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[00:00.60] Motherfuckers say that I'm foolish, I only talk about jewels (Bling bling)

[00:14.26] Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?

[00:16.98] See, I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined

[00:22.76] The same dude you gave nothin', I made somethin' doin'

[00:24.25] What I do, through and through and

[00:25.55] I give you the news with a twist, it's just his ghetto point of view

[00:28.52] The renegade, you been afraid I penetrate pop culture

[00:32.00] Bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they pop toasters

[00:34.75] And they live with they moms, got dropped roadsters

[00:38.00] From botched robberies, niggas crouched over

[00:40.26] Mami's knocked up ‘cause she wasn't watched over

[00:43.00] Knocked down by some clown

[00:46.26] When child support knocked—"No, he's not around."

[00:47.76] Now, how that sound to ya? Jot it down

[00:49.01] I bring you through the ghetto without ridin' round

[00:51.01] Hidin' down, duckin' strays

[00:52.54] From frustrated youths stuck in they ways

[00:53.75] Just read a magazine that fucked up my day

[00:56.75] How you rate music that thugs with nothin' relate to it?

[01:00.06] I help them see they way through it—not you

[01:02.25] Can't step in my pants, can't walk in my shoes

[01:04.84] Bet everything you worth, you'll lose your tie and your shirt

[01:07.79] Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen

[01:10.26] I ain't no politician, but I'll kick it with 'em a minute

[01:13.06] ‘Cause see, they call me a menace

[01:14.82] And if the shoe fits I'll wear it

[01:16.24] But if it don't, then y'all will swallow the truth, grin and bear it

[01:18.50] Now who's the king of these rude, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics?

[01:20.50] Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics

[01:24.26] Usin' his music to steer it, sharin' his views and his merits?

[01:27.32] But there's a huge interference

[01:29.51] They're sayin' you shouldn't hear it

[01:30.26] Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit

[01:32.75] Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish

[01:35.51] But I'm debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America

[01:38.24] As a motherfuckin' drug addict, like you didn't experiment?

[01:41.25] Nah, nah!—That's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror

[01:44.32] And see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrassed

[01:46.80] And I got nothin' to do but make you look stupid as parents

[01:49.81] You fuckin' do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good at marriage

[01:52.53] And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here?

[01:55.30] I don't think you do, so stay tuned

[01:56.76] And keep your ears glued to the stereo

[01:58.26] ‘Cause, here we go; he's Jigga-Jur-Jigga-Jih-Jigga

[02:00.50] And I'm the sinister Mr. Kiss-My-Ass is just a—

[02:04.00] —renegade! Never been afraid to say

[02:09.75] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[02:10.30] ‘Cause I'm a renegade!

[02:11.53] Never been afraid to talk about anything

[02:13.76] (Anything?) Anything! (Anything)

[02:15.50] Renegade! (Never been afraid to say)

[02:16.79] (What's on my mind at any given time of day)

[02:19.49] (‘Cause I'm a) renegade!

[02:20.03] (Never been afraid to holler about anything)

[02:21.48] Anything? (Anything) Anything!

[02:26.75] I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles

[02:29.80] Pockets filled with a lotta lint, not a cent

[02:33.02] Gotta vent, lotta innocent lives lost on the project bench

[02:35.49] What you hollerin'? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in

[02:38.00] By the bodega, iron under my coat

[02:41.78] Feelin' braver, durag wrappin' my waves up, pockets full of hope

[02:43.75] Do not step to me, I'm awkward, I box lefty

[02:46.51] An orphan my pops left me

[02:48.31] And often my momma wasn't home

[02:50.04] Could not stress to me, I wasn't grown

[02:52.29] 'Specially on nights I brought somethin' home

[02:54.00] To quiet the stomach rumblings

[02:56.75] My demeanor, thirty years my senior

[02:57.50] My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin' green up

[03:00.51] Raisin' my fingers to critics

[03:03.79] Raisin' my head to the sky, Big, I did it, multi before I die

[03:04.76] No lie, just know I chose my own fate

[03:08.83] I drove by the fork in the road and went straight

[03:12.02] See, I'm a poet to some, a regular modern-day Shakespeare

[03:14.49] Jesus Christ, the king of these Latter-day Saints here

[03:17.49] To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me as

[03:21.06] A monger of hate, satanist, scatter-brained atheist

[03:23.54] But that ain't the case, see, it's a matter of taste

[03:26.02] We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is

[03:28.75] Or is he the latter, a gateway to escape?

[03:31.78] Media scapegoat who they can be mad at today

[03:34.27] See, it's as easy as cake, simple as whistlin' Dixie

[03:37.01] While I'm wavin' the pistol at sixty Christians against me

[03:41.25] Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics

[03:43.02] In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer

[03:45.75] I'm a motherfuckin' spiteful, delightful eyeful

[03:48.55] The new Ice Cube, motherfuckers hate to like you

[03:51.53] What did I do? I'm just a kid from the gutter

[03:54.00] Makin' his butter off these bloodsuckers, ‘cause I'm a muh'fuckin'—

[03:57.05] —renegade! Never been afraid to say

[03:58.75] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[04:00.50] ‘Cause I'm a renegade!

[04:01.00] Never been afraid to talk about anything

[04:02.27] (Anything?) Anything! (Anything)

[04:05.77] Renegade! (Never been afraid to say)

[04:12.06] (What's on my mind at any given time of day)

[04:14.06] (‘Cause I'm a) renegade!

[04:15.51] (Never been afraid to holler about anything)

[04:18.81] Anything? (Anything) Anything!

[04:20.34] Renegade! Never been afraid to say

[04:23.02] What's on my mind at any given time of day

[04:25.56] ‘Cause I'm a renegade!

[04:27.52] Never been afraid to talk about anything

[04:31.02] (Anything?) Anything! (Anything)

[04:32.77] Renegade! (Never been afraid to say)

[04:35.02] (What's on my mind at any given time of day)

[04:37.07] (‘Cause I'm a) renegade!

[04:41.27] (Never been afraid to holler about anything)

[04:42.79] Anything? (Anything) Anything!