JAY-Z - Meet the Parents lyrics

Woo! Uhh, uhh it's The Gift and the Curse
Uhh, uhh, yeah
First they love me then they hate
Me then they love me again
They love me again (Uhh)
Let's take a trip down i gotcha

Let's take a trip down memory
Lane at the cemetery
Rain, grey skies, seems at the end of every
Young black life is this line, "Damn
Him already? Such a good kid
" got us pourin' Henn' already
Liquor to the curb for my niggas up above
When it cracks through the pavement
That's my way of sendin' love
So give BIG a hug, tell Aaliyah I said, "Hi"
'Til the next time I see her
On the other side
He was just some thug that caught some slugs
And we loved him 'cause, in him


We saw some of us
He walked like us, talked like us
His back against the wall
Nigga fought like us, damn
Poor Isis, that's his mama name
Mama ain't strong enough to raise no boy
What's his father name?
Shorty never knew him
Though he had his blood in him hot temper
Mama said he act just like her husband
Daddy never fucked with him
So the streets raised him
Isis blamin' herself
She wish she could've saved him
Damn near impossible, only men can raise men
He was his own man, not even him can save him
He put his faith in a 38 in his waist
But when you live by the gun
You die by the same fate
End up dead before 38 and umm
That's the life of us raised by winter
It's a cold world ol' girl turned to coke
Tried to smoke her pain away
Isis' life just ended on that rainy day
When she got the news her
Boy body could be viewed
Down at the city morgue, opened the drawer
Saw him nude
Her addiction grew, prescription drugs
Sippin' brew angel dust dipped in woo!
She slipped into her own fantasy world
Had herself pregnant by a different dude
But reality bites and this is her life
He wasn't really her husband
Though he called her wife
It was just this night when moon was full
And the stars were just right
And the dress was real tight
Had her soundin' like Lisa Lisa
I wonder if I take you home
Will you still love me after this night?
Mike was the hard head from around the way
That she wanted all her life, shit
She wanted all the hype
Used to hold on tight when
He wheelied on the bike
He was a Willie all her life
He wasn't really the one to like
It was a dude named Sha who
Would really treat her right
He wanted to run to the country
To escape the city life
But Isis liked this Broadway life
She loved the Gucci sneakers, the red
Green and whites
Hangin' out the window when she
First seen him fight
She was so turned on that
She had to shower twice
How ironic it would be some fight that
Turned into a homicide that'll
Alter their life
See Mike at 32 was still on the scene
Had a son, 15, that he never saw twice
Sure he saw him as an infant
But he disowned him like
"If that was my son
He would look much different
See I'm light-skinned and that
Baby there's dark"
So it's mama's baby, papa's maybe
Mike was still crazy out
There runnin' the streets
(Fuck niggas want?)
Had his old reliable 38 gun in his reach
It's been fourteen years
Him and Isis ain't speak
He runnin' around like life's a peach
'Til one day
He approached this thug that had a mean mug
And it looked so familiar that
He called him "Young Cuz"
Told him get off the strip
But the boy ain't budge (Fuck you)
Instead he pulled out a newer 38 snub
He clearly had the drop but
The boy just paused (Hold up)
There was somethin' in this man's face
He knew he seen before
It's like lookin' in the mirror
Seein' his self more mature
And he took it as a
Sign from the Almighty Lord
You know what they say about
He who hesitates in war
(What's that?) He who hesitates is lost
He can't explain what he saw
Before his picture went blank
The old man didn't think
He just followed his instinct
Six shots into his kin out of the gun
Niggas be a father, you're killin' your son
Six shots into his kin out of the gun
Niggas, be a father, you killin' your sons

Meet the parents
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