Young, Gifted and Black-Jay-Z

[ti:Young, Gifted and Black] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:Jay-Z: The Hits Collection Vol. 1 (Deluxe Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Young, Gifted and Black - Jay-Z [00:16.09]I'm America's worst nightmare [00:17.39] [00:17.90]I'm young black and holding my nuts like yeah [00:20.34]While ya'll was at the pub havin' a light beer [00:22.93]I was at the club havin' a fight there [00:25.39]Ya'll can go home husband and wife there [00:27.78]My momma at work tryin' to buy me the right gear [00:30.43]Nine years old uncle lost his life here [00:32.64]I grew up thinkin' life ain't fair [00:34.63]How can I get a real job China white right there [00:37.98]Right in front of my sight like here yeah [00:40.27]There's ya ticket out the ghetto take flight right here [00:42.79]Tell on me you go bye-bye here damn [00:44.99]There's a different set of rules we abide by here [00:47.73]You need a gun niggas might drive by here [00:50.34]Ya'll havin' fun racin' all ya hot-rods there [00:52.62]Downloadin' all our music on ya iPods there [00:55.25]I'm Chuck-D standin' in the crosshairs here [00:58.00]Ya'll straight chicks got horse hair here [01:00.48]Ya'll ain't gotta be in fear of ya'll bosses there [01:03.02]You lose your job your pop rich ya'll don't care [01:05.66]So I don't care ya'll acting like ya'll don't hear [01:08.13]All the screams from the ghetto [01:09.80]Or the teens ducking metal here [01:11.27] [01:11.83]So they steam like a kettle here [01:13.56]Trying to take they mind to a whole different level here [01:16.14]Yeah we real close to devil here [01:18.03]Got to be a better way somebody call a reverend here [01:20.93]Yeah have mercy really be in heaven here [01:23.21]Somebody tell God that we got a couple of questions here [01:25.48]My little cousin never got to see his seventh year [01:28.50]And I'm so used to pain that I ain't even shed a tear