JAY-Z reminisces on his days as a hustler in Marcy Houses in Brooklyn. | dG1faTVmeHhNUnppMVE
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00:00Yeah, Aviation on the air, go for South Chopkin.
00:1510-4, Bravo.
00:19Yeah?
00:2210-4, Bravo.
00:26Yeah?
00:31Live from Bedford-Stuyvesant, the livest one, representin' BK to the fullest.
00:38Bastard duckin' when Hov be buckin', chicken heads be cluckin'.
00:42Back when Ratchet wasn't Ratchet and the Vixen wasn't Vixen and Jetmaster Jay was alive.
00:47I was mixin', cookin' coke in the kitchen back when Robin wasn't pissed and Mike was losin' to Isaiah.
00:52But he soon will get his sixth one, gave birth to my verbal imagination.
00:56Assume a virtue if you have not.
00:58Or better yet, here's a verse from Hamlet.
01:00Lord, we know who we are, yet we know not what we may be.
01:03So, maybe I'm the one, or maybe I'm crazy.
01:05I'm from Marcy Houses where the boys died by the thousand.
01:08Back when Pam was on Martin, yeah, that's where it all started.
01:11When Dizzell was blottin' carpet, alpaca.
01:14Nine millimeter when Slick Rick made Mona Lisa.
01:17When Lisa Bonet was Beyonce, other day I had divas, y'all.
01:20Think I just popped up in this bitch like a fetus, nah.
01:23Pregnant pause, give you some second thoughts.
01:26This room on the bandwagon don't abort.
01:28Marcy me.
01:35Marcy me.
01:36Streets is my artery.
01:37Vein of my existence, I'm the Gotham City heartbeat.
01:40I started in lobbies, now Polly with soddies.
01:43I'm a Sufi to goofies.
01:44I could probably speak Farsi.
01:46That's poetry.
01:47Rica Coca leaf in my past.
01:48Came through the bushes smellin' like roses.
01:50I need a trophy just for that.
01:51Old Brooklyn, not this new shit.
01:53Shit feel like a spoof.
01:54Fat laces in your shoe.
01:55I'm talkin' bustin' off the roof.
01:57Whole of Uzi vertical.
01:59Vector thing smoke.
02:00Y'all flirtin' with death.
02:01I be winkin' through the scope.
02:03Shout out to all the murderers.
02:05Turn murals.
02:06Plural.
02:07Fuck the federal bureau.
02:09Shout out to Nostronad.
02:10Flushin' that Myrtle.
02:11All the county of kings.
02:12May your ground stay fertile.
02:14Shout out to Big Papa.
02:15Daddy King heroes.
02:17Thus concluded my concerto.
02:19Marcy me.
02:20I must be in the air.
02:24Oh, can't walk away.
02:26I know, I know.
02:27Just the way I'm raised.
02:29I know, I know, I know.
02:31Oh, Marcy, Marcy me.
02:35Just the way I am.
02:38Always gonna be.
02:41I ain't gonna change at all.
02:44Oh, Marcy, Marcy me.
02:48Just the way I am.
02:52Ain't gonna change at all.
02:56Ain't gonna change at all.
02:59Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
03:03Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
03:06Ain't gonna change at all.
03:09Ain't gonna change at all.
03:13I'm gonna take this way to the world.