Slow It Down

## Song by Nas

"**Slow It Down**" is the ninth track from American rapper Nas's sixteenth studio album, *Magic 2* (2023). It samples the 1972 song "Don't Mess with Mr. "T"" by Marvin Gaye.

## Personnel

* 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

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

*Yep, I need money everyday*

*Like a junkie need heroin, you know what I'm sayin'?*

*And I'm a junkie, and that's my fix, money*

*You know what I'm sayin'?*

*I need it every day*

[Verse 1]

Nas like the Nazca Lines, can only be seen from up high

Only the true understand me but I see 'em as family

I saw the shit when I was fourteen, I counted on it

I was born a don with a powerful poignant style they wanted

Never dissing for clout, y'all know what this about

N\*\*\*as tryna deflect from the fact people sort of fizzle out

The people saw them try to make hit songs that went wrong

This about the money, right? 'Cause all that shit done been gone

Let's throw a nickel at the wishing well rappers

Watch it sink to the bottom, and I wish 'em all happiness

I'm in the cut, attention needers need to front, see 'em front

The world watching 'em shine, that's all they want

And I always get my cut, imagine that making you mad

I'm just a real version, they don't make 'em like that

Never had to get the youth to relate for the bag

And since they smarter than us, they know Nas was once they age

Made they pay grade, the youngster phase

Same mistakes though times have changed

Trying not to touch the cage but touch interior

In the front is the trunk, that's the custom carrier

Let's play a game, I hand you a king of diamonds

The hand is faster than the eye, check in your pocket

I snap my fingers, I'm up in smoke like The Chronic

Disappear and reappear right in front of your optics

[Chorus]

Let's slow it down

Was I moving too fast for you?

Let's slow it down then

If you gotta slow it down, I won't laugh at you

Let's slow it down, slow it down

Might be moving too fast for you

Was I moving too fast for them?

Slow it down, let's, let's slow it down

[Verse 2]

Upon closer inspection

They really are non-threatening, I bomb first then I stretch 'em

Instigators causing these problems, that's why I question

Everything and everybody that's aiming in this direction

That's why I sound like I been spending time in the spa

Thinkin' 'bout the days I first heard I Became a Star

Words from my A&R, I'm noticing that they notice me

Gun and a mean mug and was slow to speak

Now I hold meetings over cold sake and kobe beef

Hockey jersey, a hoodie underneath

Set up the trust, support the trustee

Corporations is the modern day custies

My flow is the hard substance, mastered it, Bernie Grundman

The stove top and oven, my company going public

I see the puppets they moving like they the judges

But Nas and all his subjects is hard for you to catch up with

[Chorus]

Let's slow it down

Was I moving too fast for you?

Let's slow it down then

If you gotta slow it down, I won't laugh at you

Let's slow it down, slow it down

Might be moving too fast for you

Was I moving too fast for them?

Slow it down, let's, let's slow it down

[Outro]

I might be moving at lightspeed

I landed icy in Iceland to sightsee

This long mink gon' be pricey

I might perm up my shit like I'm Ice-T

American pimp, I'm on timing

Only thing that I pimp is this rhyming

I made that work for me back since the '90s

That's a daily affirmations to remind me

I might be moving at lightspeed

To do what I'm doing's unlikely

This new urgency's perfectly hurting 'em

Send these suckers to emergency nightly

(*S-Slow it down*)

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