The Best Of Both Worlds

(album: The Best Of Both Worlds - 2002)

[R Kelly {Jay-Z}:]
{Yeah, yeah, it's here niggas! (woo-Wee!)}
{Rockland/Roc-A-Fella collaboration}
What, what, what, what
{Tone the Referee the best of both worlds}
Welcome to the best of both worlds
{R. Kelly}
Chi-Town
{Let's just start fronting on 'em right away (c'mon Jay)}

[Jay-Z:]
I pull up with the big boy truck, nigga big boy drop
We be the only big boys that the big boys watch
Sing to 'em Kelly

[R Kelly:]
Best of both worlds (rock for 'em Hov')

[Jay-Z:]
The combination of Pappy Mason and Larry Davis
Martin and Malcolm, this is the bigger than the album
R-ah

[R Kelly:]
Oh yeah
The best of (best of both) both worlds oh!

[Jay-Z:]
I got a million on that boy singing whatever on the flow
Y'all got cheddar to blow, whatever, let a nigga know
Kel's

[R Kelly {Jay-Z}:]
The best of
{Back and forth, back and forth, let's do it}
Both worlds (rock for 'em Hov')

[Jay-Z:]
It's not even close, just leave it alone
I'm Michael Jordan, I play for the team I own
Sing to 'em Kel'

[R Kelly:]
The best of both worlds oh!

[Jay-Z:]
Young. H flow feared in fifty states
Young. Kels. Nigga the best of both worlds
Holler

[R Kelly {Jay-Z}:]
The best of
{Just get gangsta with a nigga}
Both worlds
{Just get gangsta with it (rock for 'em Hov')}

[Jay-Z:]
You can't possibly think you can stop this
It's prophecy; plus I feel like the nigga Big watching me
Kel

[R Kelly {Jay-Z}:]
Best of both worlds
{Stop playing with these niggas, talk to 'em!}

[R. Kelly:]
This is for my niggas down bottom and them hustlers on twenty-two's
Single parent mothers in the hood is who I'm talking to
I know it's rough in the ghetto but let me walk with you
Talk with you, uh-huh, yeah-hea
And for the ones who put you down and said you wouldn't make it
But you still held your ground and came up out that basement
In the memory of those that we lost, it's dedicated
We miss y'all, uh-huh, yeah-hea

[Jay-Z (R. Kelly):]
This right here this whole album's
In the memory of all our fallen soldiers (uh-huh)
We lost along the way (oh) knahm saying, ghetto to ghetto
City to city, worldwide, we got y'all, y'knah mean?
(Ghetto America) This album right here represents strength
(Oh! Yeah) Strength in our people, understand it

[Jay-Z & R. Kelly:]
Cock-suckers can not touch us, the block love us
We got the ghetto on our back muh'fuckers

[R Kelly {Jay-Z}:]
The best of
{Yeah, right}
Both worlds (rock for 'em Hov')

[Jay-Z:]
We got this locked for two reasons: we from the hood
Plus we promised both our mommas that we would
Kel, take 'em to church

[R. Kelly:]
The best of both worlds oh!

[Jay-Z:]
We mastered this, don't you know
I eat beef and breathe acid, weak bastards
We copped and we crash it
Then we cop again 'cause we are classic
Let me speak for ya R we "Scarface" re-enacted
"The Godfather" trilogy re-casted
But it's real like we grieving for Aaliyah with the masses
But I hope my boy Dash get to see it when he passes
I feel her soul when the Lee passes
When the wind blows, it's almost like I see her in the Hamptons
Even more reason to be up in them mansions
Laid back, feet up in the hammock, I'ma live for ya
Big too, 'til they put me in the grave
I'ma floss 'til they toss me a Bed-Stuy parade
'Til Chi-Town make a nigga Mayor for a day
In the memory of Joanne Kelly, let us pray

[R. Kelly:]
Both worlds. Welcome to the best of both worlds