Can't You Tell

[Scratching]:

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" - Jay-Z 'Blue Magic'

[Verse One]:

Natural born hustler

Satisfying a customer

With this little box along side my jugular

I got the voice of a champ, flow like the levee broke

Fade away? I bet a Dre publishing check he won't

I love money too much, I gotta have it

It been like this for some time, I got a habit

Of lickin' my thumbs

And flippin' through ones and crumbled fives

Before rap made them hundreds arrive

That was me (where?)

On that block, drunk with some of my guys

With bundles and dollar signs in each one of our eyes

Sometime we stay there until the sun would arrive

When you awake, I'm in last nights clothes gettin' that cake

Till the last bit of work was gone and then I skate

So it's nothin' personal Interscope, I couldn't wait

I need a release date cause a date mean doe

I hope my fans understand and don't hate me though

But yo

[Chorus]:

Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"

Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick

"Can't you tell that I came..."

From BK

Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"

Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"

[Verse Two]:

See, in the game I came from we was poor

So when you got a lot of gwap, you ain't stop you get more (let's go!)

Don't think a little change gon' make me lounge

You rappers ain't safe until the Lord send his angels down

Man, this life don't owe you, you got a lot of nerve

Everything I get, I get cause I get what I deserve

Cause I earned it

Y'all see how I design them words

Some of y'all say I'm a nerd but it's easy to find a verb

Couple adjectives and some nouns and give it rhymin' swerve

And make it fly like when guys come and buy a bird

See, a lot of my metaphors from the dope game

If you ain't from there, you won't hear/hair them, you need Rogaine

Truth of the matter is, I came up wearing no name

My mom used to tell me, "Walk ahead" to buy her cocaine

And food stamps held me down like steel

That's a large part of the reason I feel how I feel

But yo

[Chorus]:

Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"

Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick

"Can't you tell that I came..."

From BK

Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"

Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"

[Verse Three]:

Uhhh

Ain't a damn thing promised in the dope game

Money make your man dishonest in the dope game

I'm tellin' you, the guns the hottest in the dope game

So please don't turn Carl Thomas in the "dope game"

And get emotional, just do what you supposed to do

Producers send more than one beat cause I'm tryin' to roast a few

And keep my snare poppin'

And DJ's hands choppin'

The Ortiz high won't die, it'll keep the fans coppin'

The haters is man jockin', they mad cause my Hancock is

In big bold letters on checks and they waitin' on Flex

To drop a bomb, I'm Vietnam, your boy ill watch

Everything there gon' disappear like my real pops

Hustler ambition

Dope boy grindin'

Don't forget I'm old boy that Snoop's homeboy signed (Dre)

Things happen for a reason, y'all gon' know Joe name

I left the packs I'm with the tracks, this my new dope game

But yo

[Chorus]:

Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"

Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick

"Can't you tell that I came..."

From BK

Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"

Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick

"Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"