JAY-Z, Da Ranjahz - If I Should Die(1998)

[00:03.55] Life, death, here, gone, yo
[00:10.16] If I should die, don't cry my niggas
[00:12.21] Just ride my niggas
[00:13.88] Bust bullets in the sky my niggas
[00:15.47] And when I'm gone, don't mourn my niggas
[00:17.60] Get on my niggas, when it's real
[00:19.61] Say word to Shawn my niggas
[00:20.60] If I should die don't cry my niggas
[00:23.92] It's been one hell of a ride my niggas
[00:25.79] In the middle of the trial I flip pies my niggas
[00:28.66] I did joints with Mary J. Blige my niggas
[00:31.02] I've eluded the coppers, got booted with Big Poppa
[00:34.14] Skated through with the Caesar Picadas
[00:37.05] At high school got head by the lockers
[00:38.40] Gassed the baddest girl in the class to show me her knockers
[00:41.01] Rocked jewels, dropped school, still didn't fail
[00:43.94] Rhymes still written well, hold court in the street
[00:46.20] Never sit in the cell for a second then I'm gettin' my bail
[00:49.34] Shoot it out with the bounty hunters fuck
[00:51.52] Sittin' in the county for summers if they should down me
[00:53.77] Everybody around us become one for that day
[00:55.81] To live life get your shit right and play
[00:58.13] Don't get it twisted like rays if I miss that's okay
[01:00.72] But life's short don't miss a day
[01:02.43] If I should die don't cry my niggas
[01:04.52] Just ride my niggas, bust bullets in the sky my niggas
[01:07.75] And when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas
[01:09.98] Get on my niggas when it's real
[01:12.30] Say word to Shawn my niggas
[01:13.48] If I should die don't cry my niggas
[01:15.48] It's been one hell of a ride my niggas
[01:17.25] Say word to Wais my niggas
[01:18.54] When I'm gone don't mourn my niggas
[01:20.59] Just keep gettin' it on my niggas
[01:22.44] Say word is bond my niggas
[01:23.91] I got a lot to look back on in '88
[01:26.09] Got my crack on ten years later gettin' my rap on
[01:29.05] Gettin' shorties like a thespian
[01:31.22] Had an episode with two lesbians, got a fetish for that
[01:34.62] Drunk ginseng with Japanese chicks and pulled the root out
[01:37.94] Squeeze my whole clip to survive shootouts
[01:40.28] Been on both coasts fired all kinds of heat
[01:42.84] Probably be kinda glad to leave these mean streets
[01:45.38] I got dead mens to meet and questions to fulfill
[01:47.74] Like is that mystery God real?
[01:49.44] And how was Kennedy killed? I ain't mad
[01:51.59] I must've smoked a ton of reefer sipped nas
[01:54.09] With Latifah broke the code of Geneva
[01:55.85] I know when I reach the other side
[01:58.04] I'ma see the cat I had beef with who blood remains on my sneaker
[02:01.01] Then it's on again if I could be born again
[02:03.63] I live my life through my son and tell him never have a friend
[02:06.36] Just family reincarnated, I'll show him the time
[02:09.26] That I waited to get paid tell him never be afraid
[02:11.75] Niggas hearts pump Kool Aid and yo blood run thicker
[02:14.50] Never shed tears, cry liquor my nigga
[02:17.17] If I die don't cry my niggas
[02:18.70] It's been one hell of a ride my niggas
[02:20.39] Say word to Wais my niggas
[02:23.16] When I'm gone don't mourn my niggas
[02:24.38] Just keep bangin' these songs my niggas
[02:26.17] Say word is bond my niggas
[02:27.32] If I die don't cry my niggas
[02:29.52] Just stay gettin' high my niggas
[02:31.27] Don't wonder why my niggas
[02:32.66] When I'm gone live on my niggas
[02:34.84] Just follow my path my niggas
[02:36.66] Say word to Half my nigga
[02:37.81] I'm the aftermath of pleasure never die alone
[02:39.76] Born to live forever through life's struggles
[02:42.18] I cut corners and took drastic measures
[02:43.66] See you niggas life expire right in front of me
[02:45.85] Time could never mend what these cold streets
[02:47.93] Mentally done to me too often I close my eyes
[02:50.24] And see my own coffin' feelin' haunted ready to leave
[02:52.70] This world that I'm lost in my only chance
[02:55.08] To see the seeds I lost through abortion
[02:56.64] When I'm gone y'all niggas better not mourn
[02:58.69] Keep flossin' as long as my name
[03:00.63] Lives on what's most important
[03:02.28] I'll be down in hell scorchin' preparin' for life
[03:04.11] Afterlife still torchin' and blazin' these mics
[03:07.06] It'd rain for forty days and forty nights
[03:09.45] And I'd return on the third like Christ
[03:11.06] Without my physical portion
[03:12.52] My spirit a poltergeist for sure
[03:14.35] I'll be back through the heist tomorrow
[03:15.93] Blood over y'all fake niggas door
[03:17.92] What you thought? What you thought nigga?
[03:20.14] If I should die don't cry my niggas
[03:21.90] Just stay gettin' high my niggas
[03:23.60] Don't wonder why my niggas
[03:25.21] When I'm gone, live on my niggas
[03:27.22] Just follow my path my niggas
[03:28.93] Say word to Half my nigga
[03:30.79] When I die don't cry my niggas
[03:32.58] It's been one hell of a ride my niggas
[03:34.17] Say word to Wais my niggas
[03:35.85] When I'm gone don't mourn my niggas
[03:37.70] Just keep gettin' it on my niggas
[03:39.53] Say word is bond my niggas
[03:41.04] If I die don't cry my niggas
[03:43.06] Just ride my niggas, bust bullets in the sky my niggas
[03:46.49] And when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas
[03:48.68] Get on my niggas, when it's real
[03:50.50] Say word to Shawn my niggas
[03:51.69] If I should die, I'd tell Big they're still hearin' his songs
[03:54.56] Run into Pac ask him where we went wrong
[03:56.74] Tell him life is miserable when ya dealin' in the physical form
[03:59.49] Is everything that's invisible gone?
[04:01.79] I need to know will I still feel pain or will it be ironic
[04:04.73] Will I chill in the flames for all the ills of my brain
[04:07.50] Can I reveal the game to all the hustlers
[04:09.96] Trapped in the race and if so can I leave this place
[04:12.89] Can I puff cigars and drink Cristal
[04:15.67] If this is heaven to me is this considered heavenly
[04:18.19] Can I still touch lives answer they whats and whys
[04:20.84] Make sure everybody in my fam' clutch five
[04:23.40] If I should die don't cry my niggas
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