[ti:If I Should Die] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If I Should Die (Album Version|Edited) - Jay-Z/Da Ranjahz [00:02.98]Come on life [00:04.95]Death [00:07.50]Here [00:08.19]Gone [00:10.12]Yo [00:10.69]If I should die don't cry my niggas [00:12.75]Just ride my niggas [00:14.01]Bust bullets in the sky my niggas [00:15.87]And when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas [00:17.94]Get on my niggas when it's real [00:19.57]Say word to Shawn my niggas [00:20.70]If I should die [00:23.32]Don't cry my niggas it's been one hell of a ride my niggas [00:26.42]In the middle of the trial I flip pies my niggas [00:28.94]I did joints with Mary J Blige my niggas [00:31.62]I've eluded the coppers got booted with Big Poppa [00:34.51]Skated through with the Ceasar Picadas [00:36.69]At high school got head by the lockers [00:38.50]Gassed the baddest girl in the class to show me her knockers [00:41.47]Rocked jewels dropped school still didn't fail [00:44.03]Rhymes still written well hold court in the street [00:46.41]Never sit in the cell for a second then I'm gettin' my bail [00:49.28]Shoot it out with the bounty hunters f**k [00:51.05]Sittin' in the county for summers if they should down me [00:53.43]Everybody around us become one for that day [00:56.18]To live life get your sh*t right & play [00:58.11]Don't get it twisted like rays if I miss that's ok [01:00.54]But life's short don't miss a day uhh [01:03.34]If I should die don't cry my niggas [01:05.30]Just ride my niggas [01:06.55]Bust bullets in the sky my niggas [01:08.48]And when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas [01:10.70]Get on my niggas when it's real [01:12.31]Say word to Shawn my niggas [01:13.43]If I should die [01:14.25] Don't cry my niggas [01:15.67]It's been one hell of a ride my niggas [01:17.60]Say word to Wais my niggas [01:19.24]When I'm gone don't mourn my niggas [01:20.93]Just keep gettin' it on my niggas [01:22.86]Say word is bond my niggas [01:24.17]I got a lot to look back on in '88 [01:26.06]Got my crack on ten years later gettin' my rap on [01:29.13]Gettin' shorties like a thespian [01:31.28]Had an episode with two lesbians got a fetish for that [01:35.05]Drunk ginseng with Japanese chicks & pulled the root out [01:37.70]Squeeze my whole clip to survive shootouts [01:40.13]Been on both coasts fired all kinds of heat [01:42.64]Probably be kinda glad to leave these mean streets [01:45.26]I got dead mens to meet and questions to fulfill [01:47.91]Like is that mystery God real [01:49.42]And how was Kennedy killed I ain't mad [01:51.84]I must've smoked a ton of ** sipped Coronas [01:53.79]With Latifah broke the code of Geneva [01:56.23]I know when I reach the other side I'ma see the [01:58.47]Cat I had beef with who blood remains on my sneaker [02:01.29]Then it's on again if I could be born again [02:03.84]I live my life through my son [02:05.22]And tell him never have a friend [02:06.77]Just family reincarnated I'll show him the time [02:09.21]That I waited to get paid tell him never be afraid [02:11.89]Niggas hearts pump Kool Aid and yo blood run thicker [02:14.45]Never shed tears cry liquor my ni**a [02:17.40]If I die don't cry my niggas [02:18.91]It's been one hell of a ride my niggas [02:20.84]Say word to Wais my niggas [02:22.30]When I'm gone don't mourn my niggas [02:24.04]Just keep bangin' these songs my niggas [02:26.11]Say word is bond my niggas [02:27.23]If I die [02:28.41] Don't cry my niggas [02:29.46]Just stay gettin' high my niggas [02:31.40]Don't wonder why my niggas [02:32.99]When I'm gone live on my niggas [02:34.63]Just follow my path my niggas [02:36.64]Say word to Half my ni**a [02:37.83]I'm the aftermath of pleasure never die alone [02:39.71]Born to live forever through life's struggles [02:41.84]I cut corners & took drastic measures [02:43.48]See you niggas life expire right in front of me [02:45.91]Time could never mend what these cold streets [02:47.71]Mentally done to me too often I close my eyes [02:50.34]And see my own coffin feelin' haunted ready to leave [02:52.72]This world that I'm lost in my only chance [02:54.65]To see the seeds I lost through abortion [02:56.67]When I'm gone y'all niggas better not mourn [02:58.54]Keep flossin' as long as my name [03:00.35]Lives on what's most important [03:01.66]I'll be down in hell scorchin' preparin' for life [03:04.29]Afterlife still torchin' & blazin' these mics [03:06.84]It'd rain for 40 days & 40 nights [03:09.00]& I'd return on the 3rd like Christ [03:11.18]Without my physical portion [03:12.30]My spirit a poltergeist for sure [03:14.26]I'll be back through the heist tomorrow [03:16.07]Blood over y'all fake niggas door [03:17.71]What you thought (huh) [03:18.65]What you thought (ni**a) [03:20.21]If I should die don't cry my niggas [03:22.03]Just stay gettin' high my niggas [03:24.05]Don't wonder why my niggas [03:25.42]When I'm gone live on my niggas [03:27.36]Just follow my path my niggas [03:29.31]Say word to Half my ni**a [03:30.44]When I die [03:31.37]Don't cry my niggas [03:32.61]It's been one hell of a ride my niggas [03:34.55]Say word to Wais my niggas [03:36.14]When I'm gone don't mourn my niggas [03:37.94]Just keep bangin' these songs my niggas [03:39.75]Say word is bond my niggas [03:41.16]If I die don't cry my niggas [03:43.16]Just ride my niggas [03:44.53]Bust bullets in the sky my niggas [03:46.42]And when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas [03:48.42]Get on my niggas when it's real [03:50.36]Say word to Shawn my niggas [03:51.55]If I should die [03:52.61]I'd tell big they're still hearin' his songs [03:54.49]Run into pac ask him where we went wrong [03:56.37]Tell him life is miserable when ya dealin' in the physical form [03:59.54]Is everything that's invisible gone [04:01.81]I need to know will i still feel pain or will it be ironic [04:05.24]Will i chill in the flames for all the ills of my brain [04:07.75]Can i reveal the game to all the hustlers [04:10.06]Trapped in the race and if so can i leave this place [04:12.93]Can i puff cigars & drink cristal [04:15.63]If this is heaven to me is this considered heavenly [04:18.44]Can i still touch lives answer they what's & whys [04:20.94]Make sure everybody in my fam' clutch five [04:23.32]If i should die [04:25.58] Don't cry my niggas