[ti:Justify My Thug] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:The Black Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Justify My Thug - Jay-Z [00:00.64]Lyrics by:Shawn Carter/David Blake/Darryl McDaniels/Joseph Simmons/Lawrence Smith/Madonna Ciccone/Ingrid Chavez/Lenny Kravitz [00:01.28]Composed by:Shawn Carter/David Blake/Darryl McDaniels/Joseph Simmons/Lawrence Smith/Madonna Ciccone/Ingrid Chavez/Lenny Kravitz [00:01.92]Produced by:DJ Quik [00:02.56]Uhh this feel right right here quik [00:04.94] [00:07.74]It's like it's 'sposed to happen this one right here [00:09.62] [00:11.86]Young god damn [00:13.98] [00:19.26]Let me justify my thug on this one right here [00:21.10] [00:22.22]It goes one o'clock two o'clock three o'clock rock [00:25.72]Five six seven o'clock eight o'clock rock [00:28.34]Eleven o'clock twelve o'clock the party bout to pop [00:30.66]Then roc-a-fella y'all [00:32.20]It's your boy s dot [00:33.46]And i ain't never been to jaili ain't never pay a nigga [00:36.00]To do no dirt for me i was scared to do myself [00:39.14]I will never tell even if it means sitting in a cell [00:42.48]I ain't never ran never will [00:44.33]I ain't never been smackeda nigga better keep his hands [00:46.61]To himself or get clapped for what's under that man's belt [00:49.68]I never asked for nothing i don't demand of myself [00:52.59]Honesty loyalty friends and then wealth [00:55.03]Death before dishonor and i tell you what else [00:57.66]I tighten my belt 'fore i beg for help [01:00.24]Foolish pride is what held me together through the years [01:02.68]I wasn't felt which is why i ain't never played myself [01:05.59]I just play the hand I'm dealt [01:07.00]I can't say I've never knelt [01:08.20]Before god and asked for better cards at times to no avail [01:11.08]But i never sat back feeling sorry for myself [01:13.48]If you don't give me heaven I'll raise hell [01:15.63]'Til it's heaven [01:16.28]My thug [01:17.45]For you [01:18.84]My thug hoping [01:20.29] [01:21.35]My thug praying for you [01:25.99]To justify my thug [01:28.16] [01:29.27]My thug hoping [01:30.90] [01:32.10]My thug praying for you [01:35.71]For you fresh [01:37.70]Now if you shoot my dog I'm a kill yo' cat [01:40.63]Just the unwritten laws in rap know dat [01:43.18]For every action there's a reaction [01:44.87]Don't have me relapsing [01:46.25]Relaxin's what I'm about but about mine [01:48.96]Don't be acting like you can't see street action [01:51.60]Take me back to reasonable doubt time [01:53.65]You see my mind's on the finish line [01:55.48]Facing the wreck [01:56.51]I put my muh'******* faith in the tec [01:58.52]Tell satan not yet [01:59.83]You understand i am chasing my breath [02:01.92]I am narrowly escaping my death oh yes [02:04.57]I am the michael schumacher of the roc roster [02:06.95]Travelling mach 5 barreling [02:08.81]My power can stop god [02:10.51]God forgive me but i can't let them deliver me to you [02:13.58]Until i won this race then eventually [02:15.54]My engine gon' burn out [02:16.71]I get whatever is meant for me [02:18.37]However it turns out fine red line [02:20.02]Justify my thug [02:22.31]For you [02:23.15]My thug hoping [02:25.63]My thug praying for you [02:29.66] [02:30.35]To justify my thug [02:32.66] [02:33.60]My thug hoping [02:35.44] [02:36.37]My thug praying for you [02:38.25] [02:39.28]For you fresh [02:42.18]They say an eye for an eye we both lose our sight [02:44.87]And two wrongs don't make a right [02:46.75]But when you been wrong and you know all along [02:48.93]That it's just one life [02:50.45]At what point does one fight [02:52.29]Good question right [02:53.20]'Fore you knock the war [02:54.52]Try to put your dogs in it [02:56.21]Ten-and-a-halfs for a minute-and-a-half [02:58.70]Bet that stops all the grinning and the laughs [03:01.07]When you play the game of life and the win ain't in the bag [03:03.78]When your options is none and the pen is all you have [03:06.22]Or the block niggaz standing tight [03:07.84]There's limits on the ave [03:09.11]Tryin to cop or shot-call they self cleansing in the cash [03:11.50]But can't put they name on paper cause [03:13.25]Then you on blast [03:14.88]Mr president there's ***** in our residence [03:17.28]Tell me what you want me to do [03:18.90]Come break bread with us [03:20.25]Mr governor [03:21.29]I swear there's a cover up [03:22.76]Every other corner there's a liquor store **** is up [03:25.10]Justify my thug [03:26.48]For you [03:27.51]My thug hoping [03:29.39] [03:29.97]My thug praying for you [03:33.05]For you [03:34.70]To justify my thug [03:37.24]For you [03:38.19]My thug hoping [03:39.97] [03:40.76]My thug praying for you [03:43.79]For you fresh