[ti:Nickels and Dimes]
[ar:Jay-Z]
[al:Magna Carta... Holy Grail]
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[00:00.74]Nickels And Dimes - Jay-Z
[00:26.50]Nickels and dimes
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[00:29.87]Sticks to my mind
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[00:36.23]I'll never win
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[00:41.60]You have my friends
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[00:44.78]Got a thing for nickel plated nines and pretty dimes
[00:47.98]Mac-11 I squeeze like lemon limes
[00:50.77]Squirt obey your thirst, fashion lines
[00:53.21]
[00:53.78]Between beauty and beast, I walk the line
[00:56.20]Johnny Cash, I'm a real G
[00:58.83]I cut my self today to see if I still bleed
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[01:02.64]Success is so sublime
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[01:04.13]Gotta do that time to time so I don't lose my mind
[01:06.69]Something 'bout the struggle so divine
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[01:09.74]This sort of love is hard to define
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[01:12.74]When you scratching for every nickel and dime
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[01:15.36]Got me itching to do this shit for my mom
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[01:18.06]Do this shit for my town
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[01:20.87]Leave the door open hoping they kick it down
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[01:23.24]The purist form of giving is anonymous to anonymous
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[01:26.11]We gonna make it there, I promise this
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[01:30.55]Nickels and dimes
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[01:34.98]Sticks to my mind
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[01:40.59]I'll never win
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[01:46.02]You have my friends
[01:47.52]
[01:50.27]Sometimes I feel survivor's guilt
[01:52.76]I gave some money to this guy, he got high as hell
[01:55.57]Now I'm part of the problem far as I could tell
[01:58.19]Did I do it for him or do it for myself
[02:00.56]Can't lie to myself
[02:01.93]I love my niggas more than my own blood
[02:04.18]I die for my niggas and I love my cub, hope that's not fucked up
[02:08.11]I got a problem with the handouts, I took the man route
[02:11.23]I'll give an opportunity though, that's the plan now
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[02:13.41]No guilt in giving clear a nigga conscience out
[02:17.03]No guilt in receiving, every thing within reason
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[02:20.15]Can't see it taking food out my little monster's mouth
[02:22.33]That will drive me gaga
[02:23.64]Run up in your momma's house, two nickels, one dime
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[02:27.51]Manslaughter charges, the lawyer, knocked it down
[02:30.51]I'm just trying to find common ground
[02:32.82]'fore Mr. Belafonte come and chop a nigga down
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[02:35.87]Mr. Day O, major fail
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[02:38.37]Respect these youngins boy, it's my time now
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[02:41.12]Hublot homie, two door homie
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[02:43.49]You don't know all the shit I do for the homies
[02:45.79]Nickels and dimes
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[02:50.29]Sticks to my mind
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[02:55.71]I'll never win
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[03:01.21]You have my friends
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[03:17.38]Nickels and dimes
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[03:22.93]Sticks to my mind
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[03:26.61]Pardon my hubris, Stanley Kubrick
[03:29.17]With eyes wide shut, I could cook up two bricks
[03:31.79]Turn nickels to dime, turn dimes to quarters
[03:34.59]Turn wives from daughters, oh, I'm clear as water
[03:37.53]And just for clarity, my presence is charity
[03:39.78]My flow is a gift, philanthropist
[03:41.83]Everybody around me rich, or will be
[03:45.07]Baby boy I promise you this, or kill me
[03:47.88]And when a nigga go as the old adage go
[03:50.01]You die rich or you die a disgrace, so just let me grow
[03:53.06]Watch me cook, throw no looks
[03:55.43]Like Magic in his prime when Kareem sky hooked
[03:58.13]Y'all not worthy, sometimes I feel like
[04:01.36]Y'all don't deserve me, my flow unearthly
[04:03.80]The greatest form of giving is anonymous to anonymous
[04:06.98]So here y'all go, I promise this
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[04:10.92]Nickels and dimes
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[04:15.97]Sticks to my mind
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[04:21.53]I'll never win
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[04:26.97]You have my friends
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[04:32.34]Nickels and dimes
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[04:37.51]Sticks to my mind
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[04:43.13]I'll never win
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[04:48.43]You have my friends