[Intro: Nas & Kanye West]
(I’ve been tryin’ tryin’ tryin’ tryin’
To get you under my pressure)
Classic
Timeless (Timeless, timeless, time)
Yeah, yeah, uh

[Verse 1: Kanye West]
You can't buy this, super flyness, like a shyness, your highness
It's performing, look how long the line is
That's what happens when you make shit that's timeless
That's what happens these rappers is the pioneers
What do it take to be a legend like Nas is?
That's so novice, I'm so polished, I got a right to be a little bit snobbish
I did a little bit of college, semesters it took 2 like Rob Base
To let me figure out this wasn't my place, the beat slowed til you listened to my pace
Cause I be killing shit, but that's evident, and y'all feeling it, but I expected it
If it's classic it's gonna last forever than
I'm everywhere you never been and better than I ever been

[Chorus: Nas & Kanye West]
Classic, I’m better than I've ever been
Timeless (Timeless, timeless, time)
I'm everywhere you never been and better than I ever been
Classic
Better than I've ever been
Timeless (Timeless, timeless, time)
I'm everywhere you never been and better than I ever been
[Verse 2: Nas]
Perseverance, see the fake hustler rapper to them it hurts to hear this
Oh you went platinum, yeah that's nice, now let me see you do the same thing twice
New times, 4 times, then been a couple of more times, please your amateur night is show time
It's one life to live so live it the best you can, the world could use one less man
Not enough air, not enough car factories to manufacture new vehicles sedans and vans
When they do make the whip you like ya chips ain't right
By the time you could afford it the car ain't important
In the streets silent, it's just I and, cops keep firing in my environment
Leaving your slum when they drive home far from the hood brothers they eager to jump on
I like to be the wall that they post up on, I like to see them fall, guilty for doing wrong
I'm classic like the Air Ones, the Hustler shoe, that's what I'm accustomed to, yeah

[Chorus: Nas & Kanye West]
Classic, I’m better than I've ever been (Uh, uh)
Timeless (Timeless, timeless, time)
I'm everywhere you never been and better than I ever been
Classic
Better than I've ever been
Timeless (Timeless, timeless, time)
I'm everywhere you never been and better than I ever been

[Outro: KRS-One]
How many y'all got criminal minded you, you, you, y'all don't be blinded
Me, I got no jewels on my neck, why, I don't need 'em I got your respect