[ti:Never Let Me Down] [ar:Kanye West feat. Jay-Z & J. Ivy] [00:10.01]when it comes to being true, at least true to me [00:15.03]one thing i found, one thing i found [00:17.47]oh no you never let me down [00:19.31]get up, i get down [00:20.05]get up, i get down [00:21.45]get up, i get down [00:23.25]get up, i get down [00:25.00]get up, i get down [00:26.47]get up, i get down [00:27.35]Jay-Z:yo, first i snatched the streets then i snatched the charts [00:31.28]first i had they ear, now i have their heart [00:34.14]rappers came and went, i've been here from the start [00:37.03]i seen them put it together, watched them take it apart [00:40.02]seen the rovers roll up wit ribbons [00:41.51]i seen them re-po'd, re-sold then re-driven [00:44.37]so when i reload, he holds #1 position [00:46.00]when you hot i'm hot and when your feet cold, mines is sizzelin [00:50.05]it's plain to see, niggaz can't fuck with me [00:53.04]cuz i'm a be that nigga for life [00:55.10]this is not an image, this is god given [00:57.33]this is hard livin, mixed with crystall sippin [01:00.18]it's the most consistent, hov [01:02.49]give you the most hits you can fit inside a whole disc and [01:06.51]nigga i'm home on these charts, y'all niggaz visitin [01:09.00]it's hov tradition, jeff gordan of rap [01:11.28]i'm back to claim pole position, holla at ya boy [01:14.09]chorus overlapping last four lines [01:18.39]Kanye West:i get down for my grandfather who took my momma [01:21.43]made her sit in that seat where white folks ain't want us to eat [01:25.00]at the tender age of 6 she was arrested for the sit in [01:27.51]and with that in my blood i was born to be different [01:30.09]now niggaz can't make it to ballads to choose leadership [01:33.29]but we can make it to jacob's and to the dealership [01:37.44]swear i hear new music and i just don't be feelin it [01:39.16]racisms still alive, they just be concealin it [01:42.27]but i know they don't want me in the damn club [01:45.07]they even make me show i.d to get inside of sam's club [01:48.12]i done did dirt and went to church and get my hands scrubbed [01:51.04]swear i've been baptized each 3 or 4 times [01:53.14]but in the land where niggaz praise yukons and getting paid [01:58.01]its gon take a lot more than coupons to get us saved [02:00.31]like it take a lot more than durags to get you waves [02:03.36]nothing sad as that day my girl's father past away [02:05.48]so i promised to mr. rany i'm gonna marry your daughter [02:09.19]and you know i gotta thank you for the way that she was brought up [02:11.59]and i know that you were smiling when you see the car i bought her [02:15.07]you sent tears from heaven when you seen my car get balled up [02:18.22]but i can't complain what the accident did to my left eye [02:21.48]cuz look what an accident did to left eye [02:24.36]first aaliyah now romeo must die? [02:26.58]i know i got angels watchin me from the other side [02:29.41][chorus] [02:47.35]J.Ivy:we are all here for a reason on a particular path [02:50.23]you don't need a curriculum to know that you're apart of the math [02:53.15]cats think i'm delirious but i'm so damn serious [02:56.00]that's why i expose my soul to the globe; the world [03:00.09]i'm tryna make it better for these little boys and girls [03:03.43]i'm not just another individual [03:04.27]my spirit is a part of this that's why it's spiritual [03:07.17]but i get my hymns from him [03:09.33]so it's not me it's he that's lyrical [03:11.02]i'm not a miracle, i'm a heaven sent instrument [03:14.25]my rhythmatic regiment navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental [03:18.29]that's why i'm instrumental, vibrations is what i'm into [03:04.07]but that ain't what gives me the heart of kunta kinte [03:26.35]i'm tryna give us us free like sinke [03:29.03]i can't stop, that's why i'm hot [03:31.04]determination, dedication, motivation [03:34.21]i'm talking to you of my many inspirations [03:35.55]when i say i can't let you or self down [03:39.18]if i were on the highest cliff, on the highest riff [03:41.00]and if you slipped off the side and clinched on to your life in my grip i would never ever let you down [03:47.41]and when these words are found [03:49.03]let it be known that god's penmanship has been signed [03:52.52]that's why my breath is felt by the death [03:55.16]and while my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind [03:58.42]i too dream in color and in rhyme [04:02.04]so i guess i'm one of a kind in a full house [04:04.39]cuz whenever i open my heart, my soul or my mouth [04:07.56]a touch of god reigns out [04:11.40]chorus [04:30.37]Jay-Z:who else you know been hot this long [04:33.21]started from nothing but he got this strong [04:35.54]built the roc from a pebble, peddled rock before i met you [04:39.03]peddled bikes, got my nephews peddle bikes because they special [04:40.41]let you tell it man i'm fallin well [04:42.01]somebody must have caught hi'm cuz [04:43.59]every fourth quarter, i like to mike jordan em [04:47.05]number one albums what i got, like four of em [04:49.28]more of them on the way, the 8th wonder on the way [04:51.44]clear the way, i'm here to stay [04:54.02]y'all can save the chitter chat, this and that this is jay, dissin jay will get you mase'd [04:58.06]when i start spittin them lyrics niggaz get very religious [05:02.11]six hail mary's please father forgive us [05:05.02]young, the archbishop, the pope john paul of y'all niggaz [05:07.49]they way y'all all follow jigga [05:11.24]hov's a livin legend and i'll tell you why [05:13.30]everybody wanna be hov and hov's still alive