The Prelude 创作者：
Jay-z

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调：G# minor

Verse 1
Em Em 
 
"You know you got this
fantasy in your head
About getting out of the life
And setting the corporate
world on its ear
What the fuck you gonna do
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Except hustle
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Besides pimping
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
You really ain't got the stom
Am Am 
 
ach for that"
D D 
 
The game's

Verse 2
fucked up
Em Em 
 
Niggas beats is banging
D D 
 
Nigga ya hooks did it
Em Em 
 
Ya lyrics didn't
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Ya gangsta look did it
Em Em 
 
So I   would write it if
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y'all could get it
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Being intricate'll get ya wood critics
Em Em 
 
On the internet
D D 
 
They like you should spit it, I'm
Em Em 
 
like you should buy it
D D 
 
Nigga that's good business
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Forget this rap shit I need
Em Em 
 
a new hustle
A little bit of everything,
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Em Em 
 
a new improved Russell
D D 
 
I say that reluctantly 'cause
Em Em 
 
I do struggle
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As you see I can't leave
Em Em 
 
so I do love you
D D 
 
But I'm just a hustler
disguised as a rapper
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
In  fact you can't fit this hustle
Em Em 
 
inside of a wrapper
D D 
 
Back when crack was what
Em Em 
 
these pills are
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Em Em 
 
I was a  real star complete with real cars
D D 
 
No video ones,
Em Em 
 
you can and come set up a camera
D D 
 
Let the video run
Em Em 
 
In my real life complete with
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Em Em 
 
real ice
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VVS boulders all invisibly set
Em Em 
 
Head an  d shoulders my
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in visible neck
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
You see Hova wasn't digital yet
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Before Steve Jobs made the iPod
Em Em 
 
Was getting head jobs,
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we call that intimate
Em Em 
 
Back when rappers wouldn't
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dare play lyrical roulette
Em Em 
 
With an automatic weapon
D D 
 
I was rapping with a Tek
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Fresh like Manny be chain
Em Em 
 
like antifreeze
Shoe box full of cash
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Em Em 
 
Dealer man hand me keys
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Pantries full of Arm & Hammer
Em Em 
 
Don't take Nancy
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Drew to see what it do
Em Em 
 
I'ma damn g
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Just sent a million dollars
Em Em 
 
through a hands free
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That's big money talk can
Em Em 
 
you answer me?
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Before the Answer was a three
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
I was down in Georgetown with a Hoya chick,
loyal chick
Em Em 
 
Sure he's rich now 'cause he saw this shit,
all this shit
That's why they call him Hov cause
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Em Em 
 
D D 
 
he came before all this shit
Em Em 
 
Bought a six,
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quarter seven skipped on them quarter 8s
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Bought a nine for nonstop
Em Em 
 
glockwork all the time
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Guess

Verse 3
who's back
Em Em 
 
Since this is a New Era
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got a fresh new hat
Em Em 
 
Ten year veteran
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Em Em 
 
I been said I been through
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with this bullshit game
But I never can
Em Em 
 
I used to think rapping at
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thirty eight was ill
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
When last year alone I grossed
about thirty eight mill
Em Em 
 
I   know I ain't quite
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thirty eight but still
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
The flow so Special got a  .38 feel
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
The real is  back