When my heart aches I'm drowning, pain won't go away And in my cups brown fills my brain, won't go away These five yellow girls all on parade asphyxiate Goddamn Still stuck in a box tryna clear my name Y'all know the deal Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name It's only real And in my cups brown fills my brain Can't stop it, can't stop it And in my cups brown fills my brain Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name Y'all know the deal Won't go away It's only real I'm afraid Your love will blow me away Can't stop it, can't stop it, yeah Am I dumb? All 'cause I numb the pain Am I just another runaway? Runaway Handsome gangster, ain't he? '89 to be exact We own the block, sixteen had two Techs and one Mac Niggas cookin' that work, we thirsty to see it come back Killas and rats, sold crack, fiends where I hung at Drivin' through every borough with your woman, I done that Cuban link dreams, chasin' fiends down, deez foul Nothing frisk me, I had the nerve not even put the weed down These clowns thirsty to squeeze rounds Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name Y'all know the deal Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name It's only real And in my cups brown fills my brain Can't stop it, can't stop it, yeah And in my cups brown fills my brain Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name Won't go away I'm afraid Your love will blow me away Drivin' eighty miles per hour in the rain Feelin' yesterday's high still And it's calming my brain which is ever-moving I still remember shootings, that never leave out my thoughts Blowin' by the basketball court, they went to war it happened All I imagine sometime, under sunshine on vacation Things I did in my hood situations, oh well Probably was a bad father to my first born Love her to death, but I ain't been home since my first song Provided for her, but money can't replace a father for her Plus I got a son, blessed with kids, yeah, man, I adore them And I was sure I was gonna leave this life too fast I got guardian angels came down and saved my ass Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name Y'all know the deal Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name It's only real And in my cups brown fills my brain Can't stop it, can't stop it, yeah And in my cups brown fills my brain Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name Won't go away I'm afraid Your love will blow me away New York City, stand up! New York City, stand up! Yeah, yeah, yeah This that Nas That Za Za That New York That Za Za That Nas