Jay Z ft Eminem - Renegade [Lyrics]
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[02:03.70] Motherfuckers
[02:05.55] Say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels (bling bling)
[02:06.58] Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?
[02:07.58] See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined
[02:08.83] That same dude you gave nothing, I made something doing
[02:09.85] What I do through and through and
[02:10.58] I give you the news, with a twist it's just his ghetto point-of-view
[02:11.09] The renegade, you been afraid
[02:12.33] I penetrate pop culture, bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they
[02:12.83] Pop toasters, and they live with they moms
[02:13.58] Got dropped roasters, from botched robberies niggas crotched over
[02:14.61] Mommy's knocked up 'cause she wasn't watched over
[02:15.33] Knocked down by some clown when child support knocked
[02:15.84] No he's not around, now how that sound to ya, jot it down
[02:17.09] I bring it through the ghetto without riding 'round
[02:17.58] Hiding down ducking strays from frustrated youths stuck in they ways
[02:18.11] Just read a magazine that fucked up my day
[02:19.59] How you rate music that thugs with nothing relate to it?
[02:20.36] I help them see they way through it, not you
[02:20.84] Can't step in my pants, can't walk in my shoes
[02:21.58] Bet everything you worth; you lose your tie and your shirt
[02:22.58] Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen
[02:23.08] I ain't no politician but I'll kick it with 'em a minute
[02:23.59] 'Cause see they call me a menace, and if the shoe fits I'll wear it
[02:24.83] But if it don't, then y'all will swallow the truth grin and bear it
[02:25.33] Now who's the king of these rude ludicrous lucrative lyrics?
[02:26.09] Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics
[02:27.09] Using his music to steer it, sharing his views and his merits?
[02:27.58] But there's a huge interference, they're saying you shouldn't hear it
[02:29.09] Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit
[02:29.61] Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish
[02:29.84] But I'm debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America
[02:32.33] As a motherfucking drug addict, like you didn't experiment?
[02:32.58] Now now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror
[02:33.08] And see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrassed
[02:33.59] And I got nothing to do but make you look stupid as parents
[02:34.09] You fucking do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good at marriage!
[02:34.34] And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here?
[02:34.83] I don't think you do, so stay tuned and keep your ears glued to the stereo
[02:35.34] 'Cause here we go, he's (Jigga joint Jigga-chk-Jigga)
[02:37.59] And I'm the sinister, Mr. Kiss-My-Ass it's just the
[02:39.08] Renegade! Never been afraid to say
[02:41.83] What's on my mind at, any given time of day
[02:42.08] 'Cause I'm a renegade! Never been afraid to talk
[02:42.58] About anything (anything?) anything (anything!) renegade!
[02:42.86] Never been afraid to say
[02:44.33] What's on my mind at, any given time of day
[02:45.08] 'Cause I'm a renegade! Never been afraid to holler
[02:45.37] About anything (anything?) anything (anything!)
[02:46.09] I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles
[02:46.58] Pockets filled with a lotta lint, not a cent
[02:47.59] Gotta vent, lotta innocent lives lost on the project bench
[02:48.08] What you hollerin'? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in
[02:48.60] By the bodega, iron under my coat
[02:49.08] Feelin' braver, durag wrappin' my waves up, pockets full of hope
[02:50.11] Do not step to me, I'm awkward, I box lefty
[02:50.85] An orphan my pops left me
[02:51.33] And often my momma wasn't home
[02:51.85] Could not stress to me, I wasn't grown
[02:52.59] 'Specially on nights I brought somethin' home
[02:53.08] To quiet the stomach rumblings
[02:54.33] My demeanor, thirty years my senior
[02:54.84] My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin' green up
[02:55.33] Raisin' my fingers to critics
[02:56.08] Raisin' my head to the sky, Big, I did it, multi before I die
[02:57.34] No lie, just know I chose my own fate
[02:57.83] I drove by the fork in the road and went straight
[02:58.35] See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare
[02:58.84] Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here
[03:00.34] To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me
[03:00.84] As a monger of hate and Satan a scatter-brained atheist
[03:01.36] But that ain't the case, see it's a matter of taste
[03:01.84] We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is
[03:02.58] Or is he the latter, a gateway to escape?
[03:03.09] Media scapegoat, who they can be mad at today
[03:05.84] See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie
[03:06.08] While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me
[03:06.62] Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
[03:07.09] In holy water, no wonder they try to hold me under longer
[03:07.84] I'm a motherfucking spiteful, delightful eyeful
[03:08.33] The new Ice Cube, motherfuckers hate to like you
[03:09.09] What did I do? (huh?) I'm just a kid from the gutter
[03:09.58] Making this butter off these bloodsuckers, 'cause I'm a motherfucking
[03:13.34] Renegade! Never been afraid to say
[03:13.84] What's on my mind at, any given time of day
[03:14.58] 'Cause I'm a renegade! Never been afraid to talk
[03:15.08] About anything (anything?) anything (anything!) renegade!
[03:15.83] Never been afraid to say
[03:19.10] What's on my mind at, any given time of day
[03:19.59] 'Cause I'm a renegade! Never been afraid to holler
[03:20.33] About anything (anything?) anything (anything!)
[03:21.10] Renegade! Never been afraid to say
[03:21.59] What's on my mind at, any given time of day
[03:22.58] 'Cause I'm a renegade! Never been afraid to talk
[03:23.33] About anything (anything?) anything (anything!) renegade!
[03:23.83] Never been afraid to say
[03:25.58] What's on my mind at, any given time of day
[03:26.09] 'Cause I'm a renegade! Never been afraid to holler
[03:26.60] About anything (anything?) anything (anything!)
