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I Did It My Way
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Jay-z
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[singing: Paul Anka + (Jay-Z)]
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Now, the end is near (Can you believe this shit Guru?)
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So I face (I'm from the hood man) the final curtain
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(No the real hood the hood, not the rap hood)
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(The real hood, like three pair of pants)
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My friends, I'll say it clear (pair of sneakers)
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(My moms is bustin her ass) State my case
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(nigga I'm goin to Japan tomorrow!) Which I'm certain
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(You understand what I'm sayin? Can you believe that?)
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I lived a life that's full (They have people, waitin)
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(at the airport like five days like I'm a Beatle or somethin)
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(That's really somethin!) And I travelled each, and every highway
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(Seen the best of the best, the worst of the worst) and more
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Much more than this (still here) I did it myyyyyy wayyyyyyy
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Let's try this one
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[Jay-Z + (singer)]
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Uhh, yeah... Gangsta nigga!
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Put my hustle down, tore the game up nigga
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Took your high score down, put my name up nigga
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Tore the doors down 'til the Hall of Fame is Jigga
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I did it my way (and more.. Much more than this)
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That's right, it's a beautiful thing man!
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(I did it myyyyyy wayyyyyyy) I did it my way -- Hovi baby!
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Momma's youngest and strongest, survived summers like saunas
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Mastered a corner like Deion in his uniform
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Pop hurtin assertive, flirted with death
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Damn near murdered before my first album hit the shelf
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Grandma's favorite, she could not understand
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How there's people in the world who wouldn't want me as a neighbor
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Has to explain to her, you think these folks want me in the penthouse
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As a reminder that I make top paper?
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Black entrepeneur, nobody did us no favors
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Nobody gave us shit, we made us
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The Rap Pack, I'm Sinatra, Dame's Sam Davis
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Big's the smart one on the low like Dean Martin
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We came in this game, not beggin niggaz pardon
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Demandin y'all respect, hand over a check
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And while y'all at it, hand over the jet
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We the reason they ain't hand over Def Jam so quick
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They new every year I was droppin new product
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I was raisin the stock up, while buildin the Roc up
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But that's alright, cause they knew they had to see us
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When it was time for us to re-up, make us multi-million-ires
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Je-je-jeah!
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(And more, much more than this; I did it myyyyyy wayyyyyyy)
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Jeah! "In My Lifetime"
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I caught smaller cases, but I had capital
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Hypocritic system let me right back at you
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You better hope a rich rapper never attacks you
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Not even that scratches you, 'specially if you black dude
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They don't give a shit unless the accused just happen to rap
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And they can look good by paintin him as bad news
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Cause in my past, I seen dudes get half of they views
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Exposed to the curb and nobody said a word
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So imagine how disturbed I was
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When I seen how big they made my fight scene at the club
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Let me explain exactly how this shit was
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This nigga Un yo I scratched him, he went home without an aspirin
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But it's cool cause he's back friends, and half-inning is over
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It's in the past and I'm glad, now I'm back to bein Hova
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Me back with the chaffeur, laid back
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Helicopter seat, feat inclined, shit feelin like a sofa
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Helicopter meet me, Teta Vero(?) take me over
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Somewhere peaceful for the weekend now it's back to speakin of vultures
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So the next time that page six approaches us
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Here's a quote from Jay, nigga I did it my - way
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(And more, much more than this; I did it myyyyyy wayyyyyyy)
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