Nellyville

Welcome to Nellyville, where all newborns get a half a mill'

Sons get sedan DeVilles soon as they can reach the wheel

And daughters get diamonds the size of their age, help me out now

One year get one carat, two years get two carats

Three years get three carats, so on into marriage

Nobody livin' average, everybody jang-a-lang

Nobody livin' savage, e'rybody got change

Even the paperboy deliver out the back of a Range

It's not a game, it's a beautiful thang

Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gunplay

Ain't nobody shot, so ain't no news that day

Ain't nobody snitchin', they refuse to say

Every month, we take a vote on what the weather should be

And if we voted rain, know how wet we want it to be

And if we voted snow, know how deep we want it to get

But the sun gon' shine 99 percent in Nellyville

There's no way I, I could explain

The way I feel right now

There's no way I, I could explain, yeah

The way I feel about livin' in Nellyville

I got that good at e'ry gas station, pull on up

Give me a half a ounce of that shit, fill it up

We got straws for the bottles, outlawed the cups

And we gon' make it happen, ain't no need for no luck

Ain't no lotteries, no Pick 3's or Pick 2's

Keep the money in your family, gamble amongst your crew

'Cause the dice gon' do what the dice gon' do

And if you take a life, you gon' lose yours, too

Ain't no trials, it's automatic, you drop 'em right where it happen

You do unto others, if you don't want it, don't do the cappin'

Think that's cool? Forty acres and a mule

Fuck that! Nellyville, forty acres and a pool

Six bedrooms, full bath with a jacuzz'

Six-car garage, pavement smooth

Both front and back deck 'nough room to land a jet

And you ain't reached the city, that's just the projects

There's no way I, I could explain

The way I feel right now

There's no way I, I could explain, yeah

Everybody, uh, now everybody say

The way I feel about livin' in Nellyville

Well, I want to go, please let me go

I need to go down to Nellyville

I need to see what I can see

Won't you and me go to Nellyville?

I want to go so bad

I just want to go and look

Won't you please take me on in?

I just know I gotta be there

No unexpectancy, like teenage pregnancy

And physical mental attraction your only ecstasy

Your own destiny, create your own recipe

If you ain't livin accordin to dirty, then you stressin' me

"And who are you?", Who me? I'm the mayor

And any problems you got, I live up there

"Where's that?", The house on the hill, welcome mat of fur

When you pass by that thang, be polite and don't stare

There's no way I, I could explain

The way I feel right now

There's no way I, I could explain, yeah

The way I feel about livin' in Nellyville

Yeah

There's no way, yeah

There's no way, yeah

There's no way, yeah

There's no way