JAY-Z – 22 Two’s

[people clapping]
Yo whassup everybody this is Mariah Davis, Mad Wednesday’s
we here tonight to have a good time (“Yo! Start the show! Start the show!”)
Wait a minute; I see my man over there Jay-Z
Jay-Z, Dam Deass let me hear that lil’ tape of yours, and it’s fat
Why don’t you come up here and kick a lil’ freestyle
Put that champagne down, and kick a lil’ freestyle for me tonight

[Jay-Z]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Can I kick it? (Yes you can!) [repeat 3X]
Y’all motherfuckers musta hear that Tribe Called Quest, let’s do it again
Can I kick it? (Yes you can!) [repeat 3X]
Well I’m gone… check this out
Too much West coast dick-lickin, and too many niggaz on a mission
Doin your best Jay-Z rendition
Too many rough motherfuckers, I got my suspicions
that you’re just a fish in a pool of sharks nigga, listen
Too many bitches wanna be ladies, so if you a hoe
I’ma call you a hoe, too many bitches are shady
Too many ladies give these niggaz too many chances
Too many brothers wannabe lovers don’t know what romance is
Too many bitches stuck up from too many sexual advances
No question; Jay-Z got too many answers
I been around this block, too many times
Rocked, too many rhymes, cocked, too many nines, too
To all my brothers it ain’t too late to come together
Cause too much black and too much love, equal forever
I don’t follow any guidelines cause too many niggaz ride mine
so I change styles every two rhymes, hah, what the fuck
That’s 22 too’s for y’all motherfuckers out there, yaknahmean?
Shall I continue? Check it out, what?

Can I kick it? (Yes you can!) [repeat 3X]
Well I’m gone… yo, yo, yo
Copped to reach my quota, push rock, roll up smooth like on ya
Whole groove like hold-up, swoll up
Too many faggot niggaz, clockin my spendin
Exercisin you’re, gay like minds like Richard Simmons
If you could catch Jay right, on the late night
without the eight right, maybe you could test my weight, right
I dip, speak quicker than you ever seen
adminster pain, next the minister’s screamin your name
At your wake as I peak in, look in your casket
feelin sarcastic, “Look at him, still sleepin”
You never ready, forever petty minds stay petty
Mines thinkin longevity until I’m seventy
Livin heavenly, fuck, felony after felony, what?
Nigga ya broke, what the fuck you gon’ tell me?

(“Oooooooooooh!”)

Jay-Z, Jay-Z, now you know this is a fat track (aight)
Now this is comin on your new album, on Roc-A-Fella records in ninety-six
(no doubt no doubt) well, it is definitely the bomb
But you know I do wanna say somethin to you, I know
you’ve been havin a lot of problems with the law
But I know you innocent, and I’m behind you 100%
Mad Wednesday’s, Ruby King, DJ Ace, Dang Dash
Roc-A-Fella Records, we all behind you, you can come back anytime
(Hah, thanks a lot)
Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute
Ace, turn that music down
I smell some reefer, now you see?
That’s why, our people don’t have anything
Because we don’t know how to go in places and act properly
(“Hey shut the fuck up!”)
Wait a minute wait a minute who told me shut the eff up?
Who told me to shut the eff up? Get him out of here
I’m not gonna continue this show, until you throw him out
Get him out right now, then I’ma continue my speech
Thank you, he’s out of here now, now like I was sayin
We gotta build our own business, we gotta get our own
record companies goin like Roc-A-Fella Records…

JAY-Z feat. Beanie Sigel, Free, Memphis Bleek – 1-900-Hustler

[Beanie Sigel]
1-900-Hustler, Sigel, holla at your boy
What’s the problem shorty?

[Shorty]
Yeah whattup man
I’m the only nigga from Brooklyn out here man
I’m tryin to lock the spot down, holla at me

[Beanie Sigel]
Alright; hold on – Hova, line one

[Jay-Z]
Here’s a couple of suggestions of how you could finesse it
You find a dude in town, you send him a short message
Say, “Hey, I’m new in town, I don’t know my way around
but I got some soft white that’s sure to come back brown
I get that butter all night
cause most niggaz don’t know a brick from a bike
They keep buyin hard white
And if you free tomorrow night we can meet and discuss price
FYI, I never been robbed in my life”
Or — you find a chick, shit, you hole up in her crib and
let her introduce you ’round town like her man
Shake hands, make friends like it’s all innocent
then — before they look up you sellin the town cook-up
Or — gorilla pimp, come up on that killer shit
Take a nigga brick, smack him, then you sell it back to them
Still there Brooklyn?

[Shorty]
Yeah yeah that’s gangsta, I think I’ma roll with that one

[Jay-Z]
Make out a check for eight hundred dollars
Jigga Man, holla [click, dial tone]

[Beans] 1-900-Hustler, Sigel, holla at your boy
[Chris] Whassup Sig? This Chris out the Young Guns dog
[Beans] Whattup?
[Chris] I’m ready to smash these niggaz in the rap game
The niggaz takin too long with that advance money and shit
[Beans] Yeah
[Chris] Talkin ’bout chill, chill don’t pay the bills
[Beans] Yeah I feel that
[Chris] I know you well connected dog
Let me holla at somebody real
[Beans] Aight look, I got the perfect person for you, hold on
Bleek, line two

[Memphis Bleek]
Listen shorty, you wanna roll just give me the word
I ain’t got time for a sentence all that shit is absurd
You find a strip first, if you don’t cook find a bitch first
If you don’t hustle find a nigga who pitch first
You new in town, no red and blue in town, there’s gangs
Don’t get fresh, let ‘em know you small change
The strong move quiet, the weak start riots
We know you got a brick but sell ‘em twenties til they tired
With no credit, you know you sick with that gotta eat fetish
and other niggaz who gettin it – DEAD IT
Make ‘em an offer that they can’t refuse
He resists, box him in, til he can’t be moved
Here’s the rules: chop it, bag it, stash it, stack it
Get in, get out – that’s a O.G.’s classic
900-Hustler, you pass it around
Wanna speak to me direct, hit extension trey-pound, I’m out
[click, dial tone]

[Beans] 1-900-Hustler, Sigel, holla at your dog
What seem to be the problem young boy?
[MDKHN] Yo whattup, this Murder Def Kill Homicide Nigga
(??) I got two freaks
[Beans] Yo watch your fuckin mouth man
[MDKHN] Fuck you mean watch my mouth nigga?
Been on hold for about two hours nigga
[Beans] I don’t give a fuck how long you been on the line;
shut the fuck up! Matter of fact, hold on
[click, classical type music plays]
[MDKHN] I know this nigga ain’t just put.. put me on hold man
This bullshit-ass elevator music
[Beans] Free, pick up line five

[Free]
First things first, watch what you say out your mouth
when you talkin on the phone to hus-tlers
Never play the house, think drought, keep heat in the couch
when you sittin in the presence of cus-tomers
Never hold out, pull out, throw heat and be out
if a nigga ever think that he touchin-ya
Lay low, get cake, whip all over the state
Stash dough, whip yay with, right amount of bake (hoe!)
Nigga too close went right around his place (yo!)
You stoppin dough when we clutchin the gats?
I know you heard “Friend or Foe,” this ain’t different from that
Make sure you got your four-four and he can slip if he like
Young, Jon Benet doin a mission tonight and yo
until you up stay away from them dice and whores
Three smuts, two streaks and a dyke
can pause one-three rumbles two streaks and a pipe for sure
And if it’s tight, then he might come back for more
Nine and four, everyday back and forth
Winter to summer, 1-900-Hustler
Pass the number til you’re stackin balls
Tell you how to weigh shit wet and package more
I take cash or write the check out to F-R
two E’s, that’ll be two G’s
And forget my money I’m comin for all your ki’s, nigga
[click, dial tone]

[Beans] 1-900-Hustler, Sigel, holla at your boy dog
[MDKHN] Yo whattup young, you put me on hold earlier man what happened
[Beans] Yeah you stupid motherfucker [MDKHN:] Watch your mouth man
you talkin all reckless on the phone
[Beans] Fuck you think this the,
Get-Indicted-Hotline or somethin motherfucker?
[MDKHN] Yo, my bad man, my bad
I know I was talkin reckless earlier about them two chickens
You get it, you know, two chickens? But listen
[Beans] What?
[MDKHN] Just tell me how to move this shit man
I’m pushin hardly half a wing back nigga, holla
[Beans] Get a job, holla at Perdue!
[click, dial tone]

JAY-Z – It Ain’t Personal

[Jay-Z]
Man, they go and tell me like
you never know who your true friends until you ah umm
both got a little bit of money
I mean cause y’all both broke
then there’s no strain on the relationship, y’all both broke
And if you got money and he ain’t got no paper
He still needs you so you’ll never know how he really feel about you
When y’all both get some paper, you’ll see

[R. Kelly + (Jay-Z)]
We used to get money together, phone honies together
Pushin chromed out twinkies in custom coach leather
You claim it’s all love, but nigga it’s whatever
Cause this is business, it ain’t personal
Same dream, same team, same schemes (mm)
We even sold to the same damn fiends (how real is dat?)
Ain’t no rules in this war for this green
This is business, and it ain’t personal

[Jay-Z]
Look, I’m a grown man dog
And I ain’t got time to be runnin behind y’all
I know when I first started it was crazy to y’all
“He’s gon’ start his own label, he’ll never be able”
Well, nigga you’ve been wrong before
And you’ll be wrong again if you bet against him
We move through the hood like identical twins
But it just so happen that a nigga made it rappin
You showed your true colors, y’all niggaz stay yappin
That don’t stop him, a nigga weigh platinum
Stop through the hood, to say what’s happenin? (sup nigga)
Fake hugz (uh-huh) fake whassup
Fake love, fake fuck, fake thugs
Gotta one myself for your fake shit, I raise up
Hop in my wheels and I peel, streets are blazed up (uh-huh)
About my bid’ness dog, y’all need to stay up – one

[Chorus: R. Kelly]
We used to get money together, phone honies together
Pushin chromed out twinkies in custom coach leather
You claim it’s all love, but nigga it’s whatever
Cause this is business, it ain’t personal
Same dream, same team, same schemes
We even sold to the same damn fiends
Ain’t no rules in this war for this green
This is business, and it ain’t personal

[R. Kelly]
I wish, I wish – that success, we could all
get a piece of it (word) but that ain’t real dog (no)
Cause in these streets it’s war, the industry much more
But rich or poor, I’ma keep it real my nigga
Invest in chips and watch my money hill get bigger
And do things like, pull up to some clubs
in the skirts with Jigga, and yellin out HEY!
What the fuck, pop that Cris’ my nigga
And then he wants to know how many chips I done sold
Well it ain’t y’all business what’s behind my doors
But y’all niggaz don’t appreciate shit
Helped you out and you still actin like a little bitch
Then you wonder why I put yo’ ass in the tenth row
when you asked me for some tickets to my TP-2 show
Lawwwwwwd tell me, why we don’t like to see us grow

[Chorus + ad libs]

[Jay-Z]
A-Alike (uh-huh) be alike (that’s right)
We don’t vibe no more because we don’t C/see alike
And your mom got it twisted, she think Hov’ changed
Nope; Hov’s still here like Rogaine
Ask your boy what he did to the Hov’ game
How he jeapordized the whole game
Now when we see each other it’s so strange
I don’t know whether to hug him or slug him (damn)
I don’t know whether to cap him or dap him
I don’t know what to think of him, I don’t know what’s happenin
But what I do know, all the niggaz that you know
locked up doin a few doe, but who knows?
Maybe it wasn’t you, maybe I’m buggin too (right)
But I’m scared dog, I don’t know what the fuck to do
Do me a favor, place yourself in my shoes
The game, no exceptions, gotta follow the rules

[Chorus]