JAY-Z - Grammy Family" Freestyle lyrics

I been crushing the building since Izod socks
I'm so independent, shi might buy Koch
I might not stop
Places to cop, seventy-six floors
You can call me the Doc say when, say when
(When)

Inspired by Basquiat, my chariot's on fire
Everybody took shots, hit my body up
I'm tired build me up
Break me down to build me up again
They like: "Hov, we need you back so we
Can kill your ass again"
"Hov got flow though he's no Big and Pac
But he's close" how I'm 'posed to win? they
Got me fightin' ghosts
Same sword they knight you they
Gon' good night you with
Sh, Thats' only half if they like you
That ain't even the half what they might do
Don't believe me, ask Michael


See Martin, see Malcolm
You see Biggie, see Pac
See success and it's outcome
See Jesus, see Judas see Caesar, see Brutus
See success is like suicide
Suicide, it's a suicide
If you succeed, prepare to be crucified
Media meddles, niggas sue you, you settle
Every step you take
They remind you you ghetto
So it's tough bein' Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you gotta be Bobby now
Now the question is, is to have had and lost


Everybody wanna be the King then shots ring
You layin' on your balcony with
Holes in your dream or you Malcolm X-d out
Get distracted by screams
Everybody get your hand off my jeans
Everybody look at you strange
Say you changed
Uhh! Like you work that hard to stay the same
Uhh! Game stays the same, the name changes
So it's best for those to
Not overdose on being famous
Most kings get driven so insane
That they try to hit the same
Vein that Kurt Cobain did
No dangers, so shameless
Invited to the inner sanctum of your chambers
Low chain 'em as the enemies approach
So raise your draw bridge and
Drown them in the moat
And the Spirit I'm evoking hold on

Everybody screaming they want the old Hov
But the new improved Hov
Hit like Albert Pujols
Everybody wanna hear me talk that
Money like Phil Rizzuto
But my mind is on Pluto
Bills that I do fold, I now invest on
Trying to find some loopholes in the IRS
As where I used to have a few hoes, I am just
Concentrating on making a new Hov through sex
I've awakened just in time
To school those putos trying to follow in my
Shoes with jewels froze
Better adhere to this text 'fore you go
Broke, spending more than you've
Accrued on silly baguettes
I know silly begets silly you'll
Learn on your own
At least my conscience is clear
I'm no longer steering you wrong
Ain't nothing wrong with baguettes after
You get a home take care of your home
You can go back and ugh!

I'm getting courted by the bosses
The Edgars And Doug Morris-es-es
Jimmy I's and Lyors-es - it's
Gotta be more than the choruses
They respecting my mind now
Just a matter of time now
Operation: Takeover Corporate
Makeover offices-es-es then takeover
All of it please may these words be recorded
To serve as testimony that I
Saw it all before it
Came to fruition, sort of a premonition
Uncontrollable hustler's ambition
Alias Superstition, like Stevie
The writing's on the wall like my lady
Right baby? Saw it all before, some of
Y'all thought I was crazy, maybe
Like a fox, I'm cagey, ah ah
The more successful, the more stressful
The more and more I transform to Gordon Gekko
In the race to a billion got
My face to the ceiling
Got my knees on the floor
Please Lord forgive him
Has he lost his religion
Is the greed gon' get him?
He's having heaven on earth
Will his wings still fit him?
I got the Forbes on my living room floor
And I'm still talking to the poor
Nigga I want more
TIME's most influential, was impressive
'Specially since I wasn't in
The artist section
Had me with the builders and the titans
Had me right with Rupert Murdoch
Billionaire boys and some dudes
You never heard of
Word up on Madison Ave is I'm a cash cow
Word down on Wall Street, homie
You get the cash out
IPO Hov, no need for reverse merger
The boy money talk no
Need to converse further
The baby blue Maybach like I own Gerber
Boardroom I'm lifting ya skirt up