best jay-z verse displaying his complex rhyme patterns

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The theme song to The Sopranos
Plays in the key of life on my mental piano
Got a strange way of seeing life, like
I'm Stevie Wonder with beads under the do-rag
Intuition is there, even when my vision's impaired, yeah
Knowing I can go just switching a spare
On the highway of life, nikka, it's sharp in my sight, oh!
Keen senses ever since I was a teen on the benches
Every time somebody like Ennis was mentioned
I would turn green—me, being in the trenches
Him, living adventurous, not worrying about expenditures
I'm braving temperatures below zero, no hero
No father figure; you gotta pardon a nikka
But I'm starving, my nikkas, and the weight loss in my figure
Is starting to darken my heart, 'bout to get to my liver
Watch it, my nikkas; I'm trying to be calm but I'm gon' get richer
Through any means with that thing that Malcolm palmed in the picture
Never read the Quran or Islamic scriptures
Only Psalms I read was on the arms of my nikkas
Tattooed, so I carry on like I'm nonreligious
Clap whoever stand between Shawn and figures
nikkas say it's the dawn, but I'm superstitious
shyt is as dark as it's been, nothing has gone as you predicted
I move with biscuits, stop the heart of nikkas acting too suspicious
This is food for thought—you do the dishes!
 

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I jog in the graveyard
Spar in the same ring
That was housed by the building
Where Malcolm X was slain
I spring train in the winter
Round early December
Run suicide drills over and over
With the weight of the world on my shoulder
That's why they call me "Hova"
I'm far from being God
But I work goddamn hard
I wake up the birds so when the nerds asleep
I'm catching my second wind the second the first one end
I am "focused man"
And I'm not afraid of death
And I'm going all out
I circle the vultures in a van and
I run the block (run)
Pull up in a drop (pull up)
Push up on my money (push up)
I'm in great shape dunny
I keep jacks jumping thirty six sets
Like a personal trainer I teach coke to stretch
I pump in Roc sweats
All white trainers
The ghetto's Billy Blanks
I show you nikkas what pain is
Maintain your stamina
Hov will damage ya
Spot you two rhymes y'all nikkas is amateurs
The fifth, a dead lift if
nikkas don't want to get shot
Then y'all nikkas better squat
I drop your set for rep
No need to hit the showers
The spit from the fifth leave you wet
Lyrical exercise
Y'all nikkas ain't tired right?
 
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