[00:18.67]Pops sped off
[00:19.70]Left Mom with a bundle of
[00:21.56]Joy ya boy
[00:22.48]Smack dab in the jungle
[00:23.81]Took tunnel vision
[00:25.26]But he would soon become a mogul
[00:26.95]But first he brought that crack back like a yo-yo
[00:29.84]Don't play with my yo-yo
[00:31.10]Loco in the hood
[00:32.76]First hating on me
[00:34.49]It's all good
[00:35.37]I'm buying things like my don't stink
[00:37.75]Gucci links and Gucci gooses
[00:39.31]Watching too much movies
[00:41.00]Bulletproof this
[00:42.15]Had some nerve
[00:43.43]Like pullin toothes
[00:44.62]When you sixteen  comin thru roofless
[00:47.58]Yeah ya boy ruthless
[00:49.05]Like Ice Cube was
[00:50.71]Turn the whole city on
[00:52.16]I'm the new plug
[00:53.36]So if this is your first time hearing this
[00:55.84]You are about to experience someone so cold
[00:58.06]
[00:58.85]A journey seldom seen
[01:00.28]The American dream
[01:01.48]From the bottom to the top of the globe
[01:03.69]They call me HOV
[01:04.67]
[01:05.55]They coming for me
[01:06.32]
[01:06.84]Wanna see me fall
[01:07.57]
[01:08.31]You know my story
[01:09.34]I been thru it all
[01:10.83]Nights I felt like dying
[01:12.20]But I ain't crying
[01:13.58]What didn't kill me
[01:14.97]Made me strong as iron
[01:16.48]
[01:17.64]I am
[01:18.08]
[01:18.87]I am
[01:19.61]Oh my God  HOV
[01:20.84]
[01:23.31]Now I'm knee-deep in the concrete
[01:25.34]Like the streets made of quicksand beyond deep
[01:27.61]
[01:28.12]I got a chemical romance  two left feet
[01:31.23]So I dance with the devil  please GOD
[01:33.84]Save me for the life of love release me
[01:36.68]My life like grand auto theft PSP
[01:39.61]I'm in the Volvo puffing on
[01:41.37]
[01:42.36]Running from the po po
[01:43.86]Every time I drive by
[01:45.27]Say hi to the bad guy
[01:46.69]All my momma friends is like hmm hmm hmm
[01:49.36]Would you just look at him
[01:51.03]Sorry dear momma for your embarrassment
[01:53.71]Give me a couple years I pray I never sin
[01:56.21]Got all these rival dealers trying to do me in
[01:59.55]And all these little rappers
[02:00.97]Don't know how prepared for them I am
[02:02.42]
[02:04.01]I feel like the world is against me Lord
[02:06.24]Call me crazy but strangely I love them odds
[02:08.73]
[02:27.59]Now these baby ballers toy rappers
[02:30.29]Calling out my name to bring the boy backwards
[02:32.90]
[02:33.45]Shooting air balls at the basket
[02:35.93]What you call money I paid more in taxes
[02:38.74]I got crowned came down in Africa
[02:41.76]Down in Nigeria do you have any idea
[02:44.59]Sold out shows in Seoul Korea
[02:47.20]Jo-berg  Dublin  Tanzania
[02:49.86]
[02:50.48]Lunch with Mandela  dinner with Cavalli
[02:53.24]Still got time to give water to everybody
[02:56.43]Everybody fall back
[02:59.07]
[02:59.76]Y'all rapping I'm reenacting
[03:02.54]CNN you see it's accurate
[03:05.46]ESPN see me in action
[03:08.17]Monday nights when the half ends
[03:10.92]When your ten years in holla back then