Early this morning, the Distant Relatives releases many of the song lyrics to their May 18th self-titled album. At DistantRelatives.com/music/all/distant_relatives-1, or by clicking here, fans may previews the verses from the 13 track collection.
While songs are still being added to the lyrics collection on the Distant Relatives website, management exclusively provided HipHopDX with lyrics to “Dispear,” as a track that truly demonstrates the subject matter and emceeing from both Damian and Nas.
“Dispear” by The Distant Relatives
African Choir Intro
JR. GONG CHORUS 1
“Lord!
This Spear, huh!
Shaka Zulu, Bobo Shanti, Nyabinghi
Man a Mau Mau Warrior
Despair, eh
Fear and desperation no depression can’t tarry ya
This Spear, hey
Ayatollah, Idi Amin, Mennelek,
Man a Masai Warrior
Despair, eh
Fear and desperation no depression can’t tarry ya
This Spear
Like BURNING SPEAR
AND SUCH AND SUCH BEFORE ME
Who all fought for the cause and
This Spear, eh
Enforcing all the laws
NAS VERSE 1
The Master of the Masses
One has power
The other one lacks it
Guns are power
Controlled by assets
Owned by financial forecasters
Who are the Masters?
They are the Gangsters
They are the bankers
The ones who tax us
The Masses
They are us
The sheep, the people
Divided in classes
I go off like a Shite bomb
And All ya’ll see I’m on my
War paint on my face, shit
My nine mm on my waist, shit
I’m a problem
Shoot up your place shit
Let a few go
Then I get low
Blazing Haze again
The Masters, The Wall Street War Chiefs
The Elitists Groups
The Masses
They pray to Jesus
Saying he will see us through
The Masters are the aristocratic
The Masses
Ask if the Most High
Is On his way here
I’m trying to stay clear
My mind is my modern day Spear
JR. GONG CHORUS 2
Hey
I say…
This Spear, huh!
Shaka Zulu, Bobo Shanti, Man a Gideon
Man a Mau Mau Warrior
Despair, eh
Fear and desperation no depression can’t tarry ya
This Spear, hey
Through the hands of time and cruel men
It has slew more than a billion
Despair, eh
It keep on suppressing the humble man’s opinion
NAS VERSE 2
This lead into Swiss cheese
When the 5th squeeze
Mislead
The media Misleads
Scares you to the point
Where you miss sleep
With that said
This lead with this Ruger
And that shooter
Sub-machine gun
Ratta tat through you
Copper tops, hollow points
Will do ya something bad
Our future
Is Mislead
Three strikes
There’s no school
When a teacher strikes
This economy
This monopoly
Get no job
Just own your property
Now it’s back to
What comes natural
Must survive any how you have to
Despair, Desperation
But I have no fear
When I hold This Spear
INTERMISSION
JR. GONG BRIDGE
Mek some bwoy know mi nah smile
Cause this spear nah beg friends
Man a run racket
Man a run scheme
Man a run race
Man a run down Benz
Can’t trust a she nor we nor eye
Inna contact lense
Man a run from police
And a run down wealth
And dollars and nah mek sense
JR. GONG VERSE 3
So,
Rise up to my defense
Hollow pointed is my preference
Should have been deterred
Don’t know what you heard
Get referred
By the wrong reference
When this spear start dispense
It a fly and a tear through fence
Dismember your members
And all of your limbs
Body bust inna nuff segments
Well,
Man a run drugs
Man a run risk
Man all a run out a time and ends
Man a run up and down
And a run fi dem life
And a run down this month rent
Nutin’ nah gwan a yard
And food deh a road
Then man hafi go touch pavement
Despair was a tool
That was used to enslave man
And mek manservant
Escape from Despair and Desperation
Becomes more urgent
Mankind needs to cleanse and wash out dem soul
With spiritual detergent
A distant army
A distant relative
Controlling the circumference
And any man move with no permission
They’re feeling the circumstance of
JR GONG CHORUS 4
This Spear, hey
Shaka Zulu, Bobo Shanti, Man a, eh
Man a Mau Mau Warrior
Despair, eh!
Fear of your recession and depression can’t tarry ya
This Spear, hey
Inner city youth dem rise it up disguised as AK-47
This Spear, eh!
And anytime them clap it up the whole city level
This Spear
Like Burning Spear
And such and such before I
Who all fought for the cause and
This Spear, eh!
They can’t ignore me
No!”
Other album songs may be read and previewed here.
sounds nice.
If this is what to expect from Nas,then I’m not impressed.
shut the fuck up!
how can you not be impressed by those lyrics? wtf is wrong with you?
if we talking lyrics nas gets murdered on this
nas and damian both bodied it. words carry weight…see all the way through it ppl
The same faggots who say NaS lyrics on this arent impressive are the same feminine bitch made faggots that love Drake, meaning NO CREDIBILITY
peep this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SG0sCnab-U
damn man i was a huge nas fan but he def fell off hardbody… all he is doing now is makin african and slavery albums.. i have nothing against that but i miss the old nas of jus makin good music… make a couple tracks about that stuff but to dedicated ur last two albums is weak… i love to relate to music and its sad to say i cant related to his shyt anymore… nas is fell off hardbody
So he fell off cuz he’s speaking on different issues then when he was 20 years old? Dude is 36 now and has grown past what he was talkin’ bout as a kid. I don’t call it falling off. I call it rapping about different things. If you can’t relate thats not his fault.
shut up faggot
“Ni**as is still hatin/Talkin that Nas done fell off with rhymin/He rather floss with diamonds/They pray, please God, let him spit that uzi and the army linin/That shorty doowop rollin oo-wops in the park reclinin”
im def copin dat shit when it drop ,,,sum different
Nas is the most creative lyrically and musicaly i’ve ever heard. The guy is one of the few who can go in a different lane and make it work without losing parts of his integrity.
Reggae and hip hop have so much in common, rarely come across a rap icon who has’nt used reggae samples or collaborated with a Jamaican artist. These are very two simular types of music except one has’nt been used and exploited as much, as a marketing tool and the other has it’s soul intact. hes making this album probably at a perfect time.
Hello, everyone, there is a great dating and friends site –**Blackmilitaryfriends.com**– to you. It’s a cool site caters to all men and women in the military or retired from the military seeking love and friendship. There are many single members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, Police Force, and Firefighters — as well as civilians, veterans.
My and my aireforce boyfriend also meet there 1 year ago. We are now happily married. Check it out, you are also destined to meet your Mr or Mrs Right or good friends there.
@NYCITY SMALLMINDEDNESS at its FINEST!!!!!!
Nas compared to half the crap on radio should be declared GOD of the Mic, who else can grow out of that wack gansta persona and act his age by conversating about worldly issues if not God’s Son himself. Jay-Z is in his 40’s talking about the same BK Bull from his early releases, no maturity in his music. Now this is a Classic Album, much love to the GODS that worked on the album.