Song | The Watcher 2 - Album Version (Explicit) |
Artist | Jay-Z |
Album | The Blueprint 2 The Gift & The Curse |
[00:03.02] | Jeah.. uhh.. what shall I do for a livin nigga |
[00:10.65] | what shall i Eat for a livin nigga {*watcher*} |
[00:13.77] | That's how I live for a livin nigga.. {*watcher*} |
[00:18.27] | Okay, let's do this {*the watcher*} |
[00:21.64][Verse One: Jay-Z] | |
[00:22.40] | Things just ain't the same for gangsters |
[00:23.83] | But I'm a little too famous to shoot these pranksters |
[00:26.08] | All of these rap singers claimin they bangers |
[00:28.21] | Doin all sorts of twisted shit with they fingers |
[00:30.64] | Disrespectin the game, no home trainin or manners |
[00:32.77] | I was doin this shit when you was shittin Pampers |
[00:35.27] | I was movin them grams 'fore you, knew what a hand that hand was |
[00:38.77] | Duckin the vans, radars, the scanners |
[00:40.58] | 'Fore you knew what hard white to tame was |
[00:42.96] | I was hittin the turnpike, aight with the bammers |
[00:45.08] | I was nice with my hands, 'cause aight with them hammers |
[00:47.58] | I was prickin my finger 'fore you knew what a Fam was |
[00:50.33] | I had it laid out 'fore you knew what a plan was |
[00:53.15] | Three hundred mill' later, now you understand us |
[00:55.02] | Y'all ain't see us comin through Vegas |
[00:56.71] | You ever seen so much cham' bust in one night |
[00:59.03] | Grand fucked up one fight |
[01:00.16] | I was on the Peter Pan bus |
[01:01.60] | You was Peter Pan up in your room, y'all fuckin with whom? |
[01:04.66] | Allow me to retort |
[01:06.41] | You cowards is just now learnin the shit that we taught |
[01:09.41] | You niggaz ain't know about a Robb Report |
[01:11.91] | Bout a high speed Porsche, |
[01:13.54] | I.e., you niggaz ain't know how to floss |
[01:15.85] | 'Til I came through the door |
[01:17.10] | Like "Eric B. for Pres," respect me in this BITCH! |
[01:19.28] | You can't disrespect us cause you got a little check cut |
[01:21.85] | You was suckin so long, fuckin ya little neck up |
[01:23.91] | Now you too big for your britches, you got a few little bitches |
[01:27.10] | You think you Hugh Hefner, you just ridiculous |
[01:29.10] | I blew breath on you midgets, I gave light to the game |
[01:31.73] | It's only right I got the right to be king |
[01:33.72] | Niggaz that got life really like what I sing |
[01:35.91] | Cause they know is he really like, niggaz feel my pain |
[01:38.41] | Know the shit I DON'T write |
[01:39.91] | Be the illest shit that's ever been recited |
[01:41.66] | In the game word to the hyphen in my NAME! |
[01:43.85] | J, A, Y, DASH, Hoffa |
[01:45.78] | The past, present, nigga the future, proper |
[01:48.10] | The holy trinity of hip-hop is us |
[01:50.35] | We give, Dre his props BUT that's where it stops |
[01:52.97] | It's the Roc |
[01:53.85][Chorus: Truth Hurts] | |
[01:54.66] | I know, you got your eyes on me |
[01:57.10] | I feel you watchin me |
[01:59.29] | But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me |
[02:03.10] | You try, but what you think you saw |
[02:06.60] | Ain't what you thought you saw |
[02:08.98] | You bed-da off not lookin at all |
[02:12.41] | (Everywhere that I go, ain't the same as befo') |
[02:16.85] | (People I used to know, just don't know me no mo') |
[02:21.29] | (But everywhere that I go, I got people I know) |
[02:26.29] | (Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low) |
[02:30.10][Verse Two: Dr. Dre] | |
[02:32.41] | I'm still on top of the game |
[02:34.04] | Still droppin flames, still cock and aim |
[02:36.73] | Still at the top had the Roc for the fame |
[02:38.85] | over setbacks, there's been a lot since I came |
[02:41.66] | You seen it all, how I got, how I gained |
[02:43.98] | The momentum when it dropped, how I got through the pain |
[02:46.29] | When I roll and shock, they watched me reclaim |
[02:48.60] | the streets, they made a special spot for my name |
[02:51.29] | Dre, haters wanna stop to my reign |
[02:53.04] | But the music lives in me, every drop in my veins |
[02:55.98] | The pride and the pain |
[02:57.35] | All the way back from the rise of my name |
[02:59.72] | See the world clear through the eyes of the mane |
[03:02.04] | See the world chear for the rhymes that I gave |
[03:04.54] | When the beat bangs it'll drive them insane |
[03:06.79] | The eyes that I played |
[03:08.10] | The best to emerge in the game is The Watcher |
[03:10.48][Chorus] | |
[03:10.98] | |
[03:16.29][Verse Three: Rakim] | |
[03:30.60] | |
[03:49.07] | I'm "Rated R," my brain contains graphics thangs |
[03:51.38] | It turn traumatic teens into addicts, and fiends |
[03:53.95] | It's like, watchin a movie through a panoramic screen |
[03:56.20] | Which means, I can see the whole planet in the scene |
[03:58.82] | Cash is the topic, the object, a fatter pocket |
[04:01.32] | Some take the crack and chop it, but those that haven't got it |
[04:04.20] | take away the added profit, it's catastrophic |
[04:05.94] | I take the gat and cock it, and I'll sit back and watch it |
[04:08.95] | These New York streets is ugly, I keep it gully |
[04:11.39] | The world is mine and can't nobody keep it from me |
[04:13.76] | Yo, my neighborhood is never sunny |
[04:15.45] | In the place where the number one cause of death is money |
[04:18.20] | You can try copin |
[04:19.57] | I've seen enough shit to leave your frame of mind broken |
[04:22.01] | I'm still alive and scopin |
[04:23.32] | Be another hundred years 'til my skies close in |
[04:25.51] | And I'ma die with my eyes open, the watcher {*echoes*} |
[04:30.20][Chorus] |
[00:03.02] | Jeah.. uhh.. what shall I do for a livin nigga |
[00:10.65] | what shall i Eat for a livin nigga watcher |
[00:13.77] | That' s how I live for a livin nigga.. watcher |
[00:18.27] | Okay, let' s do this the watcher |
[00:21.64][Verse One: Jay-Z] | |
[00:22.40] | Things just ain' t the same for gangsters |
[00:23.83] | But I' m a little too famous to shoot these pranksters |
[00:26.08] | All of these rap singers claimin they bangers |
[00:28.21] | Doin all sorts of twisted shit with they fingers |
[00:30.64] | Disrespectin the game, no home trainin or manners |
[00:32.77] | I was doin this shit when you was shittin Pampers |
[00:35.27] | I was movin them grams ' fore you, knew what a hand that hand was |
[00:38.77] | Duckin the vans, radars, the scanners |
[00:40.58] | ' Fore you knew what hard white to tame was |
[00:42.96] | I was hittin the turnpike, aight with the bammers |
[00:45.08] | I was nice with my hands, ' cause aight with them hammers |
[00:47.58] | I was prickin my finger ' fore you knew what a Fam was |
[00:50.33] | I had it laid out ' fore you knew what a plan was |
[00:53.15] | Three hundred mill' later, now you understand us |
[00:55.02] | Y' all ain' t see us comin through Vegas |
[00:56.71] | You ever seen so much cham' bust in one night |
[00:59.03] | Grand fucked up one fight |
[01:00.16] | I was on the Peter Pan bus |
[01:01.60] | You was Peter Pan up in your room, y' all fuckin with whom? |
[01:04.66] | Allow me to retort |
[01:06.41] | You cowards is just now learnin the shit that we taught |
[01:09.41] | You niggaz ain' t know about a Robb Report |
[01:11.91] | Bout a high speed Porsche, |
[01:13.54] | I. e., you niggaz ain' t know how to floss |
[01:15.85] | ' Til I came through the door |
[01:17.10] | Like " Eric B. for Pres," respect me in this BITCH! |
[01:19.28] | You can' t disrespect us cause you got a little check cut |
[01:21.85] | You was suckin so long, fuckin ya little neck up |
[01:23.91] | Now you too big for your britches, you got a few little bitches |
[01:27.10] | You think you Hugh Hefner, you just ridiculous |
[01:29.10] | I blew breath on you midgets, I gave light to the game |
[01:31.73] | It' s only right I got the right to be king |
[01:33.72] | Niggaz that got life really like what I sing |
[01:35.91] | Cause they know is he really like, niggaz feel my pain |
[01:38.41] | Know the shit I DON' T write |
[01:39.91] | Be the illest shit that' s ever been recited |
[01:41.66] | In the game word to the hyphen in my NAME! |
[01:43.85] | J, A, Y, DASH, Hoffa |
[01:45.78] | The past, present, nigga the future, proper |
[01:48.10] | The holy trinity of hiphop is us |
[01:50.35] | We give, Dre his props BUT that' s where it stops |
[01:52.97] | It' s the Roc |
[01:53.85][Chorus: Truth Hurts] | |
[01:54.66] | I know, you got your eyes on me |
[01:57.10] | I feel you watchin me |
[01:59.29] | But it ain' t hard to see that you can' t see me |
[02:03.10] | You try, but what you think you saw |
[02:06.60] | Ain' t what you thought you saw |
[02:08.98] | You bedda off not lookin at all |
[02:12.41] | Everywhere that I go, ain' t the same as befo' |
[02:16.85] | People I used to know, just don' t know me no mo' |
[02:21.29] | But everywhere that I go, I got people I know |
[02:26.29] | Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low |
[02:30.10][Verse Two: Dr. Dre] | |
[02:32.41] | I' m still on top of the game |
[02:34.04] | Still droppin flames, still cock and aim |
[02:36.73] | Still at the top had the Roc for the fame |
[02:38.85] | over setbacks, there' s been a lot since I came |
[02:41.66] | You seen it all, how I got, how I gained |
[02:43.98] | The momentum when it dropped, how I got through the pain |
[02:46.29] | When I roll and shock, they watched me reclaim |
[02:48.60] | the streets, they made a special spot for my name |
[02:51.29] | Dre, haters wanna stop to my reign |
[02:53.04] | But the music lives in me, every drop in my veins |
[02:55.98] | The pride and the pain |
[02:57.35] | All the way back from the rise of my name |
[02:59.72] | See the world clear through the eyes of the mane |
[03:02.04] | See the world chear for the rhymes that I gave |
[03:04.54] | When the beat bangs it' ll drive them insane |
[03:06.79] | The eyes that I played |
[03:08.10] | The best to emerge in the game is The Watcher |
[03:10.48][Chorus] | |
[03:10.98] | |
[03:16.29][Verse Three: Rakim] | |
[03:30.60] | |
[03:49.07] | I' m " Rated R," my brain contains graphics thangs |
[03:51.38] | It turn traumatic teens into addicts, and fiends |
[03:53.95] | It' s like, watchin a movie through a panoramic screen |
[03:56.20] | Which means, I can see the whole planet in the scene |
[03:58.82] | Cash is the topic, the object, a fatter pocket |
[04:01.32] | Some take the crack and chop it, but those that haven' t got it |
[04:04.20] | take away the added profit, it' s catastrophic |
[04:05.94] | I take the gat and cock it, and I' ll sit back and watch it |
[04:08.95] | These New York streets is ugly, I keep it gully |
[04:11.39] | The world is mine and can' t nobody keep it from me |
[04:13.76] | Yo, my neighborhood is never sunny |
[04:15.45] | In the place where the number one cause of death is money |
[04:18.20] | You can try copin |
[04:19.57] | I' ve seen enough shit to leave your frame of mind broken |
[04:22.01] | I' m still alive and scopin |
[04:23.32] | Be another hundred years ' til my skies close in |
[04:25.51] | And I' ma die with my eyes open, the watcher echoes |
[04:30.20][Chorus] |