Where I'm From-Jay-Z

[ti:Where I'm From] [ar:Where I'm From - Jay-Z] [al:In My Lifetime Vol.1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Where I'm From - Jay-Z [00:06.03]Y-y-yea [00:08.67]Y-y-yea [00:11.21](Brooklyn) [00:11.79]How real is this [00:14.57]How real is this [00:16.93](Brooklyn) [00:18.48]Uh uh uh [00:20.27](Brooklyn) [00:21.43]Respect this here check [00:23.94]I'm from where the hammers rung news cameras never come [00:27.20]You and your mans hung in every verse in your rhyme [00:30.07]Where the grams is slung niggas vanish every summer [00:32.76]When the blue vans would come we throw the work in the can and run [00:35.86]Where the plans was to get funds and skate off the set [00:38.73]To achieve this goal quicker sold all my weight wet [00:41.86]Faced with immeasurable odds still I gave straight bets [00:44.78]So I felt I'm owed something and you nothing check [00:47.53]I from the other side where the other guys don't walk too much [00:50.61]And girls in the projects wouldn't **** us said we talked too much [00:53.76]So they ran up to Tompkins and sought them dudes to trust [00:56.59]I don't know what the **** they thought those niggas is foul just like us [00:59.63]I'm from where the beef is inevitable summertime's unforgettable [01:02.77]Boosters in abundance buy a half-price sweater new [01:05.49]Your word was everything so everything you said you'd do [01:08.35]You did it couldn't talk about it if you ain't lived it [01:11.32]I'm from where niggas pull your card and argue all day about [01:14.73]Who's the best MCs Biggie Jay-Z or Nas [01:17.49]Where the *** czars evolve and thugs always are [01:20.47]At each other's throats for the love of foreign cars [01:23.44]Where cats catch cases hoping the judge R-and-R's [01:26.20]But most times find themselves locked up behind bars at all [01:30.00]I'm from where they ball and breed rhyme stars [01:32.22]I'm from Marcy son just thought I'd remind y'all [01:35.07]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son ain't nothing nice [01:38.38]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [01:40.88]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son ain't nothing nice [01:44.66]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [01:47.18]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son ain't nothing nice [01:50.46]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [01:52.73]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son ain't nothing nice [01:58.84]I'm from the place where the church is the flakiest [02:01.44]And niggas is praying to God so long that they atheist [02:04.60]Where you can't put your vest away and say you'll wear it tomorrow [02:07.65]Cause the day after we'll be saying "Damn I was just with him yesterday" [02:10.70]I'm a block away from hell not enough shots away from stray shells [02:13.93]An ounce away from a triple beam still using a hand-held weight scale [02:16.36]You're laughing you know the place well where the liquor stores and the base well [02:19.92]And government **** government niggas politic themselves [02:22.54]Where we call the cops the A-Team cause they hop out of vans and spray things [02:25.91]And life expectancy so low we making out wills at eighteen [02:28.51]Where how you get rid of guys who step out of line your rep solidifies [02:31.57]So tell me when I rap you think I give a **** who criticize [02:34.50]If the **** is lies god strike me and I got a question [02:37.58]Are you forgiving guys who live just like me We'll never know [02:40.33]One day I prayed to you and said if I ever blow I'd let 'em know [02:43.68]Mistakes ain't and exactly what takes place in the ghetto [02:45.96]Promise fulfilled still I feel my job ain't done [02:49.28]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice [02:52.77]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice [02:55.44]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [02:58.28]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice [03:01.30]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [03:04.10]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice [03:07.67]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [03:09.98]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice [03:15.33]I'm from where they cross-over and clap boards [03:18.39]Lost Jehovah in place of rap lords listen [03:21.78]I'm up the block around the corner and down the street [03:24.86]From where the ***** *********** and the ** lords meet [03:27.63]We make a million off of beats cause our stories is deep [03:30.70]And **** tomorrow as long as the night before was sweet [03:33.61]Niggas get lost for weeks in the streets twisted off leek [03:36.73]And no matter the weather niggas know how to draw heat [03:39.69]Whether you're four-feet or Manute size it always starts out with [03:43.27]Three dice and shoot the five [03:45.58]Niggas thought they deuce was live now I hit 'em with trips [03:48.65]And I reached down for their money pa forget about this [03:51.52]This time around it's platinum like the **** on my wrist [03:54.61]And this Glock on my waist y'all can't do **** about this [03:57.43]Niggas'll show you love that's how they fool thugs [04:00.59]Before you know it you're lying in a pool of blood [04:03.33]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice [04:06.79]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [04:09.24]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice [04:12.93]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [04:14.94]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice [04:19.05]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own [04:21.31]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice