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Jay-z
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Yeah, hah, yeah Roc-A-Fella
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We invite you to, somethin epic y'all know?
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Well we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessness
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Sort of a desperation
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Through that desperation, we 'come addicted
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Sorta like the fiends we accustomed to servin
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But we feel we have nothin to lose
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So we offer you, well, we offer our lives, right
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What do you bring to the table?
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While I'm watchin every nigga watchin me closely
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My shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me
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I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be
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Hoes'll get you sidetracked then clap from closed feet
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I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days
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A brother gotta admire from four fiends away
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My pain wish it was quick to see, from sellin 'caine
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Til brains was fried to a fricaisse, can't lie
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At the time it never bothered me, at the bar
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Gettin my thug on properly, my squad and me
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Lack of respect for authority, laughin hard
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Happy to be escapin poverty, however brief
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I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation
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For dips, four percent pertation we stack chips, hardly
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The youth I used to be, soon to see a mill'in
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No more, Big Willie my game has grown prefer you call me William
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Illin for revenues, Rayful Edmonds like
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Channel 7 news, round seven jewels, hand gettin the mic
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Forgettin all I ever knew, convenient amnesia
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I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure
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Lock my body can't trap my mind, easily
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Explain why we adapt to crime
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I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
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Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it
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Presidential suites my resedential for the weekend
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Confidentially speakin in codes since I sense you peekin
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The nsx rental, don't be fooled my game is mental
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We both out of town dog, what you tryin to get into?
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Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables
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Meet me by the one that starts a G up
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This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up
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And we can have a pleasant time, sippin margaritas
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Ge-ge-geyeahhh, can I live?
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Can I live?
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My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle
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Like a Lexus, if driven wrong it's sure to hurt you
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Dual level like duplexes, in unity, my crew and me
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Commit atrocities like we got immunity
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You guessed it, manifest it in tangible goods
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Platinum Rolexed it, we don't lease
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We buy the whole care, as you should
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My confederation, dead a nation, explode
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On detonation, overload the mind of a said patient
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When it balls to steam, it comes to it
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We all fiends gotta do it, even righteous minds go through this
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True this, history school us to spend our money foolish
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Bond with jewellers and, watch for intruders
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I stepped it up another level, meditated like a buddhist
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Recruited lieutenants with ludicrous, dreams of
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Gettin cream let's do this, it gets tedious
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So I keep one eye open like, C-B-S, ya see me
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Stressed right? Can I live?
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Can I live?
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Can I live?
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Can I live?
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Ha-hah, Roc-A-Fella y'all
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