Yeah, its like up from a bad dream (America) Just to figure out you wasnt dreamin in the first
If all I saw was gangsters up as a youngster Pussy and money the language I clung ta ta, I bought myself up to become one Ain't ya happy I chose rap, I'm tha?
Streets deceivin, can't my achievements Cultural strata, persona's of a non-needer I don't need nada except for Prada beaver For cold winters, tattoos got my sleeveless
To my G's on the flee the coppers Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral From the slums I up a phoenix caked up Tryna take what I'm n came up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you allowed to this savvy mouth Wild? Hardly, a man's man who knew The beach houses and wild and Stella McCartney's
For years all that, how can I not be old German said I was a thug with a notty head Looked at my Benz and called a Nazi sled With a face like he wonder where I got my
Probably all stones he see From my overseas crime to rhyme, my stories is I'm the home of the thieves
America, pay (America) up, this is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not you think it is
Blessed, the Lord is a G, he be Who's the God of and snitches? The economy Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe a death kiss to Fidel Castro Hed want me to spit
Only the survive, Nas bear witness The is all I can see White cop acquitted for murder, cop, cop a plea That type of shit make me and think
We in chronic need of a second of the law books And the whole dichotomy Too many rappers, athletes and But not niggas in NASA
Who you the latest dances, trends and fashion? But when it comes to residuals, they past us Woven the fabric, they can't stand us Even in tee's, blue jeans and red bandannas
America, pay (America) Wake up, is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not what you it is (America, this is not what you it is)
Assassinations, diplomatic Killed indigenous built a new nation Involuntary labor, took a split a woman naval her premature baby, let her man see you rape her
If I travel to the 1700's I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite through your Love to sit in on the and tell the whole government Y'all don't treat women fair, she read herself in the Bible
Believin she the sin is here You played her an apron like, Bring me my dinner, dear She the nigger here, ain't we in the world? Death penalty in Texas, kill boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the casually how I made it out the hood, dazzle me How far we really from third world When the empire fall imagine how that'll be
(America, America) (America, this is not you think it is) (America, this is not you think it is)