NRICH

[Intro: Umar Bin Hassan]

Niggas do a lot of shootin', niggas do a lot of shootin'

Niggas shoot off at the mouth

Niggas shoot pool, niggas shoot craps

Niggas cut around the corners and shoot down the street

Niggas shoot sharp glances at white women

Niggas shoot dope into their arm

Niggas shoot guns and rifles on New Year's Eve

A New Year that is coming in where white police will do more shooting at them

Where are niggas when the revolution needs some shots?

[Verse 1: Killer Mike]

Rollin' with my nigga, rich niggas, these is my nigga rolls

Jesus was a nigga, my nigga killed 'em, my nigga rose

I know you love me runnin' the jewels, but these my nigga flows

Love 'em like that dumb spit pimp love that nigga ho

And that's word to Michael in Fresh, the realest niggas know

That's the movies niggas should watch, fuck Scarface and Blow

You still talkin' New Jack City, that's why you niggas poor

I open Greenwood to show niggas that we is more

Than stickin' green under the beams in mama's wooden floor

And I know some secrets that negro leaders'll never know

I was in cahoots with the spooks that sat by master's door

When the revolution let loose, they cuttin' master's throat

Ayy, in the eighties as babies, we sold master's dope

Labeled us a nuisance, they used the courts like noose and rope

Us poorer nigga babies

We gave ourselves to slavery

Nigga rich, we made it

We should be celebrated

[Chorus: Eryn Allen Kane]

Oh, run up them millions

Oh, then build a village

Oh, then make your own rules

Fuck what they told you

Don't let 'em own you

Black and bright, black as night, black and brilliant

Walk by faith, not by sight, stand resilient

Truth always comes to life, time reveals it

Time reveals it

[Verse 2: 6LACK]

Black like my name, nigga, shit what I know

I don't make friends, hop out and then I go

I don't pick sides, only my niggas and they niggas

We gon' turn the streets from projects into pillars

Pray all of my niggas organize and strategize

Enemies are lurkin' 'round the way like camouflage

I'ma be a nigga, get the picture 'fore I die

This is not a film, this is real, realize

Forty-three for combat, hit 'em right in they contact

All my niggas abstract and we tight like we compact

Niggas carjack 'cause they jampacked and sidetracked

Came through our hoods, they ransacked, we pushed back

[Refrain: 6LACK]

Black like my skin, woah, black like a Benz, woah

Black like my friends, you see black in the end, woah

Don't parlay with opps, but I can if you kinfolk

Got it like a syndrome, nothin' rich as my skin tone

[Break: 6LACK]

Yeah

Know we really should be celebrated

But like everything else, we gotta fight for it, so

I'ma put on the gloves

[Verse 3: Killer Mike]

Let me state it, I real-estated when others hated

Born at Grady, a bastard baby, the single lady

I beat the odds, without God, I probably wouldn't have made it

It's underwhelmin' to be so overly underrated

But still they witnessin' all the riches of nigga richness

Singin' and dancing's essentially just a nigga business

But nigga business can turn niggas on to bigger business

They used to own us, but now we owners, that's independence

My phone is figures, I talked to Randell 'bout bigger figures

I told him, "I want a hundred mill'," he said, "Think bigger"

Fuck livin' average, I had to go savage to get lavish

I went from wearin' them leanin' that matches eyes embarrassed

And now I move through the Louvre smooth when I'm in Paris

My jewelry flashy, my shirts is garish, I'm drippin' ashes

On finest fabrics while in the back of a German carriage

Same birth date as Hitler, but fuck him, I'm a nigga

[Refrain: 6LACK]

Black like my skin, woah, black like a Benz, woah

Black like my friends, you see black in the end, woah

Don't parlay with opps, but I can if you kinfolk

Got it like a syndrome, nothing rich as my skin tone

[Chorus: Eryn Allen Kane]

Oh, run up them millions

Oh, then build a village

Oh, then make your own rules

Fuck what they told you

Don't let 'em own you

Black and bright, black as night, black and brilliant

Walk by faith, not by sight, stand resilient

Truth always comes to life, time reveals it

Time reveals it

[Outro: Eryn Allen Kane]

Ooh

Love, said, love

Said, me