[00:00.00] 作曲 : Shawn Carter & N. McCarrell & Joseph Weinberger & Germain De La Fuente
[00:00.21] 作词 : Carter, De La Fuente ...
[00:00.63]I'm just, tryin to stay above water y'know
[00:04.61]Just stay busy, stay workin
[00:04.99]Puff told me like, the key to this joint
[00:09.24]The key to staying, on top of things
[00:12.98]is treat everything like it's your first project, knahmsayin?
[00:15.27]Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern
[00:18.26]Like, that's how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry
[00:19.29]Uhh, uhh, yes, yes
[00:22.09]Y'all wanna know, why he don't stop
[00:23.46]Y'all wanna know, why he don't flop
[00:25.29]Let me tell you pe-eople why
[00:27.00]Came from the bottom of the block I
[00:28.40]When I was born, it was sworn, I was never gon' be shit
[00:29.43]Had to pull the opposite out this bitch
[00:31.71]Had to get my ri-ide on
[00:32.91]Eyes on the prize, Shawn knew I had to
[00:36.10]Had to had to get these chips
[00:37.68]Had to make moves like Olajuwon
[00:39.30]Started out sellin dimes and nicks
[00:40.40]Graduated to a brick
[00:41.65]No exaggeration, my infatuation with the strip
[00:42.80]Legendary like a schoolboy
[00:44.02]Crushin merely nearly every every chick
[00:46.92]Heavy shit - that's how schoolboy got whipped
[00:50.57]And got left on some "Just +Me, Myself and I+"
[00:52.55]On some Trugoy shit
[00:53.49]Had your boys threw place up, to a place of no return
[00:55.76]Had to play with fire and get burned
[00:57.50]Only way the boy ever gon' learn
[00:59.16]Had to lay way in the cut, 'til I finally got my turn
[01:01.35]Now I'm on top in the spot that I earned
[01:04.67]It's my life - it's my pain and my struggle
[01:07.20]The song that I sing to you it's my ev-ery-thing
[01:12.10]Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first
[01:14.93]And my thirst is the same as - when I came
[01:18.22]It's my joy and my tears and the laughter it brings to me
[01:22.21]It's my ev-ery-thing
[01:23.57]Like I never rode in a limo
[01:24.86]Like I just dropped flows to a demo
[01:26.47]Like it's ninety-two again and
[01:28.38]And I got O's in the rental
[01:29.61]Back in the Stu' again, no prob' livin was a whole lot simpler
[01:32.25]When you think back, you thought that
[01:34.01]you would never make it this far, then you
[01:35.67]take advantage of the luck you handed
[01:37.23]Or the talent, you been given
[01:39.04]Ain't no, half steppin, ain't no, no slippin
[01:41.75]Ain't no different from a block that's hidden
[01:43.14]Gotta get it while the getting's good
[01:44.34]Gotta strike while the iron's hot, 'fore you stop
[01:46.07]Then you gotta bid it, good riddance
[01:47.87]Goodbye, this is my second major breakup
[01:50.62]My first was, with a pager
[01:52.02]With a hooptie, a cookpot, and the GAME
[01:55.07]This one's with the stool, with the stage, with the fortune
[01:58.07]Maybe not the fortune, but certainly the FAME
[01:59.88]It's my life - my pain and my struggle
[02:03.25]The song that I sing to you it's my ev-ery-thing
[02:06.95]Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first
[02:10.14]And my thirst is the same as - when I came
[02:13.46]It's my joy and my tears and my laughter it brings to me
[02:17.44]It's my ev-ery-thing
[02:19.48]Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first
[02:23.26]And my thirst like the first song I sang
[02:25.32]Woo!
[02:28.29]It's like the blues - we gon' ride out on this one
[02:30.73]Ta-tah, be-hah
[02:32.97]Yo Hah, 'member you was makin them dashes
[02:35.07]for them niggaa at radio and shit?
[02:37.58]Clark Kent, that was good lookin out nigga
[02:39.56]Carlene - who ever thought we'd make it this far homey?
[02:43.60]Sha, they can't stop us, knahmsayin? Lenny S
[02:45.14]Dame whattup? Robbin the bank
[02:49.70]Niggaz thought we was crazy man, 'member uhh
[02:55.79]You had that ****ed up ass handwritin
[02:57.60]You was writin all the numbers that we was spendin now
[03:00.98]for the videos we was doin ourselves, whattup?
[03:03.44]Original Flavor, your accountant was crazy wrong and shit
[03:05.27]But we we still put it together
[03:08.42]Bigs, whassup? 'Member we went to St. Thomas and uh
[03:11.22]But y'all my nizzle, your dog peed on homey leg and shit
[03:15.32]at his crib - I think that was Rudy
[03:18.27]And they was havin a lil trouble with the pool
[03:20.24]You and Ta-tah was laughin
[03:21.80]Emory was there, whattup Emory? What up Ta?
[03:25.79]Hip-Hop, whattup man?
[03:28.31]Ay, ay Hobb, you ain't, you ain't have no uhh
[03:31.93]You ain't have no muh'****in seat on your, on your bicycle
[03:35.88]Now you uhh, the head of black music
[03:41.04]That's what I'm talkin bout right there homey - G, whattup G?
[03:45.98]Yessir, e'rybody in the Roc
[03:47.69]Hey Guru, I know you spoiled man
[03:50.40]I be takin them shits in one take
[03:51.46]You gon' have to punch niggaz shit, STICK IT, you gon' be tight
[03:57.06]OG One, whattup?
[03:58.98]I'm a little upset that you wasn't involved in this whole process
[04:01.92]But it's all good - whassup Dash?
[04:04.65]My whole family, my nephew, cousin Angie, whassup? Te-Tee
[04:08.03](B, B, B, B) Mom, you made the album, how crazy is that?
[04:14.70]Bob Allah, rest in peace
[04:17.02]My pops, rest in peace (Sup A.J.?)
[04:20.69]Biggie Smalls, rest in peace
[04:23.57]Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh
[04:27.43]Nigga, I'm bout to go golfin man
[04:30.93]Ay, I might even have me a cappuccino, **** it!
[04:33.80]I'm goin somewhere nice where no mosquitos at nigga
[04:38.31]Holla at me
[04:39.56]it's your boy!