[00:00.00]The Prelude (Album Version|Edited) - Jay-Z [00:01.36]You know you've got this [00:03.40]Fantasy in your head about [00:06.21]Getting outta the life and [00:08.60]Settin' the corporate world on it's ear [00:12.88]What the f**k you gonna do except hustle [00:19.27]Besides pimpin' [00:22.16]You really ain't got the stomach for that [00:25.41]The game's f**ked up [00:26.87]Beats is bangin' your hooks did it [00:29.39]Your lyrics did and your gangster look did it [00:32.22]So I would write it if y'all could get it [00:35.02]Being intricate'll get you wood critic [00:37.68]On the internet they like you should spit it [00:40.39]I'm like you should buy it that's good business [00:43.80]Hehe forget this rap sh*t I need a new hustle [00:46.73]A little bit of everything the new improved russell [00:49.71]I say that reluctantly cause I do struggle [00:52.52]As you see I can't leave so I do love you [00:55.72]But I'm just a hustler disguised as a rapper [00:58.25]In fact you can't fit this hustle inside of a wrapper [01:01.73]Back when was [01:02.85]What these pills are I was a real star [01:05.96]Complete with real cars no video ones [01:08.82]You can come and set up a camera let the video run [01:11.66]And my real life complete with real ice [01:14.49]Vvs boulders oh they're visibly set [01:17.43]Head and shoulders my invisible neck [01:20.21]You see hova wasn't digital yet [01:22.83]Befo' steve jobs made the ipod [01:25.68]Was getting head jobs we call that intimate [01:28.68]Back when rappers wouldn't dare play lyrical roulette [01:31.51]With a automatic weapon I was reppin' with a tec [01:34.66]Fresh like mannie be chain' like anti-freeze [01:37.57]Shoebox full of cash dealer man hand me ki's [01:40.44]Pantries full of Arm and Hammer [01:42.16]Don't take nancy drew to see [01:44.13]What it do I'm a damn G [01:46.65]Just sent a million dollars through a hands free [01:49.36]That's big money talk can you answer me [01:52.50]Before the answer was a 3 [01:54.03]I was down in georgetown with a [01:55.84]Hoya chick lawyer chick [01:57.22]Sure he's rich now cause he saw the sh*t all this sh*t [02:00.00]That's why they call him hov' [02:01.11]Cause he came before all this sh*t [02:02.76]Bought a 6 quarter seven skipped on them quarter eights [02:05.80]Bought a 9 for non-stop glock work all the time [02:09.07]Woo guess who's back [02:11.07]Since this is a new era got a fresh new hat [02:14.41]Ten year veteran I've been set [02:16.74]I've been through with [02:17.71]This b******t game but I never quit [02:20.15]I used to think rappin' at 38 was I'll [02:22.64]When last year alone I grossed 38 mill' [02:25.56]I know I ain't quite 38 but still [02:28.16]The flow so special got a feel [02:30.90]The real is back hehehehe