Illest Motherfucker Alive – English Lyrics

• By: Kanye West, JAY-Z
• Album: Watch The Throne

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

I need a slow motion video right now

Cause I'm moving in slow motion, slow motion

Feelin' like Hype Williams shooting a nigga

Shooting a nigga, hey hey hey

I need a slow motion video right now ay ay

Damn baby pussy can't be your only hustle

Unless you bad as Naomi Russell

I mean a lot of niggas got money

So basically, Russell ain't the only Russell

Russell Brand, Russell Crow

Zero Zero Zero Zero, a whole lot of 0's

What you after, actor money?

You in line behind currency, yeah you after money

Bullet proof condom when I'm in these hoes

Got staples on my dick (why) fuckin' centerfolds

And I swear to God they so cold

Got a nigga in Miami wearing winter clothes

I got my fur on feelin' like Jerome

She got her fur too, we get our his and her on

Don't look at the jewelry, or get your blurr on

Too close, you comatose so dope you overdose

Get back, you overclose

Oh no, the hood was strugglin'

But then I blessed them with that Polo

Niggas was making music and then my first solo...

Collo Drolo sponsored by Manolo

She got Zeppi Notos ready for some photos

Yeah and I'm cold bitch, please try to keep the door closed

Lanvin thousand dollar tee with no logos

Let me show you what I see when my eyes closed

Take it how you want til a nigga dead

(Til then I'm the illest motherfucker alive)

Whole world aiming at a nigga head

(Because I'm the illest motherfucker alive)

King Hov, I'm exactly what the fuck you think

11 in a row, Bill Russell rings, Michael Jordan swag

Ya'll think Michael Jordan bad

Nigga I got a 5 more rings than Michael Jordan had

Elvis has left the building now I'm on the Beatles ass

Niggas hear Watch The Throne, yeah it's like the Beatles back

Bey Bey my Yoko Ono, Rih Rih complete the family

Imagine how that's gon look front row at the Grammys

Fuck your awards like Eddie Murphy's couch

The Roc is in the building we should have stayed in the house

I don't even know what we doing here

Seems to me a complete waste of gear

Just a fuckin waste of time, a complete waste of bottles

Niggas fashion is weak, they be wastin' all the models

Got the oversized Rolley let me show the how to do it

When I say it then you see, it ain't only in the music

Basquiats, Warhols serving as my muses

My house like a museum, so I see em when I'm peeing

Usually you have this much taste you European

That's the end of that way of thinking, nigga never again

Know when to leave when the heat is coming, I learned that

This is where DiNero would be if he ain't turn back

Fuck Sosa, this Hova this is real life

This is what the ending of Scarface should feel like

I need a slow motion video right now

Cause I'm moving in slow motion slow motion

Feelin' like Hype Williams shooting a nigga

Shooting a nigga hey hey hey

I need a slow motion video right now ay ay

I'm moving in slow motion slow motion

Key Grammar Structures

• Unless you bad as Naomi Russell

  ➔ Comparative structure with 'as... as'

  ➔ The structure "as... as" is used to compare equality between two things or people.

• Niggas was making music and then my first solo...

  ➔ Past Progressive (was/were + verb-ing)

  ➔ The "was making" tense describes an action that was ongoing in the past.

• I got my fur on feelin' like Jerome

  ➔ Causative structure with 'have/get something done'

  ➔ The phrase "got my fur on" implies a state resulting from an action, often used informally for "wearing".

• 11 in a row, Bill Russell rings

  ➔ Prepositional phrase of sequence

  ➔ "in a row" is a common idiomatic expression for "consecutively".

• I don't even know what we doing here

  ➔ Embedded question (Noun clause)

  ➔ The clause "what we doing here" acts as the object of the verb "know".

• This is what the ending of Scarface should feel like

  ➔ Modal verb of recommendation/expectation 'should'

  ➔ "should feel like" expresses an expectation or a hypothetical ideal outcome.

• Til then I'm the illest motherfucker alive

  ➔ Superlative degree

  ➔ "illest" is the superlative form of "ill", used colloquially to mean the best or most extreme.

• Imagine how that's gon look front row at the Grammys

  ➔ Future intention ('gonna' reduction)

  ➔ "gon" is a contraction of "going to", indicating future planning or probability.