Moment Of Clarity-Jay-Z

[ti:Moment Of Clarity] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:The Black Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Moment Of Clarity - Jay-Z [00:12.69]Turn the music up turn the lights down [00:13.91]I'm in my zone [00:16.74]Thank God for grantin me [00:17.88]This moment of clarity [00:19.46]This moment of honesty [00:20.97]The world'll feel my truths [00:22.73]Through my Hard Knock Life time [00:23.87]My Gift and The Curse [00:24.88]I gave you volume after volume of my work [00:27.28]So you can feel my truths [00:28.53]I built the Dynasty by being one [00:30.19]Of the realest niggas out [00:32.04]Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt [00:33.73]From my Blueprint beginnings To [00:35.03]That Black Album endin [00:36.78]Listen close you hear what I'm about [00:39.18]Ni**a feel my truths Pop died Didn't cry [00:41.49]Didn't know him that well [00:42.77]Between him doin ** [00:43.91]And me doin crack sales [00:46.08]With that in the egg shell Standin [00:47.77]At the tabernacle [00:49.16]Rather the church Pratendin to be hurt [00:51.29]Wouldn't work So a smirk was all [00:53.44]On my face [00:54.25]Like damn that mans face was [00:55.95]Just like my face [00:57.24]So pop I forgive you For all the sh*t [00:59.52]That I live through [01:00.29]It wasn't all your fault Homie [01:01.97]You got caught [01:03.11]And to the same game I fault [01:05.07]That Uncle Ray lost [01:06.32]My big brothers and so many others I saw [01:09.12]I'm just glad we got to see each other [01:10.96]Talk and re-meet each other Save a place [01:12.71]In Heaven Til the next time [01:13.95]We meet forever [01:15.59]Thank God for grantin me [01:16.66]This moment of clarity [01:17.81]This moment of honesty [01:19.80]The world'll feel my truths [01:21.07]Through my Hard Knock Life time [01:22.35]My Gift and The Curse [01:23.59]I gave you volume [01:24.25]After volume of my work [01:25.69]So you can feel my truths [01:27.03]I built the Dynasty [01:28.09]By being one of the realest niggas out [01:30.37]Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt [01:32.37]From my Blueprint beginnings To [01:33.97]That Black Album endin [01:35.12]Listen close you hear [01:36.53]What I'm about Ni**a feel my truths [01:39.05]The music business hate me [01:39.89]Cause the industry ain't make me [01:41.29]Hustlers and boosters embrace me [01:42.57]And the music I be makin [01:44.25]I dumb down for my audience [01:46.08]And double my dollars [01:47.08]They criticize me [01:48.30]For it Yet they all yell "Holla" [01:50.03]If skills sold Truth be told [01:52.25]I'd probably be [01:53.69]Lyricly Talib Kweli [01:55.91]Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense [01:59.16]I ain't been rhymin [02:00.01]Like Common since [02:01.83]When your sense got that much in common [02:04.00]And you been hustlin since [02:05.38]Your inception F**k perception Go with [02:07.28]What makes sense [02:07.94]Since I know what I'm up against [02:10.57]We as rappers must decide [02:12.21]What's most impor-tant [02:13.82]And I can't help the poor [02:14.91]If I'm one of them [02:16.06]So I got rich and gave back To me [02:17.79]That's the win win [02:19.04]The next time you see the homie [02:20.43]And his rims spin Just know my mind is workin [02:23.25]Just like them [02:24.83]The rims that is [02:25.94]Thank God for grantin me this moment of clarity [02:28.29]This moment of honesty [02:29.74]The world'll feel my truths [02:31.23]Through my Hard Knock Life time [02:32.84]My Gift and The Curse [02:33.69]I gave you volume after volume of my work [02:36.21]So you can feel my truths [02:37.25]I built the Dynasty by being one of [02:38.74]The realest niggas out [02:40.65]Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt [02:42.48]From my Blueprint beginnings [02:44.25]To that Black Album endin [02:45.39]Listen close you hear [02:46.43]What I'm about Ni**a feel my truths [02:48.89]My homie Sigel's on a tier [02:50.02]Where no tears should fall [02:51.54]Cause he was on the block [02:52.81]Where no squares get off [02:54.43]See in my inner circle [02:55.72]All we do is ball [02:57.48]Til we all got triangles on our wall [03:00.27]He ain't just rappin [03:00.82]For the platinum Yall record [03:03.22]I recall Cause I really been there before [03:06.25]Four scores and seven years ago Prepared [03:08.54]To flow Prepare for war [03:09.77]I shall fear no man [03:10.60]You don't hear me though [03:12.52]These words ain't just paired to go [03:14.67]In one ear out the other ear [03:16.69]NO YO My balls and my word is alls I have [03:20.69]What you gonna do to me [03:22.41]Ni**a scars'll scab [03:23.73]What you gonna box me homie [03:25.30]I can dodge and jab [03:26.59]Three shots couldn't touch me [03:28.18]Thank God for that [03:29.59]I'm strong enough to carry Biggie Smalls [03:31.39]On my back [03:32.52]And the whole BK ni**a holla back [03:35.51]Thank God for grantin me [03:36.87]This moment of clarity [03:38.40]This moment of honesty [03:40.26]The world'll feel my truths [03:41.72]Through my Hard Knock Life time [03:42.67]My Gift and The Curse [03:43.60]I gave you volume after volume of my work [03:46.40]So you can feel my truths [03:47.89]I built the Dynasty [03:48.68]By being one of the realest niggas out [03:50.83]Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt [03:53.04]From my Blueprint beginnings To [03:54.61]That Black Album endin [03:55.69]Listen close you hear [03:56.88]What I'm about [03:58.06]Ni**a feel my truths