SpotiDownloader.com - Renegade - JAY-Z
[00:20.63] Motherfuckers say that I'm foolish, I only talk about jewels (Bling bling)
[00:23.82] Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?
[00:27.02] See, I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined
[00:29.68] The same dude you gave nothin', I made somethin' doin'
[00:32.87] What I do, through and through and
[00:34.99] I give you the news with a twist, it's just his ghetto point of view
[00:38.71] The renegade, you been afraid I penetrate pop culture
[00:41.90] Bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they pop toasters
[00:45.35] And they live with they moms, got dropped roadsters
[00:47.74] From botched robberies, niggas crouched over
[00:49.87] Mami's knocked up 'cause she wasn't watched over
[00:52.79] Knocked down by some clown when child support knocked
[00:55.44] "No, he's not around." Now, how that sound to ya? Jot it down
[00:58.63] I bring you through the ghetto without ridin' round
[01:00.75] Hidin' down, duckin' strays from frustrated youths stuck in they ways
[01:04.48] Just read a magazine that fucked up my day
[01:06.60] How you rate music that thugs with nothin' relate to it?
[01:10.32] I help them see they way through it—not you
[01:12.44] Can't step in my pants, can't walk in my shoes
[01:14.83] Bet everything you worth, you'll lose your tie and your shirt
[01:17.76] Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen
[01:20.41] I ain't no politician, but I'll kick it with 'em a minute
[01:22.80] 'Cause, see, they call me a menace and if the shoe fits, I'll wear it
[01:25.99] But if it don't, then y'all will swallow the truth, grin and bear it
[01:28.91] Now who's the king of these rude, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics?
[01:31.84] Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics
[01:34.22] Usin' his music to steer it, sharin' his views and his merits?
[01:37.41] But there's a huge interference, they're sayin' you shouldn't hear it
[01:40.07] Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit
[01:42.99] Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish
[01:45.91] But I'm debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America
[01:48.57] As a motherfuckin' drug addict, like you didn't experiment?
[01:51.49] Nah, nah!—That's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror
[01:54.15] And see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrassed
[01:57.07] And I got nothin' to do but make you look stupid as parents
[01:59.99] You fuckin' do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good at marriage (Ha-ha!)
[02:02.65] And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here?
[02:05.57] I don't think you do, so stay tuned and keep your ears glued to the stereo
[02:08.23] 'Cause here we go, he's Jigga-Jur-Jigga-Jih-Jigga
[02:11.15] And I'm the sinister Mr. Kiss-My-Ass is just a—
[02:14.34] —renegade! Never been afraid to say
[02:16.72] What's on my mind at any given time of day
[02:19.65] 'Cause I'm a renegade!
[02:20.97] Never been afraid to talk about anything
[02:23.63] (Anything?) Anything! (Anything)
[02:25.76] Renegade! (Never been afraid to say)
[02:27.88] (What's on my mind at any given time of day)
[02:30.80] ('Cause I'm a) renegade!
[02:32.13] (Never been afraid to holler about anything)
[02:34.79] Anything? (Anything) Anything!
[02:37.18] I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles
[02:40.10] Pockets filled with a lotta lint, not a cent
[02:42.49] Gotta vent, lotta innocent lives lost on the project bench
[02:45.68] What you hollerin'? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in
[02:48.33] By the bodega, iron under my coat
[02:50.73] Feelin' braver, durag wrappin' my waves up, pockets full of hope
[02:54.18] Do not step to me, I'm awkward, I box lefty
[02:56.84] An orphan my pops left me and often my momma wasn't home
[02:59.76] Could not stress to me, I wasn't grown
[03:01.88] 'Specially on nights I brought somethin' home to quiet the stomach rumblings
[03:05.34] My demeanor, thirty years my senior
[03:07.99] My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin' green up
[03:10.91] Raisin' my fingers to critics, raisin' my head to the sky
[03:14.37] Big, I did it, multi before I die
[03:16.49] No lie, just know I chose my own fate
[03:19.41] I drove by the fork in the road and went straight
[03:22.07] See, I'm a poet to some, a regular modern-day Shakespeare
[03:24.73] Jesus Christ, the king of these Latter-day Saints here
[03:27.65] To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me as
[03:30.83] A monger of hate, satanist, scatter-brained atheist
[03:33.22] But that ain't the case, see, it's a matter of taste
[03:35.88] We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is
[03:38.80] Or is he the latter, a gateway to escape?
[03:41.72] Media scapegoat who they can be mad at today
[03:44.38] See, it's as easy as cake, simple as whistlin' "Dixie"
[03:47.30] While I'm wavin' the pistol at sixty Christians against me
[03:50.23] Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
[03:52.88] In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer
[03:55.81] I'm a motherfuckin' spiteful, delightful eyeful
[03:58.46] The new Ice Cube, motherfuckers hate to like you
[04:01.38] What did I do? (Huh?) I'm just a kid from the gutter
[04:04.30] Makin' his butter off these bloodsuckers, 'cause I'm a muh'fuckin'—
[04:07.49] —renegade! Never been afraid to say
[04:09.62] What's on my mind at any given time of day
[04:12.54] 'Cause I'm a renegade!
[04:13.60] Never been afraid to talk about anything
[04:16.62] (Anything?) Anything! (Anything)
[04:18.74] Renegade! (Never been afraid to say)
[04:20.87] (What's on my mind at any given time of day)
[04:23.79] ('Cause I'm a) renegade!
[04:25.12] (Never been afraid to holler about anything)
[04:27.77] Anything? (Anything) Anything!
[04:29.90] Renegade! Never been afraid to say
[04:32.29] What's on my mind at any given time of day
[04:35.21] 'Cause I'm a renegade!
[04:36.54] Never been afraid to talk about anything
[04:39.19] (Anything?) Anything! (Anything)
[04:41.32] Renegade! (Never been afraid to say)
[04:43.71] (What's on my mind at any given time of day)
[04:46.63] ('Cause I'm a) renegade!
[04:47.70] (Never been afraid to holler about anything)
[04:50.62] Anything? (Anything) Anything!
