Kanye West, JAY-Z, J. Ivy - Never Let Me Down(2004)

[00:03.18] Oh, Baby (hahaha)
[00:10.04] Turn the mother fuckin' music up
[00:11.14] When it comes to being true
[00:13.19] At least true to me (that's right, it's what I do. C'mon.)
[00:16.29] One thing I've found (uh-huh)
[00:18.05] One thing I've found
[00:19.05] Oh no, you'll Never Let Me Down (no, I ain't never let you down)
[00:20.91] Down
[00:22.03] Get up I get (down)
[00:22.86] Get up I get (down)
[00:24.25] Get up I get (down)
[00:25.05] Get up I get (down)
[00:26.00] Get up I get (down)
[00:27.26] Get uo I get Down
[00:29.10] First I snatched the streets
[00:30.19] Then I snatch the charts
[00:31.46] First I had their ear
[00:33.08] Now I have their heart
[00:34.38] Rappers came and went, I've Been Here From the start
[00:37.12] I seen them put it together
[00:38.92] Watched them take it apart
[00:40.17] Seen the rovers roll up with ribbons
[00:41.96] I've seen em re-poed, re-sold, and re-driven
[00:44.94] So when I reload, he holds number 1 positions
[00:47.86] When you hot, I'm hot
[00:49.01] And when ya feet cold, mines are sizzlin
[00:51.26] It's plain to see
[00:52.48] Niggas can't fuck with me
[00:54.36] 'Cause Imma be that nigga for life
[00:56.15] This is not an image
[00:57.33] This is God given
[00:59.04] This is hard livin mixed with Crystall sippin
[01:01.70] It's the most consistent, Hov (in background)
[01:03.28] Give you the most hits
[01:04.45] You could fit inside a whole disk and,
[01:06.50] Nigga I'm home on these charts
[01:08.13] Ya'll niggas visitin
[01:09.38] It's hov tradition, Jeff Gordon of rap
[01:11.41] I'm back to claim pole position
[01:13.36] Holla at ya boy
[01:14.55] (Down)
[01:16.16] Get up I get (down)
[01:16.92] Get up I get (down)
[01:18.05] Get up I get (down)
[01:19.24] Get up
[01:20.23] I get down for my grandfather
[01:22.04] Who took my mamma
[01:23.10] Made her sit in that seat
[01:24.20] Where white folks aint want us to eat
[01:26.11] At the tender age of 6
[01:27.22] She was arrested for the sit-ins
[01:28.83] And now with that in my blood
[01:30.29] I was born to be different
[01:31.98] Now niggas can't make it
[01:33.07] To ballets to choose leadership
[01:34.45] But we can make it
[01:36.00] To Jacobs and to the dealership
[01:37.13] Swear I hear new music
[01:38.94] And I just dont be feelin it.
[01:40.16] Racisim's still alive
[01:41.99] They just be concealing it
[01:43.28] But I know they dont want me in the damn club
[01:46.30] They even made me show ID
[01:47.99] To get inside a Sam's Club
[01:49.06] I done did dirt And when to church
[01:50.94] To get my hands scrubbed
[01:52.29] Swear I been baptised 'least 3 or 4 times
[01:54.99] But in the land where
[01:56.13] Niggas praise you, cons are gettin paid
[01:57.30] Its gonna take a lot more
[01:59.06] Than coupons to get us saved
[02:00.49] Like it take a lot more
[02:01.97] Than Do-Rags to get you waves
[02:03.19] Nothin as sad as the day
[02:04.34] My girls father passed away
[02:06.00] So I promised to Mr. Rainey
[02:07.11] I'm gonna marry your daughter
[02:09.00] And you know I gotta thank you
[02:10.31] For the way that she was brought up
[02:12.02] And I know that you was smilin
[02:13.21] When you seen the car I bought her
[02:14.93] And you sent tears from heaven
[02:16.15] When you seen my car got balled up
[02:17.30] But, I can't complain
[02:19.02] What the acccident did to my left eye
[02:20.13] Cause look what the accident did to Left-Eye
[02:23.16] First Aaliyah, now Romeo must die
[02:26.12] I know I got angels
[02:27.36] Watchin me from the other side
[02:29.00] When it comes to being true
[02:30.50] At least true to me
[02:32.96] One thing I've found
[02:35.28] One thing I've found
[02:36.50] Oh no, you'll Never Let Me Down
[02:38.95] Get up I get (down)
[02:39.94] Get up I get (down)
[02:41.04] Get up I get (down)
[02:42.34] Get up I get (down)
[02:44.04] Get up I get (down)
[02:45.28] Get up I get (down)
[02:47.04] We are all here for a reason on a particular path
[02:49.91] You don't need a curriculum to know that you are part of the math
[02:53.07] Cats think I'm delirious but I'm so damn serious
[02:55.82] That's why I expose my soul to the globe, the world
[03:00.02] I'm trynna make it better for these little boys and girls
[03:02.24] I'm not just another individual
[03:04.86] My spirit is a part of this, thats why I get spiritual
[03:07.17] But I get my hymns from him
[03:09.69] So it's not me, it's he thats lyrical
[03:11.28] I'm not a miracle
[03:12.82] I'm a heaven-sent instrument
[03:14.02] My rythmatic regiment navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental
[03:18.08] Thats why I'm instrumental
[03:19.98] Vibrations is what I'm into
[03:21.90] Yeah I need my loot by rent day
[03:23.90] But that ain't what gives me the heart of Kunte Kinte
[03:26.26] I'm tryin to give us, us free like Cinque
[03:28.63] I can't stop
[03:30.06] That's why I'm hot
[03:31.12] Determination, dedication, motivation
[03:34.05] I'm talking to you of my many inspirations
[03:36.05] When I say I can't let you or self down
[03:38.18] If I were on the highest cliff on the highest riff
[03:41.17] And you slipped off the side and clenched on to your life in my grip
[03:43.96] I would never, ever, let you down
[03:47.97] And when these words are found
[03:49.16] Let it be known that God's penmanship has been signed in the language called love
[03:54.12] Thats why my breath is felt by the deaf
[03:55.71] And why my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind
[03:58.75] I, too, dream in color, and in rhyme
[04:01.04] So I guess I'm one of a kind in a full house
[04:04.58] Cause whenever I open my heart, my soul, or my mouth
[04:07.45] A touch of God rains out.
[04:11.39] Take 'em to church
[04:13.02] When it comes to being true
[04:14.28] At least true to me
[04:17.33] One thing I've found
[04:18.99] One thing I've found
[04:20.75] Oh no, you'll Never Let Me Down
[04:22.13] Get up I get (down)
[04:23.17] Get up I get (down)
[04:24.47] Get up I get (down)
[04:26.06] Get up I get (down)
[04:27.26] Get up I get (down)
[04:28.57] Get up I get Down
[04:30.26] Who else you know been hot this long,
[04:32.86] (Oh Yeah, you know we ain't finished)
[04:33.82] Started from nothing but he got this strong,
[04:35.79] (The ROC is in the building)
[04:36.03] Built the ROC from a pebble, pedalled rock before I met you,
[04:38.45] Pedalled bikes, got my nephews pedal bikes because they special,
[04:40.34] Let you tell that man I'm falling,
[04:42.98] Well somebody must've caught him,
[04:44.24] Cause every fourth quarter, I like to Mike Jordan them
[04:47.32] Number one albums? What I got like four of them.
[04:50.04] More of them on the way,
[04:51.70] The Eight Wonder on the way,
[04:53.08] Clear the way, I'm here to stay,
[04:54.17] Y'all can save the chitter chat, this and that, dissin' Jay.
[04:56.52] Dissin' Jay will get you mased.
[04:58.83] When I start spitting them lyrics, niggas get very religious,
[05:01.72] Six Hail Maries: please Father forgive us.
[05:04.11] Young, the Archbishop, the Pope John Paul of y'all niggas,
[05:08.09] The way y'all all follow Jigga,
[05:10.12] Hov's a living legend and I tell you why,
[05:13.03] (Never let you down)
[05:14.28] Everybody wanna be Hov and Hov still alive.
[05:16.05] Down... Down... Down...
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