Renegade

[00:20.78] Motherfuckers say that I'm foolish, I only talk about jewels (Bling-bling)

[00:23.95] Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?

[00:27.42] See, I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined

[00:29.81] The same dude you gave nothin', I made somethin' doin'

[00:33.54] What I do through and through and

[00:35.19] I give you the news with a twist, it's just his ghetto point of view

[00:38.91] The renegade, you been afraid I penetrate pop culture

[00:42.09] Bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they pop toasters

[00:45.55] And they live with they moms, got dropped roadsters

[00:48.21] From botched robberies, niggas crouched over

[00:50.33] Mami's knocked up 'cause she wasn't watched over

[00:52.99] Knocked down by some clown

[00:54.32] When child support knocked, "No, he's not around"

[00:56.70] Now, how that sound to ya? Jot it down

[00:58.89] I bring you through the ghetto without ridin' 'round

[01:01.03] Hidin' down, duckin' strays from frustrated youths stuck in they ways

[01:04.73] Just read a magazine that fucked up my day

[01:07.16] How you rate music that thugs with nothin' relate to it?

[01:10.62] I help them see they way through it, not you

[01:13.01] Can't step in my pants, can't walk in my shoes

[01:15.13] Bet everything you worth, you'll lose your tie and your shirt

[01:18.06] Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen

[01:20.45] I ain't no politician, but I'll kick it with 'em a minute

[01:23.12] 'Cause see, they call me a menace and if the shoe fits, I'll wear it

[01:25.77] But if it don't, then y'all'll swallow the truth, grin and bear it

[01:28.68] Now who's the king of these rude, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics?

[01:31.60] Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics

[01:34.53] Usin' his music to steer it, sharin' his views and his merits?

[01:37.19] But there's a huge interference, they're sayin' you shouldn't hear it

[01:40.12] Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit

[01:43.01] Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish

[01:45.67] But I'm debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America

[01:48.60] As a motherfuckin' drug addict, like you didn't experiment?

[01:51.53] Now, now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror

[01:54.18] And see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrassed

[01:57.11] And I got nothin' to do but make you look stupid as parents

[01:59.78] You fuckin' do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good at marriage (Haha)

[02:02.71] And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here?

[02:05.37] I don't think you do, so stay tuned and keep your ears glued to the stereo

[02:08.28] 'Cause here we go, he's Jigga-Jur-Jigga-Jih-Jigga

[02:11.49] And I'm the sinister Mr. Kiss-My-Ass is just a

[02:14.65] Renegade, never been afraid to say

[02:16.77] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[02:19.43] 'Cause I'm a renegade

[02:21.04] Never been afraid to talk about anything

[02:23.70] (Anything?), anything (Anything)

[02:25.83] Renegade, never been afraid to say

[02:28.21] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[02:30.85] 'Cause I'm a renegade

[02:32.21] Never been afraid to holler about anything

[02:34.86] (Anything?), anything (Anything)

[02:37.25] I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles

[02:39.97] Pockets filled with a lotta lint, not a cent

[02:42.63] Gotta vent, lotta innocent lives lost on the project bench

[02:45.56] What you hollerin'? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in

[02:48.48] By the bodega, iron under my coat, feelin' braver

[02:51.38] Durag wrappin' my waves up, pockets full of hope

[02:54.31] Do not step to me

[02:55.38] I'm awkward, I box lefty

[02:56.98] An orphan, my pops left me

[02:58.10] And often my mama wasn't home

[02:59.70] Could not stress to me, I wasn't grown

[03:02.37] 'Specially on nights I brought somethin' home to quiet the stomach rumblings

[03:05.53] My demeanor thirty years my senior

[03:07.43] My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin' green up

[03:10.90] Raisin' my fingers to critics, raisin' my head to the sky

[03:14.06] Big, I did it, multi before I die

[03:16.45] No lie, just know I chose my own fate

[03:19.65] I drove by the fork in the road and went straight

[03:21.86] See, I'm a poet to some, a regular modern-day Shakespeare

[03:24.78] Jesus Christ, the king of these Latter-day Saints here

[03:27.98] To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me as

[03:30.46] A monger of hate, satanist, scatter-brained atheist

[03:33.38] But that ain't the case, see, it's a matter of taste

[03:35.78] We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is

[03:38.97] Or is he the latter, a gateway to escape?

[03:41.36] Media scapegoat who they can be mad at today

[03:44.29] See, it's as easy as cake, simple as whistlin' "Dixie"

[03:47.19] While I'm wavin' the pistol at sixty Christians against me

[03:50.12] Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics

[03:53.04] In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer

[03:55.70] I'm a motherfuckin' spiteful, delightful eyeful

[03:58.63] The new Ice Cube, motherfuckers hate to like you

[04:01.57] What did I do? (Huh?), I'm just a kid from the gutter

[04:04.20] Makin' his butter off these bloodsuckers, 'cause I'm a motherfuckin'

[04:07.39] Renegade, never been afraid to say

[04:09.78] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[04:12.70] 'Cause I'm a renegade

[04:14.02] Never been afraid to talk about anything

[04:16.67] (Anything?), anything (Anything)

[04:18.80] Renegade, never been afraid to say

[04:20.76] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[04:23.95] 'Cause I'm a renegade

[04:25.55] Never been afraid to holler about anything

[04:27.70] (Anything?), anything (Anything)

[04:30.09] Renegade, never been afraid to say

[04:32.25] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[04:35.18] 'Cause I'm a renegade

[04:36.30] Never been afraid to talk about anything

[04:38.97] (Anything?), anything (Anything)

[04:41.36] Renegade, never been afraid to say

[04:43.74] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[04:45.96] 'Cause I'm a renegade

[04:47.81] Never been afraid to holler about anything

[04:50.47] (Anything?), anything (Anything)