JAY-Z - Nickels And Dimes(2013)

[00:25.59] Sticks to my mind
[00:35.93] I'll never win
[00:40.92] You have my friends
[00:44.87] Got a thing for nickel plated nines and pretty dimes
[00:48.69] Mac-11 I squeeze like lemon limes
[00:51.10] Squirt obey your thirst, fashion lines
[00:53.81] Between beauty and beast, I walk the line
[00:56.62] Johnny Cash, I'm a real G
[00:59.12] I cut myself today to see if I still bleed
[01:01.90] Success is so sublime
[01:04.59] Gotta do that time to time so I don't lose my mind
[01:07.66] Something 'bout the struggle so divine
[01:10.36] This sort of love is hard to define
[01:12.84] When you scratching for every nickel and dime
[01:15.51] Got me itching to do this shit for my mom
[01:18.27] Do this shit for my town
[01:20.31] Leave the door open hoping they kick it down
[01:23.12] The purest form of giving is anonymous to anonymous
[01:25.54] We gon' make it there, I promise this
[01:28.94] Sticks to my mind
[01:38.81] I'll never win
[01:44.35] You have my friends
[01:49.58] Sometimes I feel survivor's guilt
[01:53.23] I gave some money to this guy, he got high as hell
[01:56.16] Now I'm part of the problem far as I could tell
[01:58.85] Did I do it for him or do it for myself
[02:01.09] Can't lie to myself
[02:02.52] I love my niggas more than my own blood
[02:04.96] I die for my niggas and I love my cub, hope that's not fucked up
[02:08.57] I got a problem with the handouts, I took the man route
[02:11.46] I'll give an opportunity though, that's the plan now
[02:14.56] No guilt in giving clear a nigga conscience out
[02:17.20] No guilt in receiving, every thing within reason
[02:19.47] Can't see it taking food out my little monster's mouth
[02:22.53] That'll drive me gaga
[02:24.20] Run up in your momma's house, two nickels, one dime
[02:27.37] Manslaughter charges, the lawyer, knocked it down
[02:30.35] I'm just trying to find common ground
[02:33.43] 'Fore Mr. Belafonte come and chop a nigga down
[02:35.70] Mr. Day O, major fail
[02:38.15] Respect these youngins boy, it's my time now
[02:40.51] Hublot homie, two door homie
[02:43.47] You don't know all the shit I do for the homies
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[02:54.61] Sticks to my mind
[02:56.16] I'll never win
[02:58.78] You have my friends
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[03:27.69] Pardon my hubris, Stanley Kubrick
[03:30.07] With eyes wide shut, I could cook up two bricks
[03:32.30] Turn nickels to dime, turn dimes to quarters
[03:35.23] Turn wives from daughters, oh, I'm clear as water
[03:38.01] And just for clarity, my presence is charity
[03:40.51] My flow is a gift, philanthropist
[03:42.98] Everybody 'round me rich, or will be
[03:46.10] Baby boy I promise you this, or kill me
[03:48.95] And when a nigga go as the old adage go
[03:51.75] You die rich or you die disgraced, so just let me grow
[03:54.25] Watch me cook, throw no looks
[03:56.65] Like Magic in his prime when Kareem sky hooked, yeah
[03:59.38] Y'all not worthy, sometimes I feel like
[04:02.22] Y'all don't deserve me, my flow unearthly
[04:04.72] The greatest form of giving is anonymous to anonymous
[04:08.13] So here y'all go, I promise this
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[04:16.98] Sticks to my mind
[04:20.93] I'll never win
[04:27.00] You have my friends
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