feel what I'm saying
[02:24.83] To make you feel is my new expression
[02:26.84] Systematic, uh
[02:32.90] Systematic
[02:41.38] World first
[02:43.64] Remember the past
[02:45.49] Cherish the present and work for tomorrow
[02:47.93] The time is now
[02:50.18] Time is now
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