[Intro: Nas]

I want you to close your eyes

And vision the most beautiful place in the world

If you in the hood on the ghetto street corner

Come on this journey

The best journey

Acres of land and swimming pools and all that

Check it out



[Verson One: Nas]

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

To fly like does over the streets watchin' many things

Kids walkin' home from school on drug block missionaries

Pass out papers that read: Love God

See faces, cases, judges, juries, masons, lawyers and cops

I watch because every thugs face is my mirror

But this was one in particular

This kid he was the vintage stick em up pro

16 years old, did his jail sentence, nowhere to go

Every mornin calls his comrad to come and get him to smoke

He insane, already gone mad

Blames himself for his setbacks

Dangerous street corners where his sets at

Slang from dust to dawn, detectives act like they maniacs

Chasin' him, his ass was flarin'

Smokin' like a chimney, on really, of course he not carin'

He need a place to go to keep his mind expandin'

I give him a helpin' hand, bring him out to Thugz Mansion



[Chorus: J. Phoenix]

Every corner, every city

There's a place where life's a little busy

Little Hennessy, laid back and cool

Every hour, cause it's all good

Leave all the stress from the world outside

Every wrong done will be alright

Nothin but peace, love

And street passion, every ghetto needs a thug mansion



[Verse Two: 2Pac]

Dear momma don't cry, your baby boy's doin good

Tell the homies I'm in heaven and they ain't got hoods

Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook

Drippin peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke

Then some lady named Billie Holiday

Sang sittin there kickin it with Malcolm, 'til the day came

Little LaTasha sho' grown

Tell the lady in the liquor store that she's forgiven, so come home

Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us

When Miles Davis cuttin lose with the band

Just think of all the people that you knew in the past

that passed on, they in heaven, found peace at last

Picture a place that they exist, together

There has to be a place better than this, in heaven

So right before I sleep, dear God, what I'm askin

Remember this face, save me a place, in thug's mansion



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[Verse Three: Nas]

A place where death doesn't reside, just thugs who collide

Not to start beef but spark trees, no cops rollin by

No policemen, no homicide, no chalk on the streets

No reason, for nobody's momma to cry

See I'm a good guy, I'm tryin to stick around for my daughter

But if I should die, I know all of my albums support her

This whole year's been crazy, asked the Holy Spirit to save me

Only difference from me and Ossie Davis, gray hair maybe

Cause I feel like my eyes saw too much sufferin

I'm just twenty-some-odd years, I done lost my mother

And I cried tears of joy, I know she smiles on her boy

I dream of you more, my love goes to Afeni Shakur

Cause like Ann Jones, she raised a ghetto king in a war

And just for that alone she shouldn't feel no pain no more

Cause one day we'll all be together, sippin heavnly champagne

What angels saw, with golden wings in thug's mansion



[Chorus]