Japanese Soul Bar

## Song by Nas

"**Japanese Soul Bar**" is a song by American rapper Nas. It was released as the fourteenth track from his seventeenth studio album, *Magic 3* (2023).

## Personnel

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

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

*Japan, I ask you*

*Do you love hip-hop music?*

Uh

[Chorus]

Cigars in the Japanese soul bar, drinkin' scotch 'til daybreak

KD3 had gold bars, these vibranium can't break (Uh)

That's the one

Do music for fun

Give deals to artists (Yeah)

Pull up to the office (Yeah)

[Verse]

Yeah, I'm from the projects, so quadruple in my youthful

So I could boost you, unlimited game I could shoot you (Woo)

I own my masters now, but the reversions is crucial (True)

I used to wonder, was they ever jerkin' the Juice Crew?

Wanted: Dead or Alive should've been platinum five times (G. Rap)

A young Russell, Rick Rubin, and Fly Ty

Ran the music biz (Uh)

Andre Harrell saw the future is

Hip-hop

L'Ermitage hotel balcony, Louis flip-flops

Meetings in the mezzanine (Woo)

With production companies, talkin' 'bout me directin' things

Said I need a CAA, 'stead I went to ICM

Said without an agency, all my chances might be slim

My humble beginnings ain't what my hunger diminished (Uh-huh)

A burnout in this game before I would run into millions (Sheesh)

See, that's a major fumble (Uh)

And I'm made for the jungles (Uh)

So I called Jungle

I said, "Put away the bundles" (Let's go)

Truly, they gon' cry when they see this movie (I know)

No dry eyes in the theater, the viewers are livin' through me (Uh)

Been thinkin' 'bout who could play me in Tokyo, Paradiso, Belize (Yeah)

Karaoke, I'm participatin', singin' Barry

White, that is (Ha)

On a good night like this (Yeah, yeah)

How do I write like this?

First of all, you gotta have a good life like this (Woo)

A real life like this

[Chorus]

Cigars in the Japanese soul bar, drinkin' scotch 'til daybreak (Uh)

KD3 had gold bars (Yeah), these vibranium can't break

That's the one

Do music for fun

Make deals with artists (Yeah)

Pull up to the office

[Outro]

Make deals to artists

Pull up to the office

Yeah

Konichiwa, yeah

Japanese soul bar, red light bulbs

A turntable, record selection

Pictures and frames from those days

Soul music

Uh

[Interlude]

*Somebody from Queens brought it live tonight*

*You, you see a lot of Bronx acts, a lot of Brooklyn acts, but you never see Queens acts in the Fever really*

*But Nasty Nas, one of the youngest artists out right now, who's doin' this thing, new artist*

*He's keepin' it live, keepin' it real*

*This is Nasty Nas*

*And the whole Queensbridge masters, can I say that?*

*Now, Nas, you have a different style*

*I, I, I, I know there's a lot of rappers out there who I'm sure you looked up to over the years*

*But right now a lot of new rappers and older rappers are lookin' up to you*

*How do you feel to be like, a, a, a living prodigy?*

I mean, it's a pro— it's a blessing

I'm a product of hip-hop, you know what I'm sayin'?

I'm a product from— of the old school and the newest of the new

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