American Gangster - Jay-Z

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[00:00:00]Jay-Z - American Gangster

[00:02.89]Bonus Track From The Album  American Gangster (2007)
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[00:16.43]I m from the 80 s, Home of the heroine,
[00:18.28]Error of the hustlers, uh,The world is my custy
[00:20.98]New rich porter, The way I flip quarters
[00:23.06]Front on all these other rap artists, but me
[00:25.48]Momma was a mink wearer, Papa ran numbers
[00:27.68]So it s plain to see, where my whole plan come from
[00:30.05]American dream, I m living the life still
[00:32.53]The way I shine is like a zillion dollar light bill
[00:34.82]Still I m grinding, army jacket lining
[00:36.89]40 below timbs on, getting my M s on
[00:38.96]My best friends gone, I seen bad days
[00:41.53]Still find songs that I hear him on
[00:43.76]Getting my Mary J. Blige Reminisce on
[00:46.05]I hear his voice in my mind, like, nigga live on
[00:48.31]So I get on that fly shit I been on
[00:50.67]Spin on corners in enzo with rims on
[00:53.47]But for info, puffin on Endo-Nesia
[00:56.37]Give me amnesia
[00:57.17]I ease up, that right, I m high nigga
[00:59.05]I want the sky,
[00:59.78]The world when I m done
[01:01.17]I m give it to my sons
[01:02.11]Let  em live it up, split it up, switch it up,
[01:03.97]Sixes kit it up, man I did it up, done
[01:06.81]The rest of my belongings belong in the hall of fame, a list of hits next to all my names
[01:11.27]I came
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[01:23.96]if the sky should fall
[01:25.13]And it all goes tomorrow, and they foreclose on the house and auction off all my cars
[01:29.05]Don t cry for me Argentina, I mobbed the beamer
[01:32.11]Took trips abroad, got mobbed in Sardina
[01:34.29]In Ibiza I had pizza in the club
[01:36.37]Ladies know I m that guy, they wanna piece of my love
[01:38.51]Now they wanna ya boy like Mike in his prime
[01:40.79]Billie Jean the goddamn boy ain t mine
[01:43.04]And the Roc break up, had the people losing hope
[01:45.44]Can t lie they had Muhammad Hovi on the ropes
[01:47.55]Now I m back in the go mode, back in the go-go s
[01:50.23]Throwing the diamond up, repping the logo
[01:52.38]Rose gold rose flow, I m okay though
[01:54.80]What Don t kill me makes stronger than before so
[01:56.96]Here we go and I m not domino
[01:59.27]When it all falls down, I m like Kanye s jaw
[02:01.37]I might break but I don t fold, till I hold the sky in my hand
[02:04.85]Yeah that s my goal
[02:07.50]And then I bid you Freddy Adu
[02:08.05]Prodigal Child, y all not ready for the future
[02:10.45]Then I disappear in the Bermuda Triangle
[02:14.84]My name will be viewed such
[02:16.92]Here s to the man that refused to give up
[02:18.61]I want the sky nigga, Chuuuuuuch
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