Motion

## Song by Nas

"**Motion**" is the fifth track from American rapper Nas's sixteenth studio album, *Magic 2* (2023). The accompanying music video, directed by Kid Art, premiered to his YouTube channel on August 10, 2023.

## Personnel

### Song

* Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis Jr. – writer, producer, programmer, recording engineer
* David Kim – mixer, recording engineer
* Jun Kim – assistant engineer
* Mike Bozzi – mastering engineer
* Nasir "Nas" Jones – vocals, writer, producer

### Video

* Kid Art – director
* Chariot Pictures – production company
* Andrew Goor and Cartier Brown – EP
* McCray Sutherlin, Farah Idrees – producer
* Kareem Johnson – video commissioner

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

Yeah, test, test, yeah

I might spend a week, I might–

Yo

[Verse 1]

I might spend a week at the Magic Castle

Presidential suite made of brass and alabaster

You can cast a spell, just backfires they satire

My guyzer's and I just watching from high rises

Weird luck 'cause when we fail, we only fail up

I tear up every time I see a mail truck

Know that check comin' five-hundred a piece, smoothly

Ayo, that shit behooves me

They need to bring back beheadings

Guillotines for guys, get whacked like medieval times, they not ready

What we touch, leave everything dead-y

For tryna stop us, you can't, like my man said

[Chorus]

We havin' motion, we havin' motion, we havin' motion

And y'all ain't havin' no motion, no motion, no motion

Me and Hit, we havin' motion, havin' motion, havin' motion

And y'all ain't havin' no motion, it's all over, like when the show end

Ah, ah, ah-ah-ah-ah

Best friends chill by the pool, they bellydancing

Lampin', throwback sweatsuits from Grambling

Maybach trucks, breaking bad like Bryan Cranston

Black and white Nike Dunks, them clean Pandas

[Verse 2]

Dump the ashes in the ocean, get the sharks high

All black yacht, we made it from the hard times

In any era, rivieras is my backdrop

Hacienda interchangeable, mad spots

Rollin' dice, shirts like Miami Vice

The women, they wear the scent that seduce with embroidered ice

The flesh a vessel, I'm not obsessed with death

I manifest what's best, I'm ghetto tested, bless

I'm havin' motion like an eighteen-wheeler out on a turnpike

My worst night a motion picture, Fox Searchlight, three-wheel motion

West Coast shit, n\*\*\*a overdoses, imperial pistols, ferocious

Explosive, East Coast shit

Motion like Flavor Flav in that I Ain't No Joke vid

And I ain't gotta say a word 'cause they know

I see Anchorage out in Turks & Caicos

Maybe they too angry, that's why they don't got motion

[Chorus]

We havin' motion, we havin' motion, we havin' motion

And y'all ain't havin' no motion, no motion, no motion

Me and Hit, we havin' motion, havin' motion, havin' motion

And y'all ain't havin' no motion, it's all over, like when the show end

Best friends chill by the pool, they bellydancing

Lampin', throwback sweatsuits from Grambling

Maybach trucks, breaking bad like Bryan Cranston

Black and white Nike Dunks, them clean Pandas

[Outro]

Break yourself

Break yourself, break yourself

Break, break, break yourself

Break your–, break, break yourself

Break, break, break

## References

1. ↑ Schube, Will (August 10, 2023). "Nas Shares Music Video for 'Motion'". *uDiscoverMusic*.

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