JAY-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.) (Album Version (Explicit))(2010)

[00:00.08] Ladies and gentlemen let's put our hands together for the astonishing
[00:03.46] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A...
[00:05.54] Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 8th wonder of the world
[00:09.19] The flow of the century, oh it's timeless. HOV'!
[00:15.44] Thanks for comin out tonight
[00:17.21] You coulda been anywhere in the world, but you're here with me
[00:21.89] I appreciate that, uh
[00:25.45] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[00:28.12] Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
[00:30.82] Was hurtin 'em in the home of the Terrapins; got it dirt cheap for them
[00:34.54] Plus if they was short with cheese I would work with them
[00:36.38] Brought in weed, got rid of that dirt for them
[00:39.04] Wasn't born hustlers, I was birthin 'em
[00:41.78] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[00:44.44] Fo' sheezy my neezy keep my arms so freezy
[00:48.04] Can't leave rap alone the game needs me
[00:50.79] Haters want me clapped and chromed it ain't easy
[00:52.59] Cops wanna knock me, D.A. wanna box me in
[00:56.25] But somehow, I beat them charges like Rocky
[00:58.04] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[01:00.71] Not guilty, he who does not feel me
[01:03.43] Is not real to me, therefore he doesn't exist
[01:06.26] So poof - vamoose, son of a bitch!
[01:08.95] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[01:12.55] Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
[01:14.30] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[01:17.96] That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
[01:20.71] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[01:24.39] Not guilty y'all got to feel me
[01:26.16] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[01:28.88] That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up!
[01:30.67] Holla at me...
[01:31.52] I do this for my culture
[01:33.42] To let 'em know what a nigga look like, when a nigga in a roaster
[01:37.07] Show 'em how to move in a room full of vultures
[01:39.76] Industry shady it need to be taken over
[01:42.44] Label owners hate me I'm raisin the status quo up
[01:45.16] I'm overchargin niggaz for what they did to the Cold Crush
[01:47.91] Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hoed us
[01:51.56] We can talk, but money talks so talk mo' bucks
[01:53.89] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[01:56.47] Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
[01:59.35] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[02:02.04] That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
[02:04.74] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[02:07.41] Not guilty y'all got to feel me
[02:10.39] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[02:13.24] That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up!
[02:15.79] Yeah...
[02:16.03] Hov' is back, life stories told through rap
[02:18.69] Niggaz actin' like I sold you crack
[02:21.41] Like I told you sell drugs; no, Hov' did that
[02:24.16] So hopefully you won't have to go through that
[02:26.95] I was raised in the pro-jects, roaches and rats
[02:29.66] Smokers out back, sellin they mama's sofa
[02:32.32] Lookouts on the corner, focused on the ave
[02:35.05] Ladies in the window, focused on the kinfolk
[02:37.73] Me under a lamp post, why I got my hand closed?
[02:40.52] Cracks in my palm, watchin the long arm of the law
[02:44.14] So you know I seen it all before
[02:45.90] I seen hoop dreams deflate like a true fiend's weight
[02:48.60] To try and to fail, the two things I hate
[02:51.31] Succeed in this rap game, the two things that's great
[02:54.02] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[02:56.83] What else can I say about dude, I gets bu-sy
[03:00.20] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[03:02.58] Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
[03:05.57] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[03:08.26] That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
[03:10.90] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[03:13.93] Not guilty y'all got to feel me
[03:16.65] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[03:19.56] That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up!
[03:22.19] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[03:27.58] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
[03:33.00] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
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[03:38.10] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
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