Never Let Me Down lyrics

[Chorus]

When it comes to being true, at least true to me

One thing I've found, one thing I found

Oh no, you'll never let me down

Get up, I get down, get up, I get down

Get up, I get down, get up, I get down

Get up, I get down, get up, I get down

[Verse 1: Jay-Z]

Yo, first I snatched the streets, then I snatched the charts

First I had they ear, now I have they heart

Rappers came and went, I've been here from the start

I seen them put it together, watched them take it apart

Seen the Rovers roll up with ribbons

I seen them re-po'd, re-sold, then re-driven

So when I reload, he holds number one position

When you hot, I'm hot

And when your feet cold, mines is sizzling

It's plain to see, niggas can't fuck with me

'cause I'ma be that nigga for life

This is not an image, this is God-given

This is hard-livin', mixed with Cristal sippin'

It's the most consistent, Hov

Give you the most hits you can fit inside a whole disc and

Nigga I'm home on these charts, y'all niggas visitin'

It's Hov tradition, Jeff Gordon of rap

I'm back to claim pole position, holla at ya boy

[Chorus]

When it comes to being true, at least true to me

One thing I've found, one thing I found

Oh no, you'll never let me down

Get up, I get down, get up, I get down

Get up, I get down, get up, I get down

Get up, I get down, get up

[Verse 2: Kanye West]

I get down for my grandfather who took my mama

Made her sit in that seat where white folks ain't want us to eat

At the tender age of 6, she was arrested for the sit-ins

And with that in my blood I was born to be different

Now niggas can't make it to ballots to choose leadership

But we can make it to Jacob's and to the dealership

That's why I hear new music and I just don't be feelin' it

Racism's still alive, they just be concealin' it

But I know they don't want me in the damn club

They even made me show ID to get inside of Sam's Club

I done did dirt and went to church to get my hands scrubbed

Swear I've been baptized 'least three or four times

But in the land where niggas praise Yukons and getting paid

It's gonna take a lot more than coupons to get us saved

Like it take a lot more than doo rags to get you waves

Nothing sad as that day my girl's father passed away

So I promised to Mr. Rainey I'm gonna marry your daughter

And you know I gotta thank you for the way that she was brought up

And I know that you were smiling when you see the car I bought her

You sent tears from heaven when you seen my car get balled up

But I can't complain what the accident did to my left eye

'Cause look what an accident did to Left Eye

First Aaliyah now Romeo must die

I know I got angels watching me from the other side

[Chorus]

When it comes to being true, at least true to me

One thing I've found, one thing I found

Oh no, you'll never let me down

Get up, I get down, get up, I get down

Get up, I get down, get up, I get down

Get up, I get down, get up, I get down

[Verse 3: J. Ivy]

We are all here for a reason on a particular path

You don't need a curriculum to know that you're a part of the math

Cats think I'm delirious but I'm so damn serious

That's why I expose my soul to the globe; the world

I'm trying to make it better for these little boys and girls

I'm not just another individual

My spirit is a part of this that's why I get spiritual

But I get my hymns from Him

So it's not me, it's He that's lyrical

I'm not a miracle, I'm a heaven-sent instrument

My rhythmatic regiment navigates melodic notes

For your soul and your mental

That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into

Yeah I need my loot by rent day

But that ain't what gives me the heart of Kunta Kinte

I'm trying to get us "us free" like Cinque

I can't stop, that's why I'm hot

Determination, dedication, motivation

I'm talking to you of my many inspirations

When I say I can't let you or self-down

If I were on the highest cliff, on the highest riff

And if you slipped off the side and clinched on to your life

In my grip, I would never ever let you down

And when these words are found

Let it be known that God's penmanship has been signed

With a language called love

That's why my breath is felt by the deaf

And while my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind

I too dream in color and in rhyme

So I guess I'm one of a kind in a full house

'Cause whenever I open my heart, my soul or my mouth

A touch of God reigns out

Take 'em to church

[Chorus]

When it comes to being true, at least true to me

One thing I found, one thing I found

Oh no, you'll never let me down

Get up, I get, get up, I get

Get up, I get, get up, I get

Get up, I get, get up, I get down

[Verse 4: Jay-Z & Kanye West]

Who else you know been hot this long?

(Oh yeah, we ain't finished)

Started from nothing but he got this strong

(The Roc is in the building)

Built the Roc from a pebble, peddled rock before I met you

Pedaled bikes, got my nephews pedal bikes because they special (Wooooo)

Let you tell it, man, I'm falling

Well, somebody must have caught him

'Cause every fourth quarter, I like to Mike Jordan them

Number one albums, what I got? Like four of them

More of them on the way, the eighth wonder on the way

Clear the way, I'm here to stay

Y'all can save the chitter chat, this and that

This is Jay, dissing Jay will get you maced

When I start spitting them lyrics niggas get very religious

Six Hail Marys, 'Please Father forgive us'

Young the archbishop, the Pope John Paul of y'all niggas

The way y'all all follow Jigga

Hov's a living legend and I'll tell you why

Everybody wanna be Hov and Hov's still alive

• Artist:Kanye West
• Album:The College Dropout (OG Version) (2003)