8 Miles and Runnin'

[Intro: Jay-Z]

Gyeah

Renegades is back

Em, the beat is sick

It's Young

Freeway

8 Miles

Let's go!

[Verse 1: Jay-Z]

Eight miles and runnin', got my seventh album droppin'

And my eighth album comin', feeding a thousand growling stomachs

But I can rewind the calendar back, back when it was now or nothin'

People said I would amount to nothin', that I had talent for nothin'

Said I would succumb to violence or be silenced by a gunman

I could just hear the folks now: "He got what he had comin'"

Now that my eighth album's comin', everybody's smilin'

Wanting somethin', claiming that they done somethin' for him

Got their Jay-Z pom-poms and their Hov uniform

Claiming they been runnin' and tellin' everybody, like Martin Lawrence

'Bout how hot my rap performance was before I was who I was

Claiming that they threw it up before I threw it up—you what?

Where was you before I blew this up?

I didn't see you in the courtroom when everybody was suin' us

I didn't see you in all black when everybody was suitin' up

Back on the block, getting it in—it wasn't no you with us

[Chorus: Jay-Z & Freeway]

Eight miles and runnin', got my seventh album droppin'

And my eighth album comin', feeding a thousand growling stomachs—Free!

Six miles and runnin', got my fifth strip poppin'

And my first album comin', feeding twenty growling stomachs

Eight miles and runnin', got my seventh album droppin'

And my eighth album comin', feeding a thousand growling stomachs—Free!

Six miles and runnin', got my fifth strip poppin'

And my first album comin', feeding twenty growling stomachs

[Verse 2: Freeway]

Six miles and runnin' in the Pontiac six thousand eighty six

Trans' might shift while the engine run

Anyone, tell your honor: "Give me one more chance"

And them smokers screaming, "One more gram!"

So I'ma bring 'em one (Gyeah)

Only son to my pop, stick close to my mama

Keep toasters for drama, make Salat with my son

My son growin', and he learnin' a lot

That's when them toasters, when the burners will pop, brain on your, um–

'Brella, nigga, tell 'em niggas, that's like the Biblical scripture

Look back, turn to salt, like the sinners

And most of you heartless and self-centered like Meshach and Mesha

Set up your brother 'cause you jealous, nigga

The heat back (Ugh), like you never left, I ever rep

Cops watch every step, six miles and runnin'

Dodgin' every trap, the rap gingerbread man

Cherish every precious breath, State P, the second gat

[Chorus: Jay-Z & Freeway]

Eight miles and runnin', got my seventh album droppin'

And my eighth album comin', feeding a thousand growling stomachs—Free!

Six miles and runnin', got my fifth strip poppin'

And my first album comin', feeding twenty growling stomachs

Eight miles and runnin', got my seventh album droppin'

And my eighth album comin', feeding a thousand growling stomachs—Free!

Six miles and runnin', got my fifth strip poppin'

And my first album comin', feeding twenty growling stomachs

[Verse 3: Jay-Z]

Back when nobody would find he had talent, nobody would sign me

Nobody believed in me, nobody but Mommy, blindly

But how can she deny me?

Me being the youngest runt to come up outta her tummy

She got nothing but love for me

When niggas would one me, the industry shunned me

That's why I'm taking all the industry's money

Revenge is sweet honey, we run this

Young is the illest, Free is the future

Beans and Bleek is right now, we can see y'all, eight miles, nigga

[Chorus: Jay-Z & Freeway]

Eight miles and runnin', got my seventh album droppin'

And my eighth album comin', feeding a thousand growling stomachs—Free!

Six miles and runnin', got my fifth strip poppin'

And my first album comin', feeding twenty growling stomachs

Eight miles and runnin', got my seventh album droppin'

And my eighth album comin', feeding a thousand growling stomachs—Free!

Six miles and runnin', got my fifth strip poppin'

And my first album comin', feeding twenty growling stomachs