Yeah, its like wakin up from a bad (America) Just to figure out you dreamin in the first place
If all I saw was comin up as a youngster and money the only language I clung ta Claim ta, I bought up to become one Ain't ya happy I chose rap, I'm tha?
Streets deceivin, can't my achievements strata, persona's that of a non-needer Because I don't need nada for Prada beaver For winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
To my G's on the flee the coppers Stiff bodies on in funeral parlors From the slums I come up a caked up Tryna what I'm eatin n came 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 Jezebel's and McCartney's
For all that, how can I not be dead? This old German said I was a thug with a head Looked at my Benz and called that a 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 of the thieves
America, pay (America) up, this is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) is not what you think it is
Blessed, the is a G, he gotta be Who's the God of suckers and snitches? The 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 cop acquitted for murder, black cop, cop a plea That type of shit make me stop and
We in chronic of a second look of the law books And the race dichotomy Too many rappers, athletes and But not enough in NASA
Who give you the latest dances, and fashion? But when it comes to residuals, look past us Woven into the fabric, they stand us in white tee's, blue jeans 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, relations Killed indigenous people built a new Involuntary labor, took a knife split a woman Took her baby, let her man see you rape her
If I could travel to the I'd push a wheelbarrow full of through your covenant Love to sit in on the Senate and tell the government Y'all treat women fair, she read about 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 young and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R Buggin how I made it out the hood, me How far we really third world savagery? When the empire fall imagine how that'll be
(America, America) (America, this is not you think it is) (America, is not what you think it is)