3rd Childhood Lyrics – Nas, DJ Premier

Read the full 3rd Childhood lyrics by Nas and DJ Premier along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Nas’s music, you can also explore My Story Your Story and Bouquet (To The Ladies), two other songs by Nas.

[Chorus]
When I flow for the street, who else could it be?
N-A-S, Nas
Resurrect through the birth of my seed, Queensbridge
Make everything right, get yours, n!gga
When I flow for the street, who else could it be?
N-A-S, Nas
Resurrect through the birth of my seed, Queensbridge
Make everything right, get yours, n!gga

[Verse 1]
Is it time to take off the skellies, the Timbs’ and the fitted caps?

Time to let go the weed, can’t let the jeans sag?
Ozzy Ozbourne still got his fingernails black
Rock and Rollers, still rebels any age that they at
But when rap is a time limit, never
I’m living proof, I’m the truth ’til if I live a-hundred-and-two
When I was young I knew nothing, but then here comes a new lesson
From a older gentlemen dressed in Dior, he flexing
He said, “It’s not how old you are, it’s how you you feel”
Look here, I’m in my Air Max 87 still
Rastas still smoking secluded out in the bush
Pimps still wearing their derby’s, people still dipping snuff
That’s how it stay true, ways we learn of the days of our youth
Seen a man, like eighty-two, he rocked his hat ace-deuce
I’m going out hood, different from being a third childhood
Swished it up a little, but still, I’m going out hood

[Chorus]
When I flow for the street, who else could it be?
N-A-S, Nas
Resurrect through the birth of my seed, Queensbridge
Make everything right, get yours, n!gga
When I flow for the street, who else could it be?
N-A-S, Nas
Resurrect through the birth of my seed, Queensbridge
Make everything right, get yours, n!gga

[Verse 2]
Hear me out now, back in the days, it sure was the time
Hear me out if I’ve been your age and you haven’t been mine
As we get older, at times, great turns into mediocr
ood turns into so-so, “bad” just means that it could be better
I wrote a letter to the judge from Prince
A sharp minded man who though his way up ’bout the pens
Corporations are not the genius that created gangster rap
Never give ’em credit for that, we made it that
I Hip-Hop 50 to that (??) stage and brought Kool Herc on stage
I made sure that Hip-Hop museum got paid
Matter fact, anything my name is involved with, positivity revolves in it
Serendipitous, always move with confidence
You may not see me sweat, but trust, yo, I’ll work hard for this
Grew up around heroin addicts before that crack s*it
Crack was light compared to what the smack did
Y’all play with marbles, we play with dope fiend needles we found
Injected worms when the rain brought ’em up from the ground
It’s nothing changing, some of my men, we go back like daylight savings
My third childhood, that third course, that’s the main dish
Hope we get dessert, that’s the cherry on top
Peaceful sundays, but we still carry the Glocks, registered
If you made it this far, then it’s all good
It makes me proud, I love that we going out hood

[Chorus]
When I flow for the street, who else could it be?
N-A-S, Nas
Resurrect through the birth of my seed, Queensbridge
Make everything right, get yours, n!gga
When I flow for the street, who else could it be?
N-A-S, Nas
Resurrect through the birth of my seed, Queensbridge
Make everything right, get yours, n!gga