[ti:Marcy Me] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:4:44] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Marcy Me (Explicit) - Jay-Z [00:03.28]Written by:Shawn Carter/Dion Wilson/José Cid/TóZé Brito/Terius Nash [00:06.56]Live from Bedford Stuyvesant the livest one representing BK to the fullest [00:11.39] [00:12.72]Bastards ducking when Hov be buckin' chicken heads be cluckin' [00:16.18] [00:16.89]Back when ratchet was a ratchet and the vixen was a vixen [00:19.96]And Jam Master Jay was alive I was mixing [00:22.81]Cooking coke in the kitchen back when Rodman was a Piston [00:25.40]Mike was losing to Isiah but he soon would get his sixth one [00:28.56]Gave birth to my verbal imagination assume a virtue if you have not [00:32.35]Or better yet here's a verse from Hamlet [00:34.48]Lord we know who we are [00:35.69]Yeah we know not what we may be [00:37.19]So maybe I'm the one or maybe I'm crazy [00:39.91]I'm from Marcy houses where the boys die by the thousand [00:42.75]Back when Pam was on Martin yeah that's where it all started [00:45.47]When Denzel was blottin' carpet [00:46.85]I'll pack a nine millimeter when Slick Rick made Mona Lisa [00:51.18]When Lisa Bonet was Beyoncé of her day I had divas ya'll [00:54.82]Think I just popped up in this b**ch like a fetus [00:57.05]Nah [00:57.33] [00:57.86]Pregnant pause give you some second thoughts [01:00.74]There's room on the bandwagon don't abort [01:02.28] [01:02.84]Marcy me [01:03.39] [01:09.31]Marcy me [01:09.79] [01:10.41]Streets is my artery the vein of my existence [01:13.07]I'm the Gotham City heartbeat [01:14.06] [01:14.87]I started in lobbies now probably with Saudis [01:17.27]Sufi to the goofies I could probably speak Farsi [01:19.70]That's poetry read a coca leaf from my past [01:22.92]Came through the bushes smelling like roses [01:24.02]I need a trophy just for that [01:25.70]Old Brooklyn not this new sh*t shift feel like a spoof [01:28.51]Fat laces in your shoe I'm talking busting off the roof [01:30.89] [01:31.46]Hold a uzi vertical let the thing smoke [01:34.20]Y'all flirting with death I be winking through the scope [01:36.74] [01:37.70]Shout out to all the murderers turned murals plural f**k the Federal Bureau [01:42.59] [01:43.43]Shout out to Nostrand Ave [01:44.81]Flushing Ave Myrtle [01:45.82]All the County of Kings may your ground stay fertile [01:48.17] [01:48.87]Shout out to Big Poppa Daddy Kane heroes [01:51.52]Thus concluding my concerto Marcy me [01:54.79] [01:55.91]Must be in the air oh can't walk away I know I know [02:02.28]Just the way I was raised I know I know I know [02:05.60]Oh Marcy Marcy me just the way I am always gonna be [02:14.70] [02:15.65]I ain't gonna change no [02:17.48] [02:19.19]Marcy Marcy me just the way I am