เพลง The Prelude (Album Version|Edited)

The Prelude (前奏) - Jay-Z

You know you've got this

Fantasy in your head about

Getting outta the life and

Settin' the corporate world on it's ear

What the f**k you gonna do except hustle

Besides pimpin'

You really ain't got the stomach for that

The game's f**ked up

Beats is bangin' your hooks did it

Your lyrics did and your gangster look did it

So I would write it if y'all could get it

Being intricate'll get you wood critic

On the internet they like you should spit it

I'm like you should buy it that's good business

Hehe forget this rap sh*t I need a new hustle

A little bit of everything the new improved russell

I say that reluctantly cause I do struggle

As you see I can't leave so I do love you

But I'm just a hustler disguised as a rapper

In fact you can't fit this hustle inside of a wrapper

Back when was

What these pills are I was a real star

Complete with real cars no video ones

You can come and set up a camera let the video run

And my real life complete with real ice

Vvs boulders oh they're visibly set

Head and shoulders my invisible neck

You see hova wasn't digital yet

Befo' steve jobs made the ipod

Was getting head jobs we call that intimate

Back when rappers wouldn't dare play lyrical roulette

With a automatic weapon I was reppin' with a tec

Fresh like mannie be chain' like anti-freeze

Shoebox full of cash dealer man hand me ki's

Pantries full of Arm and Hammer

Don't take nancy drew to see

What it do I'm a damn G

Just sent a million dollars through a hands free

That's big money talk can you answer me

Before the answer was a 3

I was down in georgetown with a

Hoya chick lawyer chick

Sure he's rich now cause he saw the sh*t all this sh*t

That's why they call him hov'

Cause he came before all this sh*t

Bought a 6 quarter seven skipped on them quarter eights

Bought a 9 for non-stop glock work all the time

Woo guess who's back

Since this is a new era got a fresh new hat

Ten year veteran I've been set

I've been through with

This b******t game but I never quit

I used to think rappin' at 38 was I'll

When last year alone I grossed 38 mill'

I know I ain't quite 38 but still

The flow so special got a feel

The real is back hehehehe