Meet The Parents-Jay-Z

[ti:Meet The Parents] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:The Blueprint 2.1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Meet The Parents - Jay-Z [00:01.07]Written by：Shawn Carter/Justin Smith [00:02.14]Woo Uhh uhh [00:04.30] [00:05.18]It's "The Gift & the Curse" [00:06.31] [00:08.51]Uhh uhh yea [00:11.42]First they love me then they hate me [00:12.86]Then they love me again [00:13.95] [00:15.44] they love me again [00:16.45] [00:17.08]Let's take a trip down I gotcha [00:21.81] [00:22.83]Let's take a trip down memory [00:24.05] [00:24.88]Lane at the cemetery [00:26.01]Rain grey skies seems at the end of every [00:29.21]Young black life is this line "Damn - him already [00:32.19]Such a good kid " got us pouring Henn' already [00:34.98]Liquor to the curb for my niggas up above [00:37.30]When it cracks through the pavement [00:38.92]That's my way of sendin love [00:39.92]So give Big a hug tell Aa-liyah I said hi [00:43.25]'Til the next time I see her on the other side [00:45.44] [00:45.99]He was just some thug that caught some slugs [00:48.33] [00:48.91]And we loved him cause in him we saw some of us [00:51.87]He walked like us talked like us [00:54.00] [00:54.63]His back against the wall [00:55.85]Ni**a fought like us - damn [00:57.46] [00:58.16]Poor Isis that's his momma name [00:59.88]Momma ain't strong enough to raise [01:01.61]No boy what's his father name [01:03.59]Shorty never knew him [01:04.83]Though he had his blood in him [01:06.26]Hot temper momma said he act [01:08.05]Just like her husband [01:09.16]Daddy never f**ked with him [01:10.68]So the streets raised him [01:12.01]Isis blaming herself [01:12.83]She wish she could've saved him [01:14.28] [01:14.79]Damn near impossible only men can raise men [01:17.54]He was his own man [01:18.57]Not even him can save him [01:20.26]He put his faith in a [01:21.47]Thirty-eight in his waist [01:22.85]But when you live by [01:24.10]The gun you die by the same fate [01:25.80]End up dead before thirty-eight and umm [01:28.81]That's the life of us raised [01:30.30]By winter it's a cold world [01:32.33]Old girl turned to coke [01:33.52]Tried to smoke her pain away [01:35.05]Isis life just ended on that rainy day [01:37.92]When she got the news her boy [01:39.35]Body could be viewed [01:40.32]Down at the City Morgue [01:41.58]Opened the drawer saw him nude [01:43.26]Her addiction grew prescription drugs shift and brew [01:47.10]Angel dust dipped in WOO [01:49.24]She slipped into her own fantasy world [01:51.71] [01:52.28]Had herself pregnant by a different dude [01:54.75]But reality bites and this is her life [01:57.79]He wasn't really her husband [01:59.44]Though he called her wife [02:00.67]It was just this night when moon was full [02:03.61]And the stars were just right [02:05.11]And the dress was real tight [02:06.32]Had her sounding like Lisa Lisa [02:08.17]I wonder if I take you home [02:09.51]Will you still love me after this night [02:11.54] [02:12.51]Mike was the hardhead from the around the way [02:14.83]That she wanted all her life [02:16.49]Sh*t she wanted all the hype [02:18.10]Used to hold on tight [02:19.38]When he wheelied on the bike [02:20.63]He was a Willie all her life [02:22.00]He wasn't really the one to like [02:23.44]It was a dude named Shy who [02:25.22]Would really treat her right [02:26.40]He wanted to run to the country [02:27.75]To escape the city life [02:28.98] [02:29.52]But I-sis like this Broadway life [02:31.57]She loved the Gucci sneakers [02:33.49]The red green and whites [02:35.04]Hangin out the window when [02:36.46]She first seen him fight [02:37.96]She was so turned on that [02:39.40]She had to shower twice [02:40.45] [02:40.98]How ironic it would be some fight that [02:43.79]Turned into a homicide [02:45.16]That'll alter their life [02:46.57]See Mike at thirty-two was [02:47.79]Still on the scene [02:49.43]Had a son fifteen that he never saw twice [02:51.67] [02:52.25]Sure he saw him as an infant [02:53.87]But he dissed on him like [02:55.33]"If that was my son he would look much different [02:58.06]See I'm light-skinned and that baby there's dark [03:00.77]So it's momma's baby; poppa's maybe [03:03.08] [03:03.68]Mike was still crazy out there running [03:05.59]The streets (f**k niggas want ) [03:06.68]Had his old reliable [03:07.68]With thirty-eight gun in his reach [03:09.35]It's been fourteen years [03:10.68]Him and Isis ain't speak [03:12.16]He running around like life's a peach 'til one day [03:15.18]He approached this thug that had a mean mug [03:17.60] [03:18.22]And it looked so familiar [03:19.67]That he called him "Young Cuz" [03:20.69]Told him get off the strip [03:22.30]But the boy ain't budge (f**k you) [03:23.94]Instead he pulled out a newer thirty-eight snub [03:26.62]He clearly had the drop [03:28.13]But the boy just paused (hold up) [03:29.38]There was somethin in this man's [03:30.95]Face he knew he seen before [03:32.30]It's like lookin in the mirror [03:33.74]Seeing hisself more mature [03:34.87] [03:35.41]And he took it as a sign from the almighty Lord [03:38.23]You know what they say about he [03:39.93]Who hesitates in war [03:41.21](What's that ) He who hesitates is lost [03:43.63]He can't explain what he saw before [03:45.51]His picture went blank [03:46.48]The old man didn't think he [03:47.94]Just followed his instinct [03:49.35] [03:49.91]Six shots into his kid out of the gun [03:52.58]Niggas be a father you're Killing your son [03:55.40]Six shots into his kid out of the gun [03:58.52]Niggas be a father you Killing your sons