Released: October 21, 1997

Featuring: Da Wizard

Songwriter: Da Wizard Nas

Producer: Mel-Man Dr. Dre

[Intro: Nas]
Yeah, I'd like to welcome everybody that came. I know that I
Woke y'all up early this morning, but shit is real, I needed all
Y'all to come down, so we can talk about these things thats
Going on man. It's gettin real

[Verse: Wizard]
Escobar repertoire, that's my man
Blowin up, how we expand
Stack grands up pack vans up with wild cats
Bustin loud gats
Claimin that you iller than me, now how's that
In the bridge hangin with the thugs menaces
Images of mad loot and beating sentences
Now we livin large reminiscin flippin on prison guards
Jumpin in and out of different cars
On a weekly Benz or Mitsubishi
Got the flip phone and the scripts on
Satellite dish, 50 inch with the Knicks on
Everyday it's real in my life, you live a sitcom
Real dons, bustin out this hustlin game with the name
See it in lights, bitch get it right
Scorsese, capo, black Mercedes
Miami in back with the crack, the late 80's
Brown Timbs and thousands
Now we on to some real dough
How does it feel to count a mil?
What you above? Throw a party and show love
To the same cats after your stacks who throw slugs

The Firm

The Firm was a group consisting of Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature. The Firm first appeared on “Affirmative Action” from Nas' 1996 album It Was Written, but instead of Nature, the song featured original member Cormega, who left the group due to creative and financial issues. The group released their only album, The Album, on Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment in 1997, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and achieved gold status. The original lineup of Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown and Cormega reunited on the track “Full Circle” from the 2020 Nas album King’s Disease.

Nas spoke about the beginning and end of The

AZ was my man and he told me about Foxy Brown; drove me to Brooklyn to meet her at her house. I wanted to put the Firm together and she fit perfectly.