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JAŸ-Z

BBC

Release date: 4th July 2013

From Magna Carta... Holy Grail
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About This Track

A Nas collaboration from Jay-Z's 2013 album 'Magna Carta... Holy Grail', 'BBC' catalogues luxury-brand signifiers across two decades of hip-hop ascent. Nas opens with a verse that moves from Bally shoes and unlaced Adidas in the late eighties to smoking in Ibiza and mixing D'USSE with cannabis, the trajectory framed as leisure earned. Jay-Z follows with his own inventory: Maybach headrest televisions, rope chains in the Rakim era, Suzuki Jeeps for his crew, a cherry-red M3, Versace plates bearing Basquiat collaborations. The hook insists on the distance travelled from coca leaves and farmers to polo fleece and billionaire status, the drug-dealer aesthetic now worn as costume rather than necessity.

The production, handled by Swizz Beatz, keeps the tempo brisk and the arrangement minimal, allowing the litany of brands and models to land without ornament. Both verses treat luxury as evidence, each item a receipt for survival and reinvestment. The track runs just over three minutes, its brevity matching the directness of the catalogue form.

"BBC" is a track by JAŸ-Z, from the album Magna Carta... Holy Grail, released 4th July 2013. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about JAŸ-Z.

About the Artist

JAŸ-Z

JAŸ-Z

Lyrics

BBC

[Intro: Nigo]

億万長者少年倶楽部

[Pre-Chorus: Third Ward Trill & Swizz Beatz]

My moth

Uh! Let's work!

Afucker is a billionaire mothafucker (Let's work! Talk to me, youlet's work!)

Where  heard ta at?!

That shit

I said my mothafucka is a billionaire mothafucker (Let's work! Where you at?! Let's work!)

Where you from?! Let's work!

[Chorus]

Let's work

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire (Oh!)

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire nigga!

From the coca leafs to the farmers

To the polo fleece to the bombers

R.I.P. to Gianni

Now we on our way

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire

[Verse 1: Nas]

Bally shoes, Gucci sneakers

Pharrell's a pharaoh, peep the features

Unlaced Adidas

Top of the world like pyramids in Giza

Fila sweats, 88 I rocked a mock neck

Carried a nine in my projects

Bucket hat EPMD cassettes

Now I'm smoking loud in Ibiza

Mix the D'USSE with the reefer

My whole life is leisure

Gangsta lean like the Pisa

Eiffel Tower, Hermés towel

The Feds is perched like an owl

Real niggas all feel the hook

[Chorus]

Let's work

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire nigga!

From the coca leafs to the farmers

To the polo fleece to the bombers

R.I.P. to Gianni

Now we on our way

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire

[Verse 2: Jay Z]

What you know about going out, head west

Maybach, 3 TV's all up in the headrest

Mace niggas at Madison Square Garden

20 million sold and we still catching charges

Rope chains, Rakim and Eric B

Bought my sidekicks Suzuki Jeeps and Cherokees

Hoop earrings, coupes with the rear cameras

Put that bitch in a cherry M3

I'm not your average dope dealer

Silver Toyota 4Runner's a four-wheeler

Me and Teflon Q45 infinite

Windows tinted, white girl all in it

Britney, bitch

MCM seats buck 50 stitch

Versace plates got the Basquiat

Collab from Versace's place

Cuban link 5 kilo

Your life is illegal when your chain can get the rico

Real niggas all feel the hook

[Chorus]

Let's work

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire nigga!

From the coca leafs to the farmers

To the polo fleece to the bombers

R.I.P. to Gianni

Now we on our way

D-boy drug dealer look

Billionaire

[Outro]

자기 신발 끝내주는데

자기 돈 좀 많나봐

자기 스타일 진짜 멋있다

백만장자 소년들의 모임

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Magna Carta... Holy Grail

2013
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Magna Carta... Holy Grail
Magna Carta... Holy Grail
JAŸ-Z
Release year
2013
  1. —Versus (Interlude)
  2. —BBC
  3. —Part II (On the Run)
  4. —Tom Ford
  5. —FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt
  6. —Oceans
  7. —Picasso Baby
  8. —La Familia
  9. —F.U.T.W
  10. —Heaven
  11. —Beach Is Better (Interlude)
  12. —Jay Z Blue
  13. —Somewhereinamerica
  14. —Crown
  15. —Nickels and Dimes

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The Lost Tapes
2015
Live At Coachella
2013
At Studio One
2010
The (Unofficial) Black Album Remix
2004
The Brown Album
2004
Unplugged
2001

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  5. Honor and Respect
  6. Imaginary Players (Mixed)
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  8. Jay-z's last song
  9. Lift Off (Demo)
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Production & Engineering

Writer
JAŸ-Z, Justin Timberlake, Nas, Pharrell Williams, Swizz Beatz, Timbaland
Producer
Pharrell Williams
Additional Vocals
Nigo, Pharrell Williams, Timbaland
Assistant Recording Engineer
DJ Swivel, Ramon Rivas
Audio Editor
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Mastering Engineer
Chris Gehringer
Mixing Engineer
Ken “Duro” Ifill
Recording Engineer
Chris Godbey, Demacio “Demo” Castellon
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