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JAY-Z – Run This Town lyrics
[Intro - Rihanna]

Feel it comin' in the air
And 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 y'all fatigues on
All black everything
Black cards, black cars
All black everything
And our girls are blackbirds
Ridin' with they dillingers
I'd 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' to get back
I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
Yeah I'm talkin' five comma
Six zeros
Dot zero
Here it go...
Back to runnin' 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 doin' 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
Heeeey-hey-hey-hey-hey-heyyy
Hey-heyyy-hey-hey-heyy
Heeeey-hey-hey-hey-hey-heyyy
(Is who's gonna run this town tonight)
Hey-hey-hey-heyyy

[Verse 2 - Jay-Z]

We are
Yeah I said it
We are
You can call me Cesar
In a dark caesar
Please follow the lea-der
So Eric B. We are
Microphone fiend
It's the return of thee God
Peace God...
(Auh! Auh!)
And ain't nobody fresher
I'm in Mason
(Ah!)
Martin Margiela
On the tape we're screamin'
Fuck the other side, they jealous
We got a banquet full of broads
They got a table full of fellas...
And they ain't spending no cake
They should throw they hand in
'Cause they ain't got no spades...
My whole team got dough
So my banquet is lookin' like Millionaire's Row

[Chorus - Rihanna]

Life's a game but it's not fair
I break the rules so I don't care
So I keep doin' 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
Heeeey-hey-hey-hey-hey-heyyy
Hey-heyyy-hey-hey-heyy
Heeeey-hey-hey-hey-hey-heyyy
(Is who's gonna run this town tonight)
Hey-hey-hey-heyyy

[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 a fast life
We are on a crash course
What you think I rap for
To push a fucking rav-4?
But I know that if I stay stun-ting
All these girls only gonna want one thing
I could spend my whole life good will hun-ting
Only good gon' come is as good when I'm cumm-ing
She got a ass that'll swallow up a g-string
And up top, unh...
Two 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 tryin' to change the color on your mood ring
Reebok
Baby
You need to drop 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 feelin' like you runnin', huh?
Now you know how we feel

[Outro - Rihanna]

We gonna run this town tonight!

[Outro - Jay-Z]

Wassup!
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  • j
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    Jedi1113 2010-04-12 22:58:50
    Oh my god you're right! Jay-z is teaming up with The Bride, The Joker and The Crow to take down Jesus! Jeez lighten up, where does three lines=satan, I must have missed that verse. The rapper lifestyle is promoted to keep poor blacks. Poor; there are only two jobs paths that the media shows black men can be succesfull at; basketball and rapping so its not some devil worshipping crap. Also if everyone here is so afraid of being damned cuz of this music, then why are you spending time listening/viewing this stuff over and over to find the hidden meanings, just turn away from this 'demonic' crap if that's what it does to you. I have my own relationship with God and I'm not going to hell over a freaking song. Stop being so paranoid and trust in God. Its crap like this that's the reason I no longer go to church.
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    foodrules 2009-12-03 03:53:51
    I totally understand what Veida is saying about rihanna about her bouncing back, but I think she made a huge ordeal about what chris brown did to her. She drew to much attention to herself and I think that was wrong. No one eva gave chris brown a chance to explain people don't know me so don't judge me on what I say I'm totally against what chris did to her but they should have let him tell his story.
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    Jedi1113 2010-02-25 01:32:53
    Yeah I've watched all that, the jay-z deception, etc. There are not any facts in any of these, we are just being told that this is what the illumaniti, masons etc do and what their symbols are and what these mean. There are no hard facts, these practices are secret so people who are masons can't confirm or deny that those symbols and messages are even used or that they have the meanin that we are being told they have.
    Also Elizabeth, I've listened to this songs dozens of times and I've never once heard the word satan. Rihanna is from Barbatos, obviously you can't understand the accent she clearly says thrill. Also what verse in the bible does it say that Lucifer was in charge of music? All angels praise god, but they don't use anything that we would call music. Most common beliefs people have about Lucifer, angels, heaven etc come from the Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost and were never mentioned in the bible at all.
    All of saying is show me some hard evidence and Ill believe you, I know Jay-Z is a mason, but wheres the satanic connection come in?
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    Reggie-22 2010-06-03 04:39:41
    The people that are to stupid to see what's goin on even when it's right in ur face is the people they are directing these lyrics to. They got you if you dnt wanna believe in it. God! Is given us the knowledge to figure out everything that is happening in this world right now. Jay-z even talks about the blueprint if you know what that is. Short term that's how you sell urslef to the devil. You gotta pay attention to everything. If you rewind one of his songs he says specifcally 666 murder Jesus. Of you dnt believe that then you must be really stupid. Why you think he has the mark of the beast in his video and Jesus on the cross with bullets around him. Come on now. Me personally. I think that god over powers the spirit of evilness and the devil. Jay-z and everyone else are stupid because that's they spirit that will burn for eternity. What you have to say to that.
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    Elizabeth2010 2010-02-15 18:48:09
    Actually I really thought it was dumb at first, the whole illuminati thing, but look into it. It is completely exposed in this song. What is said is that music artists sell their souls to the devil inorder to gain the world (money, fame, etc). This is true! Before there was hell the devil was in heaven. His thing in heaven was music! He worked with the music. The devil works thru people in the industry to gain other followers and those who don't see that and follow with this music are slowly getting sucked in too. This song is basically talking about how the end of the world is going to go. If you don't believe it. Read revalations in the bible. The beast is going to come onto earth and order the people to get 666 on them in order to survive. If they don't they will be killed. The music video you see burning & "hear the screams from every where". Listen to rhianna when she says " im addicted to the thrill" it doesn't sound as if she said thrill it sounds like she says satan. Jay-z says hes in mason martin margeila. Google that. Its a clothing line and look what it looks like. Look up the history of the designer. It sounds crazy I know. But its true. Look at jay'zs clothing line. How many one eyes or pyramids do you see in his clothes. The rocawear symbol is the egyptian eye backwards. Do your reasearch and you will see.
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  • j
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    j6793 2010-01-25 00:41:34
    What flabby is saying is true. Well maybe not the whole song is about the illuminati but certain parts that jay-z says are. Like the part where he says "i'm in mason". Look up what freemasonry is. You'll see. And how he keeps talking about "the people on the other side" he says "they (the people on the other side) got a table full of fellas". He's talking about the last supper, which on the picture was a bunch of men sitting at a table having the last supper. Just look up this stuff and you'll really see. Trust me.
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    niggaboi 2009-12-03 10:22:48
    This song is great, and to those that state that they are devil worshipers what grounds do you have to make that assumption. And for Toni Begood the illuminati is actually a sect of free masons just as shriners is a sect of free masonry or even the knights templar. Not vice versa as you had previously stated. The song is talking about a change and how Jay-Z is making a comeback hence he's gonna run this town tonight. And the blacked out stuff is not uncommon in my hood when people wanna do dirt at night its not unusual to see 4-5 niggas just blacked out. It means he is imposing a hostile takeover of the rap game.
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    MandingoDurango 2009-09-15 15:16:53
    The dominion of a kleptokrat society/minorities that sold out to the rules of the game. (The secret handed down for millenias) ya know what it is if ya real, however. Being hood, new york state of mind means 1 thing. To stay on top. Frank white. Dealing with the plutokrats. Our under ground culture is so violent. Damned Republicans. Next to that enjoymnet is the theme to the film "the devil's advocate" what ever you chose in this world was of the god of this world. Not heavenly qoute jay-Z " is this heavenly is this heaven to me" peace god.
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  • U
    + 1
    Unregistered 2011-10-10 12:49:02
    This song is evil, you hear when rihanna says that she's addicted to the throne and it's a dangerous love affair and she can't be scared when it goes down and the only thing on her mind is who's gonna run this town. If you heard jay-z clearly he said that they should know that they aint got no space then you ask urself who ar the 'they' it means the believers even in freemason that rick ross featured jay-z he also said that he's on his third six meaning 666.
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    XoxaimeexoX 2011-03-16 22:45:04
    @vballer616 if you would analyze the lyrics you would understand that all 3 of them are part of the secret society. Watch the video as well is clearly stated in the song "I'm in mason" what else would he mean by that? And what about them throwin up the freemason symbol with there hands all the time, not just in the music video for this song, but always. Rihanna actually admits to the satanist religion and Jay-Z doesn't believe in god. Its not about looking up stuff on the internet its about being logical. And obviously you're not going to hell for listening to the music. But forreal I'm not on a "satan" rant or anything I'm just stating the obvious facts.
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    BIGGIE_SMALLZ 2010-06-18 19:00:25
    @Jedi1113 you a fool homeboy lol, you a funny dude, Lol if you want facts watch The Arrivals part 15 where they interview those dudes and point madonna and jay z out as part of these cults and societys watch the dvds on The Arrivals, the masons and the illuminatti. They interview these dudes who belonged to all these cults, its a circle. Its a network of societys and cults that all point towards satanism. But like the Bible and the Quran says some will see the evil and part from it and some will choose to side with it die. God bless you all.
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    vballer616 2010-05-16 04:24:07
    Okay everyone needs to get off this freakin' satan trip. Where the hell (haha poor choice of words) are you people comin' up with this stuff? Seriously stop believing every freakin' thing you see online because half of it's not even true. Also I definitely agree with Jedi1113's last thing about the rap lifestyle: that's the way black men are portrayed in the media, and now pretty much everyone thinks that those are the only 2 things black men can do. And 1 more thing: Ur not gonna go to hell for listening to music, even if the content isn't really "moral" or "appropriate". There's a lot worse things you could do. But please, lay off the satan crap. At least half the posts on this song say somethin about satan. You people are all nuts. Sorry to say it but it's true. Okay I've said way too much I'm done.
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    Jedi1113 2010-01-26 23:15:26
    Do you guys rly beleive that if the Illumaniti exist and that they kill people who try to expose them that you would be able to "look it up" any organziation as powerful as what your talking about would easily remove YouTube videos and even these comments since you are spouting the "Truth." On top of that what purpose would puttin satanic messages in a song fulfill? Subliminal messages of that nature are crap, ask a psychologist. I'm not saying that its impossible for them to exist but would we rly know about it so openly?
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    mizshaunte_GODINME_ 2009-10-08 15:48:37
    So far I only agree wit daland. Watch the jay -z deception. Here is a few big sayings so you guys will no and not be blind in life and not listen and actually read dha words. 1) feel it comin' in the air and 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. This is simply the devil come on know when you think of god do you really think of screams no screams are expression of pain. Huh maybe like burning in hell. 2)and our girls are blackbirds. Blackbirds symbolize death. There is way more but if you really wanna know watch the jay-z deception.
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    willywonka123 2009-10-01 08:40:59
    In many ways this song speaks to me., I looked at it in the perspective when you are livin in the getto and rollin in the huud what ever you may say. You are thinking of when life and death is., knowing that you will be shot out of no were one day., yahh I don't really know but then you look at in I'm another perspective you could never know that side the side were you wanna know hew is goign to run this town hew do we fear in this town we will never know cuz we don't fear over here!., this song is well thought out adn well put togeather yahh there ryms are pretty some what trashy could do better there but over all this song has meaning behind it from all perspective., the lower and the uppers., so I love this song!
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    Unregistered 2011-10-19 14:56:19
    Uh. Yeah. Well the "im in mason" reference actually refers to "maison martin margiela" which is fashion. Jay's talkin about shoes there, buddy. Also yezzy is not saying "i'm on top" or whatever, he's saying "and i'm chopped" which is a slang reference for an ecstasy high. Does this mean that their not mason's or illuminati or republicans. Perhaps not. At any rate at the end of the day it is your own decisions that seal your fate. It is your personal choice to be a leader or a follower that will ultimately lead to your rise or demise.
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    zakiam 2009-11-29 21:00:47
    I don't really know if my interpretation is correct, but I have to agree with toni begood. What really caught my attention is the music, but after watching the video I had to look up the lyrics to completely understand what this song represents, watching the video made me think "cult" and I really feel that this is a boogeyman tune. We all have to wake up and be more attentive in what we support. I never had a problem with the music produced by any of the artist in this tune, but this song or at least the video is really wicked(evil)after watching the video it left me feeling a little funny. My heart dropped when I read toni begood's comment because there was a certain drive in me to figure out what they were saying in this song(not everything I understand when artist are rapping).
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    toni_begood 2009-11-13 15:13:21
    Are you serious, these people are devil worshipers. They are part of the Illuminati. If Jay-Z is a Mason and Mason's are Illuminai(do some research dummies), what does that tell you. They are all apart of the Elite to produce the new world order, people learn the facts music is not music anymore it is something that is being control by the Illuminati the same organization the kill Tupac and Pimp C because they were about to expose them.
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