[Rihanna] Feel it coming in the air Hear the screams from everywhere I’m addicted to the thrill It's a dangerous love affair Can’t be scared when it goes down Got a problem tell me now Only thing that's on my mind is who's gonna run this town tonight Is who's gonna run this town tonight We gonna run this town!
[Verse 1 - Jay-Z] We are Yeah, I said it: we are This is Roc Nation Pledge your allegiance Get your fatigues on All black everything Black cards, black cars All black everything And our girls are blackbirds riding with they Dillingers I get more in depth If you boys really real enough This is la Familia, I'll explain later But for now let me get back to this paper I'm a couple bands down And I'm tryin' get back I gave Doug a grip and lost a flip for five stacks Yeah, I'm talking 5 comma, 6 zeroes, dot zero, here Doug Back to running circles round niggas Now we squared up, hold up
[Hook - Rihanna] Life’s a game but it's not fair I break the rules so I don’t care So I keep doing my own thing Walking tall against the rain Victory’s within the mile Almost there don’t give up now Only thing that's on my mind is who’s gonna run this town tonight Hey (etc.) Who’s gonna run this town tonight
[Verse 2 - Jay-Z] We are Yeah, I said it: we are You can call me Caesar In a dark Czar Please follow the leader So Eric B we are Microphone fiend, this the return of the God Peace, God Ah ah It ain't no nobody fresher I'm in Maison Ah, Martin Margiela On the table screaming, "fuck the other side, they're jealous!" We got a banquette full of broads They got a table full of fellas Yeah, and they ain't spending no cake They should throw their hand in cause they ain't got no spades Yeah, my whole team got dough So my banquette is looking like millionaires' row
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[Verse 3 - Kanye West] It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow To everybody on your dick...no homo I bought my whole family whips; no Volvos Next time I’m in church, please: no photos Police escorts, everybody passports This the life that everybody ask for This the fast life, we are on a crash course What you think I rap for to push a fuckin' Rav 4?! But I know that if I stay stunting All these girls only gonna want one thing I can spend my whole life goodwill hunting Only good gonna come is it's good when I'm cumming She got an ass that'll swallow up a G-string And up top, ah, 2 bee stings And I'm beasting off the Riesling And my nigga just made it out the precinct We give a damn about the drama that your dude bring I'm just trying to change the color on your mood ring Reebok, baby, you need to try some new things Have you ever had shoes without shoe strings? "What's that, Ye?" "Baby, these heels" "Is that a May-what?" "Baby, these wheels" You trippin' when you ain't sippin', have a refill You feeling like you run it, huh? Now you know how we feel