| Blueprint
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| Yeah yeah,
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| Are we talking about real sh-t or we talking about rhymes,
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| ya talking about millions or you just talking about mine,
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| what we talking about,
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| cos I aint got time for what people be talking about all the time,
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| what we talking about fiction or we talking about fact,
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| we talking about fiction,
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| hold up, pardon my back
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| I’m talking about life and all i hear is «oh yeah he keeps talking about crack»,
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| i aint talking about profit, i’m talking about pain,
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| i’m talking about despair, i m talking about shame,
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| i aint talking about gossip, i aint talking bout Game,
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| i ain’t talking about Jimmy, I aint talking bout DAME!
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| I’m talking about real sh-t, real people playin,
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| what is you talking bout, i dunno what ya’ll sayin,
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| people keep talking about «Hov take it back»!
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| I’m doing better than before why would I do that?
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| ain’t nothing cool about carrying a strap, about worrying ya moms,
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| and burying ya best cat, talking about revenge while you carrying his casket,
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| all teary eyed bout to take it to a mattress.
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| I’m talking about music i aint talking about rap,
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| I’m talking about whats hot I aint talking about that!
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| the conversation has changed lets yap about that,
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| i don’t run rap no more I run the map,
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| They talk all day,
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| we see what they say, they say they say
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| (we see what they talking about)
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| they talk, Jay,
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| who cares what they say,
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| they say, they say.
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| Still they can’t focus on them
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| they be talking bout me,
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| talkin bout what I wear,
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| talkin bout where I be,
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| check out my henny’s,.
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| Weezy’s hair still get paid,
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| i’m combing through G’s,
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| a small part of the reason the president is black,
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| i told him i got him when he hit me on the jack.
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| i’m talking about progress i ain’t looking back,
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| you know i run track, try not to get lapped,
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| people talking about Hov left em flat,
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| trying to rewrite history lets talk about that,
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| Dame made millions, even Jaz made some scraps,
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| he could have made more but he ain’t sign his contract.
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| As far as street guys i mean we was dealing crack,
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| thats how the game goes, i don’t owe nobody jack!
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| grown men want me to sit em on my lap but i don’t have a beard and Santa Claus
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| aint black,
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| i repeat, you can’t sit on my lap, i dont have a beard now get off my sack.
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| Scream at me
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| Now that’s that, lets talk about the future,
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| we have just seen the dream as predicted by Martin Luther,
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| and you can choose ta, sit in front of ya computer,
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| posing with guns shooting Youtube up,
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| or you can come with me to the Whitehouse,
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| get ya suit up, you stuck on being hardcore I chuck the Deuce up,
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| Peace out Medusa,
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| welcome to da Blue ah Print ah tradepiece, Jay-Z
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| you chewed up, tooter of my own horn, beep beep,
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| Mooya, rassclat maneuver come through with da roof off,
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| so I can see the sky, cos everybody talking Hov,
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| I think we know why, |