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Artist/Band: Jay-Z
Lyrics for Song: Meet The Parents
Lyrics for Album: The Blueprint 2.1 [2003]



It's 'The Gift and the Curse'

First they love me then they hate me then they love me again

(They love me again)

Let's take a trip down, I gotcha



Let's take a trip down memory, lane at the cemetery rain gray skies

Seems at the end of every young black life is this line

'Damn, him already?' such a good kid, got us pourin' Henn' already

Liquor to the curb for my niggaz up above when it

Cracks through the pavement that's my

Way of sendin' love so, give Big a hug, tell Aliyah I said hi

'Til the next time I see her, on the other side he was just some thug that

Caught some slugs and we loved him 'cause, in him we, saw some of us



He walked like us, talked like us his back against the wall

Nigga fought like us, damn poor Isis, that's his momma name

Momma ain't strong enough to raise no boy, what's his father name?

Shorty never knew him, though he had his blood in him hot temper

Momma said he act just like her husband daddy never fucked with him

So the streets raised him Isis blamin' herself

She wish she coulda saved him damn near impossible

Only men can raise men he was his own man



Not even him can save him he put his faith in a, thirty-eight in his waist

But when you live by the gun you die by the same fate end up

Dead before thirty-eight and that's the life of us raised by winter

It's a cold world old girl turned to coke, tried to smoke her pain away

Isis, life just, ended on that rainy day when she got the news her boy

Body could be viewed down at the City Morgue, opened the drawer

Saw him nude her addiction grew, prescription drugs, shift and brew

Angel dust, dipped in she slipped into, her own fantasy world



Had herself pregnant by a different dude but reality bites and

This is her life he wasn't really her husband, though he called her wife

It was just this night when, moon was full and the stars were just right

And the dress was real tight had her soundin' like Lisa Lisa

I wonder if I take you home will you still love me after this night?

Mike was the hard head from the around the way

That she wanted all her life shit she wanted all the hype

Used to hold on tight when he wheelied on the bike



He was a Willie all her life he wasn't really the one to like it was a

Dude named Shy who would really treat her right he wanted to run

To the country to escape the city life but Isis, liked this, Broadway life

She loved the Gucci sneakers, the red green and whites

Hangin' out the window when she first seen him fight she was so turned

On that she had to shower twice how ironic it would, be some fight that

Turned into a homicide that'll alter their life see Mike at thirty-two

Was still on the scene had a son fifteen that he never saw twice



Sure he saw him as an infant, but he dissed on him like

"If that was my son, he would look much different see I'm light-skinned

And that baby there's dark so it's, mommas baby, poppa's maybe"

Mike was still crazy out there runnin' the streets

(Fuck niggaz want?)

Had his old reliable thirty-eight gun in his reach it's been

Fourteen years, him and Isis ain't speak he runnin' around

Like life's a peach, 'til one day he approached this thug that



Had a mean mug and it looked so familiar that he called him

"Young Cuz" told him, get off the strip but the boy ain't budge

(Fuck you)

Instead he pulled out a newer thirty-eight snub

He clearly had the drop but the boy just paused

(Hold up)

There was somethin' in this man's face he knew he seen before

It's like, lookin' in the mirror seein' his self more mature



And he took it as a sign from the almighty Lord

You know what they say about he who hesitates in war

(What's that?)

He who hesitates is lost he can't explain what he saw before

His picture went blank the old man didn't think he just

Followed his instinct six shots into his kid, out of the gun

Niggaz be a father, you're killin' your son six shots into his kid

Out of the gun niggaz be a father, you killin' your sons



Meet the parents


Album Lyrics: The Blueprint 2.1 [2003]


Jay-Z
"The Blueprint 2.1 [2003]"


1. A Dream
2. All Around The World
3. Excuse Me Miss
4. Excuse Me Miss Again (La La La)
5. Guns & Roses
6. Hovi Baby
7. Meet The Parents
8. Some How Some Way
9. The Bounce
10. The Watcher 2
11. U Don't Know
12. What They Gonna Do Part II
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