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, fuck 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 Fuck 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 Fuck 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 fuck 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 Fuck 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