[Jay-Z]
Roc-A-Fella y'all, uhh, uh
Know my style


[Intro: Bruno Mars]
Evil, why you keep knockin on my door?

Lord knows I don't want you no more (no more)
No more (no more)
I keep on tryin to do right, but you know just what I like


[Danny!]
The %#@! is wicked in these mean streets (mean streets)

I used to be a grimy ^!$$%, it was me and Malik (me and Malik)
We used to hustle 24/7, money from our brethern
More paper in a day than y'all would see in a week

Now when Malik got knocked for his third crime
They send him upstate, ^!$$% still servin time
That's when I promised to myself, I'll leave that life alone

and at the same time, I discovered microphones
and beat machines, D. Swain tryna keep it clean
But I remember what it feels like

to want somethin so bad, you'd even steal, right? (right?)
Try to get a deal, but they had the door to the game sealed tight
Temptation is a beast (beast), I tried to be patient

But that patience is deceased, can you blame me?
Now I'm in the game G, and I oughta be laxed
But now the old me's callin me back

and I be tryna tell 'em..

[Chorus: Bruno Mars]

Evil, why you keep knockin on my door?
Lord knows I don't want you no more (no more)
No more (no more)

I keep on tryin to do right, but you know just what I like
Oh tell me, evil..
If you keep on knockin, I'll lose my mind (mind)

Guess I'll let you in, but this the last time (last time)
Last time (last time)
I keep on tryin to do right, but you know just what I like


[Danny!]
Aiyyo..

The music industry is cutthroat except
for the real heads, I give them the upmost respect
For giving D. Swain a shot, I try to live right

But you know a leopard never changes its spots
The reality is (uh), I'ma forever have the
"any means necessary" mentality, kid (yea)

It's the way that I'm is, it's embedded in my mind
Sometimes I think about the life I left behind, or did I?
("Evil") %#@!, I'll never tell

but if I don't cut these corners, man you KNOW I'll never sell
and I ain't even tryin to sell, %#@! I'm just tryin to prevail
But it's hell tryna sustain relevence, I just cain't tell if it's

gonna be worth it to me in the end
Then I think of my friend Malik, he in the pen
They let the wrong ^!$$% in the industry, f'real

Schemin my way to the top, but I be tryin to tell evil to chill

[Chorus]


[Outro: Danny!]
2012, D. Swain and ah

Bruno Mars and ah
We out..
Let's ride