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Template:Song"The Joy" (originally titled "Joy"[1]) is the sixteenth and final track from Kanye West and Jay-Z's collaborative album, Watch The Throne (Deluxe) (2011).[2] It was originally released as a single on October 29, 2010, as part of Kanye's GOOD Fridays series.[3] The song features vocals from Pete Rock, Charlie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield, and Kid Cudi.

In the song, Kanye and Jay-Z reminisce about the older days.[3]

Production[]

The song heavily samples Curtis Mayfield's 1971 song, "The Makings of You" and Syl Johnson's 1967 song, "Different Strokes".[4]

Background[]

A leaked track list reveals that the song was originally meant to release on Good Ass Job under the name, "Joy".[1] Initially, the song was solely meant to feature CyHi the Prynce.[5]

Lyrics[]

Add a little sugar, honeysuckle and

A great big expression of happiness

Boy, you couldn't miss with a dozen roses

Such would astound you

The joy of children laughing around you

These are the makings of you

I do it for the fore-fathers and the street authors

That are not A&R's in the cheap office

Rappers that never got signed but they keep offers

Girls that's way too fine for us to keep off us

Gave her a handshake only for my man's sake

She in her birthday suit cause of the damn cake

Now there's crumbs all over the damn place

And she want me to cum all over her damn face

I never understood planned parenthood

'Cause I never met nobody planned to be a parent in the hood

Taking refills of that plan B pill

Another shorty that won't make it to the family will

If I don't make it, can't take it, hope the family will

They ain't crazy they don't know how insanity feel

Don C just had a shorty so it's not that bad

But I still hear the ghosts of the kids I never had

Add a little sugar, honeysuckle and

A great big expression of happiness

Boy, you couldn't miss with a dozen roses

Such would astound you

The joy of children laughing around you

These are the makings of you

No Electro, no metro, a little retro, ahh perfecto

You know the demo, ya boy act wild

You ain't get the memo? Yeezy's back in style

Now one room got Gidget, the other got Bridget

What's more tripped out dawg is they sisters

Nah, you ain't listen, they black, they sisters

They momma, named them after white bitches

So next time you see me on your fallopian

Though the jewelry's Egyptian, know the hunger's Ethiopian

Stupid questions like, "Is he gon' be dope again?

Have you seen him? Has anybody spoke to him?"

This beat deserves Hennessy, a bad bitch and a bag of weed, the Holy Trinity

In the mirror where I see my only enemy

Your life's cursed, well mine's an obscenity

Add a little sugar, honeysuckle and

A great big expression of happiness

Boy, you couldn't miss with a dozen roses

Such would astound you

The joy of children laughing around you

These are the makings of you

This is my momma shit

I used to hear this through the walls in the hood

When I was back in my pajama shit

Afro's and marijuana sticks, seeds and the ganja had

It popping like the sample that I'm rhyming with

Pete Rock, let the needle drop

I seen so much as a kid they surprised I don't needle pop

Taking sips of pop's six-pack of Miller nips

Pink Champale, Ballantine Ale

Ballys on my feet help me balance out well

That and the shit I used to balance on the scale

I got it honest from the parties from my momma's

Virgin Mary's try to judge her, I'm like, "Where the Madonna's now?"

Give all glory to Gloria, they said, "You raised that boy too fast"

But you was raising a warrior

We victorious, they'll never take the joy from us, uh

Keep you hands up, get 'em high now

Don't let them take your fire

Keep you hands up, get 'em high now

Don't let them take your fire

Keep you hands up, get 'em high now

Don't let them take your fire

Keep you hands up, get 'em high now

It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay

It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay

It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay

It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay

Credits[]

Adapted from Spotify[6]:

References[]

GOOD Fridays
2010
"POWER (Remix)" • "Monster" • "Runaway Love (Remix)" • "Devil In A New Dress" • "Good Friday" • "Lord Lord Lord" • "So Appalled" • "Christian Dior Denim Flow" • "Don't Stop!" • "Take One For The Team" • "Don't Look Down" • "The Joy" • "Looking For Trouble" • "Chain Heavy" • "Christmas In Harlem"
2016
"FACTS" • "Real Friends" • "No More Parties In LA" • "30 Hours"
2022
"True Love" • "530" • "Pablo" • "We Did It Kid"
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