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 comin up as a Pussy and money the only 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 that of a I don't need nada except for Prada beaver For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's
To my G's on the flee the coppers Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral the slums I come up a phoenix caked up Tryna take what I'm eatin n up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you to witness this savvy mouth Wild? Hardly, a man's man who woulda The houses and wild parties and Stella McCartney's
For all that, how can I not be dead? old German said I was a thug with a notty head Looked at my Benz and that a Nazi sled a face like he wonder where I got my bread
Probably all stones he see my shows overseas From to rhyme, my stories is I'm from the home of the
America, pay (America) Wake up, is not what you think 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 suckers and The economy Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a death 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 type of shit make me stop and think
We in chronic need of a look of the law books And the race dichotomy Too rappers, athletes and actors But not niggas in NASA
Who you the latest dances, trends and fashion? But when it to residuals, they look past us Woven into the fabric, they stand us Even in white tee's, blue and red bandannas
America, pay (America) up, this is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) is not what you think it is (America, is not what you think it is)
Assassinations, diplomatic indigenous people built a new nation Involuntary labor, took a split a woman naval Took her baby, let her man see you rape her
If I could travel to the I'd push a wheelbarrow of dynamite through your covenant Love to sit in on the and tell the whole government Y'all don't treat women fair, she read about in the Bible
Believin she the reason sin is You played her with an apron like, me my dinner, dear She the nigger here, ain't we in the free Death penalty in Texas, young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R Buggin how I made it out the hood, me How far we from third world savagery? 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)