Killer Mike - NRICH Lyrics

Niggas do a lot of shootin', niggas do a lot of shootin'
Niggas shoot off at the mouth
Niggas shoot boo, niggas shoot craps
Niggas come around the corners and shoot down the street
Niggas shoot shoot sharp glances at white women
Nigga shoot dope into their arm
Niggas shoot guns and rifles on New Years Eve
A new year that is coming in

Rollin' with my nigga, rich niggas, these is my nigga roles
Jesus was a nigga, my nigga killed him, 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 hoe
And that's word to Michael in Fresh, the realest niggas know
That's the movies niggas should watch, f*ck Scarface and Blow
You still talkin' New Jack City, that's why you niggas poor
I open Greenwood and show niggas that we is more
Than stickin' green under the beams in momma's wooden floor
And I know some secrets that negro leaders'll never know
I was in kahoots with the spooks that sat by master's door
When the revolution let loose, they couldn't master stove
Eight in the eighties as babies, we sold master's dope
Labeled us a nuisance, they used the cords like noose and rope
Us poor lil' nigga babies, we gave ourselves to slavery
Nigga rich, we made it, we should be celebrated

Oh, run up them billions
Oh, then build a village
Oh, then make your own rules
F*ck what they told you
Don't let them own you
Black and bright, Black as night, Black and brilliant
Walk by faith, not by sight, stand resilient
Truth always comes to light, time reveals it
Time reveals it

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, organized and strategized
Enemies are lurkin' 'round the way like camouflage
I'ma be a nigga, get a 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 car jack, 'cause they jampacked and sidetracked
Came through our hoods, they ransacked, we pushed back

Black like my skin, whoa, Black like a Benz, whoa
Black like my friends who see black in the end, whoa
Don't parlay with opps, but I can if you kinfolk
Got it like a syndrome, nothing rich as my skin tone

Yeah
Know we really should be celebrated
But like everything else, we gotta fight for it, so
I'ma put on the gloves

Let me state it, I real-estated when others hated
Born at Grady, a bastard baby to 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 dancin' essentially just a nigga business
But nigga business can turn niggas on to bigger business
They used to own us, but now we own us, that's independence
My phone is figures, I talked to Randell about bigger figures
I told him "I want a hundred mill'" he said "Think bigger"
F*ck livin' average, I had to go savage to get lavish
I went from wearin' them leanin', that matches I'm embarrassed
And now I move through the Louvre smooth when I'm in Paris
My jewelry flashy, my shirt says garage, I'm drippin' ashes
On finest fabrics while in the back of a German carriage
Same birth date as Hitler, but f*ck him, I'm a nigga

Black like my skin, whoa, Black like a Benz, whoa
Black like my friends who see black in the end, whoa
Don't parlay with opps, but I can if you kinfolk
Got it like a syndrome, nothing rich as my skin tone

Oh, run up them billions
Oh, then build a village
Oh, then make your own rules
F*ck what they told you
Don't let them own you
Black and bright, Black as night, Black and brilliant
Walk by faith, not by sight, stand resilient
Truth always comes to light, time reveals it
Time reveals it
Woo, ooh, Lord
Say, Lord
I said let it be