Yeah, its like wakin up a bad dream (America) Just to figure out you wasnt 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 myself up to become one Ain't ya I chose rap, I'm amongst tha?
deceivin, can't believe my achievements Cultural strata, persona's that of a Because I need nada except for Prada beaver For cold winters, got my summer's sleeveless
To my G's on the flee the coppers Stiff on freeze in funeral parlors From the slums I come up a caked up Tryna take what I'm eatin n 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 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 at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled With a face like he wonder I got my bread
all these stones he see From my overseas crime to rhyme, my stories is I'm from the of the thieves
America, pay (America) Wake up, 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 me to spit this
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 stop and
We in need of a second look of the law books And the whole dichotomy Too many rappers, and actors But not enough in NASA
Who give you the dances, trends and fashion? But when it to residuals, they look past us Woven the fabric, they can't stand us Even in white tee's, blue jeans and red
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 people built a new Involuntary labor, a knife 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 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 about in the Bible
Believin she the reason sin is 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, young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R Buggin how I made it out the hood, me How far we really from world savagery? When the fall imagine how crazy that'll be
(America, America) (America, this is not what you it is) (America, this is not you think it is)