Interlude Lyrics

[Produced by Just Blaze]

[Intro]
The other night when I was researching what was going to be discussed today I came across a passage wrote down, I think it really exemplifies what the young brother next to me was just talking about and I learned that all things must come to an end
It is an inevitable part of the cycle of existence, all things must conclude
Take the analogy of a tree that grows in Brooklyn among the steel and the concrete with all its glorious branches and leaves, one day it too will pass on its legacy through the seeds it dropped to the ground and as the wind carries these seeds throughout wherever they might move a new life will begin for each one of them as they stand as a monument to the one that came before
That came before
That came before
That came before
That came before...

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Genius Annotation

Produced by Just Blaze, this isn’t the first time that Jay used an intro to an album that he doesn’t appear on. For Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life he let Pain In Da Ass and, more importantly, Memphis Bleek entirely perform the intro.

Just Blaze wrote all the lyrics to this, and performed them himself, as well as his performance on the 10th track (also an interlude), “Public Service Announcement.”

Blaze said:

I wanted it to feel like spacey. Like you were about to be on the verge of something different. I didn’t want the intro to be like super loud and boisterous. I wanted it to be something like you kinda just zoned out to. I wrote the dialogue, the talking, I changed my voice up. Same as I did on ‘PSA.’ I think I said something about trees or flowers growing in Brooklyn. I don’t know, it sounded good at the time. I don’t even remember [all] the words.

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