[ti:Touch The Sky]
[ar:Kanye West]
[al:Late Registration]
[00:21.80]You motherfuckers better do your job and roll up
[00:23.57]and watch how we roll up and
[00:25.60]I can't control it, can't hold it, it's so nuts
[00:27.83]I take a sip of that yak, I wanna fuck
[00:30.37]I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck
[00:33.18]But really what's amazing is how I keep blazing
[00:36.38]Towel under the door smoke until the days end
[00:39.22]Puff, puff then pass, don't fuck up rotation
[00:41.57]Hpnotic for Henny, now nigga that's your chaser
[00:44.59]Turn nothin to something now pimpin' that's a savior
[00:47.63]Best things are green now pimp and get your paper
[00:50.44]High off the ground instead of skyscraper
[00:53.41]Too low thinkin' we local, come on homie, we major
[00:55.06]We major (come on, homie, we major)
[01:07.40]Feeling better than some head on a sunday afternoon
[01:09.63]Better than a chick that say yes to soon
[01:12.89]Until you have a daughter, that's what I call karma
[01:15.62]And you pray to god she don't grow breasts too soon.
[01:18.13]Projects to' up, gang signs is thrown up
[01:21.36]Niggas hats broke off that's how we grow up
[01:23.96]Why else you think shorty's write rhymes just to blow up?
[01:26.74]Get they first car and then IRS show up
[01:29.97]He ain't never had shit but he had that nine
[01:32.04]Nigga come through flickin' and he had that shine
[01:34.86]Put two and two together in a little bad weather
[01:37.75]Gon' be a whole family on that funeral line
[01:40.55]Ask the reverand was the strip club cool
[01:42.88]if my tips help send a pretty girl through school
[01:45.53]That's all I want like wino's want they good whisky
[01:48.55]I ain't in the Klan, but I brought my hood with me
[01:51.26]You motherfuckers better do your job and roll up
[01:54.35]and watch how we roll up and
[01:55.60]I can't control it, can't hold it, it's so nuts
[01:58.28]I take a sip of that yak, I wanna fuck
[02:00.95]I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck
[02:03.37]But really what's amazing is how I keep blazing
[02:06.01]Towel under the door smoke until the days end
[02:08.78]Puff, puff then pass, don't fuck up rotation
[02:11.75]Hpnotic for Henny, now nigga that's your chaser
[02:14.68]Turn nothin to something now pimpin' that's a savior
[02:17.52]Best things are green now pimp and get your paper
[02:20.23]High off the ground instead of skyscraper
[02:23.10]Too low thinkin' we local, come on homie, we major
[02:37.13]I heard the beat and I ain't know what to write
[02:40.06]First line, should it be about the hos or the ice?
[02:42.32]Four-four's or black christ? Both flows would be nice
[02:45.26]Rap about big paper or the black man's plight
[02:47.84]At the studio consol asked my man to the right
[02:50.62]What this verse sound like, should I freestyle or write?
[02:53.44]He said, Nas, what the fans want is Illmatic, Stillmatic
[02:56.18]Picked up the pad and pencil and jotted what I feel
[02:59.46]Been like 12 years since a nigga first signed
[03:01.94]Now I'm a free agent
[03:04.23]And I'm thinking it's time
[03:05.27]To build my very own Motown
[03:07.19]Cuz rappers be deprived of executive 9 to 5s
[03:10.31]And it hurts to see these companies be stealing the life
[03:13.12]And I love to give my blood sweat and tears to the mic
[03:15.97]So y'all copped the LPs and y'all fiends got dealt
[03:18.88]I'm Jesse Jackson on the balcony where King got killed
[03:21.52]I survived the livest niggas around
[03:24.12]Lasting longer than more than half of you clowns
[03:26.77]Look, I used to cook before I had the game took
[03:30.28]Either way my change came like Sam Cooke.
[03:38.05]Feeling better than I ever felt before today
[03:43.56]Like better late than never is orientation
[03:48.56]Still we can make it better throwing all your cares away