Lyrics Ugly - Nas

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Yes, yes
Yeah

It's ugly outside, it's muggy, it's money outside
105 Fahrenheit, thunderous skies
The clouds shape a clown face above where you reside
Under his eye, a teardrop got the ugliest cry
They call my city Gotham City, opposite of pretty
Weatherman cannot predict bullets rainin' from out the 50
It's ugly outside, Big L would be here if it wasn't
Hell'll freeze over the day it doesn't get ugly out

How can we hug it out
After we slugged it out?
We should be buying acres adjusting each other's crowns
That was your brother back then, how could you gun him down?
Yeah, yeah

This what I live for
The inventor
The re-invention, I'm reincarnated, see what it hit for
Yo, even your mentor can get you sent for
Get you chipped off if it's a brick off, you hit a brick wall

Damn, big dog
Dove in that water and got hit with a cannonball
Ugly Christmas sweater party with no Santa Claus
Companies profit off of black trauma
That's ugly, mad ugly just like Sheneneh and Wanda

You been through shit I been through shit every day is an honor
It's ugly how Mercedes Moore lost her life to a stalker
I'm on offense every day 'til I see the love
KD3 on the way, this just to feed the buzz

It's ugly
It's ugly
Shit is ugly
Yeah, one more time

Yeah, it's ugly outside
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I see the envy getting closer through my optics
Knew I had vision before I seen the optometrist
I seen a whole lot of shit, never altered my confidence
Or my consciousness

It's ugly outside, stay dangerous, stay out the mix
Poppin' back out on niggas, homie I'm poppin' shit
Kill 'em with no accomplices
Watchin' my rearview, the envy is obvious
It's ugly outside, it's grown men jealous outside
It's grown ass women that'll have you set up to die
You really not a stepper nigga, just step to the side
While I two-step on a beat, watch a veteran slide

JMJ seen 'em comin' wish he ain't hit the buzzer
Marvin Gaye to Young Dolph, we takin' out our brothers
Distorted faces, solemn features, we kill each other
It's Mr. Ugly Man, Marlon Wayans in In Living Color

It's ugly
It's ugly
Shit is ugly
Yeah, one more time
It's ugly
It's ugly
Shit is ugly
Yeah