Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Watch Nas perform “Welcome to the Underground” live for Amazon Music’s ‘In The Paint’.
Listen to Nas on Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/artists/B000QJO20O?ref_=dmm_art_osm_us_yt_hhp_nas-itp_adp__
Buy the Amazon Exclusive vinyl of 'Light-Years': music.amazon.com/merch/items/B0G4XZFHT8?ref=mm_1_AMMerch_App_album_dp_Ios_album_B0G67CQFQF
(Lyrics)
Okay, we gotta go deep, deep, deep to the underground
Take every breath out of my body if I don't stay real, for life, yeah
Turn it up, turn it up, yeah
Welcome to the underground, that basement life,
way underneath the earth
Dig up dirt, termites and baby mice,
scattering below the surface
We deep in the soil, we jackhammerin’
to the core of it all
Avoiding the laws, outside the cornerstores with the raw
Take me back again, before ice around me
On stage performing while they fighting around me
Later somebody gun popped,
the good old days, we from the streets
Making plays, either you grind or you incomplete
Open the year ’86 Lafite
For the time that the team was confined to four walls and now we meet
How about it for the real? Now I can fly to Saudi
Doing deals, coming back whole fam showered in souvenirs
If my kids are nepo babies, it was destined
And they blessed, let ‘em go crazy
Healing is important, live it if you talk it
Children get the short end of the stick
Let's make better choices
And everything costs, there's a price just to breathe
Everything gets taxed, nothing in life's free
So ain't nobody stealing my peace, I'm still a beast
If I gotta put a piece in somebody grill and release
Figurative speech, picture me a civilian packing heat.
Back in the days, waves, immature, naiveté
By the tender age of 12 around some men who made
Made it through situations that was inhumane
Eatin’ 12 course dinners, look how the menu change
But the men ain't changed
Yeah, welcome to the underground
Coming straight from the underground
Coming straight from the underground
A 24-carat go-to-war addict
Manic, way beyond boss status
I need a room with the walls padded about mine
Cops used to pat us down
Old straps we got passed down
From old legends let us hold they weapons
They saw in us the coldness that was in they essence
Hear the street confessions
If you kill a legend, now you a legend
The one who take out a legend
He next to be a legend - Allegedly
Enamored, feel it?
I channel through the annals of the life of Ali
My spirit animal
Fearless ice grill your camera crew
Epitomized, personified, an open letter to multiple golden eras that ended
I go forever
Official tissue
Life changer
Masterpiece theater
F*** your candy-a** Grammy grabs
I open fire like Panthers behind sandbags
With my comrades, onslaught
Turn you corny n***** to cornstarch
I lead and you just go with it
The one who clashed with the whole system
Since I entered the scene I just roll different
Now they code switching
They soul missing
A Catholic preist appears in your mirror
Y'all awaited Preem and Nas like it's Detox
Forget the drum machine when Preem could just do the beatbox
Or bang on the top of a table
Let his house key knock
And I can freestyle
They can't see Nas
Welcome to the underground
Coming straight from the underground
Coming straight from the underground
#Nas #WelcometotheUnderground #AmazonMusic
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Watch Nas perform “Welcome to the Underground” live for Amazon Music’s ‘In The Paint’.
Listen to Nas on Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/artists/B000QJO20O?ref_=dmm_art_osm_us_yt_hhp_nas-itp_adp__
Buy the Amazon Exclusive vinyl of 'Light-Years': music.amazon.com/merch/items/B0G4XZFHT8?ref=mm_1_AMMerch_App_album_dp_Ios_album_B0G67CQFQF
(Lyrics)
Okay, we gotta go deep, deep, deep to the underground
Take every breath out of my body if I don't stay real, for life, yeah
Turn it up, turn it up, yeah
Welcome to the underground, that basement life,
way underneath the earth
Dig up dirt, termites and baby mice,
scattering below the surface
We deep in the soil, we jackhammerin’
to the core of it all
Avoiding the laws, outside the cornerstores with the raw
Take me back again, before ice around me
On stage performing while they fighting around me
Later somebody gun popped,
the good old days, we from the streets
Making plays, either you grind or you incomplete
Open the year ’86 Lafite
For the time that the team was confined to four walls and now we meet
How about it for the real? Now I can fly to Saudi
Doing deals, coming back whole fam showered in souvenirs
If my kids are nepo babies, it was destined
And they blessed, let ‘em go crazy
Healing is important, live it if you talk it
Children get the short end of the stick
Let's make better choices
And everything costs, there's a price just to breathe
Everything gets taxed, nothing in life's free
So ain't nobody stealing my peace, I'm still a beast
If I gotta put a piece in somebody grill and release
Figurative speech, picture me a civilian packing heat.
Back in the days, waves, immature, naiveté
By the tender age of 12 around some men who made
Made it through situations that was inhumane
Eatin’ 12 course dinners, look how the menu change
But the men ain't changed
Yeah, welcome to the underground
Coming straight from the underground
Coming straight from the underground
A 24-carat go-to-war addict
Manic, way beyond boss status
I need a room with the walls padded about mine
Cops used to pat us down
Old straps we got passed down
From old legends let us hold they weapons
They saw in us the coldness that was in they essence
Hear the street confessions
If you kill a legend, now you a legend
The one who take out a legend
He next to be a legend - Allegedly
Enamored, feel it?
I channel through the annals of the life of Ali
My spirit animal
Fearless ice grill your camera crew
Epitomized, personified, an open letter to multiple golden eras that ended
I go forever
Official tissue
Life changer
Masterpiece theater
F*** your candy-a** Grammy grabs
I open fire like Panthers behind sandbags
With my comrades, onslaught
Turn you corny n***** to cornstarch
I lead and you just go with it
The one who clashed with the whole system
Since I entered the scene I just roll different
Now they code switching
They soul missing
A Catholic preist appears in your mirror
Y'all awaited Preem and Nas like it's Detox
Forget the drum machine when Preem could just do the beatbox
Or bang on the top of a table
Let his house key knock
And I can freestyle
They can't see Nas
Welcome to the underground
Coming straight from the underground
Coming straight from the underground
#Nas #WelcometotheUnderground #AmazonMusic
Subscribe to Mass Appeal here:
bit.ly/2qW4NXj
-------------------
Mass Appeal is an entertainment company dedicated to telling stories from the perspective of those who shape and shift culture. Since 1996, we have documented the emerging movements that influence popular ideas. Today, Mass Appeal is the elevated voice of Hip Hop and its ever-expanding sphere of influence. Integrated offerings in content, music and creative services stoke Mass Appeal’s ability to maximize the impact of our output. Our diverse school of thought separates us from friends and foes alike.
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