[ti:renagade] [ar:eminem] [al:Curtain Call] [00:00.00]Renagade Eminem feat Jay-Z [00:08.00] [00:20.55]Motherfuckers - [00:21.63]say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels (bling bling) [00:23.90]Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it? [00:27.22]See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined [00:29.57]That same dude you gave nothin, I made somethin doin [00:33.22]what I do through and through and [00:34.99]I give you the news - with a twist it's just his ghetto point-of-view [00:38.66]The renegade; you been afraid [00:40.69]I penetrate pop culture, bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they [00:44.59]pop toasters, and they live with they moms [00:46.68]Got dropped roasters, from botched robberies niggaz crotched over [00:50.00]Mommy's knocked up cause she wasn't watched over [00:52.47]Knocked down by some clown when child support knocked [00:55.42]No he's not around - now how that sound to ya, jot it down [00:58.49]I bring it through the ghetto without ridin 'round [01:00.65]hidin down duckin strays from frustrated youths stuck in they ways [01:04.41]Just read a magazine that fucked up my day [01:07.04]How you rate music that thugs with nothin relate to it? [01:09.94]I help them see they way through it - not you [01:12.40]Can't step in my pants, can't walk in my shoes [01:15.01]Bet everything you worth; you lose your tie and your shirt [01:17.33]Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen [01:20.28]I ain't no politician but I'll kick it with 'em a minute [01:22.85]Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it [01:25.92]But if it don't, then y'all'll swallow the truth grin and bear it [01:28.54]Now who's these king of these rude ludicrous lucrative lyrics [01:31.42]Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics [01:34.86]Usin his music to steer it, sharin his views and his merits [01:37.07]But there's a huge interference - they're sayin you shouldn't hear it [01:39.83]Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit [01:42.71]Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish [01:45.67]But I'm debated disputed hated and viewed in America [01:48.46]as a motherfuckin drug addict - like you didn't experiment? [01:51.38]Now now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror [01:53.92]and see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrased [01:57.03]And I got nothin to do but make you look stupid as parents [01:59.60]You fuckin do-gooders - too bad you couldn't do good at marriage! [02:02.37](Ha ha!) And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here I don't [02:05.41]think you do so stay tuned and keep your ears glued to the stereo [02:08.30] [02:10.92]And I'm the sinister, Mr. Kiss-My-Ass it's just the [02:14.58]RENEGADE! Never been afraid to say [02:16.75]what's on my mind at, any given time of day [02:19.54]Cause I'm a RENEGADE! Never been afraid to talk [02:22.22]about anything (ANYTHING) anything (ANYTHING), RENEGADE! [02:26.49]Never been afraid to say [02:27.89]what's on my mind at, any given time of day [02:30.77]Cause I'm a {RENEGADE} Never been afraid to holler [02:33.78]about anything {anything?} Anything {ANYTHING!} [02:37.02]I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles [02:39.85]Pockets filled with a lot of lint, not a cent [02:42.37]Gotta vent, lot of innocent of lives lost on the project bench [02:45.36]Whatchu hollerin? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in [02:47.53]By the bodega, iron under my coat, feelin braver [02:51.87]Doo-rag wrappin my waves up, pockets full of hope [02:53.93]Do not step to me - I'm awkward, I box leftier often [02:57.10]My pops left me an orphan, my momma wasn't home [02:59.88]Could not stress to me I wasn't grown; 'specially on nights [03:02.54]I brought somethin home to quiet the stomach rumblings [03:05.64]My demeanor - thirty years my senior [03:08.04]My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin green up [03:10.96]Raisin my fingers to critics; raisin my head to the sky [03:13.93]Big I did it - multi before I die (nigga) [03:16.44]No lie, just know I chose my own fate [03:19.17]I drove by the fork in the road and went straight [03:21.70]See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare [03:24.46]Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here [03:27.58]To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me [03:30.35]as a monger of hate and Satan a scatter-brained atheist [03:33.23]But that ain't the case, see it's a matter of taste [03:35.83]We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is [03:38.95]Or is he the latter - a gateway to escape? [03:41.53]Media scapegoat, who they can be mad at today [03:44.15]See it's easy as cake, simple as whistlin Dixie [03:47.08]while I'm wavin the pistol at sixty Christians against me [03:49.89]Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics [03:52.72]in holy water - no wonder they try to hold me under longer [03:55.64]I'm a motherfuckin spiteful, DELIGHTFUL eyeful [03:58.42]The new Ice Cube - motherfuckers HATE to like you [04:01.34]What did I do? (huh?) I'm just a kid from the gutter [04:04.21]makin this butter off these bloodsuckers, cause I'm a muh'fuckin [04:07.02]RENEGADE! Never been afraid to say [04:09.35]what's on my mind at, any given time of day [04:12.25]Cause I'm a RENEGADE! Never been afraid to talk [04:15.07]about anything (ANYTHING) anything (ANYTHING), RENEGADE! [04:19.47]Never been afraid to say [04:21.08]what's on my mind at, any given time of day [04:23.62]Cause I'm a {RENEGADE} Never been afraid to holler [04:26.48]about anything {anything?} Anything {ANYTHING!} [04:29.92]RENEGADE! Never been afraid to say [04:32.48]what's on my mind at, any given time of day [04:34.91]Cause I'm a RENEGADE! Never been afraid to talk [04:37.71]about anything (ANYTHING) anything (ANYTHING), RENEGADE! [04:42.13]Never been afraid to say [04:43.80]what's on my mind at, any given time of day [04:46.40]Cause I'm a {RENEGADE} Never been afraid to holler [04:49.42]about anything {anything?} Anything {ANYTHING!}