East West Renegades-Jay-Z

[ti:East West Renegades] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:The BlendPrint] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]East West Renegades - Jay-Z (杰斯) [00:22.40]Motherf**kers say that I'm foolish [00:24.27]I only talk about jewels [00:25.48]Do you fools listen to music [00:27.43]Or do you just skim through it [00:28.92]See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined [00:31.30]That same dude you gave nothing [00:33.14]I made something doing [00:34.24] [00:34.84]What I do through and through and [00:36.55]I gave you the news with a twist [00:38.32]It's just his ghetto point of view [00:40.45]The renegade you been afraid [00:41.87]I penetrate pop culture [00:43.36]Bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they [00:45.95]Pop toasters and they live with they mums [00:48.23]Got dropped roasters [00:49.21]From botched robberies n***as crotched over [00:50.98] [00:51.82]Mummy's knocked up [00:52.92]Cause she wasn't watched over [00:54.07]Knocked down by some clown [00:55.83]When child support knocked [00:56.96]No he's not around now how [00:58.49]That sound to ya jot it down [01:00.12]I'll bring you through the ghetto without ridin round [01:02.28]Hiding down duckin strays [01:03.83]From frustrated youths stuck in they ways [01:05.92]Just read a magazine that f**ked up my day [01:08.61]How you rate music that thugs with nothing relate to it [01:11.81]I help them see they way through it not you [01:14.10]Can't step in my pants can't walk in my shoes [01:16.74]Bet everything you worth [01:17.82]You lose your tie and your shirt [01:19.17]Since I'm in a position to [01:20.54]Talk to these kids and they listen [01:22.11]I ain't no politician [01:22.88]But I'll kick it with em a minute [01:24.76]Cause see they call me a menace [01:26.02]And if the shoe fits I'll wear it [01:27.38]But if it don't then ya'll swallow [01:28.51] [01:29.25]The truth grin and bear it [01:30.26]Now who's the king of these rude [01:31.81]Ludicrous lucrative lyrics [01:32.86]Who could inherit the title put [01:34.15] [01:34.75]The youth in hysterics [01:35.92]Using his music to steer [01:36.99]It sharing his views in his marriage [01:38.74]But there's a huge interference [01:40.07]They're sayin you shouldn't hear it [01:41.57]Maybe it's hatred I spew [01:42.68]Maybe it's food for the spirit [01:44.40]Maybe it's beautiful music [01:45.62]I made for you to just cherish [01:47.20]But I'm debated disputed hated [01:49.00]And viewed in America [01:50.35]As a motherf**kin drug addict [01:51.71]Like you didn't experiment [01:52.81]Now now [01:53.39]That's when you start to stare at [01:54.80]Who's in the mirror [01:55.83]And see yourself as a kid again [01:57.40]And you get embarrassed [01:58.60]And I got nothing to do [01:59.61]But make you look stupid as parents [02:01.32]You f**kin do-gooders too bad [02:02.90]You couldn't DO-GOOD at marriage [02:04.21]And do you have any clue [02:05.58]What I had to do to get here I don't [02:07.20]Think you do so stay tuned [02:08.43]And keep your ears glued to the stereo [02:09.73]Cause here we go [02:10.80]He's Jigga durra Jigga da chk Jigga [02:12.71]And I'm the sinister Mr Kiss-My-A** it's just the [02:15.80]RENEGADE Never been afraid to say [02:18.29]What's on my mind at any given time of day [02:21.03]Cause I'm a RENEGADE [02:21.86] [02:22.47]Never been afraid to talk [02:24.05]About anything ANYTHING anything ANYTHING [02:26.93]RENEGADE [02:27.46] [02:28.02]Never been afraid to say [02:29.52]What's on my mind at any given time of day [02:32.39]Cause I'm a RENEGADE [02:33.73]Never been afraid to holler [02:35.04]About anything ANYTHING anything ANYTHING [02:38.66]I had to hustle my back to the wall [02:40.77]Ashy knuckles [02:41.36]Pockets filled with a lot of lint not a cent [02:44.05]Gotta vent lot of innocent of lives lost [02:46.05]On the project bench [02:47.09]What you hollarin Gotta pay rent bring dollars in [02:50.02]By the bodega iron under my coat feelin braver [02:52.93]Doo-rag wrappin my waves up [02:54.60]Pockets full of hope [02:55.85]Do not step to me I'm awkward [02:57.20]I box leftier often [02:58.11] [02:58.66]My pops left me an orphan [03:00.06]My momma wasn't home [03:01.66]Could not stress to me I wasn't growin [03:03.45]Specially on nights [03:04.16]I brought something home to quiet [03:06.01]The stomach rumblings [03:06.67] [03:07.28]My demeanor thirty years my senior [03:09.34]My childhood didn't mean much [03:11.09]Only raisin greener [03:12.77]Raisin my fingers to critics raisin my head to the sky [03:15.87]Big I did it multi before I die ni**a [03:18.25]No lie just know I chose my own fate [03:21.00]I drove by the fork in the road and went straight [03:23.33]See I'm a poet to some [03:24.60]A regular modern day Shakespeare [03:25.91] [03:26.58]Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here [03:29.29]To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me [03:32.12]As a mother of hate [03:33.10]Satan and scatter-brained atheist [03:34.98]But that ain't the case see it's a matter of taste [03:37.40]We as a people decide [03:38.75]If Shady's as bad as they say he is [03:40.57]Or is he the ladder a gateway to escape [03:42.97]Media scapegoat they can be mad at today [03:45.97]See it's as easy as cake simple as whistling Dixie [03:48.78]While I'm wavin the pistol at sixty Christians against me [03:51.61]Go to war with the Mormons [03:53.04]Take a bath with the Catholics [03:54.19]In holy water no wonder [03:55.69]They try to hold me under longer [03:57.48]I'm a motherf**kin spiteful delightful eyeful [04:00.06]The new Ice Cube motherf**kers hate to like you [04:03.08]What did I dohuh I'm just a kid from the gutter [04:05.61]Makin this butter off these bloodsuckers [04:07.24] [04:07.80]Cause I'm a muh'f**kin [04:08.97]RENEGADE Never been afraid to say [04:11.31]What's on my mind at any given time of day [04:14.06]Cause I'm a RENEGADE [04:15.37]Never been afraid to talk [04:16.96]About anything ANYTHING anything ANYTHING [04:19.95]RENEGADE [04:21.10]Never been afraid to say [04:22.70]What's on my mind at any given time of day [04:25.43]Cause I'm a RENEGADE [04:26.67]Never been afraid to holler [04:28.37]About anything ANYTHING anything ANYTHING [04:31.18] [04:32.43]Never been afraid to say [04:33.97]What's on my mind at any given time of day [04:36.58]Cause I'm a RENEGADE [04:38.02]Never been afraid to holler [04:39.60]About anything ANYTHING anything ANYTHING [04:42.51] [04:43.67]Never been afraid to say [04:45.11]What's on my mind at any given time of day [04:48.07]Cause I'm a RENEGADE [04:49.29]Never been afraid to holler [04:50.79]About anything ANYTHING anything ANYTHING