Yeah, its wakin up from a bad dream (America) to figure out you wasnt dreamin in the first place
If all I saw was comin up as a youngster Pussy and money the only language I ta Claim ta, I myself up to become one Ain't ya happy I chose rap, I'm tha?
deceivin, can't believe my achievements Cultural strata, persona's of a non-needer Because I don't need nada except for Prada For winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
To my G's on the from the coppers Stiff bodies on in funeral parlors From the I come up a phoenix caked up Tryna take what I'm eatin n up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you allowed to witness this savvy Wild? Hardly, a man's man who woulda The beach houses and wild Jezebel's and Stella
For all that, how can I not be dead? This old German said I was a thug with a notty Looked at my and called that a Nazi sled a face like he wonder where I got my bread
Probably all these he see From my overseas crime 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 the God of suckers and snitches? The economy Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a death to Fidel Castro Hed want me to this
Only the strong survive, Nas witness The is all I can see White cop acquitted for murder, black cop, cop a 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 give you the latest dances, trends and But when it to residuals, they look past us Woven the fabric, they can't 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) This is not you think it is (America, this is not you think it is)
Assassinations, diplomatic Killed indigenous people built a new Involuntary labor, took a knife split a woman Took her premature baby, let her man see you her
If I travel to the 1700's I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite your covenant Love to sit in on the Senate and tell the government Y'all don't treat women fair, she about 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 free 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 from third world savagery? When the empire fall imagine how crazy be
(America, America) (America, is not what you think it is) (America, is not what you think it is)