Motherfuckers say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels   Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?   See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined   That same dude you gave nothin', I made somethin' doin'   What I do through and through and I give you the news   With a twist it's just his ghetto point-of-view   The renegade, you been afraid, I penetrate pop culture   Bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they      Pop toasters and they live with they moms   Got dropped roasters from botched robberies niggaz crotched over   Mommy's knocked up 'cause she wasn't watched over   Knocked down by some clown when child support knocked   No, he's not around, now how that sound to ya, jot it down   I bring it through the ghetto without ridin' 'round   Hidin' down, duckin' strays from frustrated youths   Stuck in they ways, just read a magazine that fucked up my day   How you rate music that thugs with nothin' relate to it?   I help them see they way through it, not you   Can't step in my pants, can't walk in my shoes   Bet everything you worth, you lose your tie and your shirt, yeah      Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen   I ain't no politician but I'll kick it with 'em a minute   'Cause see they call me a menace and if the shoe fits I'll wear it   But if it don't, then y'all'll swallow the truth grin and bear it   Now who's these king of these rude Ludicrous lucrative lyrics   Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics   Usin his music to steer it, sharin' his views and his merits   But there's a huge interference, they're sayin' you shouldn't hear it      Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit   Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish   But I'm debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America   As a motherfuckin' drug addict like you didn't experiment?   Now now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror   And see yourself as a kid again and you get embarrased   And I got nothin' to do but make you look stupid as parents   You fuckin' do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good at marriage   And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here   I don't think you do so stay tuned and keep your ears glued   To the stereo 'cause here we go he's Jigga joint Jigga-chk-Jigga   And I'm the sinister, Mr. Kiss-My-Ass it's just the      Renegade   Never been afraid to say what's on my mind   At any given time of day 'cause I'm a   Renegade   Never been afraid to talk about   Anything, anything   Anything, anything      Renegade   Never been afraid to say what's on my mind   At any given time of day 'cause I'm a   Renegade   Never been afraid to holler about   Anything, anything   Anything, anything      I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles   Pockets filled with a lot of lint, not a cent   Gotta vent, lot of innocent of lives lost on the project bench   Whatchu hollerin'? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in   By the bodega, iron under my coat, feelin' braver   Doo-rag wrappin' my waves up, pockets full of hope   Do not step to me, I'm awkward, I box leftier often   My pops left me an orphan, my momma wasn't home      Could not stress to me I wasn't grown 'specially on nights   I brought somethin' home to quiet the stomach rumblings   My demeanor, thirty years my senior   My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin' green up   Raisin' my fingers to critics, raisin' my head to the sky   Big I did it multi before I die   No lie, just know I chose my own fate   I drove by the fork in the road and went straight      See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare   Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here   To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me   As a monger of hate and Satan a scatter-brained atheist   But that ain't the case, see it's a matter of taste   We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is   Or is he the latter, a gateway to escape?   Media scapegoat, who they can be mad at today      See it's easy as cake, simple as whistlin' Dixie   While I'm wavin' the pistol at sixty Christians against me   Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics   In holy water, no wonder they try to hold me under longer   I'm a motherfuckin' spiteful, delightful eyeful   The new Ice Cube, motherfuckers hate to like you   What did I do? I'm just a kid from the gutter   Makin' this butter off these bloodsuckers, 'cause I'm a muh'fuckin'      Renegade   Never been afraid to say what's on my mind   At any given time of day 'cause I'm a   Renegade   Never been afraid to talk about   Anything, anything   Anything, anything      Renegade   Never been afraid to say what's on my mind   At any given time of day 'cause I'm a   Renegade   Never been afraid to holler about   Anything, anything   Anything, anything      Renegade   Never been afraid to say what's on my mind   At any given time of day 'cause I'm a   Renegade   Never been afraid to talk about   Anything, anything   Anything, anything      Renegade   Never been afraid to say what's on my mind   At any given time of day 'cause I'm a   Renegade   Never been afraid to holler about   Anything, anything   Anything, anything