Jay-Z Album

[Jay-Z:]
It's the Dynasty niggaz...
As promised...
The world's most infamous...
Roc-A-Fella Records...
It's Young Hova...
Beanie Sigel...
Memphis Bleek...
Amil-lion...
This is Roc La Familia...
It's the Dynasty niggaz...
2000 to infinity...
Worldwide...
Walk with us niggaz...
This is ghetto to ghetto...
Gutter to gutter...
Street corner to street corner...
Project to project...
Hoffa...
Dash...
It's the Dynasty niggaz Check it out...
Uhh...
Walk with me...
Talk to me... yo...
The theme song to "The Sopranos"
I'm Stevie Wonder with, beads under the doo-rag plays in the key of life on my, mental piano Knowin
I can go, just switchin a spare Got a strange way of seein life like Intuition is there even when my vision's impaired, yeah On the highway of life, nigga it's sharp in my sight
Oh! Keen senses ever since I was a, teen on the benches everytime somebody like Enus was mentioned
I would turn green, me, bein in the trenches Him, livin adventureous not worryin about expenditures
I'm bravin temperatures below zero, no hero
But I'm starvin my niggaz, and the weight loss in my figure
No father figure, you gotta pardon a nigga Watch it my niggaz,
I'm tryin to be calm but I'm gon' get richer is startin to darken my heart,
Bout to get to my liver Never read the Qu'ran or Islamic scriptures through any means,
With that thing that Malcolm palmed in the picture Only psalms I read was on the arms of my niggaz Tattooed so I carry on like I'm non-religious Clap whoever stand between Shawn and figures Shit is as dark as it's been, nothin is goin as you predicted Niggaz, say it's the dawn
Don but I'm superstitious I move with biscuits, stop the harder niggaz actin too suspicious This is, food for thought, you do the dishes

(feat. Beyonce)

[Beyonce: talking]

[Verse 1: Jay-Z]
Look, mindstate of a gangster from the 40's
Meet the vicious mind of motown's Berry Gordi
Turn crack rocks into a chain of 40/40's
Sorry my jewlerys so gordy
Slid into the party with my new pair of Maurys
America meet the gangsta Shawn Corey
Hey young world wanna hear a story?
Close your eyes and you could pretend your me
A cut from the cloth of the kennedys
Frank Sinatra having dinner with the Genevees
This is the genesis of a nemesis
Mother america's not witnessing
The harlem renescance birthed black buisnesses
This is the tale of lost innocence
As the inncents burn and the turn tables turn and that Al Greens plays
I see my mother's afro as momma taps her toes as she rolls her jays
And my poppa just left the house, in search of the killer of my Uncle Ray
And she's trying to calm my nerves, as I observe this is just one day
And what tommorow has in store we could never be sure so all we can do is
Pray

[Beyonce: Talking]

[Verse 2: Jay-Z]
As I head towrards my home room I observe the rooms though needles on the ground
I hear a car go vrooom drug dealer in the BM with the top down
As the girls start to giggle I ask why you laugh they say "you too little"
One day you'll understand when you become a man 'bout things you have to get you
Fast foward freeze frame on my pistol
Fist full of dollers ignorence is so blissfull
I didn't choose this life this life chose me
Around here is the shit that you just do
I just left school, the same BM is pulled over by the boys dressed blue
They had they guns drawn screaming just move
Unless there something else you suggest we can do
He made his way to the trunk, opened it like a hu
A treasure chest was removed
Cops said he'll be back next month
What we called Kurrup he called paying dues
Now when the rules is blurred as they hears a blurr what am I to do
But pray, pray the lord forgive me
Pray guys goodbye for what I'm a go through
Pray

[Beyonce: Talking]

Anyway this whole pressure into drug confession
Flurrishes like beverages hu refreshing
Sweet taste of sin everything I've seen made me everything I am
Bad drug dealer or I victim I beg
What came first moving chickens or the egg

(feat. Marvin Gaye (sample))

Dreamed of you this morning
Then came the dawn, and I thought you were here with me
If you could only see
How much I love you
That's all that's all that's all baby
Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
But there's always...
That's all that's all...

This is the shit you dream about with the homie steamin' out
Back-back-backing them Beemer's out
Seems as our plans to get a grant
Then go off to college, didn't pan or even out
We need it now, we need a town
We need a place to pitch, we need a mound
For now, I'm just a lazy boy
Big dreaming in my La-Z-Boy
In the clouds of smoke, been playin' this Marvin
Mama forgive me, should be thinkin' bout Harvard
But that's too far away, niggas are starving
Ain't nothin' wrong with aim, just gotta change the target
I got dreams of baggin' snidd-ow the size of pillows
I see pies everytime my eyes clidd-ose
I see rides, sixes, I gotta get those
Life's a bitch, I hope that I make her over, though

Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
It's just american dreamin'
Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
It's just american dreamin'
Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
American dreamin'
But there's always...
That's all that's all...

Now see, the life's right there
And it seems right there
It's not quite near,
And it's not like we're professionals movin' the decimals
Know where to cop? Nah! got a connect? No!
Who under Heaven know how to be successful
Need a Personal Jesus, I'm in Depeche Mode
They say it's celestial, it's all in the stars
Like Tony Caruso, how you played the card
Ya'll ain't fucking with me!
The ironies are, had all coast better before he was bars
Now let's start, on your mark
Get set, let's go-get out the car!
Going in circles, it's a vicious cycle
This is a crash course, this ain't high school
Wake up, Muttley, you're dreamin' again
Your own reality show, the season begins

Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
It's just american dreamin'
Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
It's just american dreamin'
Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
American dreamin'
But there's always...
That's all that's all...

Step One in this process, scramble up in your projects
And head to the heights where big coke is processed
You gotta convince 'em that you not from the Precinct
Please speak slow, cause he no speakey no english
If he takes a liking after a couple of trips
If your money is straight, he's gon' give you consignment
You're now in a game where only time can tell
Survive the droughts, I wish you well...
Survive the droughts? I wish you well?
How sick am I? I wish you HEALTH
I wish you wheels, I wish you wealth
I wish you insight so you could see for yourself
You could see the signs, when the jackets is schemin'
And the cops is comin', you could read they mind
You could see from behind, you could redefine
The game as we know it, one dream at a time
I'm american dreamin'

Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
It's just american dreamin'
Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
It's just american dreamin'
Oh no, I'll never give up on you
I never felt that before
American dreamin'
But there's always...
That's all that's all...
American' Dreamin...

(feat. Lil Wayne)

[man:] Helloooooo! Brooklyyyyyyyyn!

[Lil Wayne:]
Hello Brooklyn how u doin? where u goin? can I come too
And if I can I'm a be yo man u could be my lady
And have my baby and drive my cars and drive me crazy
Wherever u goin baby girl jus take me 'cause I'm so taken
If u taken I'm jus sayin' baby I'm jus sayin'

[Verse 1: Jay-Z]
Like a momma u birth me Brooklyn u nursed me schooled me wit Hard knocks better then Worked me they say u murked me by the time I was 21 that shit disturbed me but u neva hurt me Hello Brooklyn if we had a daughter guess wat I'm a call her Brooklyn Carter when I lef u for virginia it didn't offend ya 'cause u no I only stepped out to get dinner n now I'm eatin so much I bought extra so much doe the dinner's now turn in to Breakfast I only roll lexus to Hug ya road I love ya corners I'm half ya soul

Hello Brooklyn how u doin? where u goin? can I come too
And if I can I'm a be yo man u could be my lady
And have my baby and drive my cars and drive me crazy
Wherever u goin baby girl jus take me 'cause I'm so taken
If u taken I'm jus sayin' baby I'm jus sayin'

[Verse 2: Lil Wayne]
Hello Brooklyn what's ya story she said she eatin on da run But she ain't nore
She said she got a man but he ain't worried but baby I'm a have to rob em like Horry she said She love B.I.G and she like Tupac n wen I said JAY- Z she said it's da roc but I'm a leave it like dis like dis like dat where Brooklyn at? where Brooklyn at?... Have u seen her? and if she tell u somethin' u betta believe her she tol me she like my New Orleans Demeanor and so I said goodbye Katrina

And Hello Brooklyn b-b-baby u r the sweetest thing eyes
Can see I said Hello Brooklyn but baby I hope U
U neva say goodbye to me I said Hello Brooklyn b-b-Baby
U r so damn fine to me n I remember da time, place, &
The weather on the day u said hi to me
N I say hello Brooklyn

[Verse 3: Jay-Z]
Brooklyn u crazy look how u made me razor blades in my mouth walk around behaving all demented black Hoodies and timberlanded always schemin u see da gleam
On dat niggas pendent Hello Brooklyn u bad influence look wat u had me doin but I ain't mad atchu look at my attitude it says my lifes too real pick up my ice grill baby I'm cold as ice like I'm from Brownsville but my Bed's in da stuy thoe while I flatin ya bush till we smoke a C.I wat up 2 da boy B.I u no I handle B.I I dnt have steps on da caine ask da dreads about I how u want so she likes it hard co... so I grind slow illa den outa square mall bac in da 9.0' my find hoe we got some victims to catch so in a couple years I'm a bring u sum nex

Hello Brooklyn how u doin? where u goin? can I come too
And if I can I'm a be yo man u could be my lady
And have my baby and drive my cars and drive me crazy
Wherever u goin baby girl jus take me 'cause I'm so taken
If u taken I'm jus sayin' baby I'm jus sayin'

Hello Brooklyn b-b-baby u r the sweetest thing eyes
Can see I said Hello Brooklyn but baby I hope U
U neva say goodbye to me I said Hello Brooklyn b-b-Baby
U r so damn fine to me n I remember da time, place, &
The weather on the day u said hi to me
N I say hello Brooklyn

[Jay-Z:]
Poor me, dad was gone, finally got my dad back
Never that he wouldnt live long, they snatched my dad back
Guidence I never had that, streets was my second home
Welcomed me with open arms provided a place to crash at
A place to study math at, matter fact I learned it all
Burnt it all this music is where I bury the ashes at
Flash back not having much, not having that
Had to get some hollerest you can holla back at
Holla that my jewish lawyer do enjoy the fruit of within my cash stack
Just in case a nigga got to use his rat-ta-ta-ta-tat
Own boss own yawt, masters, slave
The mentality I carry with me to this very day
F**k rich let's get wealthy who else gon' feed we
If I need it I'm a get it however God help me

(And I don't need no hook for this shit!)

I'm so for sure is known for sha
Stay out of trouble, momma said as momma sighs
Her fear her youngest son being victim of homocide
But I got to get you out of here momma or I'm a-die
Inside-and either way you lose me momma so let loose of me
I got the rain our direction'll soon change
To live and die in N.Y. in the hustle game
Hustle cane, hustle clothes, or hustle music
But hustle hard in any hustle that you pick
Skinny nigga toothpick but, but I do lift
Weight like I'm using roids rolls royce
Keep my movements smooth while manuvering
Through all the manuers in the sewers that I grew up in
Choi-ces we make trying to escape

(And I don't need no hook for this shit!)

This is not for commercial usage
Please don't catagorize this is music
Please don't compare me to other rappers
Compare me to trappers I'm more Frank Lucas than Ludacris
And Luda's my dude I ain't trying to diss
Like Frank Lucas is cool but I ain't trying to snitch
I'm a follow the rules no matter how much time I'm a get
I'm a live and die with the decisions that I'm a pick
So f**k the haven for cave in, that's why we don't speak
Made men ain't supposed to make statements
End of the story I followed the code cracked the safe
Other niggas ain't in the game so they practice hate
Leave that boy Hov alone why don't ya
You don't have to if you don't want to but don't say I didn't warn ya

Oh (And I don't need no hook for this shit!)

[Intro:]
And the winner is HOV
My man... Speech

[Versus 1:]
First of all wanna thank my connect
The most important person with all due respect
Thanks to the duffle bag, the brown paper bag
The NIKE shoe box for holding all this cash (ok)
Boys in blue who put greed before the badge (ok)
The first pusher who ever made the stash (ok)

[Hook:]
The Roc Boys in the building tonight (hey)
Oh what a feeling, I'm feeling life (hey)

[Verse 2:]
Thanks to the lames, niggaz with bad aim
Thanks to a little change, I tore you out the game
Bullet wounds'll stop your buffoonery
Thanks to the pastor rapping at your eulogy
To Lil Kim and em, you know the women friend, WHO
Carry the work cross state for a gentleman
Yeah, thanks to all the hustlers
And most importantly, YOU the customer

[Chorus:]
The Roc Boys in the building tonight (hey)
Oh what a feeling I'm feeling life (hey)
You don't even got to bring your paper out
We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house (we in the house)
The Roc Boys in the building tonight (hey)
Looking at how I'm chilling I'm killing this ice
You don't even got to bring your purses out
We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house (we in the house [x2]) HEY

[Versus 3:]
Let your hair down baby I just hear the score
Pick any place on the planet, pick a shore
Take what the Forbes figured then figure more
Cause they forgot to account what I did with the raw
Pick a time, let's pick apart some stores
Pick a weekend for freaking for figure 4's
I figure frauds never hit a lick before
So they don't know the feeling when them thangs get across
Put your hand out the window, feel the force
Feel the Porsche, hit the frost
ICE COLD..., jewels got no flaws
Drop got no top, you on the top floor
Pink ros'aay, think O.J
I get away with murder when I sling yay
Heroin got less steps then Britney
That means it aint stepped on, DIG ME?

[Chorus:]
The Roc Boys in the building tonight (hey)
Oh what a feeling I'm feeling life (hey)
You don't even got to bring your paper out
We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house (we in the house)
The Roc Boys in the building tonight (hey)
Looking at how I'm chilling I'm killing this ice
You don't even got to bring your purses out
We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house (we in the house)

Rare porsches, rare portraits (we in the house)
rare guns if you dare come near the fortress (we in the house)
its apple sauces from the apple orchid
This kinda talk is only reserved for the bosses
Which means I get it from the ground
Which means you get it when I'm around
Rich niggaz, black bar mitzvahs
MAZEL TOV, It's a celebration bitches
Now HIME...
I wish for you a 100 years of success, but it's my time
Cheers, toast to crime
Number one b-boy...chain, he can rhyme

[Chorus:]
The Roc Boys in the building tonight (hey)
Oh what a feeling I'm feeling life (hey)
You don't even got to bring your paper out
We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house (we in the house)
The Roc Boys in the building tonight (hey)
Looking at how I'm chilling I'm killing this ice
You don't even got to bring your purses out
We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house (we in the house [x2]) HEY

[Chorus:]
The Roc Boys in the building tonight
Oh what a feeling I'm feeling life
You don't even got to bring your paper out
We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house (we in the house)
The Roc Boys in the building tonight
Looking at how I'm chilling I'm killing this ice
You don't even got to bring your purses out
We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house (we in the house [x2]) HEY

[Outro:]
Swaaay...
Let that ride out...
Bring the horns back, yeah...
This is black superhero music right hear baby...
American gangster...
Taking flight...
Coming to a town near you...
Soon as I touch down just want y'all to start playing the horns like...
[Horn plays] Hovies home...
Lukie baby...
[Laughs] OWWWWWWWW! [horn stop]

[1st Verse:]
Sweet!
And still there's pain
If I would have grew up to be a doctor, my nephew would have grew up to do the same
But since I grew up through the game, and my influence is the same
And my therapy is music, they ask if you ashamed
And though I wish I could separate, two things,
I cannot, so my answer to you remains
I can walk down the hall or mirrors, in Versailles
And be so satisfied when I look a myself in the eyes
No shame, no sir, just big boats and tearing the coast up
Tight coup like I'm wearing the roadster,
For any coup I'm bear hugging the holster.

[Chorus:]
Hov, alright, alright
And that may not be
What you call perfect
But, but it's my life
The life, the life, the life
Once again it's the life

[2nd Verse:]
So I make no apologies
Crooked policies
So a G a nigga gotta be
We playing for property, no monopoly
So I'll pass go and let my nephew follow me
They say the child shall lead,
So I take it far as I can, and then we shall see
Shall we dance with the devil, for a beat
I pray to God I ain't got two left feet
Do the hustle, put keys in the street
Then I'm ballroom dancing, ke-ke'ing in the suite
Sweet.
BB's on the feet, TV's in the seat
Enemies on the creep
It's so corrupt
Soak it up
It's a lesson, never fuck up
One day you're up, next day you're down
Long as you stay the same, it will come back around

[Chorus]

[3rd Verse:]
I'm even better, I'm eating better
Best thing about it is, my niggas eating together
With each endeavor
We reaching levels, niggas ain't seen in like forever
I'm hyman roth I make all my partners rich
I can vouch for you, if you ain't a part of this
So pardon me as I pave my wrist
As I parlay my chips, Hov!
Alright, alright, American Gangster, ganster, business like I'm white
But I'm not, I'm just bright
So fly with no fear of the flight
So if y'all hear my plight
And if you think you can make it this far without a fight
Couple mistakes here and there, not always right
But I'm always real, that's how I sleep at night

[Chorus]

And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
I know what you like
Everything you love
I know what you like
Everything you love
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
I know what you like... HOV
Baby you love... HOV
Baby you love... HOV
Baby you like... HOV

Uh-
She wants that old thing back
Uh- uh- uh-
She want those Heroin tracks
She likes me
She fiends for me nightly
She leans for me
Morning she rush for my touch
This is about LUST
Cold sweats occur when I'm not with her
My presence is a must- must- must-
Bonita Applebum, I gotta put you on
If I didn't when we cuttin' the feeling would be too strong
In any form, I'm giving you sweet dreams
That Sugar Hill, she call me her sweet thing
That Black Rain that take away your pain
Just for one night, baby, take me in vein
Now that feelin' got you trippin'
You no wanna feel no differently
Said lust has got you itchin'
All wide open and it's' drippin' -eh -eh -eh -eh
I know what you like, I am your prescription
I'm your physician, I'm your addiction

And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
I know what you like
Everything you love
I know what you like
Everything you love
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
I know what you like... HOV
Baby you love... HOV
Baby you love... HOV
Baby you like... HOV

I am so DOPE
Like Louboutins with the red bottoms
You gotta have 'em, you glad you got 'em
Like every color Giuseppe's, your guilty pleasure is me
It's so much fun, you shun therapy
Although it never be, the feeling is fleeting
Shopping's like coppin', you constantly need it
I'm never around, you constantly seek it
You'll never be down, I know where your peak is
9 1/2 weeks is better than 12-steps
I keep tryin' to remind you to keep tellin' yourself
Now your conscience is interfering, like "Better yourself! "
Like you better get help
But when that medicine's felt?
We're back together
Don't ever leave me
Don't ever let 'em tell you that you'll never need me
My China White, 'til we D.O.A.
It's Montego forever, baby, let's get away...

And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
I know what you like
Everything you love
I know what you like
Everything you love
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
I know what you like... HOV
Baby you love... HOV
Baby you love... HOV
Baby you like... HOV

How could you leave me?
I thought that you needed me!
When the world got too much and you pleaded with me-
Who helped you immediately?
How speedy of me!
How could you deny me so vehemently?
Now your body is shakin' trying to free it of me
And your soul is in control, trying to lead it from me
And your heart no longer pledge allegiance to me
Damn, I'm missing the days when you needed the D

And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
I know what you like
Everything you love
I know what you like
Everything you love
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
And I Know And I Know
I know what you like... HOV
Baby you love... HOV
Baby you love... HOV
Baby you like... HOV

Oh...
I like the party life...
Break Out The Red Lights
The city in bright lights
Welcome To The Party Life
These girls dressin' skintight...
Welcome to the 70's-Sweet!

Ordered some Patreezy
While talkin' to this breezy
Brushin' off my three-piece, I make this look too easy
So tall and lanky, my suit?
It should thank me
I make it look good to be this hood, Meyer Lansky
Look what Lucky left me
Gangster, effortlessly
Poppa was a rolling stone-it's in my ancestry
I'm in a whole 'nother league, niggas never catch me
And I sport fly shit, I should win the ESPY

(Baby I, I said I sport fly shit, I should win the Espy...
I'm really in another league, babe...
I got a slick mouth, you might wanna roll with me,)

I'm on her bra strap, she's on my diiiick
Ain't nothin' wrong with that, that's my biiiitch
I be the boss of that, I'm on her shiiiit
So all you niggas fall back, I'll split ya wig
She's my little quarterback... ya dig?
Cause I'm all that in the sack... ya, ya dig?
I spoiled her
Foiled it if you fakin', Jack
She's used to million-dollar vacations
Fuck ya'll gon' do with that?

When you're blue
You got nothin' to do
(Ay, baby, see,...
When you're used to Filet Mignon,)
Head into the party life
(It's kinda hard to go back to Hamburger Helper...)
If you're feelin' low
We got to go
(It's your choice though, baby...)
Get into the party life

Is you rollin' rollin' rollin'?
(Yeah, baby...)
Is you headin' to the party life?
(Is you rollin'?
You can stall out or ball out...)
Is you rollin' rollin' rollin'?
Is you headin' to the party life?
(Make a choice...
It's so gangster, baby...)
Is you rollin' rollin' rollin'?

Sippin' on my vino
Got me cooler than Pacino
When DeNiro put together my real life it's like CASINO
They should pay me for some B-roll
Takin' G-strokes through the ghee-to
When rap-p-p-pid fire's just a neccesary evil
Hola Hovito', cooler than zero
B-low fresh one blade, no chemo
Art with no easel
Please, it's no equal
Ya boy's off the wall, these other niggas is Tito

Oh...
I like the party life
The city in bright lights
These girls dressin' skintight...
(Damn,...
Ay baby, I said I'm, I'm Off The Wall, I'm like a...
Young Michael Jackson, these other niggas is Tito...
Shout out to Randy, Real Talk!)

When you're blue
You got nothin' to do
(I'm a just let this ride out...)
Head into the party life
(I might let it ride out for like 7 minutes, you can groove to it, whatever)
If you're feelin' low
We got to go
(Let's two-step... aaow!)
Get into the party life
(Guru, turn the lights down, let's keep it smooth...
This that shit you roll up, like a lil' tight J to...
Sip ya lil' wine...)
Is you rollin' rollin' rollin'?
Is you headin' to the party life?
Is you rollin' rollin' rollin'?
Is you headin' to the party life?
(whatever your vice is, you know?
Whatever YOU like to do... get into yo' comfort zone, baby...
Get into yo' comfort zone... uh huh)

When you're blue
You got nothin' to do
(Head into the party life...)
Head into the party life
If you're feelin' low
We got to go
(I don't even want it to stop, tho, forreal tho...)
Get into the party life

Step into my bedroom
I call it the Red room
C-cause it gets h-h-hot-t-t
I trust you gon' like it
See, why are we talkin' all this fly shit?
C-c-c-c-cause I'm the flyest
Hovito, baby
No equal, baby
So, petite n' gold
Let the beat go
Now I'm eatin' gold, baby
Hovito, baby
No equal, baby
So, petite n' gold
Let the beat go
Now can we go crazy?...
(Ooh!...)

When you're blue
You got nothin' to do
Head into the party life
If you're feelin' low
We got to go
Get into the party life...

(Yo... nothin' in the world makes me sadder than to see a lonely girl...)

(feat. Beanie Sigel)

Yessir!
Just the sound of his voice is a hit!
Ya'll niggas got me really confused out there
I make "Big Pimpin" or "Give It 2 Me", one of those...
Ya'll hail me as the greatest writer of the 21st Century
I make some thought-provoking shit
Ya'll question whether he falling off
I'm a really confuse ya'll on this one
Follow...

When them tops come down, chicks tops come down
Like when them shots come out make cops come around
When the blocks come out I can wake up a small town
Finish off the block then I make my mall rounds
When them stares get exchanged then the 5th come out
The tough guy disappears then the bitch come out
"That's him" -I'm usually what they whisper about
Either what chick he with, or his chip amount
Cause I been doing this since CHIPS was out
Watchin' Erik Estrada baggin' up at the Ramada
Table full of powder, AC Broke
'Bout to take another shower on my 25th hour
Spike Lee's everywhere, game or the flight
You might see me anywhere, day in the life
Only thing changed the tail number on the flight
I can touch down and take off the same night

I'm so bossy
Bitch get off me
Trick get off me
You can't get shit off me
I'm so flossy
No 6-exhaust breeze
Laid back, Maybach's
Don't even talk to me!

This is that ignorant shit you like
Nigga, fuck, shit, ass, bitch, trick, plus ice
C'mon, I got that ignorant shit you love
Nigga, fuck, shit, maricon, puta, and drugs
C'mon, I got that ignorant shit you need
Nigga, fuck, shit, ass, bitch, trick plus weed
I'm only trying to give you what you want
Nigga, fuck, shit, ass, bitch, you like it don't front

They're all actors
Looking at themselves in the mirror backwards
Can't even face themselves, don't fear no rappers
They're all weirdos, DeNiro's in Practice
So don't believe everything your earlobe captures
It's mostly backwards
Unless it happens to be as accurate as me
And everything said in song you happen to see
Then actually, believe half of what you see
None of what you hear even if it's spat by me
And with that said, I will kill niggas dead
Cut niggas short, give you wheels for legs
I'm a K-I- double -L-E-R
See ya'll in hell
Shoot niggas straight through the E.R.
Whoa- this ain't B.R., no
It's S.C., C.E.O., the next Lyor?
No, the next leader of the whole free world
And the first thing I'm a do is free Sigel, GO!

Take off the cuffs, unlock the gate
It's that ignorant nigga that you love to hate
The '07 Ice Cube, B. Sig so rude
Tell a trick, get these nuts, eat dick like food
Now see if I care if this verse get aired
Even if you mute it the curse is there, yeah
I'm so raunchy, bitch get off me
Keep my flea collar on, you lil ticks get off me!

I missed the part where it stopped being about Imus
What do my lyrics got to do with this SHIT?
SCARFACE the movie did more than Scarface the rapper to me
Still that ain't the blame for all the shit that's happened to me
Are you saying what I'm spitting,
Is worse than these celebutantes showin' they kitten, you kidding?
Let's stop the bullshittin'
Til' we all without sin, let's quit the pulpit-ing
SCARFACE the movie did more than Scarface the rapper to me
Still that ain't the blame for all the shit that's happened to me
Let's stop the bullshittin'
Til' we all without sin, let's quit the pulpit-ing, c'mon!

This is that ignorant shit you like
Nigga, fuck, shit, ass, bitch, trick, plus ice
C'mon, I got that ignorant shit you love
Nigga, fuck, shit, maricon, puta, and drugs
C'mon, I got that ignorant shit you need
Nigga, fuck, shit, ass, bitch, trick plus weed
I'm only trying to give you what you want
Nigga, fuck, shit, ass, bitch, you like it don't front

It's that Rocafella music...
Soulful...

Say hello
To the bad guy
Hello
They say I'm a bad guy
I come from the bottom
But now I'm mad fly
Say Hello
They say I'm a menace
That's the picture they paint
Hello
They say a lot about me
Let me yell ya what I ain't
Hello
They say I'm a bad guy
Say Hi to the bad guy
Hello
I come from the bottom
But now I'm mad fly
They say I'm a menace
That's the picture they paint
They say a lot about me
Let me tell ya what I ain't
Say hello
Hello
Ay, ay, ay, ay
They say a lot about me
Let me tell you what I ain't

I ain't playing,
Life's short, so I aimed
I ain't waiting for life to start portrayin' em
It's twice as hard to get a job that's paying
So I ain't payin' attention to what you saying
Rain-drops keep falling on my brain
Constant in the drop, all flames
I'm so hot even if the weather change
I don't have no top, I'm insane
Remember darkskinned Jermaine?
Swayed in the rain, I'm sorta kinda the same
Except I'm no lame and you gonna know my name
Before I go to work and feel my pain
Saying, I'm a bad guy, why's that?
Cause when my back's against the wall, nigga, I react
Secretly though, I know you admire that
You wish you had the balls to fire back-
Say hello, uh, uh, hello, uh. uh
You wish you had the balls to fire back

Say hello
To the bad guy
Hello
They say I'm a bad guy
I come from the bottom
But now I'm mad fly
Hello
They say I'm a menace
That's the picture they paint
Hello
They say a lot about me
Let me yell ya what I ain't
Hello
They say I'm a bad guy
Say Hi to the bad guy
Hello
I come from the bottom
But now I'm mad fly
They say I'm a menace
That's the picture they paint
They say a lot about me
Let me tell ya what I ain't
Say hello
Hello
Ay, ay,
They say a lot about me
Let me tell you what I ain't

I ain't no ordinary nigga
Look around and see what 'ordinary' gets ya
Extraordinary figures
I'm an extra-ordinary nigga
Before my name became Jigga
Before I sang, I had that thang on sippers
Can't complain bout what they ain't gon' give ya
That ain't gon' get you shit, mightaswell give up
Or get up, get out and get something, nigga
Get a job, my nigga, or get to dumping
Only God can judge him, only he without sin
Can tell me if my means can justify my ends
Til' then, I'm just gon' fly in the benz
Wire my friends through Western Union
Sssshhhh... surprising my sister, knockin'
Here comes the bad guy again!
Say hello
Uh uh
Hello
Uh uh
Hello
Here comes the bad guy again

Say hello
To the bad guy
Hello
They say I'm a bad guy
I come from the bottom
But now I'm mad fly
Hello
They say I'm a menace
That's the picture they paint
Hello
They say a lot about me
Let me yell ya what I ain't
Hello
They say I'm a bad guy
Say Hi to the bad guy
Hello
I come from the bottom
But now I'm mad fly
They say I'm a menace
That's the picture they paint
They say a lot about me
Let me tell ya what I ain't
Say hello
Hello
Ay, ay,
They say a lot about me
Let me tell you what I ain't

We ain't thugs for the sake of just being thugs
Nobody do dat where we grew at, nigga, DUH!
The poverty line, we not above
So out come the mask and glove cause we ain't feelin' the love
We ain't doing crime for the sake of doing crime
We movin' dimes cause we ain't doin' fine
One out of three of us is locked up doing time
You know what that type of shit can do to a nigga mind?
My mind on my money, money on my mind
If you owe me ten dollars, you ain't giving me nine
Ya'll ain't give me 40 acres and a mule
So I got my Glock 40, now I'm cool
And if Al Sharpton is speaking for me
Somebody get him the word and tell him I don't approve
Tell him I'll remove the curses
If you tell me our schools gon' be perfect
When Jena 6 don't exist
Tell him THAT's when I'll stop saying bitch-BIIITCH!

Say hello
To the bad guy
Hello
They say I'm a bad guy
I come from the bottom
But now I'm mad fly
Hello
They say I'm a menace
That's the picture they paint
Hello
They say a lot about me
Let me yell ya what I ain't
Hello
They say I'm a bad guy
Say Hi to the bad guy
Hello
I come from the bottom
But now I'm mad fly
They say I'm a menace
That's the picture they paint
They say a lot about me
Let me tell ya what I ain't
Say hello
Hello
Ay, ay,
They say a lot about me
Let me tell you what I ain't

(feat. Nas)

Your Success took a shot at you
What are you going to do now?
How are you gonna kill it?
You gonna become unsuccessful?
Frank, you can be successful and have enemies or;
Be unsuccessful too and you can have friends

I got these niggas breezy, don't worry about it.

Let that bitch breath,

I used to give a f**k, now I give a f**k less.
What do I think of success
It sucks, too much stress
I guess I blew up quick, cause friends I grew up with
See me as a pre-me but I'm not and my nuts big
I don' know what the fuss is
My cribs illustrous
My rep is impeccable
I'm not to be f**ked with

Sh*t
Let that bitch breath...

I'm way to important to be talking about extortin'
Asking me for a portion is like asking for a coffin
Broad day light I off your on switch
Ya not too bright, goodnight, long kiss
Bye, bye my reply
Bla bla
Blast burnin and pass burnin the ta ta
Finish my breakfast, why?
I got an appetite for destruction and your a small fry
Now where was I?

Let that bitch breathe

I used to give a sh*t, now I don give a sh*t more
Truth be told, I had more fun when I was piss poor
I'm pissed off
This what success all about?
A bunch of niggaz actin like bitches with big mouths
All this stress, all I got is this big house
Couple cars I don bring half them shits out

I know I shouldnt've did that
I know it's gon' come right back
I know it's gon' destroy everything I made
It's probably gon' get ya boy sent away
But this game I play, ain't no way to fix it
It's inevitable that I'm-

Said where I would stop before I even started
When I get to one brick, then The Game I will depart with
Got to one brick then I looked to the sky, said
Sorry God, I lied, but give me one more try
Got to two bricks, new cars, new whips
But niggas never learn til' they end up in the newsclip
The irony of selling drugs is sort of like I'm using it
Guess it's two sides to what 'substance abuse' is
Can't stop, won't stop, nigga since new shit
Brand new convertibles, I'm so ruthless
Front row, fight night-see how big my tube is?
Fuck HD, nigga see how clear my view is?
(FALLING)
But there's a price for overdoing it
Doin' it this big'll put you on the map
Stick-up kids is out some tax
Plus the FBI Boys with the cameras in the back, DAMN!

I know I shouldnt've did that
I know it's gon' come right back
I know it's gon' destroy everything I made
It's probably gon' get ya boy sent away
But this game I play, ain't no way to fix it
It's inevitable -

Now you're
(FALLING)
When you should've scaled back,
Now you're
(FALLING)
Right into they lap
Falling, they applaud and they screamin' at the screen
"Damn, you fucked up! " like your favorite movie scene
Godfather, Goodfellas, Scarface, Casino
You seen what that last run did to DeNiro
When he can't beat the odds, can't cheat the cards
Can't blow too hard, life's a deck of cards
Now you're tumbling, it's humbling, you're falling, you're mumbling
Under your breath like you knew this day was coming
(FALLING)
Now let's pray that arm candy
That you left your Ex- for stay 'down' and come in handy
Cause come January, it gets cold
When the letters start to slow, when your commissary's low
When your lawyer screams "Appeal! " only thinkin' bout a bill
When your chances are nil, damn, gravity's I'll...

I know I shouldnt've did that
I know it's gon' come right back
I know it's gon' destroy everything I made
It's probably gon' get ya boy sent away
But this game I play, ain't no way to fix it
It's inevitable-

That you're
(FALLING)
And you can't get up
All you do is push-up, pull-up, sit-up
Locked down, the town now belongs to the Squares
Who say they won't make the same mistakes that got you there
And ya arm candy's sweet on 'em
Every woman that you left for this heffa got a college degree comin'
Bad news keeps coming
Hard to keep something on your stomach
You're sick 'bout what your life is becoming
(FALLING)
Bunch of used to's, has been's bragging bad 'bout all the new dudes
Talking tough on the YouTube bout what you used to do
But that's old school to the new crew
They're doing numbers like Sudoku
They're the new you
And it's damn near inevitable they'll experience deja vu too
Fight, and you'll never survive
Run, and you'll never escape
So just fall from grace, damn...

I know I shouldnt've did that
I know it's gon' come right back
I know it's gon' destroy everything I made
It's probably gon' get ya boy sent away
But this game I play, ain't no way to fix it
It's inevitable that I'm
FALLING
Seems like I'm Falling
FALLING
Seems like I'm Falling
FALLING
Seems like I'm Falling
FALLING
Seems like I'm Falling
FALLING
Seems like I'm Falling
FALLING
Seems like I'm Falling
FALLING
Seems like I'm Falling
FALLING
Seems like I'm...

(feat. Pharrell Williams)

ROC-A-Fella records...
The Imperial Skateboard P (it's alive... it's alive, it's alive)
GREAT HOVA! (it's alive)
Y'all already know what it is!
Come on!

[Verse 1:]
So What If U Flip A Couple Words, I Could Triple That In Birds
Open Ya Mind, U See The Circus In The Sky
I'm Ringlin Brothers, Barnum And Bailey Wit The Pies
No Matter How U Slice It I'm Ya Muthafuckin Guy
And Just Like A B-Boy Wit 360 Waves
Do The Same Wit The Pot, Still Come Back Beige
Whether Right Or Southpaw
Whether Pot Or The Jar
Whip It Around, It Still Comes Back Hard
So Easily Do I... W-H-I-P
My Repetition Wit Riches'll Bring The Kilo Business
I Got Creole C-O Bitches
For My Niggas Who Slipped, Became Prisoners, Treats Taped To The Visitors
U Already Know What The Business Is
Unnecessary Commissary, Boy We Live This Shit
Niggas Wanna Bring The 80s Back
That's Okay Wit Me, That's Where They Made Me At
Except I Don't Write On The Wall
I Write My Name In The History Book Hustlin In The Hall
Naw, I Don't Spin On My Head
I Spin My Work In The Pot
So I Could Spend My Bread

[Chorus:]
And I'm Getting It... I'm Getting It
I Ain't Talkin About It I'm Living It
I'm Getting It... Straight Getting It G-G-G-G-G-G-Get Get It Boy
[Pharrell:] Don't Waste Your Time... Fighting The Lies
Stay Your Course... And You'll Understand (Get It Boy)

[Verse 2:]
This 87 State Of Mind That I'm In
In My Prime, So For That Time I'm Rakim
If It Wasn't For The Crime That I Was In
But I Woudn't Be The Guy Who Rhymes It Is That I'm In
... No Pain, No Profit
Pee I Repeat If U Show Me Where The Pot Is
Cherry M3s With The Top Back
Red And Green Gs All On My Hat
North Beach Leathers
Matchin Gucci Sweaters
Gucci Sneaks On 2 Keep My Outfit Together
Whatever... Hundred 4 The Diamond Chain
Can't U Tell That I Came From The Dope Game
Blame Reagan For Making Me Into A Monster
Blame Oliver North And Iran Contra
I Ran Contraband That They Sponsored
Before This Rhyming Stuff We Was In Concert

[Chorus:]
And I'm Getting It... I'm Getting It
I Ain't Talkin About It I'm Living It
I'm Getting It... Straight Getting It G-G-G-G-G-G-Get Get It Boy
[Pharrell:] Don't Waste Your Time... Fighting The Lies
Stay Your Course... And You'll Understand (Get It Boy)

[Verse 3:]
Push...
Money Ova Broads, U Got It, Fuck Bush
Chef... Guess What I Cooked
Baked Alot Of Bread And Kept It Off Da Books
Rock Star... Look
Way B4 The Bars My Picture Was Gettin Took
Feds... They Like Wack Rappers
Try As They May They Couldn't Get Me On The Hook, Unh
D.A. Wanna Indict Me
'Cause Fishscales In My Veins Like A Pisces
The Pyrex Pot, Roll Up My Sleaves
Turn One Into 2 Like A Siamese...
Twin, When It End I'm a Stand As A Man
Neva Dyin On My Knees, Last Of A Dyin Breed
So Let The Champagne Pop
I Partied For A While Now I'm Back 2 The Block

[Chorus:]
And I'm Getting It... I'm Getting It
I Ain't Talkin About It I'm Living It
I'm Getting It... Straight Getting It G-G-G-G-G-G-Get Get It Boy
[Pharrell:] Don't Waste Your Time... Fighting The Lies
Stay Your Course... And You'll Understand (Get It Boy)

[Denzel Washington:]
Blue Magic... That's A Brand Name
Like Pepsi, That's A Brand Name
I Stand Behind It, I Guarantee It
They Know That Even If They Don't Know Me Anymore Than They Know The, The Chairman Of General Mills...
(... My man)

I'm from the 80's,
Home of the heroine,
Error of the hustlers, uh
The world is my custy
New rich porter
The way I flip quarters
Front on all these other rap artists, but me
Momma was a mink wearer, Papa ran numbers
So it's plain to see, where my whole plan come from
American dream, I'm living the life still
The way I shine is like a zillion dollar light bill
Still I'm grinding, army jacket lining
40 below timbs on, getting my M's on
My best friends gone, I seen bad days
Still find songs that I hear him on
Getting my Mary J. Blige Reminisce on
I hear his voice in my mind, like, nigga live on
So I get on that fly shit I been on
Spin on corners in enzo with rims on
But for info, puffin on Endo-Nesia
Give me amnesia
I ease up, that right, I'm high nigga
I want the sky,
The world when I'm done
I'm give it to my sons
Let 'em live it up, split it up, switch it up,

Sixes kit it up, man I did it up, done
The rest of my belongings belong in the hall of fame, a list of hits next to all my names
I came, if the sky should fall
And it all goes tomorrow, and they foreclose on the house and auction off all my cars
Don't cry for me Argentina, I mobbed the beamer
Took trips abroad, got mobbed in Sardina
In Ibiza I had pizza in the club
Ladies know I'm that guy, they wanna piece of my love
Now they wanna ya boy like Mike in his prime
Billie Jean the goddamn boy ain't mine
And the Roc break up, had the people losing hope
Can't lie they had Muhammad Hovi on the ropes
Now I'm back in the go mode, back in the go-go's
Throwing the diamond up, repping the logo
Rose gold rose flow, I'm okay though
What Don't kill me makes stronger than before so
Here we go and I'm not domino
When it all falls down, I'm like Kanye's jaw
I might break but I don't fold, till I hold the sky in my hand
Yeah that's my goal
And then I bid you Freddy Adu
Prodigal Child, y'all not ready for the future
Then I disappear in the Bermuda Triangle
My name will be viewed such
Here's to the man that refused to give up
I want the sky nigga, Chuuuuuuch