Just a Moment Songtext
von Nas

This is just a moment
Dedicated to my mother
My grandmother, my father, all my niggas in the pen
All my niggas that died in the struggle
Love y′all

Can we please have a moment of silence
That's for my niggas doing years in confinement
And for my soldiers that passed over, no longer living
That couldn′t run whenever the reaper came to get 'em

Can we please pour out some liquor
Symbolizing let's take in time to consider that
Though our thugs ain′t here, the love is here
And we gon′ rep' ′til slugs kill us here

This for my dogs, stuck in the struggle trying to gain
Smoking trauma, sniffing Ra while selling cocaine
Trapped in the game, not knowing how to stop and get by
To live it alive, so instead they live it to die


Can we please have a moment of peace
For every G that fell for his flag in the streets
Blooding and thugging, folking and loking
Criping and creeping, Latin and Kinging
Or just for poor righteous teaching

As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we'll miss y′all
And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn
While wishing y′all were home

As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we'll miss y'all
And even though life must go on, we′ll still mourn
While wishing y′all were home

Yeah, and can we have another moment of silence
For brothers who died from Black-on-Black violence
From here to the Dark Continent where rebels sell diamonds
To clients all through the world, got little Black girls dying

And can we please pour some more liquors
For Will, Bokeem, Bar, Pappy my niggas
Here's another Warrior Song from Nasty and Quan
It′s to him I pass the baton to carry this on


Street's Disciple, salute to those who′s gone with bullets
And I promise through rhyming Quan gon' rep his life to the fullest
And can we please have a moment of truth
For soldiers and troops away with helmets and boots

And families back home who pray they make it home safe
Hoping that they don′t get hit with a stray or missiles
This is just a moment to let you all know that we miss you
Mommy, I'm still here, wishing I was there with you
Let's take ′em home

As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we′ll miss y'all
And even though life must go on, we′ll still mourn
While wishing y'all were home

As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we′ll miss y'all
And even though life must go on, we′ll still mourn
While wishing y'all were home

And can we please have a moment to mourn
For Pac, Biggie and Pun, 'cause through us they live on
Jam Master Jay, Freaky Tah and Aaliyah
Big L and Left Eye, when we die we hope to see ya

Can we please have a moment for children
Who got raped or murdered or trapped in the system
Who never knew their father, never learned to dream
But was guided by drug dealers, killers and crack fiends

For single mothers that′s forced to play mom and dad
Busting her ass to give her kids shit she never had
For my niggas in the pen hoping rhymes′ll get 'em signed
So when released, they can say bye to a life of crime

For every mother that held a son in the street bleeding
Crying a song of sorrow to dark and deep for speaking
Just a moment outside the day to day struggle
To let the ones we really care about know that we love ′em

As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we'll miss y′all
And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn
While wishing y′all were home

As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we'll miss y'all
And even though life must go on, we′ll still mourn
While wishing y′all were home

Yo, to my baby brother Tech
You know you was Lil Dex, nigga
And the Feds
Big bro hold it down
Love you, my nigga
Do this for you and me
When I shine, you shine

But most important to my sister Tia
Out there in Iraq
Just know that we got the babies
My nephews gon' be fine
Put my life and my blood on that
We love y′all
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