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 (Yall can't fill my shoes)

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 (Yall can't fill my shoes)

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

(But i did five Mil) 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 (Yall can't fill my shoes)

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 (Yall can't fill my shoes)

From my Blueprint beginnings To that Black Album endin Listen close you hear what i'm about

Ni**a feel my truths