[00:00.00] 作曲 : Shawn Carter & Justin Smith
[00:00.671] 作词 : Carter, Smith
[00:02.14]Woo  Uhh  uhh
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[00:05.18]It's "The Gift & the Curse"
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[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
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[00:15.44]   they love me again
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[00:17.08]Let's take a trip down   I gotcha
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[00:22.83]Let's take a trip down memory
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[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
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[00:45.99]He was just some thug that  caught some slugs
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[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
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[00:54.63]His back against the wall
[00:55.85]Nigga fought like us - damn
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[02:12.51]Mike was the hardhead from the around the way
[02:14.83]That she wanted all her life
[02:16.49]Shit 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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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