Return From World Tour Hot 97 Freestyle-Jay-Z

[ti:Return From World Tour Hot 97 Freestyle] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:An American Gangster] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Return From World Tour Hot 97 Freestyle - Jay-Z [00:00.77]So independent sh I might buy Koch [00:03.58] [00:06.65]I might not stop [00:08.39]Places to cop seventy-six floors you can call me the Doc [00:12.57]Say when say when [00:14.99]When [00:19.09]Places to cop seventy-six floors you can call [00:21.99] [00:23.47]Say when say when [00:29.03]Inspired by Basquiat my chariot's on fire [00:31.19]Everybody took shots hit my body up I'm tired [00:33.63]Build me up break me down to build me up again [00:35.85]They like Hov we need you back so we can kill your a** again [00:37.50] [00:38.50]Hov got flow though he's no Big and Pac but he's close [00:41.56]How I'm posed to win they got me fightin' ghosts [00:46.32] [00:48.59]Same sword they knight you they gon' good night you with [00:51.21]Sh thats' only half if they like you [00:53.97]That ain't even the half what they might do [00:56.35]Don't believe me ask Michael [00:58.68]See Martin see Malcolm [01:00.15]You see Biggie see Pac see success and its outcome [01:02.46] [01:03.60]See Jesus see Judas see Caesar see Brutus [01:06.48]See success is like suicide [01:08.66]Suicide it's a suicide [01:10.44]If you succeed prepare to be crucified [01:12.91] [01:13.45]Media meddles niggas sue you you settle [01:15.71]Every step you take they remind you you ghetto [01:18.47]So it's tough bein' Bobby Brown [01:20.47]To be Bobby then you gotta be Bobby now [01:22.66]Now the question is is to have had and lost [01:25.25]Better than not having at [01:28.55] [01:38.47]Everybody wanna be the King then shots ring [01:40.28]You layin' on your balcony with holes in your dream [01:42.51]Or you Malcolm X'd out get distracted by screams [01:45.29] [01:45.92]Everybody get your hand off my jeans [01:47.98]Everybody look at you strange say you changed [01:50.26]Uhh Like you work that hard to stay the same [01:52.87]Uhh game stays the same the name changes [01:54.90]So its best for those to not overdose on being famous [01:58.03]Most kings get driven so insane [01:59.87]That they try to hit the same vein that Kurt Cobain did [02:02.96]No dangers so shameless [02:05.17]Invited to the inner sanctum of your chambers [02:07.66]Low chain em as the enemies approach [02:10.18]So raise your draw bridge and drown them in the moat [02:12.69]And the spirit I'm evoking [02:14.33]Mumbles hold on [02:17.77]Everybody screaming they want the old Hov [02:19.64]But the new improved Hov hit like Albert Pujols [02:21.90] [02:22.56]Everybody wanna hear me talk that money like Phil Rizzuto [02:25.33]But my mind is on Pluto [02:27.26]Bills that I do fold I now invest on [02:29.63]Trying to find some loopholes in the IRS [02:32.10]As where I used to have a few hoes I am just [02:34.60]Concentrating on making a new Hov through sex [02:36.84]I've awakened just in time to school those putos [02:39.30]Trying to follow in my shoes with jewels froze [02:41.61]Better adhere to this text fore you go [02:43.95]Broke spending more than you've accrued on silly baguettes [02:45.97] [02:46.75]I know silly begets silly you'll learn on your own [02:49.19]At least my conscience is clear I'm no longer steering you wrong [02:51.84]Ain't nothing wrong with baguettes after you get a home [02:54.08]Take care of your home you can go back and ugh [02:56.79]I'm getting courted by the bosses [02:58.47]The Edgars And Doug Morris-es-es [03:00.39]Jimmy I's and Lyors-es it's [03:02.04]Gotta be more than the choruses [03:03.53]They respecting my mind now [03:05.21]Just a matter of time now [03:06.70]Operation takeover corporate [03:08.80]Makeover offices-es-es then takeover all of it [03:11.91]Please may these words be recorded [03:13.50]To serve as testimony that I saw it all before it [03:16.82]Came to fruition sort of a premonition [03:19.05]Uncontrollable hustler's ambition [03:21.64]Alias Superstition like Stevie [03:24.15]The writing's on the wall like my lady right baby [03:26.31]Saw it all before some of y'all thought I was crazy maybe [03:29.61]Like a fox I'm cagey ah ah [03:31.80]The more successful the more stressful [03:33.52]The more and more I transform to Gordon Gekko [03:35.89]In the race to a billion got my face to the ceiling [03:38.72]Got my knees on the floor please Lord forgive him [03:41.32]Has he lost his religion is the greed gon' get him [03:43.86]He's having heaven on earth will his wings still fit him [03:46.08]I got the forbes on my living room floor [03:48.02]And I'm still talking to the poor ni**a I want more [03:50.56]TIME's most influential was impressive [03:53.16]Specially since I wasn't in the artist section [03:55.64]Had me with the builders and the titans [03:57.43]Had me right with Rupert Murdoch [03:58.59]Billionaire boys and some dudes you never heard of [04:01.17]Word up on Madison Ave is I'm a cash cow [04:03.61]Word down on Wall Street homie you get the cash out [04:06.20]IPO Hov no need for reverse merger [04:08.12]The boy money talk no need to converse further [04:11.02]The baby blue Maybach like I own Gerber [04:13.49]Boardroom I'm lifting ya skirt up