Album Cover This Life Forever

This Life Forever

JAY-Z

6

Uh huh

Blackhand Ent.

Roc a Fella Records

In association with the streets

The Black Gangster

In conjunction

With everything official

Yeah

I ride throught the ghetto windows down halfway

Halfway out of my mind music on 9 blasting Donny Hathaway

Me and my niggas spending half the day

Plotting how we gon get this math with out getting balst away

I wake up to the same problems after today

Life is harsh, niggas gotta ?

Right from the start they place me in the ghetto tender age of nine

I tend to mine and to surrender to crime

Wouldnt wish this on nobody like the end of like mine

Ever since i was quite young a nigga been in divine

Had to scratch for every plaque, rap aint even all its cracked up to be

Niggas dont stack up to me

Had to hustle in a world of trouble

trapped in, clostrophobic the only way out was rapping

America dont understand it, the demographics i tapped in

I'm the truest nigga to do this nigga and anything else is foolish

Like those who stay high, under God's grey skies

My lyrics is like Bible, made to save lives

In the midst of all your misery nigga, stay fly

Never let em see you frown, even smile when you down

Shit, i floss on my off-days fuck what they all say

Niggas cant stop me like rumors, i'm too strong

All-day

Socks explode and sweatpants pockets is bulging

Holding it down on the corner with my glock holding

My spot is golden, drop the price on the coke and

Drove the competition out and let the dough flow in

The cops is closing in, i can do the time

But whats really on my mine, is there's no hoes in the pen

I play the low and try and make it hard to find me

Feds still tryna build a case since '93

I told