(feat. Memphis Bleek)
[Jay-Z]
Yeah...

Come experience... life as we know it
As some of you should know it, yeah, yeah
Place, Marcy, Brooklyn

Actions... well, y'all know the actions

Uhh, I got this shorty on my block always clockin my rocks

He likes the style and profile I think he wanna mock
He likes the way I walk, he sees my money talkin
to honies hawkin I'm the hottest ^!$$% in New York and

I see his hunger pains, I know his blood boils
He wanna, run with me, I know this kid'll be loyal
I watched him make a few ends, to cop his little sneakers and gear

then it's just enough for re-up again
I see myself in his eyes, I moved from Levi's
to Guess to Versace, now it's diamonds like Liberace

That's just the natural cycle, nobody wanna be like Michael
where I'm from, just them ^!$$%z who banned from a gun
We out here trying to make hard white into cohhhhld green

I can help shorty blow out like Afro-Sheen
Plus I can relive my days of youth which is gone
That little ^!$$%'s peeps, it's time to put him on


[Chorus: Jay-Z and Memphis Bleek]


It's time to come up (and hold my own weight, defend my crown)
Gots to lock it down and when they rush (stand my ground)
It's time to come up (stick up my chest, and make some loot)

Gots to lock it down and when they rush (stand on my own two)

[Memphis Bleek]

I'm out here slingin bringin the drama, tryin to come up
in the game and add a couple of dollar signs to my name
I'm out here servin disturbin the peace, life could be better

like my man reclined in plush leather seats
He's sellin weight, I'm sellin eight... balls
sixteen tryin to graduate to pushin quarters y'all

I ain't gon' sweat him I'ma let him come to me
If he give me the nod then these ^!$$%z gon' see
I'm tired of bein out here round the clock

and breakin day, and chasin crackers up the block for my pay
I'm stayin fresh, so chickens check
I'm tryin to step up to the next level, pushin Vettes to the Jets

Diamonds reflect from the sun, directly in your equilibirum
and stunned I'm waitin for my day to come
I got the urge, to splurge, I don't wanna lifetime sentence

just give me the word

[Chorus]


[JZ] Hey fella I been watchin you clockin
[MB] Who me holdin down this block it ain't nothin

You the man ^!$$% now stop frontin
[JZ] Hahahh I like your style
[MB] Nah, I like YO' style

[JZ] Let's drive around awhile
[MB] Cool ^!$$%
[JZ] Here's a thou'

[MB] A G? I ride witchu for free
I want the longterm riches and (*##$es
[JZ] Have it all; now listen to me

You let them other ^!$$%z get the name, skip the fame
Ten thou' or a hundred G keep yo' %#@! the same
[MB] On the low?

[JZ] Yeah, the only way to blow
You let your %#@! bubble quietly
[MB] AND THEN YOU BLOW!

[JZ] Hey keep your cool
The only way to peep a fool is let him show his hand
Then you play your cards

[MB] Then he through dealin I understand
[JZ] Don't blow your dough on hotties
[MB] The only thing I got in this world is my word and my nuts

and won't break em for nobody!
[JZ] Hah, I like resume, pick a day, you can start
[MB] From now until death do us part...

[Chorus 2X]