[Jay-Z]

Come on...life...death...here...gone...Yo



If I should die don't cry my niggas

just ride my niggas bust bullets in the sky my niggas

And when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas

get on my niggas when it's real

say word to Shawn my niggas

If I should die [*echoes*]



Don't cry my niggas it's been one hell of a ride my niggas

in the middle of the trial I flip pies my niggas

I did joints with Mary J. Blige my niggas

I've eluded the coppers got booted with Big Poppa

Skated through with the Ceasar Picadas

At high school got head by the lockers

gassed the baddest girl in the class to show me her knockers

rocked jewels dropped school still didn't fail

rhymes still written well hold court in the street

never sit in the cell for a second then I'm gettin' my bail

shoot it out with the bounty hunters fuck

sittin' in the county for summers if they should down me

everybody around us become one for that day

to live life get your shit right & play

Don't get it twisted like rays if I miss that's ok

but life's short don't miss a day uhh



If I should die don't cry my niggas

just ride my niggas bust bullets in the sky my niggas

and when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas

get on my niggas when it's real

say word to Shawn my niggas

If I should die...



[Wais]

...don't cry my niggas

it's been one hell of a ride my niggas

say word to Wais my niggas

when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas

just keep gettin' it on my niggas

say word is bond my niggas



I got a lot to look back on in '88

got my crack on ten years later gettin' my rap on

gettin' shorties like a thespian

had an episode with two lesbians got a fetish for that

drunk ginseng with Japanese chicks & pulled the root out

squeeze my whole clip to survive shootouts

been on both coasts fired all kinds of heat

probably be kinda glad to leave these mean streets

I got dead mens to meet and questions to fulfill

like is that mystery God real?

and how was Kennedy killed? I ain't mad

I must've smoked a ton of reefer sipped Coronas

with Latifah broke the code of Geneva

I know when I reach the other side I'ma see the

cat I had beef with who blood remains on my sneaker

then it's on again if I could be born again

I live my life through my son

and tell him never have a friend

just family reincarnated I'll show him the time

that I waited to get paid tell him never be afraid

niggas hearts pump Kool Aid and yo blood run thicker

never shed tears cry liquor my nigga



If I die don't cry my niggas

it's been one hell of a ride my niggas

say word to Wais my niggas

when I'm gone don't mourn my niggas

just keep bangin' these songs my niggas

say word is bond my niggas

If I die...



[Half Dead]

...don't cry my niggas

just stay gettin' high my niggas

don't wonder why my niggas

when I'm gone live on my niggas

just follow my path my niggas

say word to Half my nigga



I'm the aftermath of pleasure never die alone

born to live forever through life's struggles

I cut corners & took drastic measures

see you niggas life expire right in front of me

time could never mend what these cold streets

mentally done to me too often I close my eyes

and see my own coffin feelin' haunted ready to leave

this world that I'm lost in my only chance

to see the seeds I lost through abortion

when I'm gone y'all niggas better not mourn

keep flossin' as long as my name

lives on what's most important

I'll be down in hell scorchin' preparin' for life

afterlife still torchin' & blazin' these mics

It'd rain for 40 days & 40 nights

& I'd return on the 3rd like Christ

without my physical portion

my spirit a poltergeist for sure

I'll be back through the heist tomorrow

blood over y'all fake niggas door

What you thought? (huh)

What you thought? (nigga)



If I should die don't cry my niggas

just stay gettin' high my niggas

don't wonder why my niggas

when I'm gone live on my niggas

just follow my path my niggas

say word to Half my nigga

When I die...