Yeah, its like up from a bad dream (America) to figure out you wasnt dreamin in the first place
If all I saw was gangsters up as a youngster and money the only language I clung ta Claim ta, I bought myself up to one Ain't ya happy I chose rap, I'm tha?
Streets deceivin, believe my achievements Cultural strata, persona's that of a Because I don't need nada except for Prada For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's
To my G's on the flee from the Stiff bodies on freeze in parlors From the slums I come up a phoenix up Tryna take I'm eatin n came up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you allowed to witness savvy mouth Wild? Hardly, a man's man who woulda The beach houses and parties Jezebel's and Stella
For years all that, how can I not be This old German said I was a with a notty head Looked at my Benz and that a Nazi sled With a face like he wonder I got my bread
Probably all stones he see From my shows From to rhyme, my stories is I'm the home of the thieves
America, pay (America) Wake up, this is not what you it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not you think it is
Blessed, the is a G, he gotta be Who's the God of and snitches? The economy Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a death kiss to Fidel 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 make me stop and think
We in chronic of a second look of the law books And the whole dichotomy Too many rappers, athletes and But not niggas in NASA
Who give you the latest dances, and fashion? But when it comes to residuals, look past us Woven into the fabric, they can't us in white tee's, blue jeans and red bandannas
America, pay (America) Wake up, this is not what you it is (America) America, pay (America) is not what you think it is (America, this is not you think it is)
Assassinations, relations Killed indigenous people built a new Involuntary labor, took a split a woman naval her premature baby, let her man see you rape her
If I could travel to the I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite through covenant to sit in on the Senate and tell the whole government Y'all don't treat women fair, she read herself in the Bible
she the reason sin is here You played her with an apron like, me my dinner, dear She the nigger here, ain't we in the world? Death penalty in Texas, young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R Buggin how I it out the hood, dazzle me How far we from third world savagery? When the empire fall imagine how crazy be
(America, America) (America, this is not you think it is) (America, this is not you think it is)