[Notorious B.I.G. interview]

I'm just, tryin to stay above water y'know

Just stay busy, stay workin

Puff told me like, the key to this joint

The key to staying, on top of things

is treat everything like it's your first project, knahmsayin?

Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern

Like, that's how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry



[Verse One: Jay-Z]

Uhh, uhh, yes, yes

Y'all wanna know, why he don't stop

Y'all wanna know, why he don't flop

Let me tell you pe-eople why

Came from the bottom of the block I

When I was born, it was sworn, I was never gon' be shit

Had to pull the opposite out this bitch

Had to get my ri-ide on

Eyes on the prize, Shawn knew I had to

Had to had to get these chips

Had to make moves like Olajuwon

Started out sellin dimes and nicks

Graduated to a brick

No exaggeration, my infatuation with the strip

Legendary like a schoolboy

Crushin merely nearly every every chick

Heavy shit - that's how schoolboy got whipped

And got left on some "Just Me, Myself and I "

On some Trugoy shit

Had your boys threw place up, to a place of no return

Had to play with fire and get burned

Only way the boy ever gon' learn

Had to lay way in the cut, 'til I finally got my turn

Now I'm on top in the spot that I earned



[Chorus]

It's my life - it's my pain and my struggle

The song that I sing to you it's my ev-ery-thing

Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first

And my thirst is the same as - when I came

It's my joy and my tears and the laughter it brings to me

It's my ev-ery-thing



[Verse Two: Jay-Z]

Like I never rode in a limo

Like I jus