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Jay-Z - Renegade
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Motherfuckers say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels
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Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?
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See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined
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That same dude you gave nothin', I made somethin' doin'
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What I do through and through and I give you the news
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With a twist it's just his ghetto point-of-view
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The renegade, you been afraid, I penetrate pop culture
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Bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they
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Pop toasters and they live with they moms
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Got dropped roasters from botched robberies niggaz crotched over
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Mommy's knocked up 'cause she wasn't watched over
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Knocked down by some clown when child support knocked
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No, he's not around, now how that sound to ya, jot it down
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I bring it through the ghetto without ridin' 'round
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Hidin' down, duckin' strays from frustrated youths
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Stuck in they ways, just read a magazine that fucked up my day
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How you rate music that thugs with nothin' relate to it?
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I help them see they way through it, not you
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Can't step in my pants, can't walk in my shoes
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Bet everything you worth, you lose your tie and your shirt, yeah
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Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen
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I ain't no politician but I'll kick it with 'em a minute
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'Cause see they call me a menace and if the shoe fits I'll wear it
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But if it don't, then y'all'll swallow the truth grin and bear it
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Now who's these king of these rude Ludicrous lucrative lyrics
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Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics
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Usin his music to steer it, sharin' his views and his merits
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But there's a huge interference, they're sayin' you shouldn't hear it
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Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit
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Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish
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But I'm debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America
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As a motherfuckin' drug addict like you didn't experiment?
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Now now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror
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And see yourself as a kid again and you get embarrased
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And I got nothin' to do but make you look stupid as parents
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You fuckin' do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good at marriage
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And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here
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I don't think you do so stay tuned and keep your ears glued
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To the stereo 'cause here we go he's Jigga joint Jigga-chk-Jigga
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And I'm the sinister, Mr. Kiss-My-ass it's just the
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Renegade
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Never been afraid to say what's on my mind
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At any given time of day 'cause I'm a
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Never been afraid to talk about
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Anything, anything
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Anything, anything
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Never been afraid to say what's on my mind
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At any given time of day 'cause I'm a
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Never been afraid to holler about
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Anything, anything
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Anything, anything
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I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles
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Pockets filled with a lot of lint, not a cent
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Gotta vent, lot of innocent of lives lost on the project bench
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Whatchu hollerin'? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in
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By the bodega, iron under my coat, feelin' braver
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Doo-rag wrappin' my waves up, pockets full of hope
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Do not step to me, I'm awkward, I box leftier often
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My pops left me an orphan, my momma wasn't home
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Could not stress to me I wasn't grown 'specially on nights
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I brought somethin' home to quiet the stomach rumblings
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My demeanor, thirty years my senior
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My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin' green up
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Raisin' my fingers to critics, raisin' my head to the sky
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Big I did it multi before I die
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No lie, just know I chose my own fate
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I drove by the fork in the road and went straight
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare
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Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here
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To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me
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As a monger of hate and Satan a scatter-brained atheist
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But that ain't the case, see it's a matter of taste
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We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is
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Or is he the latter, a gateway to escape?
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Media scapegoat, who they can be mad at today
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See it's easy as cake, simple as whistlin' Dixie
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While I'm wavin' the pistol at sixty Christians against me
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Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
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In holy water, no wonder they try to hold me under longer
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I'm a motherfuckin' spiteful, delightful eyeful
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The new Ice Cube, motherfuckers hate to like you
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What did I do? I'm just a kid from the gutter
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Makin' this butter off these bloodsuckers, 'cause I'm a muh'fuckin'
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Never been afraid to say what's on my mind
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At any given time of day 'cause I'm a
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Never been afraid to talk about
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Anything, anything
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Anything, anything
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Never been afraid to say what's on my mind
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At any given time of day 'cause I'm a
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Never been afraid to holler about
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Anything, anything
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Anything, anything
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Never been afraid to say what's on my mind
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At any given time of day 'cause I'm a
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Never been afraid to talk about
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Anything, anything
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Anything, anything
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Never been afraid to say what's on my mind
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At any given time of day 'cause I'm a
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Never been afraid to holler about
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Anything, anything
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Anything, anything
Renegade
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