Nas - As I grow yearly, I see things more clearly

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Nas - Hero

"Hero" is a 2008 song and lead single from Nas. The song features singer Keri Hilson and production by Polow da Don. This song was also featured in Midnight Club: Los Angeles. Chamillionaire released a freestyle of this song before the release of Mixtape Messiah 4 under the name "Hero". It was originally intended to be a throwaway, but was released on the mixtape. Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa also released a freestyle of this song titled "Hero (Freestyle)" on his 2008 mix tape Star Power.

Here is YouTube video and lyrics:

[Intro: Polow da Don]

QB, where the fuck y'all at?

Ha, ha, ha

Yeah, let's go, gets money!


[Hook: Nas & Keri Hilson]

Chain gleaming, switching lanes, two-seater

Hate him or love him for the same reason

Can't leave it, the game needs him

Plus the people need someone to believe in

So in God's Son we trust

Cause they know I'm gonna give em what they want

They looking for a (hero)

I guess that makes me a (hero)


[Verse 1: Nas]

Another chapter of the cleanest rapper, distinguished gentlemen

Crooks and Castle on his back, Maybacher

Exotic lady eye-catcher, holla at ya, call me the chiropractor

Working like Muay Thai class, get perspire out ya

And of course I've been the boss since back when

Rocking D Boy, Fila, velour in one-ninety black Benz

Now they shut down the stores when I'm shopping

Used to be train robbing, face covered in stocking

I'm him


[Hook: Nas & Keri Hilson]

Chain gleaming, switching lanes, two-seater

Hate him or love him for the same reason

Can't leave it, the game needs him

Plus the people need someone to believe in

So in God's Son we trust

Cause they know I'm gonna give em what they want

They looking for a (hero)

I guess that makes me a (hero)


[Verse 2: Nas]

Rubber-grip-holder, reloader, come at me

I'ma rip your soliders in half, silverback ape, nickel-plated mag

Young, rich and flashy; young bitch, I'm nasty

All black clothes 'til ice lay on me so classy

And every time I close my lids

I can still see the borough, I can still see the bridge

I can still see the dreams that my niggas ain't never lived to see

Tell them angels open the door for me

From nine Berettas and movin' raw to chilling in wine cellars

Sticks and humidors, that's what I call mature

That's what I call a G, that's what I call a pimp

That's what I call a gangsta, to the fullest shit

I try to make more cream

By every September 14th, that's my dream

So I can be more clean, as I grow yearly

I can see things more clearly, that's why they fear me

Let's go


[Hook: Nas & Keri Hilson]

Chain gleaming, switching lanes, two-seater

Hate him or love him for the same reason

Can't leave it, the game needs him

Plus the people need someone to believe in

So in God's Son we trust

Cause they know I'm gonna give em what they want

They looking for a (hero)

I guess that makes me a (hero)


[Verse 3: Nas]

This universal apartheid, I'm hog-tied, the corporate side

Blocking y'all from going to stores and buying it

First L.A. and Doug Morris was riding with it

But Newsweek article startled big wigs, they said "Nas, why is he trying it?"

My lawyers only see the Billboard charts as winning

Forgetting Nas the only true rebel since the beginning

Still in musical prison, in jail for the flow

Try telling Bob Dylan, Bruce or Billy Joel they can't sing what's in their soul

So "Untitled" it is

I never change nothing, but people remember this

If Nas can't say it, think about these talented kids

With new ideas being told what they can and can't spit

I can't sit and watch it, so shit, I'ma drop it

Like it or not, you ain't gotta cop it

I'm a hustler in the studio, cups of Don Julio

No matter what the CD called, I'm unbeatable y'all

Let's go


[Outro: Polow da Don]

Yeah, Nas, Polow da Don