Star Is Born - Jay-Z

[00:01.55]Everyday a star is born
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[00:17.97]I seen Mase do it, I seen Ye do it,
[00:20.22]X came through, caught lighter fluid,
[00:22.34]Still i came through it,
[00:23.65]Clap for em,
[00:24.60]But I'm the blueprint,
[00:25.65]I'm like the map for em,
[00:26.77]I dropped another classic,
[00:27.78]Made Puff pass it,
[00:28.90]Nobody could touch Puff back when Puff had it,
[00:31.03]Wayne scorching, I'll applaud him,
[00:33.33]If he keep going, pass the torch to him,
[00:35.39]50 came through like hurricanes do,
[00:37.39]Thought I'd finish his ass at summerjam too,
[00:39.57]Illmatic I had the on bootleg,
[00:41.89]Sh-t was so ahead, thought we was all dead,
[00:44.20]Wayne did a millie, 50 did a millie,
[00:46.14]Ye too, but what Em did was silly,
[00:48.26]The white boy blossomed after Dre endorsed him,
[00:50.51]His flow on Renegade, f-cking awesome,
[00:53.25]Applaud him,
[00:54.06]Everyday a star is born
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[01:02.09]Everyday a star is born
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[01:10.13]Snoop Dogg did, Nelly came down,
[01:12.18]The Face Mob, kept it ghetto for the H town.
[01:14.56]Luda moved digits after he moved b-tches,
[01:16.56]Drake's up next, see what he do with it,
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[01:19.01]Rule had a run, couple movie parts,
[01:21.01]T.I literally wanted to shoot up the charts,
[01:23.19]Wat up Jeezy, wat it do,
[01:25.44]Y'all remind me of us in early 92,
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[01:27.66]Outcast landed, 3 thou was ill,
[01:29.70]Like a male version of Lauren Hill,
[01:31.90]Mobb Deep shook it but Prodigy took it a lil too far,
[01:34.95]Can't f-ck with Brooklyn,
[01:36.32]Wu Tang gang bang, Meth ate,
[01:38.25]Rae' took on the date with the Purple Tape.
[01:40.51]Passed on to Ason ? and then Ghostface,
[01:42.50]They had a hell of a run,
[01:43.82]Standing Ova, ayyy,
[01:45.85]Everyday a star is born
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[01:54.14]Everyday a star is born
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[02:01.70]And I am one of one,
[02:03.70]Can't you see just along my front,
[02:05.94]My brain new lou sun shine
[02:08.60]Been a star since i was back in one time,
[02:10.60]One time give it up for him,
[02:12.53]December 4th a star was born,
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[02:14.76]Clap for him,
[02:15.64]He went from moving that corner
[02:16.89]To this corner office is so enormous,
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[02:19.74]Hey, Pres Carter,
[02:21.49]Watch him get a Monica on all day,
[02:23.67]Hey,
[02:25.68]Got so many monikers but only 1 Jay
[02:27.86]They come they go,
[02:29.80]Some real some foe,
[02:32.03]Some friends some hoes
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[02:34.29]But no i goes nowhere this Hov,
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[02:37.79]Everyday a star is born
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[02:46.27]Everyday a star is born
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[02:54.76]And could i be a star,
[02:55.76]This fame and this game have to change who you are,
[02:57.76]Could i be the same one who came from a far away life,
[02:59.56]Just to make it in this broadway lights,
[03:02.00]Now shining in the broad day light, go figure,
[03:04.89]A slow transition from a lil broke n-gga from the Ville,
[03:07.70]Got a deal a real life saver,
[03:09.13]Dreams of being behind the wheel like Jada,
[03:11.57]I chill now a lil ice later, Cole you go the glow like a lil lightsaber,
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[03:16.07]So clap for him, then applaud Hov, he gave em a plat for him,
[03:19.19]Flow so sick thought he wrote the rap for him,
[03:21.48]No sir,
[03:22.11]The flows cold as a shoulder of a gold digging hoes when a broke n-gga approaches,
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[03:25.66]Told ya I'm focused man, I'll let you muthf-ckers soak it in,
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[03:29.98]Everyday a star is born
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