Moment Of Clarity lyrics - Jay Z

(Woooooo)
(Yeah)
(Turn the music up turn the lights down I'm in my zone)

[Chorus:]
Thank God for granting me this moment of clarity
This moment of honesty
The world'll feel my truths
Through my Hard Knock Life time
My Gift and The Curse
I gave you volume after volume of my work
So you can feel my truths
I built the Dynasty by being one of the realest niggas out
Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt
(You all can't fill my shoes)
From my Blueprint beginnings
To that Black Album ending
Listen close you hear what I'm about
Nigga feel my truths

[Verse One]
When Pop died
Didn't cry
Didn't know him that well
Between him doing Heroine
And me doing Crack sales
With that in the egg shell
Standing at the tabernacle
Rather the church
Pretending to be hurt
Wouldn't work
So a smirk was all on my face
Like damn that mans face was just like my face
So pop I forgive you
For all the shit that I live through
It wasn't all your fault
Homie you got caught
And to the same game I fault
That Uncle Ray lost
My big brothers and so many others I saw
I'm just glad we got to see each other
Talk and re-meet each other
Save a place in Heaven
'til the next time we meet forever

[Chorus]

[Verse Two]
The music business hate me
'cause the industry ain't make me
Hustlers and boosters embrace me
And the music I be making
I dumb down for my audience
And double my dollars
They criticize me for it
Yet they all yell "Holla"
If skills sold
Truth be told
I'd probably be
Lyrically
Talib Kweli
Truthfully
I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
(But I did five Mil)
I ain't been rhyming like Common since
When your sense got that much in common
And you been hosteling since
Your inception
Fuck perception
Go with what makes sense
Since
I know what I'm up against
We as rappers must decide what's most important
And I can't help the poor if I'm one of them
So I got rich and gave back
To me that's the win, win
The next time you see the homie and his rims spin
Just know my mind is working just like them
(The rims that is)

[Chorus]

[Verse Three]
My homie Sigel's on a tier
Where no tears should fall
'cause he was on the block where no squares get off
See in my inner circle all we do is ball
Til we all got triangles on our wall
He ain't just rappin for the platinum
You all record
I recall
'cause I really been there before
Four scores and seven years ago
Prepared to flow
Prepare for war
I shall fear no man
You don't hear me though
These words ain't just paired to go
In one ear out the other ear
NO
YO
My balls and my word is all I have
What you gonna do to me?
Nigga scars'll scab
What you gonna box me homie?
I can dodge and jab
Three shots couldn't touch me
Thank God for that
I'm strong enough to carry Biggie Smalls on my back
And the whole BK nigga holla back

[Chorus]

99 Problems lyrics - Jay Z

If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son

I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one

[Verse One]

I got the rap patrol on the gat patrol

Foes that wanna make sure my casket's closed

Rap critics that say he's "Money Cash Hoes"

I'm from the hood stupid what type of facts are those

If you grew up with holes in your zapatos

You'd celebrate the minute you was having dough

I'm like fuck critics you can kiss my whole asshole

If you don't like my lyrics you can press fast forward

Got beef with radio if I don't play they show

They don't play my hits well I don't give a shit SO

Rap mags try and use my black ass

So advertisers can give em more cash for ads...fuckers

I don't know what you take me as

or understand the intelligence that Jay-Z has

I'm from rags to riches nigga I ain't dumb

I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one

Hit me

[Chorus]

99 Problems but a bitch ain't one

If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son

I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one

Hit me

[Verse Two]

The year is '94 and in my trunk is raw

In my rear view mirror is the mother fucking law

I got two choices yall pull over the car or

bounce on the double put the pedal to the floor

Now I ain't trying to see no highway chase with jake

Plus I got a few dollars I can fight the case

So I...pull over to the side of the road

And I heard "Son do you know why I'm stopping you for?"

Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hat's real low

Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know

Am I under arrest or should I guess some mo?

"Well you was doing fifty five in a fifty four"

"License and registration and step out of the car"

"Are you carrying a weapon on you I know a lot of you are"

I ain't stepping out of shit all my papers legit

"Do you mind if I look round the car a little bit?"

Well my glove compartment is locked so is the trunk and the back

And I know my rights so you gon' need a warrant for that

"Aren't you sharp as a tack are some type of lawyer or something?"

"Or somebody important or something?"

Nah I ain't passed the bar but I know a little bit

Enough that you won't illegally search my shit

"Well see how smart you are when the K-9's come"

I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one

Hit me

[Chorus X2]

[Verse Three]

Now once upon a time not too long ago

A nigga like myself had to strong arm a hoe

This is not a hoe in the sense of having a pussy

But a pussy having no God Damn sense, try and push me

I tried to ignore him and talk to the Lord

Pray for him, cause some fools just love to perform

You know the type loud as a motor bike

But wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight

The only thing that's gonna happen is i'mma get to clapping

He and his boys gon' be yapping to the captain

And there I go trapped in the kit kat again

Back through the system with the riff raff again

Fiends on the floor scratching again

Paparazzi's with they cameras snapping them

D.A. tried to give the nigga the shaft again

Half-a-mil for bail cause I'm African

All because this fool was harrassin' them

Trying to play the boy like hes saccarin

But ain't nothing sweet 'bout how I hold my gun

I got 99 problems but being a bitch ain't one

Hit me

[Chorus X3]

You're crazy for this one Rick

It's your boy

Public Service Announcement (Interlude) lyrics - Jay Z

This is a public service announcement

Sponsored by Just Blaze and the good folks at Roc-A-Fella Records

"Fellow Americans, it is with the utmost pride and sincerity

that I present this recording, as a living testiment and recollection

of history in the making during our generation."

[Jay-Z]

Allow me to re-introduce myself

My name is Hov', OH, H-to-the-O-V

I used to move snowflakes by the O-Z

I guess even back then you can call me

CEO of the R-O-C, Hov'!

Fresh out the fryin pan into the fire

I be the, music biz number one supplier

Flyer/flier than a piece of paper bearin my name

Got the hottest chick in the game wearin my chain, that's right

Hov', OH - not D.O.C.

But similar to them letters, "No One Can Do it Better"

I check cheddar like a food inspector

My homey Strict told me, "Dude finish your breakfast"

So that's what I'ma do, take you back to the dude

with the Lexus, fast-forward the jewels and the necklace

Let me tell you dudes what I do to protect this

I shoot at you actors like movie directors [laughing]

This ain't a movie dog (oh shit)

"Now before I finish, let me just say

I did not come here to show out, did not come here to impress you

Because to tell you the truth when I leave here I'm GONE!

And I don't care WHAT you think about me - but just remember,

when it hits the fan brother, whether it's next year, ten years, 

twenty years from now, you'll never be able to say

that these brothers lied to you JACK!"

[Jay-Z]

Ving ain't lie

I done came through the block in everything that's fly

I'm like, Che Guevara with bling on, I'm complex

I never claimed to have wings on

Nigga I get mine - by any means on whenever there's a drought

Get your umbrellas out because, that's when I brainstorm

You can blame Shawn, but I ain't invent the game

I just rolled the dice, tryin to get some change

And I do it twice, ain't no sense in me

lyin as if, I am a different man

And I could blame my environment but

there ain't no reason why I be buyin expensive chains

Hope you don't think users are the only abusers niggaz

Gettin high within the game

If you do then, how would you explain?

I'm ten years removed, still the vibe is in my veins

I got a hustler spirit, nigga period

Check out my hat yo, peep the way I wear it

Check out my swag' yo, I walk like a ballplayer

No matter where you go, you are what you are player

And you can try to change but that's just the top layer

Man, you was who you was 'fore you got here

Only God can judge me, so I'm gone

Either love me, or leave me alone

Justify My Thug lyrics - jay z

Uhh, this feel right right here Quik

It's like it's 'sposed to happen this one right here

Young! God damn..

.. let me justify my thug on this one right here

[Verse One: Jay-Z]

It goes one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock rock

Five six seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock

Eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, the party bout to pop

Then - Roc-A-Fella y'all, it's your boy S. Dot

And I ain't never been to jail; I ain't never pay a nigga

to do no dirt for me I was scared to do myself

I will never tell even if it means sittin in a cell

I ain't never ran, never will

I ain't never been smacked; a nigga better keep his hands

to himself or get clapped for what's under that man's belt

I never asked for nothin I don't demand of myself

Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

Death before dishonor and I tell you what else

I tighten my belt 'fore I beg for help

Foolish pride is what held me together through the years

I wasn't felt which is why I ain't never played myself

I just play the hand I'm dealt, I can't say I've never knelt

before God and asked for better cards at times to no avail

But I never sat back feelin sorry for myself

If you don't give me heaven I'll raise hell

'Til it's heaven

[Chorus - imitating Madonna]

Justify my thug!

"For you!" - [Run-D.M.C.]

My thug.. (hoping..)

My thug.. (praying..) for you

to justify my thug!

My thug.. (hoping..)

My thug.. (praying..) for you..

"For you! Fresh" - [Run-D.M.C.]

[Verse Two: Jay-Z]

Now if you shoot my dog, I'ma kill yo' cat

Just the unwritten laws in rap - know dat

For every action there's a reaction, don't have me relapsin

Relaxin's what I'm about, but about mine

Don't be actin like you can't see street action

Take me back to +Reasonable Doubt+ time

You see my mind's on the finish line, facin the wreck

I put my muh'fuckin faith in the tec, tell Satan not yet

You understand I am chasin my breath

I am narrowly escapin my death, oh yes

I am the Michael Schumacher of the Roc roster

Travellin Mach 5, barrelin, my power can stop God

God forgive me but I can't let them deliver me to you

Until, I won this race, then eventually

My engine gon' burn out, I get whatever is meant for me

However it turns out fine - red line!

[Chorus]

[Verse Three: Jay-Z]

They say an eye for an eye, we both lose our sight

And two wrongs don't make a right

But when you been wrong and you know all along that it's just one life

At what point does one fight? (Good question right!)

'Fore you knock the war, try to put your dogs in it

Ten-and-a-halfs, for a minute-and-a-half

Bet that stops all the grinnin and the laughs

When you play the game of life and the win ain't in the bag

When your options is none and the pen is all you have

or the block, niggaz standin tight, there's limits on the ave

Tryin to cop or shot-call theyself cleansin in the cash

But can't put they name on paper cause, then you on blast

Mr. President, there's drugs in our residence

Tell me what you want me to do, come break bread with us

Mr. Governor, I swear there's a cover up

Every other corner there's a liquor store - fuck is up?

[Chorus]

Lucifer lyrics - Jay Z

[Chorus:]

Lucifer, dawn of the morning!

I'm gonna chase you out of Earth

Lucifer, Lucifer, dawn of the morning...

(I'm from the murder capital, where we murder for capital)

Lucifer, Lucifer, dawn of the morning!

I'm gonna chase you out of Earth

(Kanyeeze you did it again, you're a genius nigga!)

Lucifer, Lucifer, dawn of the morning...

So you niggas change your attitude

For they asking what happened to you

[Verse One]

Lord forgive him

He got them dark forces in him

But he also got a righteous cause for sinning

Them a murder me so I gotta murder them first

Emergency doctors performing procedures

Jesus

I ain't trying to be facetious

But "Vengance is mine" said the Lord

You said it better than all

Leave niggas on deaths door

Breathing off res-por-rators

for killing my best boy, HATERS

On perminate hiatus as I skate

In the Maybach Benz

Flya the Sanna Lathan

Pumping "Brown Sugar" by D'Angelo

In Los Angeles

Like an evangelist

I can introduce you to your maker

Bring you closer to nature

Ashes after they cremate you bastards

Hope you been reading your psalms and chapters

Paying your ties being good Catholics

I'm coming

[Chorus]

[Verse Two]

Yes

This is Holly war

I wet you all with the Holly water

Spray from the Hetckler Koch auto

Matic all the static shall cease to exist

Like a sematical I throw a couple at you

Take six

Spread love to all of my dead thugs

I'll pour out a little Louie 'til I head above

Yes Sir

And when I perish

The meek shall inherit the earth

Until that time it's on a poppin Church

Like Don Bishop

The fifth upon cock either

Lift up your soul or give the Holly ghost please

I leave ya in somebody's Cathedral

And stunting like Evil Kenevil

I'll let you see where that bright light lead you

The more you talk the more you irking us

The more you gonna need memorial services

The Black Albums second verse is like

Devil's Pie please save some dessert for us

Man I gotta get my soul right

I gotta get these Devils out my life

These cowards gonna make a nigga ride

They won't be happy 'til somebody dies

Man I gotta get my soul right

'For I'm locked up for my whole life

Everytime it seems it's all right

Somebody want they soul to rise

(I'll chase you off of this Earth)

[Verse Three]

I got dreams of holding a Nine milla

To Bobs killer

Asking him "why?" as my eyes fill up

These days I can't wake up with a dry pillow

Gone but not forgotten Holmes I still feel ya

So... curse the day that birthed the bastard

Who caused your Church mass

Reverse the crash

Reverse the blast

And reverse the car

Reverse the day, and there you are

Bobalob

Lord forgive him we all have sinned

But Bobs a good dude please let him in

And if you feel in my heart that I long for revenge

Please blame it on the sun of the mourning

Thanks Again

Allure lyrics - Jay Z

Young! For life

Once again it's the life, yessss

(I don't know why, I.. get so high on)

It's intoxicatin man, y'all don't know why you do what you do

(Get so high on, get so high - high off the life)

[Verse One]

The allure of breakin the law

Is always too much for me to ever ignore

I gotta thing for them big body Benzes, it dulls my senses

In love with a V-Dub engine

Man I'm high off life, fuck it I'm wasted

Bey Venay kicks, or them Marvin Kaye wrists

My women friend get tennis bracelets

Trips to Venice, get they winters replaced with

The sun, it ain't even fun no more I'm jaded

Man, it's just a game, I just play it to play it

I put my feet in the footprints left to me

Without sayin a word, the ghetto's got a mental telepathy

Man my brother hustled so, naturally

Up next is me, but what perplexes me

Shit I know how this movie ends, still I play

The starrin role in "Hovito's Way"

[Chorus]

It's just life, I solemnly swear

To change my approach, stop shavin coke

Stay away from hoes, put down the toast

Cause I be doin the most.. oh no!

But every time I felt that was that, it called me right back

It called me right back, man it called me right back - oh no!

[Verse Two]

I'm like a Russian mobster, drinkin distilled vodka

'Til I'm under the field with Hoffa, it's real

Peal the top up like a toupee

Mix the water, with the soda

Turn the pot up make a souflee

All of y'all can get it like group page in your 2-way

I'm livin proof that crime do pay

Say hooray to the bad guy, and all the broads

Puttin cars in they name for the stars of the game

Puttin 'caine in they bras and their tomorrows on the train

All in the name of love

Just to see that love locked in chains and the family came

Over the house to take back, everything that they claimed

Or even the worst pain is the distress

Learnin you're the mistress only after that love gets slain

And the anger and the sorrow mixed up leads to mistrust

Now it gets tough to ever love a-gain

But the allure of the game, keeps callin your name

To all the Lauras of the world, I feel your pain

To all the Christies in every cities and Tiffany Lanes

We all hustlers, in love with the same thang

[Chorus]

[Verse Three]

I never felt more alive than ridin shotgun

In Cline's green 5 until the cops pulled guns

And I tried to smoke weed to give me the fix I need

What the game did to my pulse, with no results

And you can treat your nose and still won't come close

The game is a light bulb with eleventy-million volts

And I'm just a moth, addicted to the floss

And doors lift from the floor and the tops come off

By any means necessary, whatever the cost

Even if it means lives is lost..

And I can't explain why, I just love to get high

Drink life, smoke the blueberry sky, blink twice

I'm in the blueberry 5, you blink three times

I may not even be alive

How mean James Dean couldn't escape the allure

Dyin young, leavin a good lookin corpse

Of course

[Chorus]

Once again it's the life

I said it's the life

Once again it's the life - oh no!

(I don't why I) why I (get so high on)

Get so (get so high on) uh-huh

(get so high - high off the life!)

Hahahahahahaha - woo!

My 1st Song lyrics - Jay Z

[Notorious B.I.G. interview]

I'm just, tryin to stay above water y'know

Just stay busy, stay workin

Puff told me like, the key to this joint

The key to staying, on top of things

is treat everything like it's your first project, knahmsayin?

Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern

Like, that's how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry

[Verse One: Jay-Z]

Uhh, uhh, yes, yes

Y'all wanna know, why he don't stop

Y'all wanna know, why he don't flop

Let me tell you pe-eople why

Came from the bottom of the block I

When I was born, it was sworn, I was never gon' be shit

Had to pull the opposite out this bitch

Had to get my ri-ide on

Eyes on the prize, Shawn knew I had to

Had to had to get these chips

Had to make moves like Olajuwon

Started out sellin dimes and nicks

Graduated to a brick

No exaggeration, my infatuation with the strip

Legendary like a schoolboy

Crushin merely nearly every every chick

Heavy shit - that's how schoolboy got whipped

And got left on some "Just +Me, Myself and I+"

On some Trugoy shit

Had your boys threw place up, to a place of no return

Had to play with fire and get burned

Only way the boy ever gon' learn

Had to lay way in the cut, 'til I finally got my turn

Now I'm on top in the spot that I earned

[Chorus]

It's my life - it's my pain and my struggle

The song that I sing to you it's my ev-ery-thing

Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first

And my thirst is the same as - when I came

It's my joy and my tears and the laughter it brings to me

It's my ev-ery-thing

[Verse Two: Jay-Z]

Like I never rode in a limo

Like I just dropped flows to a demo

Like it's ninety-two again and

And I got O's in the rental

Back in the Stu' again, no prob' livin was a whole lot simpler

When you think back, you thought that

you would never make it this far, then you

take advantage of the luck you handed

Or the talent, you been given

Ain't no, half steppin, ain't no, no slippin

Ain't no different from a block that's hidden

Gotta get it while the getting's good

Gotta strike while the iron's hot, 'fore you stop

Then you gotta bid it, good riddance

Goodbye, this is my second major breakup

My first was, with a pager

With a hooptie, a cookpot, and the GAME

This one's with the stool, with the stage, with the fortune

Maybe not the fortune, but certainly the FAME

[Chorus]

It's my life - my pain and my struggle

The song that I sing to you it's my ev-ery-thing

Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first

And my thirst is the same as - when I came

It's my joy and my tears and my laughter it brings to me

It's my ev-ery-thing

Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first

And my thirst like the first song I sang

[Outro: Jay-Z]

Woo! It's like the blues - we gon' ride out on this one

Ta-tah, be-hah

Yo Hah, 'member you was makin them dashes

for them niggaa at radio and shit?

Clark Kent, that was good lookin out nigga

Carlene - who ever thought we'd make it this far homey?

Sha, they can't stop us, knahmsayin? Lenny S

Dame whattup? Robbin the bank

Niggaz thought we was crazy man, 'member uhh

You had that fucked up ass handwritin

You was writin all the numbers that we was spendin now

for the videos we was doin ourselves, whattup?

Original Flavor, your accountant was crazy wrong and shit

But we we still put it together

Bigs, whassup? 'Member we went to St. Thomas and uh

But y'all my nizzle, your dog peed on homey leg and shit

at his crib - I think that was Rudy

And they was havin a lil trouble with the pool

You and Ta-tah was laughin

Emory was there, whattup Emory? What up Ta?

Hip-Hop, whattup man?

Ay, ay Hobb, you ain't, you ain't have no uhh

You ain't have no muh'fuckin seat on your, on your bicycle

Now you uhh, the head of black music

That's what I'm talkin bout right there homey - G, whattup G?

Yessir, e'rybody in the Roc

Hey Guru, I know you spoiled man

I be takin them shits in one take

You gon' have to punch niggaz shit, STICK IT, you gon' be tight

OG One, whattup?

I'm a little upset that you wasn't involved in this whole process

But it's all good - whassup Dash?

My whole family, my nephew, cousin Angie, whassup? Te-Tee

(B, B, B, B) Mom, you made the album, how crazy is that?

Bob Allah, rest in peace

My pops, rest in peace (Sup A.J.?)

Biggie Smalls, rest in peace

Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh

Nigga, I'm bout to go golfin man

Ay, I might even have me a cappuccino, fuck it!

I'm goin somewhere nice where no mosquitos at nigga

Holla at me - it's your boy!

"The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse" (2002)

• A Dream lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Faith Evans, Notorious B.I.G.)
• Hovi Baby lyrics - Jay Z
• The Watcher 2 lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Dr. Dre, Rakim, Truth Hurts)
• 03 Bonnie & Clyde lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Beyonce)
• Excuse Me Miss lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Pharrell Williams (Neptunes))
• What They Gonna Do lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Sean Paul)
• All Around The World lyrics - Jay Z (feat. LaToiya Williams)
• Poppin' Tags lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Big Boi, Killer Mike, Twista)
• Fuck All Nite lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Pharrell Williams (Neptunes))
• The Bounce lyrics - Jay Z
• I Did It My Way lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Paul Anka)
• Diamond Is Forever lyrics - Jay Z
• Guns & Roses lyrics - jay Z (feat. Lenny Kravitz)
• U Don't Know (Remix) lyrics - Jay Z (feat. M.O.P.)
• Meet The Parents lyrics - Jay Z
• Some How Some Way lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Beanie Sigel, Scarface)
• Some People Hate lyrics - Jay Z
• Blueprint 2 lyrics - Jay Z
• Nigga Please lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Young Chris)
• 2 Many Hoes lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Timbaland)
• As One lyrics - Jay Z (feat. Freeway, Memphis Bleek, Sparks & others)
• A Ballad For The Fallen Soldier lyrics - jay Z
• Show You How lyrics - Jay Z
• Bitches & Sisters lyrics - Jay Z
• What They Gonna Do Part II lyrics - Jay Z