Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Artist: Jay-Z f/ Lenny Kravitz
Album:  The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse
Song:   Guns & Roses
Typed by: Originalhamburglar@yahoo.com
 
Yeah it's magic
Uhh, Jay-Z and Lenny Kravitz
And it's a Heavy D production you bastards
Come on
Ha hey yo stop playin man
This is real serious
Ha (It's the rock) yeah yo
 
[Jay-Z]
Let?s go
Post Postatono, Hov' hangin with Bono
U2 can live like Salvatore Ferragamo
And U2 can cool out poolside at the Delano
And U2 flow like you was out of your mind yo
Cause who knew dude that loved apple pies from McDonalds
Would soon be the boss of the Big Apple, ya know
And who knew dude that played ball for the NBA
Would make a mistake on the who knew estates, throw it away
Who knew that would be his last shot, who drew up that play
They giveth and they taketh life is cruel that way
But even a broken clock is right at least two times a day
You could have turned Guns into Roses like two times today
Now here?s something you gotta say two times to Jay
I got my shades on waiting for the sun to shine my way
Got my boom box, suntan lotion waiting for action
They say when you play with skills, good luck could happen
Let's go
 
(C'mon) It's the Roc (repeat 4X)
That's right
 
[Jay-Z]
Things got too hot so I jumped off in this rap shit
You got it kris-krossed ain't no turning me backwards
Too many District Attorneys concerned with the actions
Of one individual he's criminally attached
I turned in all my rap chips I'm earning my bachelors
While dating all the models and actresses
I'm learning all the potholes in every single barrio
Trying not to mess up my axis kid
On the road to the riches through trafficking
Through rappining and whatever's happening
Roc-a-wear I'm the young black Ralph Lauren
Every time I get out they put me right back in
The Michael Corleone of the microphone
The Michelangelo of flow I paint pictures with poems
I gather no moss like a rolling stone
Case the Grim Reaper visits my home, nigga I'm gone c'mon
 
(C'mon) It's the Roc (3X)
(C'mon) That's right (C'mon)
 
[Lenny Kravitz: repeat 2X]
Life is all about Guns and Roses
Bittersweet like friends and foes
Some get left behind and some get chosen
Just like life, Guns and Roses
 
[Jay-Z]
Tote more Guns then Roses, foes is,
visibly shook of the invisible bully, let's go
Flowers need water to grow, it gotta rain
And in order to experience joy you need pain
Every time a baby is born, somebody?s slain
You know the saying, somebody's lose is another's gain
The sun comes out when the water goes down the drain
A rainbow then the clouds come out we do it again
Everything evens up, you just wait
Even a garbage can gets a steak
You ain't even a garbage can you have faith
But when it turns your way before it turns away
Gotta turn that into something you gotta learn from Jay
You will get return in your investment if attention you pay let's go
 
(C'mon) It's the Roc (3X)
(C'mon) That's right (C'mon)
 
[Lenny Kravitz: repeat 2X]
Life is all about Guns and Roses
Bittersweet like friends and foes
Some get left behind and some get chosen
Just like life, Guns and Roses
 
Life is all about Guns and Roses

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anyone ever hear this song before? i was just telling my rap obsessed friend about lenny kravitz and how he went to school w/ slash from gnr and he immediately sent me this song and the lyrics..

this may be old news because this song is from 2003 but this is my first time hearing about this.. do you think lenny kravitz wrote/sang that part intentionally referring to gnr? cuz he was pretty close w/ gnr and it couldnt've been just a coinkidink... could it?  :confused:

L-O-L :rofl:

I don't think it has much, if anything to do with Guns N Roses the band.

maybe he had the bandname in mind and wanted to do soemthing with it? i dunno...

I wrote a song alled Live Like A Suicide once... it was about suicide, had nothing to do with GnR, it was just a practical joke between friends... maybe he did that? i dunno

Terrible lyrics

jay-z and GNR? never thoughd id see that in this lifetime  :hihi:

the chorus is done by Lenny Kravitz though..

i know but still there two different worlds.