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 Pussy and money the only I clung ta ta, I bought myself up to become one Ain't ya I chose rap, I'm amongst tha?
Streets deceivin, can't my achievements Cultural strata, persona's that of a Because I don't need except for Prada beaver For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's
To my G's on the from the coppers bodies on freeze in funeral parlors From the slums I up a phoenix caked up Tryna take what I'm n came up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you to witness this savvy mouth Wild? Hardly, a man's man who woulda The beach houses and wild Jezebel's and Stella
For years all that, how can I not be old German said I was a thug with a notty head Looked at my Benz and called a Nazi sled With a face like he wonder I got my bread
Probably all these he see my shows overseas From to rhyme, my stories is I'm the home of the thieves
America, pay (America) Wake up, this is not 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 and snitches? The economy Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe a death kiss to Fidel Castro Hed want me to this
the strong survive, Nas bear 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 of a second look of the law books And the whole dichotomy Too rappers, athletes and actors But not enough niggas in
Who give you the latest dances, and fashion? But when it comes to residuals, they past us into the fabric, they can't stand us Even in white tee's, blue jeans and red
America, pay (America) up, this is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not what you it is (America, is not what you think it is)
Assassinations, diplomatic Killed indigenous people a new nation Involuntary labor, took a knife split a naval her premature baby, let her man see you rape her
If I could to the 1700's I'd push a wheelbarrow full of through your covenant Love to sit in on the Senate and the whole government Y'all don't women fair, she read about herself in the Bible
Believin she the sin is here You her with an apron like, Bring me my dinner, dear She the nigger here, ain't we in the free Death penalty in Texas, kill boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the casually how I made 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 what you it is)