Hate Me Now

[Intro: Nas (w/ Puff Daddy)]

Escobar Season has returned

It's been a long time, been a long time comin'

It's life or death for me now

But you know, there's no turning back now

This is what makes me; this is what I am

[Hook: Puff Daddy]

You can hate me now,(Q.B.) but I won't stop now (real *************s)

Cause I can't stop now, (Bravehearts) you can hate me now (c'mon)

But I won't stop now, cause I can't stop now

You can hate me now, you can hate me now

[Puff Daddy]

Well you hate me, I'm gon' hate you too

It's as simple as that

Die mother******, die mother******, die

You don't give a *************, I don't give a *************

Go down any way you want it to go down

Weak, jealous mother******s

************* y'all!

[Verse 1: Nas]

Don't hate me, hate the money I see, clothes that I buy

Ice that I wear, flows that I try, close your eyes

Picture me rollin', sixes, money foldin'

*************, honeys that swollen to riches, Nas get in ya

Most critically acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner

Best storyteller, thug narrator, my style's greater

Model dater, big threat to a lot of you haters

Commentators ringside try watchin' my paper

Almost a decade, quite impressive

Most of the best is in the essence

For this rap *************t that I stand for

Expandin' more to the big screen, Bill Gates dreams

But it seems you'd rather see me in jail with state greens

Want me off the scene fast, but good things last

Like your favorite MC still makin' some mean cash

First rapper to bring a platinum plaque back to the projects

But you still wanna hate, be my guest, I suggest

[Diddy]

Money is power mother******

I got millions of thugs on salary

[Hook: Diddy]

[Verse 2: Nas]

You wanna hate me then hate me; what can I do

But keep gettin' money, funny I was just like you

I had to hustle hard, never give up, until I made it

Now y'all sayin' "that's a clever *************, nothin' to play with"

Hate on me, I blew but I'm the same O.G

People warn me, when you're on top, there's envy

Took my *************s out the hood, but you doubt on us

Sayin' we left the hood but can't get it out of us

My bad, should I step out my shoes, give 'em to you?

Here's my cars and my house, you can live in that too

Criticize when I flow for the streets, hate my dress code

Gucci this, Fendi that, what you expect, ho?

Nickname Esco, took this game to its threshold

Best flow, I bet the whole U.S. know

Try to make it like you the realest, but who the illest?

Think we all know the answer to that, cause *************s feel this right

[Diddy]

You think I'mma come this far, and let you *************s stop me now?

I hate you too!

[Hook]

[Diddy] I like this, I like the way this feels

[Verse 3]

It's a thin line between paper and hate

Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights

Hell or the pearly gates; I was destined to come

Predicted, blame God, he blew breath in my lungs

Second to none, wicked turn wives to widows

Shoot through satin pillows, the desolate one

Took a little time to claim my spot

Chairman of the board until this game stop, and I side with the Lord

Ride for the cause while drivin' *************s shot at my doors

Plottin' I'm sure, to catch me with they Glocks to my jaws

Tried stickin' me up but I flipped on these ducks

Instead of me, ambulances were picking them up

*************s fear what they don't understand, hate what they can't conquer

Guess it's just the theory of man

Became a monster, on top of the world, never fallin'

I'm as real as they come from day one, forever ballin'

C'mon

[Diddy]

You ain't never seen a ************* like me, ever in your life

And that's what you can't understand!

[Hook]