[00:05.39] Motherfuckers - [00:21.40] Say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels (bling bling) [00:24.53] Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it? [00:25.96] See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined [00:28.66] That same dude you gave nothin, I made somethin doin [00:31.89] What I do through and through and [00:34.32] I give you the news - with a twist it's just his ghetto point-of-view [00:37.19] The renegade; you been afraid [00:39.38] I penetrate pop culture, bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they [00:43.26] Pop toasters and they live with their moms got drop roasters from botched robberies niggas crouched over [00:48.93] Mommies knocked up cause she wasn't wached over knocked down by some clown when child support knocked [00:54.43] No he's not around tnow how that sound to ya, jot it down [00:57.64] I bring it through the ghetto without ridin 'round [00:59.87] Hidin down duckin strays from frustrated youths stuck in they ways [01:03.85] Just read a magazine that fucked up my day [01:06.49] How you rate music that thugs with nothin relate to it I help them see their way through it - not you can't step in my pants can't walk in my shoes bet everything you worth you lose your tie and your shirt [01:17.18] Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen [01:19.73] I ain't no politician but I'll kick it with 'em a minute [01:22.56] Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it [01:25.60] But if it don't, then y'all'll swallow the truth grin and bear it [01:28.27] Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics [01:33.68] Usin his music to steer it, sharin his views and his merits [01:36.61] But there's a huge interference - they're sayin you shouldn't hear it [01:39.37] Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit [01:42.20] Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish [01:45.05] But I'm debated disputed hated and viewed in America [01:47.84] As a motherfuckin drug addict - like you didn't experiment? [01:50.75] Now now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror [01:53.77] And see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrased [01:56.17] And I got nothin to do but make you look stupid as parents [01:59.24] You fuckin do-gooders - too bad you couldn't do good at marriage! [02:02.07] (Ha ha!) And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here I don't [02:05.57] Think you do so stay tuned and keep your ears glued to the stereo [02:07.78] Cause here we go - he's [02:09.03] And I'm the sinister, Mr. Kiss-My-Ass it's just a [02:13.53] RENEGADE! Never been afraid to say [02:15.69] What's on my mind at, any given time of day [02:18.26] Cause I'm a RENEGADE! Never been afraid to talk [02:21.22] About anything (ANYTHING) anything (ANYTHING), RENEGADE! [02:25.98] Never been afraid to say [02:27.82] What's on my mind at, any given time of day [02:30.56] Cause I'm a {RENEGADE} Never been afraid to holler [02:32.90] About anything {anything? } Anything {ANYTHING! } [02:36.57] I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles [02:39.53] Pockets filled with a lot of lint, not a cent [02:41.56] Gotta vent, lot of innocent of lives lost on the project bench [02:45.06] Whatchu hollerin? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in [02:47.51] By the bodega, iron under my coat, feelin braver [02:50.99] Doo-rag wrappin my waves up, pockets full of hope [02:53.53] Do not step to me - I'm awkward, I box leftier often [02:56.42] My pops left me an orphan, my momma wasn't home [02:59.17] Could not stress to me I wasn't grown; 'specially on nights [03:02.32] I brought somethin home to quiet the stomach rumblings [03:04.83] My demeanor - thirty years my senior [03:07.44] My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin green up [03:10.63] Raisin my fingers to critics; raisin my head to the sky [03:14.59] Big I did it - multi before I die (nigga) [03:17.69] No lie, just know I chose my own fate [03:19.69] I drove by the fork in the road and went straight [03:22.26] See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare [03:24.66] Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here [03:27.63] To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me [03:30.44] As a monger of hate and Satan a scatter-brained atheist [03:33.14] But that ain't the case, see it's a matter of taste [03:36.02] We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is [03:39.67] Or is he the latter - a gateway to escape? [03:41.48] Media scapegoat, who they can be mad at today [03:44.40] See it's easy as cake, simple as whistlin Dixie [03:47.04] While I'm wavin the pistol at sixty Christians against me [03:50.00] Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics [03:53.17] In holy water - no wonder they try to hold me under longer [03:55.66] I'm a motherfuckin spiteful, DELIGHTFUL eyeful [03:58.57] The new Ice Cube - motherfuckers HATE to like you [04:01.47] What did I do? (huh?) I'm just a kid from the gutter [04:04.03] Makin this butter off these bloodsuckers, cause I'm a muh'fuckin [04:07.20]