JAY-Z, Dr. Dre, Rakim, Truth Hurts - The Watcher 2

[00:06.95] JAY-Z [00:07.57] Miscellaneous [00:08.18] Jeah. uhh. it's what I do for a livin nigga [00:09.16] Eat for a livin nigga (watcher) [00:11.86] That's how I live for a livin nigga. (watcher) [00:18.14] Okay, let's do this (the watcher) [00:19.84] Things just ain't the same for gangsters [00:22.52] But I'm a little too famous to shoot these pranksters [00:26.14] All of these rap singers claimin they bangers [00:27.17] Doin all sorts of twisted shit with they fingers [00:29.96] Disrespectin the game, no home trainin or manners [00:32.24] I was doin this shit when you was shittin Pampers [00:34.63] I was movin them grams 'fore you, knew what a hand that hand was [00:37.35] Duckin the vans, radars, the scanners [00:39.46] 'Fore you knew what hard white to tame was [00:41.74] I was hittin the turnpike, aight with the bammers [00:43.93] I was nice with my hands, cuss aight with them hammers [00:46.74] I was prickin my finger 'fore you knew what a Fam was [00:49.14] I had it laid out 'fore you knew what a plan was [00:51.60] Three hundred mill' later, now you understand us [00:53.85] Y'all ain't see us comin through Vegas [00:55.62] You ever seen so much cham' bust in one night [00:57.51] Grand fucked up one fight [00:58.86] I was on the Peter Pan bus [01:00.53] You was Peter Pan up in your room, y'all fuckin with whom? [01:02.48] Allowed me to be taught [01:05.62] You cowards is just now learnin the shit that we talk [01:08.46] You niggaz ain't know about a Robb Report [01:10.52] Bout a high speed Porsche, i.e. [01:12.74] You niggaz ain't know how to floss 'til I came through the door [01:15.45] Like "Eric B. for Pres," respect me in this BITCH! [01:18.17] You can't disrespect us cause you got a little check cut [01:20.48] You was suckin for so long, fuckin your little neck up [01:23.04] Now you too big for your britches, you got a few little bitches [01:25.76] You think you Hugh Hefner, you just ridiculous [01:27.78] I blew breath for you midgets, I gave life to the game [01:30.34] It's only right I got the right to be king [01:32.53] Niggaz that got life really like what I sing [01:35.06] Cause they know is he really like, niggaz feel my pain [01:37.27] Know the shit I DON'T write be the illest shit that's ever been recited [01:40.24] In the game word to the hyphen in my NAME! [01:42.29] J, A, Y, DASH, Hoffa [01:44.74] The past present nigga the future, proper [01:47.15] The holy trinity of hip-hop is us [01:49.33] We give, Dre his props BUT that's where it stops [01:51.92] It's the Roc [01:52.69] I know, you got your eyes on me [01:55.96] I feel you watchin me [01:57.99] But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me [02:01.76] You try, but what you think you saw [02:05.24] Ain't what you thought you saw [02:08.07] You bed-da off not lookin at all [02:11.88] (Everywhere that I go, ain't the same as befo') [02:15.35] (People I used to know, just don't know me no mo') [02:20.24] (But everywhere that I go, I got people I know) [02:25.01] (Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low) [02:30.32] I'm still on top of the game [02:33.03] Still droppin flames, still cock and aim [02:35.53] Still at the top had the Roc for the fame [02:37.74] Over setbacks, there's been a lot since I came [02:40.22] You seen it all, how I got, how I gained [02:42.37] The momentum when it dropped, how I got through the pain [02:44.92] When I roll and shock, they watched me reclaim [02:47.19] The streets, they made a special spot for my name [02:49.94] Dre, haters wanna stop to my reign [02:51.98] But the music lives in me, every drop in my veins [02:54.66] The pride and the pain [02:55.75] All the way back from the rise of my name [02:58.16] See the world clear through the eyes of the mane [03:00.59] See the world chear for the rhymes that I gave [03:03.16] When the beat bangs it'll drive them insane [03:05.42] The eyes that I played [03:06.56] The best to emerge in the game is The Watcher [03:08.72] I'm "Rated R," my brain contains graphics thangs [03:49.75] It turn traumatic teens into addicts, and fiends [03:52.46] It's like, watchin a movie through a panoramic screen [03:54.87] Which means, I can see the whole planet in the scene [03:57.34] Cash is the topic, the object, a fatter pocket [03:59.35] Some take the crack and chop it, but those that haven't got it [04:01.93] Take away the added profit, it's catastrophic [04:04.05] I take the gat and cock it, and I'll sit back and watch it [04:06.97] These New York streets is ugly, I keep it gully [04:09.03] The world is mine and can't nobody keep it from me [04:11.77] Yo, my neighborhood is never sunny [04:13.63] In the place where the number one cause of death is money [04:16.67] You can try copin [04:18.32] I've seen enough shit to leave your frame of mind broken [04:20.17] I'm still alive and scopin [04:21.43] Be another hundred years 'til my skies close in [04:23.68] And I'ma die with my eyes open, the watcher [04:33.83]