The Prelude Lyrics - Kingdom Come - Jay-z

You know, you've got this fantasy in yo' head about 

Gettin' outta the life and settin the corporate world on its ear 

What the fuck you gonna do except hustle? 

Besides pimpin', you really ain't got the stomach for that 

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The game's fucked up 

Nigga's beats is bangin', nigga your hooks did it 

Your lyrics didn't, your gangsta look did it 

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

Bein intricate'll get you wood, critic 

On the internet, they like you should spit it 

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

Forget this rap shit 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 crack 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 gettin' head jobs, we call that intimate 

Back when rappers wouldn't dare play lyrical roulette 

With a automatic weapon I was rappin' 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 & 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 shit, all this shit 

That's why they call him Hov', cause he came before all this shit 

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 bullshit game but I never quit 

I used to think rappin' at 38 was ill 

But last year alone I grossed 38 mill' 

I know I ain't quite 38 but still 

The flow so Special got a 38 feel 

The real is back, hehehehe 

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