Jay-Z Lyrics

Album: Unknown

This Life Forever Lyrics

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 Blackhand Ent.

 Roc-a-Fella Records

 In association with the streets

 The Black Gangster

 In conjunction

 With everything official

 Yeah

 

 I ride throught the ghetto windows down halfway

 Halfway out of my mind music on 9, blasting Donny Hathaway

 Me and my niggas spending half the day

 Plotting, how we gon get this math with out getting balst away

 I wake up to the same problems after today

 Life is harsh, niggas gotta ?

 Right from the start they place me in the ghetto tender age of nine

 I tend to mine and to surrender to crime

 Wouldnt wish this on nobody like the end of like mine

 Ever since i was quite young a nigga been in divine

 Had to scratch for every plaque, rap aint even all its cracked up to be

 Niggas dont stack up to me

 Had to hustle in a world of trouble 

 trapped in, clostrophobic the only way out was rapping

 America dont understand it, the demographics i tapped in

 I'm the truest nigga to do this nigga and anything else is foolish

 Like those who stay high, under God's grey skies

 My lyrics is like Bible, made to save lives

 In the midst of all your misery nigga, stay fly

 Never let em see you frown, even smile when you down

 Shit, i floss on my off-days fuck what they all say

 Niggas cant stop me like rumors, i'm too strong 

 All-day

 Socks explode and sweatpants pockets is bulging

 Holding it down on the corner with my glock holding

 My spot is golden, drop the price on the coke and

 Drove the competition out and let the dough flow in

 The cops is closing in, i can do the time 

 But whats really on my mine, is there's no hoes in the pen

 I play the low and try and make it hard to find me

 Feds still tryna build a case since '93

 I told them, i'm retired but they like whatever

 You know them pigs dont wanna see you get your life together

 

 [Chorus:]

 I'm stuck in this life forever

 The more things change the more they stay the same

 Who am i to change the game?

 You gotta move quick like her-o-in and dope can

 The blocks hotter than its ever been

 

 Once again

 Hold the gun at eye level, i aint afraid of conflict

 I let the nine rip, nigga say "hi" to the devil

 I blind with the bezel, i'm in line with the ghetto

 What yall nigga afraid of my mind or the metal

 Niggas tryna subtract my life, my mathematics is precise

 I carry the nine, so fucking with me just aint the answer

 I cant lose when i was young i was like Fresh

 Poppa raised me to chess moves

 And though your gone i'm not bitter you left me prepared

 We got divided by the years, but i got it from here

 Dont sweat that, sounds bump from Marcy to Lefrak

 To that pocket in DC where my man caught his death at

 Over my years i've seen Rooks get tooken by the Knight

 Lose they Crown by tryna defend a Queen

 Checkmate, in 4 moves the Bobby Fischer of rap

 ??? in a time where we all move

 Lets face it either your dough chasin, or basing

 Lacing, cops got your face sprung like mason

 Careful, any infultration i'm leaving niggas 

 Leaving more than just information

 

 [Chorus]

 

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 Real shit

 The Black Gangsta

 Blackhand Ent.

 Roc a Fella

 Never interrupt this thing of ours

 The Black Ganagsa

 Jigga

 Hova

 Roll with me