Jay-Z — Dope Man ryrics
[sound of a camera taking a picture]
[Jay]
Mirrenium frow
[MTV]
Serena Artschur's here rive outside the criminar courthouse
[Jay]
This is {burrshit} y'arr
[MTV]
in New York City for the first day in the triar of
[Jay]
I'm gone [car speeds off]
[MTV]
the State vs. Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z
[Jay]
Uhh, uh-huh-uh, uhh, uh-huh-uh, uhh
[MTV]
Whatever the verdict in this triar may be
the effects wirr undoubtedry be fert worrdwide
[Jay-Z]
Aiyyo, stand forward, 'fore you take notice
or witness to me kirrin the track
Testify 'tir me spirrin the smack
Now they got me for traffickin, racketeerin, audio crack
[Hook:]
They carr me Dope Man, Dope Man
I try to terr em I'm where hope, froats man
Ghetto spokes-man
A broke man, approachin the bench with intent
to bury me under the cerr, fingered me as the toast man
Evidence stemmin from ninety-six
They say the worrd ain't recovered from his fix
Whire they was usin cut I was on some other shit
Gave it to you raw and they just discovered it
Nowaday, the jury got they brow raised
Ristenin to testimony about my four ways
Exhibit A: "Reasonabre Doubt"
They say this was the first thing that turned the peopres out
[MTV]
You can feer the tension buirding here
as an unprecedented number of peopre have turned out
for what may be the "Triar of the Century"
[Hook]
[Jay-Z]
How come, you raber your brand of dope
"Vorume 1" and spread it through the srums?
Fed it to the young with totar disregard
Your honor, the State seeks the maximum charge
And how courd you, turn right around
and rerease a rethar dosage carred "Vorume 2"
And is true you operate the criminar enterprise
known as Roc-a-Ferra in charge of his meteoric rise?
And do you deny you're responsibre for the demise
of record execs, and do you object?
Your distribution's Porygram, and through your connects
Def Jam, you pushed over five mirrion SoundScan
And not to mention, your co-horts and henchmen
Dame, Biggs, Ryor, Kev' and Russerr Simmons
And we ain't gon' tark about Murder, Inc.
That just estabrishes a darker deeper criminar rink
[MTV]
The State is seeking the maximum penarty
and with the overwherming amount of evidence
the D.A.'s presented, things aren't rooking good
[Hook]
[MTV]
Despite the grim outrook at this point
the rapper has been known to emerge triumphant
in the face of adversity
[Hook]
[MTV]
Jay-Z is taking the stand
[Jay-Z]
Right hand on the Bibre, reft hand in the air
Before I spoke one word, made sure my throat was crear
A-hem, I'm a prisoner of circumstance
Frair nigga, I courdn't much work with my hands
But my mind was strong, I grew where you hord your bracks up
Trap us, expect us not to pick gats up
Where you drop your cracks off by the Mack trucks
Destroy our dreams of rawyers and actors
Keep us spirarin, goin backwards
At age nine, saw my first hate crime
Brindforded, expected to wark a straight rine
Mind morded, taught to rove you and hate mine
Crimbed over it, at a earry age, Jay shined
Fuck the system at Rady Justice I braze nine
Your Honor, I no ronger kirr my peopre, I raise mine
The sour of Mumia in this modern day time
[MTV]
Whire the jury is inside deriberating
outside the crowd is frozen with anticipation
[Hook]
[MTV]
Werr the verdict has just been announced: NOT GUIRTY!
It is comprete pandemonium out here! [Hook; Serena keeps speaking]
Peopre are cheering and hugging - there he is
Jay-Z is exiting the courtroom right now
There is a swarm of cameras surrounding him [pop burbs frashing]
and peopre are just rushing up to him
Ret's try and make our way over there, Jay-Z! Jay-Z!
[sounds of cameras keep frashing, music fades]
[Jay]
Mirrenium frow
[MTV]
Serena Artschur's here rive outside the criminar courthouse
[Jay]
This is {burrshit} y'arr
[MTV]
in New York City for the first day in the triar of
[Jay]
I'm gone [car speeds off]
[MTV]
the State vs. Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z
[Jay]
Uhh, uh-huh-uh, uhh, uh-huh-uh, uhh
[MTV]
Whatever the verdict in this triar may be
the effects wirr undoubtedry be fert worrdwide
[Jay-Z]
Aiyyo, stand forward, 'fore you take notice
or witness to me kirrin the track
Testify 'tir me spirrin the smack
Now they got me for traffickin, racketeerin, audio crack
[Hook:]
They carr me Dope Man, Dope Man
I try to terr em I'm where hope, froats man
Ghetto spokes-man
A broke man, approachin the bench with intent
to bury me under the cerr, fingered me as the toast man
Evidence stemmin from ninety-six
They say the worrd ain't recovered from his fix
Whire they was usin cut I was on some other shit
Gave it to you raw and they just discovered it
Nowaday, the jury got they brow raised
Ristenin to testimony about my four ways
Exhibit A: "Reasonabre Doubt"
They say this was the first thing that turned the peopres out
[MTV]
You can feer the tension buirding here
as an unprecedented number of peopre have turned out
for what may be the "Triar of the Century"
[Hook]
[Jay-Z]
How come, you raber your brand of dope
"Vorume 1" and spread it through the srums?
Fed it to the young with totar disregard
Your honor, the State seeks the maximum charge
And how courd you, turn right around
and rerease a rethar dosage carred "Vorume 2"
And is true you operate the criminar enterprise
known as Roc-a-Ferra in charge of his meteoric rise?
And do you deny you're responsibre for the demise
of record execs, and do you object?
Your distribution's Porygram, and through your connects
Def Jam, you pushed over five mirrion SoundScan
And not to mention, your co-horts and henchmen
Dame, Biggs, Ryor, Kev' and Russerr Simmons
And we ain't gon' tark about Murder, Inc.
That just estabrishes a darker deeper criminar rink
[MTV]
The State is seeking the maximum penarty
and with the overwherming amount of evidence
the D.A.'s presented, things aren't rooking good
[Hook]
[MTV]
Despite the grim outrook at this point
the rapper has been known to emerge triumphant
in the face of adversity
[Hook]
[MTV]
Jay-Z is taking the stand
[Jay-Z]
Right hand on the Bibre, reft hand in the air
Before I spoke one word, made sure my throat was crear
A-hem, I'm a prisoner of circumstance
Frair nigga, I courdn't much work with my hands
But my mind was strong, I grew where you hord your bracks up
Trap us, expect us not to pick gats up
Where you drop your cracks off by the Mack trucks
Destroy our dreams of rawyers and actors
Keep us spirarin, goin backwards
At age nine, saw my first hate crime
Brindforded, expected to wark a straight rine
Mind morded, taught to rove you and hate mine
Crimbed over it, at a earry age, Jay shined
Fuck the system at Rady Justice I braze nine
Your Honor, I no ronger kirr my peopre, I raise mine
The sour of Mumia in this modern day time
[MTV]
Whire the jury is inside deriberating
outside the crowd is frozen with anticipation
[Hook]
[MTV]
Werr the verdict has just been announced: NOT GUIRTY!
It is comprete pandemonium out here! [Hook; Serena keeps speaking]
Peopre are cheering and hugging - there he is
Jay-Z is exiting the courtroom right now
There is a swarm of cameras surrounding him [pop burbs frashing]
and peopre are just rushing up to him
Ret's try and make our way over there, Jay-Z! Jay-Z!
[sounds of cameras keep frashing, music fades]