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As the looming July 4th release date of Jay-Z's forthcoming Magna Carta Holy Grail LP approaches, the XXL staff is getting excited. To add to our excitement, with every new day Hov has taken to his new blog to release the lyrics from the album's tracks. So far, he's released all but a few of the tracks' lyrics, but there has been a bit of a caveat with the lyric sheets he's putting out into the world. On every sheet, there are words and phrases inexplicably blacked out, which goes along with Hov's recent less-is-more aesthetic, but leaves plenty to the imagination as far as what words could actually end up being rapped. But, even though the album and its songs have been cloaked in Illuminati-level secrecy, XXL was lucky enough to get the full lyrics to five of the anticipated standouts from Holy Grail. Click through to read the real lyrics for "Oceans," "BBC," "La Familia," "Tom Ford" and "Beach Is Better." Magna Carta coming soon!

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"Beach Is Better"

"Get ya cousin on the celly / Cause I ain't got time / To be arguing with your non-cousin / If you ain't really ready

Girl why you never ready / For as long as you took / You better look like Halle Berry / Or Beyonce, if you are Beyonce then we getting married

I brought sand to the beach / Because my beach is better / You can keep ya beach / Cause that beach whatever

Started out at the Darby / Ended up at 1Oak / Left the house with 100 grand / Ended up near broke

Don't get mad at me / I'm burying bucket after bucket / When it's gone I'm like I forgot that I buried it / I replace it with another one

Can't take this money with you / Burn this pizza up like I'm richer / The pizza delivery guy asking / If the oven's on"

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 "La Familia"

"Head of the family / El Padrino / Welcome home to Emory / Let's get back to this dinero / Joe Pesci wanna kidnap wifey / Good luck with that brush / You must gonna hide your whole family / What you think we wearing black for / Ready for that war / Ready for that war ready / You ain't ready yo, you radio / You ain't really ready / Real intimidating guys out chea / Alpo bought his bricks here / Elvis got his records took / It's like we got our seventh gear / NFL investigations / Oh, don't make me laugh / FBI investigation / We stood up to that / Facts only / Everything real in my raps only / Every intimidating guy in my clique really / Everyone is a movie star you got to film me / La familia

Head of the family / El Padrino / Welcome home to Emory / Let's get back to this dinero

Ready for that war / Ready for that war ready / You ain't ready yo, you radio / You ain't really ready /Head of the family / El Padrino

My brothers is my brother like my brother is / My intimidating friends really is my brothers / Like my mother kids / Not just in good times / That's that sucka rap lines / But it war times / It just is what it is / Head of the family / All my intimidating friends bosses though / Y'all don't understand we / We talk that intimidating guys bosses know / Triple double, LeBron James my OG / What's up to my good friend Juan / Tell these underage girls to pull their underage skirt down / I could see their ovaries / Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett snitching switching teams / Out here telling sports reporters things / Industry talk behind your back / Ain't nobody got time for that / Facts only / Everything real in my raps only / Every intimidating guy in my clique really / Even the girls keep it two hundred and trolly / It's la familia"

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"Tom Ford"

"Clap for a rapper with his rapping raps / Blow a stack for your raps with your trapping raps

Tom Ford 3x

Coming up / Coming down / Riding clean fix your head / Bad breath / H town / Keep it trill / Y'all know y'all can't bring that bad breath around / Paris where we been / Part my Parisian / It's Hov time / In no time / It's good breath all y'all season / I like drinking red wines like Bordeaux and Burgundies / Flush out a Riesling / When Hov's out / Those good wines are out / Y'all put y'all weaves in / Clap for a rapper with his rapping raps / Blow a stack for your raps with your trapping raps / Spent all my euros / On tuxes and weird clothes / I party with weirdos / Yeah Hov yeah Hov

I don't pop my collar / I rock Tom Ford / International bring back the Concorde / Numbers don't like check the score board

Tom Ford 5x

Hands down, got the best flow / Sound I'm so special / Sound boy burial / This is my Wayne Perry flow / Y'all know nothing about Wayne Perry though / District of the Columbia / Pictures of Young Scooter on your tumblrs / He always begs for hash tags and retweets / Damn Scooter / 140 characters is in these streets / Damn Scooter / Pardon my laughing y'all only flagging on beats, but I'm rapping! / Pardon my laughing I happen to think you sweet

I don't pop my collar / I rock Tom Ford / International bring back the Concorde / Numbers don't like check the score board

Chorus"

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"Oceans" Featuring Frank Ocean

"Blessings, blessings yeaah

I see / Elephant tusk on the boar of a sailing lady / Docked on the Ivory Coast / Mercedes in a row / Winding down the road / I hope my black skin don't dirt this white tuxedo / Before the Basquiat show / And if so / Well, I guess I'll just have to dry clean it / Yeah, dry clean it / Because this water drown my family / This water mixed my blood / This water tells my story / This water knows it all / Go ahead and spill some champagne / In the water / Go head and watch the sun blaze / On the waves /Of the ocean

Fuck. Oh boy, still smelling like a laundromat / White boat white robe / Can he be more cleaner / The oil spill that BP ain't clean up / I'm anti Santa Maria / Only Christopher we acknowledge / Is Wallace / I don't even like Washingtons in my pocket / Black card go hard when I'm shopping / Boat dock in front of Hermes picking cotton / Sink and fleeces / Lay on my clean sheets / Oh my sheets! I hope y'all don't get sea sick / See me in a pressed shirt you never saw / If it wasn't for those pictures / They wouldn't see me at all / Aww whole world still in awe / I crash through glass ceilings / I break through closed doors / I'm on the ocean / I'm in heaven / Yachting / Ocean 11

Chorus

Me and Ty Ty is like Pablo and Popeye / Winding dirt roads on mopeds spilling opus / Welcome to the magnum opus / The Magna Carta / The best-selling author decoded / On the holiday playing strange fruit / If I'm a make it to a billi I can't take the same route / Swoosh / That's the sound of the border / Swoosh / Now that's the sound of a baller / Penny Hardaway, scratch that, Hovi my back against the rope / The black Maybach / I'm back inside the boat / Shepard Fairey they finally gave me some hope / I can't believe they got Diddy to rock the vote / Democrat / Nope / I sold soap / In trouble water I had to learn how to float / On the ocean / I'm in heaven / Yachting / Ocean 11

Chorus"

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"BBC" Featuring Nas, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Swizz Beatz, Pharrell and Timbaland

"Let's work 4x

D boy I'm a d-boy, look / Billionare 2x

From the green tea leafs to the farmers / To the polo fleece to the bombers / R.I.P. to Gianni / Now we on our way / D boy I swear I'm a D boy! look / Billionare

Lets work

Bally shoes / Gucci sneakers / Pharrell's a pharaoh / Peep the features / Unlaced adidas / Top of the world like pyramids / In Giza / Fila sweats / 88 I rocked a mock neck / Carried a Swiss Army Knife in my projects / Bucket hat EPMD cassettes / Now I'm drinking milkshakes in Ibiza / Mix the D'USSE with the milkshake / My whole life is leisure / Gangsta lean like the Pisa / Eiffel Tower / Hermes towel / The Feds perched like an owl / Real D boys (I'm really a D boy) all feel the hook

Chorus 2x

What you know about going out / Head west / Maybach 3 TV's all up in the headrest / Mase is delivering a sermon at Madison Square Garden / 20 million sold and we still catching charges / Rope chains Rakim and Eric B / Bought my sidekicks Suzuki Jeeps and Cherokees / Hoop earrings / Coupes with the rear cameras / Put that polite young lady in a cherry M3 / I'm not ya average guy who drives an M3 / Silver Toyotas four runners and / And four wheelers / Me and Teflon Q45 infinite / Windows tinted / White girl all up in it / Britney Murphy / MCM seats buck 50 stitch / Versace plates got the Basquiat / Collab from Versace place / Cuban link Raekwon / You life is illegal / When your chain can get the rico / Real D boys (I'm really a D boy) all feel the hook

Chorus 2x"

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