My 1st Song-Jay-Z

[ti:My 1st Song] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:99 Problems (int'l 4 trk ECD)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My 1st Song - Jay-Z [00:01.10]I'm just tryin to stay above water y'know [00:03.66]Stay busy stay workin [00:06.34]Puff told me like the key to this joint [00:08.72]The key to staying on top of things [00:10.84]Is treat everything like it's your first project knahmsayin [00:12.71]Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern [00:16.58]Like that's how you try to treat things like just stay hungry [00:19.26]Uhh uhh yes yes [00:21.51]Y'all wanna know why he don't stop [00:23.90]Y'all wanna know why he don't flop [00:25.39]Let me tell you pe-eople why [00:26.71]Came from the bottom of the block I [00:28.32]When I was born it was sworn I was never gon' be sh*t [00:31.38]Had to pull the opposite out this b**ch [00:33.07]Had to get my ri-ide on [00:35.06]Eyes on the prize Shawn knew I had to [00:37.19]Had to had to get these chips [00:38.38]Had to make moves like Olajuwon [00:39.49]Started out sellin dimes and nicks [00:41.05]Graduated to a brick [00:41.81]No exaggeration my infatuation with the strip [00:43.49]Legendary like a schoolboy [00:44.80]Crushin merely nearly every every chick [00:46.54]Heavy sh*t - that's how schoolboy got whipped [00:49.17]And got left on some "Just Me Myself and I" [00:51.85]On some Trugoy sh*t [00:53.60]Had your boys threw place up to a place of no return [00:56.03]Had to play with fire and get burned [00:57.59]Only way the boy ever gon' learn [00:59.28]Had to lay way in the cut 'til I finally got my turn [01:02.02]Now I'm on top in the spot that I earned [01:04.33][Chorus] [01:04.70]It's my life - it's my pain and my struggle [01:07.39]The song that I sing to you it's my ev-ery-thing [01:10.57]Treat my first like my last and my last like my first [01:15.44]And my thirst is the same as - when I came [01:18.31]It's my joy and my tears and the laughter it brings to me [01:22.24]It's my ev-ery-thing [01:23.37]Like I never rode in a limo [01:24.82]Like I just dropped flows to a demo [01:26.51]Like it's ninety-two again and [01:27.82]And I got O's in the rental [01:29.57]Back in the Stu' again no problemo its a whole lot simple [01:32.32]When you think back you thought that [01:34.00]You would never make it this far then you [01:35.93]Take advantage of the luck you handed [01:37.37]Or the talent you been given [01:38.55]Ain't no half steppin ain't no no slippin [01:41.63]Ain't no different from a block that's hidden [01:43.43]Gotta get it while the getting's good [01:44.93]Gotta strike while the iron's hot 'fore you stop [01:46.68]Then you gotta bid it good riddance [01:48.30]Goodbye this is my second major breakup [01:50.17]My first was with a pager [01:52.05]With a hooptie a cookpot and the CANE [01:55.17]This one's with the stool with the stage with the fortune [01:57.85]Maybe not the fortune but certainly the FAME [02:00.72][Chorus] [02:01.28]It's my life - my pain and my struggle [02:04.03]The song that I sing to you it's my ev-ery-thing [02:05.96]Treat my first like my last and my last like my first [02:10.08]And my thirst is the same as - when I came [02:12.83]It's my joy and my tears and my laughter it brings to me [02:16.51]It's my ev-ery-thing [02:18.21] [02:19.27]Treat my first like my last and my last like my first [02:22.02]And my thirst like the first song I sang [02:24.26][Outro: Jay-Z] [02:24.83]Woo It's like the blues - we gon' ride out on this one [02:30.88]Ty Ty Beehigh [02:33.06]Yo High 'member you was makin them dashes [02:34.81]For them niggaa at radio and sh*t [02:44.42]Clark Kent that was good lookin out ni**a [02:48.67]Carlene - who ever thought we'd make it this far homey [02:54.54]Sha they can't stop us knahmsayin Lenny S [02:56.42]Game whattup Robbin the bank [02:57.67]Niggaz thought we was crazy man 'member uhh [02:59.48]You had that f**ked up a** handwritin [03:01.10]You was writin all the numbers that we was spendin now [03:03.41]For the videos we was doin ourselves whattup [03:06.46]Original Flavor your accountant was crazy wrong and sh*t [03:08.91]But we we still put it together [03:10.29]Bigs whassup 'Member we went to St Thomas and uh [03:13.03]But y'all my nizzle your dog peed on homey leg and sh*t [03:16.15]At his crib - I think that was Rudy [03:18.77]And they was havin a lil trouble with the pool [03:21.89]You and Ty Ty was laughin [03:25.45]Emory was there whattup Emory What up Ta [03:28.07]Hip-Hop whattup man [03:28.63]Ay ay Hop you ain't you ain't have no uhh [03:32.19]You ain't have no muh'f**kin seat on your on your bicycle [03:35.00]Now you uhh the head of black music [03:39.80] [03:41.11]That's what I'm talkin bout right there homey - G whattup G [03:44.29] [03:45.60]Yessir e'rybody in the Roc [03:47.73]Hey Guru I know you spoiled man [03:50.28]I be takin them shits in one take [03:51.97]You gon' have to punch niggaz sh*t STICK IT you gon' be tight [03:56.27]OG One whattup [03:57.90]I'm a little upset that you wasn't involved in this whole process [04:01.27]But it's all good - whassup Dash [04:03.64] [04:04.70]My whole family my nephew cousin Angie whassup Te-Tee [04:07.32](B B B B) Mom you made the album how crazy is that [04:12.87] [04:14.62]Bob Allah rest in peace [04:16.18]My pops rest in peace (Sup A J ) [04:20.42]Biggie Smalls rest in peace [04:22.98] [04:23.75]Uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh [04:25.55] [04:27.61]Ni**a I'm bout to go golfin man [04:29.74] [04:30.80]Ay I might even have me a cappuccino f**k it [04:34.04]I'm goin somewhere nice where no mosquitos at ni**a [04:36.23]Holla at me - it's your boy