One of Dave East’s favorite Nas verses, which he learnt while growing up in New York City, was delivered brilliantly.
East was questioned about the first rap lyric he ever learned that wasn’t his own during a 2023 Grammy Awards interview on the red carpet, and the Harlem rapper chose Nas’ 1999 song “You Won’t See Me Tonight” starring the late Aaliyah.
Dave East didn’t think twice to start rapping the aforementioned verse when he was asked to do it in its entirety.
“Caramel kisses of Jezebel’s sister/ I feel no guilt when I twist ya/ Turn the other cheek when I see the next freak witcha/ You got your name on his lease, copy his keys/ That’s your lil’ spot where you rest your wig piece/ Go ‘head and live baby, I know you his lady/ You page me, when you got the day free/ But I be out with my peeps in them system Jeeps/ You wanna lay up in the sheets of presidential suites,” he rapped.
He continued: “Like I’ll massage you while you massage me, mami /But can you hang with a young man who’s doing his thang?/ Speak up, I wanna know if you can keep up/ Timberland boots for girls, with the tree stump/ Baggy sweatsuits, mystery what’s underneath them/ They for my eyes only, you call me when you lonely/ But I like to make the baddest girls wait, I got G baby.”
Timbaland’s “You Won’t See Me Tonight” was featured on Nas’ third album, I Am. It would be the one and only opportunity for the King’s Disease legend to collaborate with Aaliyah, who passed away in a tragic plane accident in 2001.
