Meet The Parents Lyrics - The Blueprint 2: The Gift And The Curse - Jay-z

Whoo Uh Uh 

The gift and the curse 

Uh Uh yeah 

First they love me then they hate me 

Then they love me again 

Love me again 

Lets take a trip down 

I got yall 

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Lets take a trip down memory lane at the cemetery 

Rain gray skies seems at the end of every young black live 

It's this line damn him already 

Such a goodkid got us poring Hen(nessy) already 

Liquor to the curb for the niggas up above 

When it cracks through to pavement that's my way of sending love 

So give BIG a hug tell Aaliyah I said high 

Till 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 Isyss that his momma name momma aint strong enough to raise no boy 

What's his father name? shorty never knew him though he had his blood in em 

Hot temper momma sad he act just like her husband 

Daddy never fucked with em so the streets raised em 

Isyss blaming herself she wish she could have saved him 

Damn near impossible only men can raise men 

He was his own man not even him could save him 

He put his faith in the 38 in his waist 

But when ya live by the gun you die by the same fate 

End up dead before 38 and a 

That's the life of what's raised by a winter, it's a cold world 

Old girl turned to coke tried to smoke her pain away 

Isyss life just ended on that rainy day 

When she got the news her boy body could be viewed down at the city mourge 

Open the drawer saw em nude 

Her addiction grew 

Prescription drugs dipped in brew 

Angel dust dipped in whoo 

She slipped into her own fantasy world 

Had her self pregnant by 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 the moon was full and the stars was just right 

And the dress was real tight 

And it sounded like Lisa Lisa I wonder if I take you home 

Will you still love me after this night 

Mike was the hard head from around the way that she wanted all her life 

Shit she wanted all the hype 

Used to hold on tight when they wheelied on the bike 

He was a Willie all her life 

He wasn't really the one to like 

It was a dude named Shi 

Who would really treat her right 

He wanted to run to the country to escape the city life 

But Isyss liked this broad way life 

She loved the Gucci sneakers the red, green and, white 

Hanging out the window when she first seen em fight 

So turned on that she had to shower twice 

How ironic it would be some fight 

That would turn it to a homicide that would alter their life 

See Mike at 32 was still on the seen 

He had a son 15 that he never saw twice 

Sure he saw him as an infant but he disowned 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 momma's baby poppa's maybe 

Mike was still crazy out there running the streets 

had his old reliable 38 gun in his reach 

He spent 14 years him and Isyss aint speak 

He runnin around like life is a peach 

Till one day he approached this thug 

That had a mean mug 

And he looked so familiar that he called um young Cuz 

Told em get off the strip but the boy aint budge 

Instead he pulled out a newer 38 snug 

He clearly had to drop but the boy just paused 

It was something in this mans face he knew he seen before 

It's like looking in the mirror seeing his self more mature 

He took it as a sign from the almighty lord 

You know what they say about he who hesitates at war 

(What's that) he who hesitates is lost 

He cant explain what he saw before his picture went blank 

The old man didn't think he just followed his instinct 

Six shots into his kin out of the gun 

Niggas be a father ya killing ya son 

six shots into his kin out of the gun 

Niggas be a father ya killing ya son 

Meet the parents 

(echo & fade out) 

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