JAY-Z - Meet The Parents(2009)

[00:02.40] Whoo Uh Uh
[00:05.16] The gift and the curse
[00:08.67] Uh Uh yeah
[00:11.01] First they love me then they hate me
[00:12.48] Then they love me again
[00:15.25] Love me again
[00:17.11] Lets take a trip down
[00:18.83] I got yall
[00:22.71] Lets take a trip down memory lane at the cemetery
[00:25.77] Rain gray skies seems at the end of every young black live
[00:30.39] It's this line damn him already
[00:32.09] Such a goodkid got us poring Hen(nessy) already
[00:34.69] Liquor to the curb for the niggas up above
[00:37.42] When it cracks through to pavement that's my way of sending love
[00:41.23] So give BIG a hug tell Aaliyah I said high
[00:42.98] Till the next time I see her on the other side
[00:45.65] He was just some thug that caught some slugs
[00:48.44] And we loved him cause in him we saw some of us
[00:51.40] He walked like us, talked like us
[00:54.99] His back against the wall nigga fought like us
[00:57.32] Damn poor Isyss that his momma name momma aint strong enough to raise no boy
[01:01.78] What's his father name? shorty never knew him though he had his blood in em
[01:06.05] Hot temper momma sad he act just like her husband
[01:08.72] Daddy never fucked with em so the streets raised em
[01:11.61] Isyss blaming herself she wish she could have saved him
[01:14.52] Damn near impossible only men can raise men
[01:17.39] He was his own man not even him could save him
[01:20.48] He put his faith in the 38 in his waist
[01:23.15] But when ya live by the gun you die by the same fate
[01:25.84] End up dead before 38 and a
[01:28.21] That's the life of what's raised by a winter, it's a cold world
[01:31.45] Old girl turned to coke tried to smoke her pain away
[01:34.60] Isyss life just ended on that rainy day
[01:37.58] When she got the news her boy body could be viewed down at the city mourge
[01:41.16] Open the drawer saw em nude
[01:43.48] Her addiction grew
[01:45.14] Prescription drugs dipped in brew
[01:47.08] Angel dust dipped in whoo
[01:49.02] She slipped into her own fantasy world
[01:51.85] Had her self pregnant by different dude
[01:54.56] But reality bites and this is her life
[01:57.61] He wasn't really her husband though he called her wife
[02:00.35] It was just this night when the moon was full and the stars was just right
[02:04.45] And the dress was real tight
[02:06.63] And it sounded like Lisa Lisa I wonder if I take you home
[02:09.38] Will you still love me after this night
[02:11.94] Mike was the hard head from around the way that she wanted all her life
[02:15.89] Shit she wanted all the hype
[02:17.63] Used to hold on tight when they wheelied on the bike
[02:20.64] He was a Willie all her life
[02:22.48] He wasn't really the one to like
[02:23.65] It was a dude named Shi
[02:25.03] Who would really treat her right
[02:26.44] He wanted to run to the country to escape the city life
[02:28.98] But Isyss liked this broad way life
[02:31.35] She loved the Gucci sneakers the red, green and, white
[02:34.55] Hanging out the window when she first seen em fight
[02:37.78] So turned on that she had to shower twice
[02:40.92] How ironic it would be some fight
[02:43.61] That would turn it to a homicide that would alter their life
[02:46.51] See Mike at 32 was still on the seen
[02:49.34] He had a son 15 that he never saw twice
[02:51.96] Sure he saw him as an infant but he disowned him
[02:55.02] Like if that was my son he would look much different
[02:57.82] See I'm light skinned and that baby there's dark
[03:00.43] So it's momma's baby poppa's maybe
[03:03.11] Mike was still crazy out there running the streets
[03:06.27] Had his old reliable 38 gun in his reach
[03:09.22] He spent 14 years him and Isyss aint speak
[03:12.03] He runnin around like life is a peach
[03:15.43] Till one day he approached this thug
[03:17.48] That had a mean mug
[03:18.45] And he looked so familiar that he called um young Cuz
[03:20.89] Told em get off the strip but the boy aint budge
[03:23.44] Instead he pulled out a newer 38 snug
[03:26.19] He clearly had to drop but the boy just paused
[03:29.47] It was something in this mans face he knew he seen before
[03:32.18] It's like looking in the mirror seeing his self more mature
[03:35.08] He took it as a sign from the almighty lord
[03:37.70] You know what they say about he who hesitates at war
[03:41.23] (What's that) he who hesitates is lost
[03:43.67] He cant explain what he saw before his picture went blank
[03:46.36] The old man didn't think he just followed his instinct
[03:49.36] Six shots into his kin out of the gun
[03:52.51] Niggas be a father ya killing ya son
[03:55.24] Six shots into his kin out of the gun
[03:59.12] Niggas be a father ya killing ya son
[04:00.67] Meet the parents
[04:10.51] (Echo & fade out)
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