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[00:05.158]Get up and touch it
[00:36.592]Get up and touch the sky, come on [7x]
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[00:38.646][Bridge]
[00:38.908]I gotta testify
[00:39.701]Come up in the spot lookin' extra fly
[00:41.565]Before the day I die, I'mma touch the sky tonight
[00:46.355]Testify
[00:47.681]I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly
[00:53.475]'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky
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[00:54.504][Verse 1]
[00:54.781]Back when they thought pink Polos would hurt the Roc
[00:56.904]Before Cam got them hits to pop
[00:58.483]The doors was closed, I felt like Bad Boy's street team
[01:01.419]I couldn't work the locks
[01:03.273]Now let's go, take 'em back to the plan
[01:05.657]Me and my momma hopped in that U-Haul van
[01:07.783]Any pessimists I ain't talk to them
[01:10.169]Plus I ain't have no phone in my apart-a-ment
[01:12.299]Take 'em back to the club
[01:14.729]Least about an hour I stand on line
[01:16.846]I just wanted to dance, I went to Jacob an hour
[01:18.702]After I got my advance, I just wanted to shine
[01:21.629]Jay favorite line: "Dawg, in due time!"
[01:23.750]Now he look at me, like, "Damn, dawg! You where I am!"
[01:26.686]A hip-hop legend, I think I died
[01:28.289]In a accident, cause this must be heaven
[01:32.005]Testify
[01:35.887]I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly
[01:36.145]'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky
[01:40.668]Testify
[01:41.983]I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly
[01:44.794]'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky
[01:45.046]Testify
[01:45.319]I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly
[01:46.644]'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky
[01:47.973]
[01:49.579]Now let's take them hi-ah-igh-igh-igh-ighhhh
[01:50.629](Top of the world baby)
[01:51.431](Top top of the world)
[01:52.498]Now let's take them hi-ah-igh-igh-igh-ighhhh
[01:55.693](Top of the world baby)
[01:57.025](On top of the world)
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[02:04.470][Verse 2 - Kanye West]
[02:06.582]Back when Gucci was the hits to rock
[02:08.719]Back when Slick Rick had the shit to pop
[02:11.140]I'd do anything to say I got it
[02:13.267]Damn, them new loafers hurt my pocket
[02:15.643]Before anybody wanted K. West beats
[02:17.501]Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC
[02:20.695]Dog, I was having nervous breakdowns
[02:22.293]Like "Man - these niggas that much better than me?"
[02:24.955]Baby, I'm going on an airplane
[02:29.986]And I don't know if I'll be back again
[02:30.266]Sure enough, I sent the plane tickets
[02:31.842]But when she came to kick it, things became different
[02:33.972]Any girl I cheated on, sheets I skeeted on
[02:35.032]Couldn't keep it at home, thought I needed a Nia Long
[02:37.717]I'm trying to right my wrongs
[02:40.361]But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song
[02:43.828]Testify
[02:45.148]I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly
[02:49.665]'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky tonight
[02:52.794]Testify
[02:57.310]I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly
[02:59.162]'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky
[03:00.493]Now say: I'm, I'm sky high
[03:05.006]say: I'm, I'm sky high
[03:09.268]say: I'm, I'm sky high
[03:27.059]Feels good to be home, feels good to be home
[03:33.922]Are y'all happy you came to VH1 Storytellers?
[03:57.318]Get up and touch the sky, come on
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[04:12.978]I am so disappointed, that I cannot see me perform
[04:18.296]Except for on playback
[04:24.143]My greatest pain in life, is that I'll never see me perform
[04:32.012]So you are welcome to know a pleasure, that I will never have
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[04:45.062]Come on [20x]
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[05:13.191]This song is what inspired 808's and Heartbreak more than anything
[05:14.522]Because we used do this at the end of the tour every night
[05:16.647]And I would do it for – how many of you saw the Glow In The Dark tour in the room tonight?
[05:21.451]Thank you so much, for coming to the tour
[05:29.957]
[05:30.480]So y’all remember at the end of the show I would do this song
[05:32.874]And I would say some inspirational words and I would sing
[05:37.643]And I had the opportunity to just kind of do it and play it off
[05:40.570]But I discovered that I love to sing
[05:44.553]So much and to my thing and harmonize and just go up and down and just **** around
[05:53.602]I really feel like a vessel
[05:56.789]And I open my mouth and God will let beautiful words flow through
[06:03.708]That’s why I realized that he chose me and he has a path for me
[06:09.537]Because half the things that come out, I can’t be responsible for
[06:16.714]And I guess he just wants me to say more and more and more and never be insecure and always be sure, be sure
[06:26.295]And he will give me the strength I need to endure, for sure
[06:33.203]As I tour and bring the pure
[06:38.250]So much more, more, for sure
[06:40.911]For your entertainment, education and relation
[06:51.266]To take away your hesitation and segregation
[06:53.921]
[06:54.725]In a country full of immigrants, where no one really was born here, but separated here
[07:08.253]It’s a beautiful thing that in a country that was so divided by the concept of black and white
[07:14.892]We now have a black and white president
[07:17.808]
[07:22.319]And this is what the future is to me
[07:26.849]The juxtaposition: two things that you think don’t go together
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[07:33.246]When a black, super-Hip-Hop-dressed dude gets on an elevator and there’s an old lady with Chanel and she grabs her purse
[07:40.965]I’ll give you a cliché example
[07:43.083]What would happen if they actually talk to each other?
[07:47.353]What would she learn? What would he learn?
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[07:51.874]When the rich man hopping out the Lincoln Town Car, passes by the homeless person
[07:57.459]And they actually talk to each other
[07:59.040]What would he learn? What would he learn?
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[08:04.627]If a black man, that came from Chicago and was taught to stand so far away from gay people, ‘cause you do not want to be accused of being gay
[08:20.561]Was to talk to a gay person
[08:28.293]What would he learn? What did I learn?
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[08:31.219]I learned that people in Chicago was wrong
[08:36.522]And I’ve been an asshole all along
[08:42.123]A lot of things that you learn are wrong
[08:46.642]So don’t be an asshole too long, too long, too long
[08:59.718]You can’t be an asshole too long
[09:02.370]You can’t be an asshole too long
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[09:08.471]‘Cause the more you know, the more you grow, the more responsibility you have show what you know
[09:10.604]And give everything that you got to give, baby that’s the reason God let me live through the accident without practicing
[09:19.901]Okay, got to bring this up and bring it back again
[09:21.747]Okay, okay, okay, okay
[09:24.681]Alright [7x]
[09:27.867]No publishing Outkast, please
[09:29.979]Alright [5x]
[09:33.966]Shout out to three G’s
[09:39.296]One of the few dressed quite as fresh as me