Built Pyramids

Lyrics

[Intro: N.O.R.E.] Yo! Large Pro! It's my first Large Pro beat! You a genius, nigga I'm honored! And with them gray's in your beard You look even more like a genius! Queens shit (Lemme talk to 'em!) [Verse 1: N.O.R.E.] Flushing Meadow Park, Drama Heights, Astor' We played baseball, then we slangin' 8 balls Mission: Impossible; Alley Cat, he shot niggas, got shot too Locked at the hospital Jamaican Ave., chicken patty with the cocoa bread I know Jamaicans on drugs, call 'em cocoa-heads Since "Lookin' At The Front Door," I'd always want more So I got drugs and pumped more This is my belief, my philosophy, geography Ecology, biology, psychology I used to spit Gillette razors Hand to hand with my Pakistan man, we made papers Fish scales from Jackson Heights Colombians I.S. 61, was raised with no Republicans And I don't mean to get all political But Mitt Romney don't plan to do shit for you [Hook: Large Professor] What the theory is Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest Tell 'em what it really is Built pyramids Ground-up from the streets, it's that Q talk, serious What the theory is Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest Tell 'em what it really is Built pyramids Ground-up from the streets, it's that Q talk, serious [Verse 2: N.O.R.E.] (Second verse, yo... yo...) See I'm a Student Of The Game how I pay attention You so poor that you can't afford to pay attention Catch me downtown by L.E.S.  Or up in Flatbush, Fort Greene by D.Y.S. ("Who you be with?!") My niggas I was locked up in Spofford with Killers that'll kill killers marvelous I know niggas never used a gun but got bodies You can do the math, go and ask who you ask A-1 nigga, since day 1, just ask G-Shock watch, flooded with the black diamonds Louboutins with the spikes is for weirdos I'm a hood nigga, I don't wear those Still a Dapper Dan design, still immaculate Gucci ain't make that, nah, but it's they fabric And still I get cabbage with Pun style – gold piece Lazarus [Hook: Large Professor] What the theory is Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest Tell 'em what it really is Built pyramids Ground-up from the streets, it's that Q talk, serious What the theory is Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest Tell 'em what it really is Built pyramids Ground-up from the streets, it's that Q talk, serious [Verse 3: N.O.R.E.] Yo... yo, you wanna fly in the city, you gotta go to Queens Fly out of the city, you gotta come to Queens My borough birthed John Gotti And other killers, big drug dealers, wild ball players Lamar Odom, World Peace Artest Kenny Anderson, Kenny Smith, Lefrak the best, yea Rafer Alston, Anthony Mason, Mark Jackson On the lay-up line, they got action Supreme Court, where I fought But these ball-playing niggas rep Queens on a court (Respect! Salute!) Taliek and Kimani could've made it And Rahim, mad shout, the fuckin' hood favorite Orchestrated, we sort of related Black and Puerto Rican, like loc's we stay faded, cuz Yeah, on the real to the real, on the real to the real [Hook: Large Professor] What the theory is Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest Tell 'em what it really is Built pyramids Ground-up from the streets, it's that Q talk, serious What the theory is Sunlight to 1 at night, we the eeriest Tell 'em what it really is Built pyramids Ground-up from the streets, it's that Q talk, serious