(Intro – Joey Bada$$)
Aye, just ride with a ni**a
America'south number 1, you tin bet on ya life!
Statik Selektah
Ride with a ni**a like
America'due south number one, you tin can bet on ya life!

(Verse 1 – Joey Bada$$)
Phone call me the general, pushing that new agenda through
For my millennials, troubled youth and the felons too
Tryna exist perennial, but adventure of living is minimal
She critical, exactly what made my ni**as criminals
Typical AmeriKKKa, damn certain ain't no miracle
Give-and-take to Steezy, I'ma continue this due south**t lyrical
Til I fall out my physical, all my verses is biblical, uh
Flowing religiously, my delivery spiritual, uh
Feeling invincible, this here is goose egg new
This is just principle, take notes, if I were you
They say I'm a clumsy rex, how I be dropping jewels
Merely come across, the funny thing is I got lots to lose
Never no f**ks to give, only one life to live
So I exchange my negative for a positive and it's all
Good Lord, the pen is way mighty than the sword
Who desire war? I told yous earlier

(Pre-Chorus – Joey Bada$$)
How I kicked in the door
With the rugged raw, dorsum just to reinstall
What you lot ni**as thought it was?
Yes, I'm a veteran, you just a comer up
I tin teach you a lesson
How to go your hunger up
Homie ya
How I kicked in the door
With the rugged raw back simply to reinstall
What you ni**every bit idea information technology was?
Yeah, I'm a veteran, you just a come up
About to teach you a lesson
How to get your f**rex hunger up, ni**a

(Chorus – Joey Bada$$)
Badmon, we ah run tings, yeah
Never permit the tings run we, uh
All di gyal dem a come pree
Just mi tell them that the buddy never come free
Badmon, we ah run tings, aye
Never let the tings run we, uh
All di gyal dem a come pree
But mi tell them that the buddy never come costless

(Verse two – Styles P)
Super predator, filthy AmeriKKKa
Burn the newspapers and the editors
My dead presidents ain't dead enough
Blew a cipher to the head, still ain't scarlet plenty
Pray to Jesus, hope he got you lot
No I'thousand not a craven, I never listen to Play a joke on News
Ni**as built the country but never giving they props due
Paying for my people, I'm all the same paying for my pops dues
I'm royalty, my momma said information technology
I'm gold hearted, I'chiliad scum headed
Lost soul in a promised land of promises
Gotta mask on, only no, I'm non anonymous
Built on my lonely, no accomplices
Light a L up for my accomplishments
I'chiliad a real ni**a, it'south not a lot of em
If they were, so the cops probably shot at em

(Chorus – Joey Bada$$)
Badmon, we ah run tings, yep
Never let the tings run we, uh
All di gyal dem a come pree
But mi tell them that the buddy never come up costless
Badmon, we ah run tings, yeah
Never permit the tings run nosotros, uh
All di gyal dem a come pree
But mi tell them that the buddy never come costless

(Verse 3 – Joey Bada$$)
Yeah, I stomp the grounds in my Timberlands
Ain't nothing colder than New York when that December in
The coldest shoulders, from average Joes and the simple mans
I pack the heat cause I'm known around to be simmering
That hateful I'thousand finna hit the boiling point like real soon
Human, I've been heating up, my self esteem been on the moon
The flow is hotter than volcanic craters most the equator
Any debaters is merely haters, they know that I'k greater
I be counting my paper, forever f**k all the majors
Did it all on my own, don't owe nobody no favors
It's clear, I'm heir to the throne, I've been the best in my zone
Internationally known, forever Brooklyn's ain
I hateful, come on, just here'southward for the Presidents, the Congressmen, the Senators
Who got us all slaving while they reaping all the benefits
Got the earth thinking that it'due south true bout what they said of u.s.a.
Americas worst nightmare, the super predator