Wouldn’t You Like to Ride Lyrics

[Chorus: JoVaughn Clark & Phife Dawg]
Would you like to ride shotgun in the Escalade?
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends?

Like a cloud through the sky, grab your things, let's fly away
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends?


[Verse 2: Malik Yusef]
Malik Yusef, bet your baby momma know the name
The most critically acclaimed wordsmith in the game
I give you words spit with flames
Stay to myself and let nerves mix with lames
Connoisseur of Kama Sutra, do somethin' absurd with your dame
I used to love this girl who loved shoppin' and smokin' herb
But my job was to hustle 'dro
Now an artist of the spoken word, I just hustle flow
Never a pretty boy, always a beautiful mind like Russell Crowe
Now you in places no cabs'll take you, only the bus'll go
I would love for you and your friends to get with me and my friends
But the problemo is your attitude be on the stank side
And I no longer like you
Fuck it, now you can't ride but ooh, wouldn't you like to?

[Chorus: JoVaughn Clark & Phife Dawg]
Would you like to ride shotgun in the Escalade?
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends?

Like a cloud through the sky, grab your things, let's fly away
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends?

[Verse 3: Common]
Deep as the ocean is the motion of life
Thought you would have been the sister I chose for my wife
Not knowin' you was trife
Stiflin' a nigga's growth
All you wanna do is shop at River Oaks
Watch soaps on the couch, talk shit and smoke
I'm workin' hard like a fiend tryin' to get some dope
Thought my real nigga quotes would make you truer
You ain't gon' let me school ya, at least let me tutor
The sex is good, but you ain't a shooter
There's a war goin' on inside, you ain't a trooper
I look through the mirror and see my reflection
It ain't in your direction so I passed her like a reverend
Returned to my Bishop Juan ways goin' Wild West like Kanye
Wherever I lay my kufi is my home, goddamnit I'm grown
Broke broad I'ma leave your ass alone
You still wanna ride though

[Chorus: JoVaughn Clark & Phife Dawg]
Would you like to ride shotgun in the Escalade
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends?

Like a cloud through the sky, grab your things, let's fly away
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends

Would you like to ride shotgun in the Escalade
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends?

Like a cloud through the sky, grab your things, let's fly away
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends?

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Song exists under various titles and artists:

  • “Wouldn’t You Like to Ride” on the Coach Carter soundtrack (2005). Artist is listed as Kanye West & Common on Apple Music, and as Common, Malik Yusef, Kanye West & JV on the back of the album.

  • “Wouldn’t You Like 2 Ryde" by Malik Yusef, Kanye West & Common on the back of Kon the Louis Vuitton Don (2004).

  • “Wouldn’t You Like to…” by Malik Yusef featuring Common, Kanye West & JV on the back of * The Great Chicago Fire* (2003)

  • “Wouldn’t You Like to Ride” by Kanye West & Malik Yusef on the Fathers of the Sport soundtrack (2011)

There’s also an album full of remixes to this song called Wouldn’t You Like to Ride (S&S Remixes) (2013).

It also has a music video.

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