The Watcher 2-Jay-Z

[ti:The Watcher 2] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:The Blueprint 2.1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:03.02]Jeah uhh what shall I do for a livin ni**a [00:10.64]What shall i Eat for a livin ni**a *watcher* [00:13.77]That's how I live for a livin ni**a *watcher* [00:18.27]Okay let's do this *the watcher* [00:21.64][Verse One: Jay-Z] [00:22.39]Things just ain't the same for gangsters [00:23.83]But I'm a little too famous to shoot these pranksters [00:26.08]All of these rap singers claimin they bangers [00:28.20]Doin all sorts of twisted sh*t with they fingers [00:30.64]Disrespectin the game no home trainin or manners [00:32.77]I was doin this sh*t when you was shittin Pampers [00:35.26]I was movin them grams 'fore you knew what a hand that hand was [00:38.77]Duckin the vans radars the scanners [00:40.58]'Fore you knew what hard white to tame was [00:42.95]I was hittin the turnpike aight with the bammers [00:45.08]I was nice with my hands 'cause aight with them hammers [00:47.58]I was prickin my finger 'fore you knew what a Fam was [00:50.33]I had it laid out 'fore you knew what a plan was [00:53.14]Three hundred mill' later now you understand us [00:55.02]Y'all ain't see us comin through Vegas [00:56.70]You ever seen so much cham' bust in one night [00:59.03]Grand f**ked up one fight [01:00.16]I was on the Peter Pan bus [01:01.59]You was Peter Pan up in your room y'all f**kin with whom [01:04.66]Allow me to retort [01:06.41]You cowards is just now learnin the sh*t that we taught [01:09.41]You niggaz ain't know about a Robb Report [01:11.91]Bout a high speed Porsche [01:13.53]I e you niggaz ain't know how to floss [01:15.85]'Til I came through the door [01:17.09]Like "Eric B for Pres " respect me in this B**CH [01:19.28]You can't disrespect us cause you got a little check cut [01:21.85]You was suckin so long f**kin ya little neck up [01:23.90]Now you too big for your britches you got a few little b**ches [01:27.09]You think you Hugh Hefner you just ridiculous [01:29.09]I blew breath on you midgets I gave light to the game [01:31.72]It's only right I got the right to be king [01:33.72]Niggaz that got life really like what I sing [01:35.91]Cause they know is he really like niggaz feel my pain [01:38.41]Know the sh*t I DON'T write [01:39.91]Be the illest sh*t that's ever been recited [01:41.66]In the game word to the hyphen in my NAME [01:43.84]J A Y DASH Hoffa [01:45.78]The past present ni**a the future proper [01:48.10]The holy trinity of hip-hop is us [01:50.35]We give Dre his props BUT that's where it stops [01:52.97]It's the Roc [01:53.85][Chorus: Truth Hurts] [01:54.66]I know you got your eyes on me [01:57.10]I feel you watchin me [01:59.29]But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me [02:03.10]You try but what you think you saw [02:06.60]Ain't what you thought you saw [02:08.97]You bed-da off not lookin at all [02:12.41](Everywhere that I go ain't the same as befo') [02:16.84](People I used to know just don't know me no mo') [02:21.28](But everywhere that I go I got people I know) [02:26.28](Who got people they know so I suggest you lay low) [02:30.10][Verse Two: Dr Dre] [02:32.41]I'm still on top of the game [02:34.03]Still droppin flames still cock and aim [02:36.72]Still at the top had the Roc for the fame [02:38.85]Over setbacks there's been a lot since I came [02:41.66]You seen it all how I got how I gained [02:43.97]The momentum when it dropped how I got through the pain [02:46.29]When I roll and shock they watched me reclaim [02:48.60]The streets they made a special spot for my name [02:51.28]Dre haters wanna stop to my reign [02:53.03]But the music lives in me every drop in my veins [02:55.97]The pride and the pain [02:57.35]All the way back from the rise of my name [02:59.72]See the world clear through the eyes of the mane [03:02.04]See the world chear for the rhymes that I gave [03:04.53]When the beat bangs it'll drive them insane [03:06.78]The eyes that I played [03:08.10]The best to emerge in the game is The Watcher [03:10.47][Chorus] [03:10.97] [03:16.29][Verse Three: Rakim] [03:30.59] [03:49.07]I'm "Rated R " my brain contains graphics thangs [03:51.38]It turn traumatic teens into addicts and fiends [03:53.94]It's like watchin a movie through a panoramic screen [03:56.19]Which means I can see the whole planet in the scene [03:58.81]Cash is the topic the object a fatter pocket [04:01.32]Some take the crack and chop it but those that haven't got it [04:04.19]Take away the added profit it's catastrophic [04:05.94]I take the gat and cock it and I'll sit back and watch it [04:08.94]These New York streets is ugly I keep it gully [04:11.38]The world is mine and can't nobody keep it from me [04:13.76]Yo my neighborhood is never sunny [04:15.44]In the place where the number one cause of death is money [04:18.19]You can try copin [04:19.57]I've seen enough sh*t to leave your frame of mind broken [04:22.00]I'm still alive and scopin [04:23.31]Be another hundred years 'til my skies close in [04:25.50]And I'ma die with my eyes open the watcher *echoes* [04:30.19][Chorus] [05:45.10]