Never Let Me Down

Oh, baby (hahaha)

Turn the m- music up

When it comes to being true, at least true to me (that's right, it's what I do, c'mon)

One thing I've found (uh-huh), one thing I've found

Oh, no, you'll never let me down (no, I ain't never let you down)

Get up, I get (down), get up, I get (down)

Get up, I get (down), get up, I get (down)

Get up, I get (down), get up, I get (down)

First, I snatched the streets, then I snatch the charts

First, I had they ear, now I have they hear

Rappers came and went, I've been here from the start

I seen them put it together, watched them take it apart

Seen the Rovers roll up with ribbons

I seen 'em re-po'd, re-sold, and re-driven

So when I reload, he holds number one positions

When you hot, I'm hot

And when your feet cold, mines are sizzlin'

It's plain to see, n- can't f- with me

'Cause I'ma be that n- for life, this is not an image

This is God-given

This is hard livin' mixed with Cristal sippin'

It's the most consistent, Hov

Give you the most hits you can fit inside a whole disk and

N-, I'm home on these charts, y'all n- visitin'

It's Hov tradition, Jeff Gordon of rap

I'm back to claim pole position

Holla at ya boy

Get up, I get (down), get up, I get (down)

Get up, I get (down), get up

I get down for my grandfather

Who took my mama, made her sit in that seat

Where white folks ain't want us to eat

At the tender age of six, she was arrested for the sit-ins

And with that in my blood, I was born to be different

Now n- can't make it to ballots to choose leadership

But we can make it to Jacob's or to the dealership

Swear, I hear new music and I just don't be feelin' it

Racisim's still alive, they just be concealin' it

But I know they don't want me in the damn club

They even made me show ID to get inside of Sam's club

I done did dirt and when to church to get my hands scrubbed

Swear I've been baptised 'least three or four times

But in the land where n- praise you, cons are gettin' paid

It's gon' take a lot more than coupons to get us saved

Like it take a lot more than durags to get you waves

Nothin' as sad as the day my girl's father passed away

So I promised to Mr. Rainey, I'm gonna marry your daughter

And you know I gotta thank you for the way that she was brought up

And I know that you was smilin' when you seen the car I bought her

And you sent tears from heaven when you seen my car get balled up

But I can't complain what the accident did to my left eye

'Cause look what a accident did to Left-Eye

First Aaliyah, now Romeo must die

I know I got angels watchin' me from the other side

When it comes to being true, at least true to me

One thing I've found, one thing I've found

Oh, no, you'll never let me down

Get up, I get (down), get up, I get (down)

Get up, I get (down), get up, I get (down)

Get up, I get (down), get up, I get (down)

We are all here for a reason on a particular path

You don't need a curriculum to know that you are part of the math

Cats think I'm delirious, but I'm so damn serious

That's why I expose my soul to the globe, the world

I'm tryna make it better for these little boys and girls

I'm not just another individual

My spirit is a part of this, that's why I get spiritual

But I get my hymns from him

So it's not me, it's he that's lyrical

I'm not a miracle

I'm a heaven-sent instrument

My rythmatic regiment navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental

That's why I'm instrumental

Vibrations is what I'm into

Yeah, I need my loot by rent day

But that ain't what gives me the heart of Kunta Kinte

I'm tryin' to give us, "us free" like Cinque

I can't stop

That's why I'm hot

Determination, dedication, motivation

I'm talking to you of my many inspirations

When I say I can't let you or self down

If I were on the highest cliff on the highest riff

And you slipped off the side and clenched on to your life in my grip

I would never, ever, let you down

And when these words are found

Let it be known that God's penmanship

Has been signed in the language called love

That's why my breath is felt by the deaf

And why my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind

I, too, dream in color, and in rhyme

So I guess I'm one of a kind in a full house

'Cause whenever I open my heart, my soul, or my mouth

A touch of God rains out

Take 'em to church

When it comes to being true, at least true to me

One thing I've found, one thing I've found

Oh, no, you'll never let me down

Get up, I get (down), get up, I get

Get up, I get, get up, I get

Get up, I get, get up, I get down

Who else you know been hot this long? (Oh, yeah, we ain't finished)

Started from nothing, but he got this strong (the Roc is in the building)

Built the Roc from a pebble, pedalled rock before I met you

Pedalled bikes, got my nephews pedal bikes because they special

Let you tell that man I'm falling, well

Somebody must've caught him, 'cause

Every fourth quarter, I like to Mike Jordan them

Number one albums, what I got? like four of them

More of them on the way, the eighth wonder on the way

Clear the way, I'm here to stay

Y'all can save the chitter chat, this and that, dissin' Jay

Dissin' Jay will get you mased

When I start spitting them lyrics, n- get very religious

Six hail Marys, "please Father forgive us"

Young, the Archbishop, the Pope John Paul of y'all n-

The way y'all all follow jigga

Hov's a living legend and I tell you why

Everybody wanna be Hov and Hov's still alive