Moment Of Clarity - Jay-Z

Turn the music up turn the lights down

I'm in my zone

Thank God for grantin me

This moment of clarity

This moment of honesty

The world'll feel my truths

Through my Hard Knock Life time

My Gift and The Curse

I gave you volume after volume of my work

So you can feel my truths

I built the Dynasty by being one

Of the realest niggas out

Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt

From my Blueprint beginnings To

That Black Album endin

Listen close you hear what I'm about

Ni**a feel my truths Pop died Didn't cry

Didn't know him that well

Between him doin **

And me doin crack sales

With that in the egg shell Standin

At the tabernacle

Rather the church Pratendin to be hurt

Wouldn't work So a smirk was all

On my face

Like damn that mans face was

Just like my face

So pop I forgive you For all the sh*t

That I live through

It wasn't all your fault Homie

You got caught

And to the same game I fault

That Uncle Ray lost

My big brothers and so many others I saw

I'm just glad we got to see each other

Talk and re-meet each other Save a place

In Heaven Til the next time

We meet forever

Thank God for grantin me

This moment of clarity

This moment of honesty

The world'll feel my truths

Through my Hard Knock Life time

My Gift and The Curse

I gave you volume

After volume of my work

So you can feel my truths

I built the Dynasty

By being one of the realest niggas out

Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt

From my Blueprint beginnings To

That Black Album endin

Listen close you hear

What I'm about Ni**a feel my truths

The music business hate me

Cause the industry ain't make me

Hustlers and boosters embrace me

And the music I be makin

I dumb down for my audience

And double my dollars

They criticize me

For it Yet they all yell "Holla"

If skills sold Truth be told

I'd probably be

Lyricly Talib Kweli

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense

I ain't been rhymin

Like Common since

When your sense got that much in common

And you been hustlin since

Your inception F**k perception Go with

What makes sense

Since I know what I'm up against

We as rappers must decide

What's most impor-tant

And I can't help the poor

If I'm one of them

So I got rich and gave back To me

That's the win win

The next time you see the homie

And his rims spin Just know my mind is workin

Just like them

The rims that is

Thank God for grantin me this moment of clarity

This moment of honesty

The world'll feel my truths

Through my Hard Knock Life time

My Gift and The Curse

I gave you volume after volume of my work

So you can feel my truths

I built the Dynasty by being one of

The realest niggas out

Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt

From my Blueprint beginnings

To that Black Album endin

Listen close you hear

What I'm about Ni**a feel my truths

My homie Sigel's on a tier

Where no tears should fall

Cause he was on the block

Where no squares get off

See in my inner circle

All we do is ball

Til we all got triangles on our wall

He ain't just rappin

For the platinum Yall record

I recall Cause I really been there before

Four scores and seven years ago Prepared

To flow Prepare for war

I shall fear no man

You don't hear me though

These words ain't just paired to go

In one ear out the other ear

NO YO My balls and my word is alls I have

What you gonna do to me

Ni**a scars'll scab

What you gonna box me homie

I can dodge and jab

Three shots couldn't touch me

Thank God for that

I'm strong enough to carry Biggie Smalls

On my back

And the whole BK ni**a holla back

Thank God for grantin me

This moment of clarity

This moment of honesty

The world'll feel my truths

Through my Hard Knock Life time

My Gift and The Curse

I gave you volume after volume of my work

So you can feel my truths

I built the Dynasty

By being one of the realest niggas out

Way beyond a Reasonable Doubt

From my Blueprint beginnings To

That Black Album endin

Listen close you hear

What I'm about

Ni**a feel my truths