This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Its Guwop
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
Richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I'm the richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Look at me, I'm the richest nigga in the room
'89, '96, 2002
I was selling dope before they thought that shit was cool
I was the brokest damn nigga in the school
Remember they was laughing at me pointing at my shoes
Back in '92 I was a social recluse
'96 I bought me a Caprice coupe
Shout out to the first nigga sold me a deuce
Yeah the first nigga sold me a deuce
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
Richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I'm the richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Look at me, I'm the richest nigga in the room
2002 I was wild as hell
Trapper and a rapper I'mma sign myself
A lotta people didn't believe time would tell
Had this dark skin girl she was fine as hell
22 years old 90 days in jail
The only thing I'm try do is buy a red Chevelle
There's money on my head 'cause I robbed a well
Burned all my bridges time to sink or swim
You a man or a mouse hammer head or brim
Bitch imma hard head cause I'm hard to kill
They say Gucci Mane's a cutthroat he probably is
He'll rob steal and kill and he probably will
They say Gucci Mane a jack boy he probably is
He'll rob steal and kill and he gone off them pills
Gucci
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
Richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I'm the richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Look at me I'm the richest nigga in the room
Man you know I fuck with Zaytoven we go way back
I'd rather rap a Zay track than a Dre track
Man y'all know I fuck with Mike Will we go way back
Now they screaming trap back nigga Gucci Mane back nigga
Brr
Its Guwop
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
Richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I'm the richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Look at me, I'm the richest nigga in the room
'89, '96, 2002
I was selling dope before they thought that shit was cool
I was the brokest damn nigga in the school
Remember they was laughing at me pointing at my shoes
Back in '92 I was a social recluse
'96 I bought me a Caprice coupe
Shout out to the first nigga sold me a deuce
Yeah the first nigga sold me a deuce
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
Richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I'm the richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Look at me, I'm the richest nigga in the room
2002 I was wild as hell
Trapper and a rapper I'mma sign myself
A lotta people didn't believe time would tell
Had this dark skin girl she was fine as hell
22 years old 90 days in jail
The only thing I'm try do is buy a red Chevelle
There's money on my head 'cause I robbed a well
Burned all my bridges time to sink or swim
You a man or a mouse hammer head or brim
Bitch imma hard head cause I'm hard to kill
They say Gucci Mane's a cutthroat he probably is
He'll rob steal and kill and he probably will
They say Gucci Mane a jack boy he probably is
He'll rob steal and kill and he gone off them pills
Gucci
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Now look at me the richest nigga in the room
Richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I'm the richest nigga, richest nigga, richest nigga
I was hustling before I came up out the womb
Look at me I'm the richest nigga in the room
Man you know I fuck with Zaytoven we go way back
I'd rather rap a Zay track than a Dre track
Man y'all know I fuck with Mike Will we go way back
Now they screaming trap back nigga Gucci Mane back nigga
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Richest Nigga in the Room Lyrics as written by Xavier Dotson Radric Davis
Lyrics © Ultra Tunes
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