Moment Of Clarity-JAŸ-Z

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[ar:Jay-Z]
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[00:00.00]Moment Of Clarity - Jay-Z
[00:12.69]Turn the music up turn the lights down
[00:13.91]I'm in my zone
[00:16.74]Thank God for grantin me
[00:17.88]This moment of clarity
[00:19.46]This moment of honesty
[00:20.97]The world'll feel my truths
[00:22.73]Through my Hard Knock Life time
[00:23.87]My Gift and The Curse
[00:24.88]I gave you volume after volume of my work
[00:27.28]So you can feel my truths
[00:28.53]I built the Dynasty by being one
[00:30.19]Of the realest niggas out
[00:32.04]Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt
[00:33.73]From my Blueprint beginnings To
[00:35.03]That Black Album endin
[00:36.78]Listen close you hear what I'm about
[00:39.18]Ni**a feel my truths Pop died Didn't cry
[00:41.49]Didn't know him that well
[00:42.77]Between him doin **
[00:43.91]And me doin crack sales
[00:46.08]With that in the egg shell Standin
[00:47.77]At the tabernacle
[00:49.16]Rather the church Pratendin to be hurt
[00:51.29]Wouldn't work So a smirk was all
[00:53.44]On my face
[00:54.25]Like damn that mans face was
[00:55.95]Just like my face
[00:57.24]So pop I forgive you For all the sh*t
[00:59.52]That I live through
[01:00.29]It wasn't all your fault Homie
[01:01.97]You got caught
[01:03.11]And to the same game I fault
[01:05.07]That Uncle Ray lost
[01:06.32]My big brothers and so many others I saw
[01:09.12]I'm just glad we got to see each other
[01:10.96]Talk and re-meet each other Save a place
[01:12.71]In Heaven Til the next time
[01:13.95]We meet forever
[01:15.59]Thank God for grantin me
[01:16.66]This moment of clarity
[01:17.81]This moment of honesty
[01:19.80]The world'll feel my truths
[01:21.07]Through my Hard Knock Life time
[01:22.35]My Gift and The Curse
[01:23.59]I gave you volume
[01:24.25]After volume of my work
[01:25.69]So you can feel my truths
[01:27.03]I built the Dynasty
[01:28.09]By being one of the realest niggas out
[01:30.37]Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt
[01:32.37]From my Blueprint beginnings To
[01:33.97]That Black Album endin
[01:35.12]Listen close you hear
[01:36.53]What I'm about Ni**a feel my truths
[01:39.05]The music business hate me
[01:39.89]Cause the industry ain't make me
[01:41.29]Hustlers and boosters embrace me
[01:42.57]And the music I be makin
[01:44.25]I dumb down for my audience
[01:46.08]And double my dollars
[01:47.08]They criticize me
[01:48.30]For it Yet they all yell"Holla"
[01:50.03]If skills sold Truth be told
[01:52.25]I'd probably be
[01:53.69]Lyricly Talib Kweli
[01:55.91]Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
[01:59.16]I ain't been rhymin
[02:00.01]Like Common since
[02:01.83]When your sense got that much in common
[02:04.00]And you been hustlin since
[02:05.38]Your inception F**k perception Go with
[02:07.28]What makes sense
[02:07.94]Since I know what I'm up against
[02:10.57]We as rappers must decide
[02:12.21]What's most impor-tant
[02:13.82]And I can't help the poor
[02:14.91]If I'm one of them
[02:16.06]So I got rich and gave back To me
[02:17.79]That's the win win
[02:19.04]The next time you see the homie
[02:20.43]And his rims spin Just know my mind is workin
[02:23.25]Just like them
[02:24.83]The rims that is
[02:25.94]Thank God for grantin me this moment of clarity
[02:28.29]This moment of honesty
[02:29.74]The world'll feel my truths
[02:31.23]Through my Hard Knock Life time
[02:32.84]My Gift and The Curse
[02:33.69]I gave you volume after volume of my work
[02:36.21]So you can feel my truths
[02:37.25]I built the Dynasty by being one of
[02:38.74]The realest niggas out
[02:40.65]Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt
[02:42.48]From my Blueprint beginnings
[02:44.25]To that Black Album endin
[02:45.39]Listen close you hear
[02:46.43]What I'm about Ni**a feel my truths
[02:48.89]My homie Sigel's on a tier
[02:50.02]Where no tears should fall
[02:51.54]Cause he was on the block
[02:52.81]Where no squares get off
[02:54.43]See in my inner circle
[02:55.72]All we do is ball
[02:57.48]Til we all got triangles on our wall
[03:00.27]He ain't just rappin
[03:00.82]For the platinum Yall record
[03:03.22]I recall Cause I really been there before
[03:06.25]Four scores and seven years ago Prepared
[03:08.54]To flow Prepare for war
[03:09.77]I shall fear no man
[03:10.60]You don't hear me though
[03:12.52]These words ain't just paired to go
[03:14.67]In one ear out the other ear
[03:16.69]NO YO My balls and my word is alls I have
[03:20.69]What you gonna do to me
[03:22.41]Ni**a scars'll scab
[03:23.73]What you gonna box me homie
[03:25.30]I can dodge and jab
[03:26.59]Three shots couldn't touch me
[03:28.18]Thank God for that
[03:29.59]I'm strong enough to carry Biggie Smalls
[03:31.39]On my back
[03:32.52]And the whole BK ni**a holla back
[03:35.51]Thank God for grantin me
[03:36.87]This moment of clarity
[03:38.40]This moment of honesty
[03:40.26]The world'll feel my truths
[03:41.72]Through my Hard Knock Life time
[03:42.67]My Gift and The Curse
[03:43.60]I gave you volume after volume of my work
[03:46.40]So you can feel my truths
[03:47.89]I built the Dynasty
[03:48.68]By being one of the realest niggas out
[03:50.83]Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt
[03:53.04]From my Blueprint beginnings To
[03:54.61]That Black Album endin
[03:55.69]Listen close you hear
[03:56.88]What I'm about
[03:58.06]Ni**a feel my truths