[00:00.205]Producer:Hit-Boy[00:01.537]Writers:Charlie Wilson/Nas[00:03.755]Big Queens[00:05.738]NYC[00:21.877]Hit Boy[00:23.781]They called me "Babyface" in eighty-eight[00:25.999]On 40th and Broadway they made me stay and wait[00:28.820]Cab service, car eighty-five[00:30.642]Ten minutes, they back in the car[00:32.378]Not safe to drive, narcos are lookin' (Woop, woop, woop)[00:34.818]No secret compartments in the ride, so keep pushin’[00:37.364]We get stopped, hide it between the seat cushion[00:40.147]Either that, or just tuck it inside your boot[00:42.775]Don't throw it out the window yet, son, that's all our loot (Not yet)[00:45.467]See? They turned, they wasn't after us, my nigga with me laughin' (Yeah)[00:48.539]He clutchin' his gold Lazarus, made it home and he baggin' up (What up?)[00:52.203]I'm just a lil' nigga smokin' weed (Fried)[00:54.882]I'm just tryna figure out who to be (Nas)[00:57.911]Horse and Dula touchin' paper (Uh-huh)[01:00.041]Plus, Spud and Wallet Head, a lot of bread[01:03.533]And I was talkin' to Tia[01:05.835]I went to her block, I was just happy to see her[01:08.727]And low was how she did me (Ooh)[01:10.400]She moved from Queens to Co-Op City (Ooh-wee)[01:13.380]She said, "Visit me, that's if you really miss me" (I did),[01:16.213]Show proof[01:17.050]Ten niggas outside her buildin', that's what I go through (Damn)[01:20.425]1989, my baby mind was advancin' (Yeah)[01:22.850]Nike Air Trainer 3's, two fingers on her hand, son (Ooh)[01:25.974]I'm losin' her slowly (Uh)[01:27.159]Plus my other girl is startin' to move on the homie[01:29.912]Hop in eighty-five, roll with me (Oh-oh)[01:32.975]When I used to slide[01:35.359]I used to call car eighty-five[01:38.413]Don't want no other driver on the job (Nah)[01:41.012]Only car eighty-five[01:45.103]Yo, take me to town to that smoke shop I like (Ooh)[01:47.588]Car eighty-five[01:49.837]All blacked out tint (Running for my life)[01:51.959]Everywhere we went, we took car eighty-five (Yeah, yeah)[01:55.293]We gon' ride[01:56.528]Put that tape on I like[01:58.556]You know that tape I like, turn that shit up (Oh, yeah)[02:02.178]We gon' smoke and ride (Ooh-ooh)[02:05.487]Go to Times Square, we take it from there[02:08.833]Just ride (Ridin' with car eighty-five)[02:11.428]It's Friday[02:13.161]It woulda been a good night to pick up shorty,[02:15.130]But she on some other shit (Ooh-wee, ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah)[02:18.360]In my peripheral view[02:19.969]Nothin' trivial 'bout me, just witness the truth, I'm certified[02:23.615]That's been verified[02:24.907]My mere presence got other guys terrified (Woah, ooh)[02:27.580]Slap oxygen out your esophagus (Ooh-ooh)[02:29.602]I survived with stick up kids, was droppin' shit (Ooh-ooh)[02:32.817]The rotten apple's the tabernacle[02:34.959]That's NY, White Castles at midnight[02:37.744]Fish sandwiches, forty ounces and fistfights (Oh, ooh-wee)[02:40.680]They even used car eighty-five to pull robberies[02:43.465]Use 'em as a getaway car and paid him properly[02:46.424]Next year the whole town strung out[02:48.482]Swept the block where they hung out[02:50.375]Look how far we've come now (Amen)[02:53.106]Grab the duffel and run out[02:54.507]Seven fiends in one house, hustle sun up to sundown[02:57.708]What up? Summertime in NY[03:00.175]In the back seat of car eighty-five (Oh-oh, oh)[03:04.368]The whole hood was tryna call car eighty-five[03:07.265]Any car like that, any number that had that system[03:10.457]Or that cool ride (Yeah)[03:12.036]You know that'd make your whole day[03:13.942]Just bein' able to get up and go[03:15.883]To this day, I just like to ride[03:18.189]Lot of thoughts come to mind (Ooh-wee, oh, oh, ooh)