Artist: Jay-Z f/ Kanye West, Rihanna Album: The Blueprint 3 Song: Run This Town Typed by: Cedmaster3K [Intro: Rihanna] Feel it comin' 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 [Jay-Z - over Intro] Yeah, yeah, I'm ready, whassup! C'mon! Whassup! Whassup! Whassup! Yeah, whassup! Yeah.. [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 ridin' 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 talkin' 5 comma, 6 zeroes, dot zero, here Doug Back to running' circles round niggas now we squared up, hold up! [Chorus: 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, walkin' 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? Heyyyyyyyyyyy, heyyyyyyy-ayyyy-ayy-ayy Heyyyyyyyyyyy, heyyyyyyy-ayyyy-ayy-ayy Who's gonna run this town tonight? [Jay-Z - over Chorus] Yeah, uh-huh.. whassup! Whassup! Whassup! Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, whassup! [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 (Ahh, ahh) it ain't no nobody fresher I'm in, Maison, uh, Martin Margiela On the table screamin' "fuck the other side, they're jealous!" We got a banquette full of broads, they got a table full of fellas EWW! And they ain't spendin' no cake They should throw their hand in cause they ain't got no spades EWW! My whole team got dough So my banquette is looking like millionaires' row EWW! [Chorus] [Jay-Z - over Chorus] Whassup! Uh, uh, chea, chea, chea Whassup! Only, thing, that, my, mind, who, uh, whassup! Yeah, yeah, yeah.. whassup! [Kanye West] Uh, yeah.. 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 stuntin' All these girls only gonna want one thing I can spend my whole life +Good Will Hunting+ Only good gonna come is it's good when I'm cummin' She got an ass that'll swallow up a G-string And up top, uh, 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 [Outro: Rihanna] + (Jay-Z) (Whassup!) Heyyyyyyyyyyy, heyyyyyyy-ayyyy-ayy-ayy (Yeah, yeah) Heyyyyyyyyyyy, heyyyyyyy-ayyyy-ayy-ayy (Whassup!) Heyyyyyyyyeeeeeah, heyyyyy-ayyy-ayy-ayyeah Heyyyyyyyyyyy - we gonna run this town tonight... (Whassup!)