Featuring: JAY-Z

Songwriter: Herbert Magidson Allie Wrubel Jack Knight Nashiem Myrick Michael Carlos Jones Mechalie Jamison Diddy The Notorious B.I.G. Mario Winans JAY-Z Faith Evans

Producer: Diddy

{Jay-Z Intro}
Old school, new school need to know this
I burn like *Rest In Peace*
I burn faster than gas in mopeds
Jigga Man, BK shit ???
Jigga Man ya heard
BK ya heard
Uh uh, the free-mix ya heard
I rely on Bed-stuy to shut it down when I die
Uh Uh, In The Words of my boy, B.I
I got you baby boy
The Roc is in the building
Let's do the damn thing Faith

[Jay-Z Verse 1]
I'm in a class all by myself
I run rap all by myself
Thinking about the past
When I try to forecast myself
Or when I get this cash
What I'm gon buy myself
More Money, More Problems
Now I'm feeling like big myself
Nigga's gon love you, Can't kid myself
Fuck it, I dig a ditch for those pricks myself
A Superstar but sometimes I forget myself
All alone in this world now I'm feeling like faith myself
Looking in the mirror, how could you take yourself?
How could you hate a dude getting cake like myself?
You should be like, I could be like that someday myself
I'm from the hood sort like yourself
It's all to the good now but bullet rounds are aimed towards myself
I dodged them, like neo
People try to assault my wealth
I'm here to say I put that on myself
HOV!

[Faith Evans Verse 2]
It's over now, I can't compete
I don't know how I'm still standing on my feet
So turned around and incomplete
I'm not that happy woman that I used to be

Oh, please tell me what did you mean
When you said that you were mine, you knew that was a lie
But in your heart you know that truth
And I'm trying to forget
All the things you put me through (Oh baby)

[Hook]
I never thought you'd turn you back
And walk away from love like that
While I was holding on to you
All you did was let me go

I never thought I would regret
The way I felt when we first met
And now I'm standing here
Alone in this world, alone

[Faith Evans Verse 3]
It's over now, we can't go on
In my eyes I thought that you could do no wrong
It's no surprise we both belong
Because of you my heart's singing us that song

Oh, please tell me what did you mean
When you said that you were mine, you knew that was a lie
But in your heart you know that truth
And I'm trying to forget
All the things you put me through (Oh baby)

[Hook]

[Bridge]
I can't believe our love is over now
Where did love go
And why did I believe that we would be together forever
Now it's all a memory

[Hook x2]

Faith Evans

Faith Evans is a singer-songwriter-producer who was the first lady of Bad Boy Entertainment and former wife of the label’s star, The Notorious B.I.G.

After working as a background singer for Al B. Sure!, Faith was writing songs and singing background for artists such as Mary J. Blige, Usher, and Tony Thompson before releasing her own debut album, Faith, in 1995. The album was certified platinum and featured the gold singles “You Used To Love Me” and “Soon As I Get Home”. After Biggie’s murder on March 9, 1997, Faith—along with Puff Daddy and 112—paid tribute to him on the #1 pop single “I’ll Be Missing You”, which won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1998.

Her second album, Keep the Faith, also achieved platinum status and featured the gold single “Love Like This”. She left Bad Boy after her third album, Faithfully, and released several albums through multiple labels, including the 2017 duet project, The King & I, which mixed her vocals with acapellas from The Notorious B.I.G. She appeared in the 2003 movie The Fighting Temptations, as well as the reality television shows R&B Divas and Love & Hip Atlanta.