Yeah, its wakin 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 Claim ta, I myself up to become one Ain't ya happy I chose rap, I'm tha?
Streets deceivin, believe my achievements Cultural strata, persona's that of a Because I don't need except for Prada beaver For winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
To my G's on the flee from the Stiff on freeze in funeral parlors From the slums I come up a caked up Tryna take what I'm eatin n came up a kid
You lucky if you allowed to witness this mouth Wild? Hardly, a man who woulda knew The beach houses and parties and Stella McCartney's
For years all that, how can I not be This old said I was a thug with a notty head Looked at my Benz and called that a sled With a face like he wonder I got my bread
Probably all stones he see From my overseas From 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 Lord is a G, he be Who's the God of suckers and snitches? The Lipstick Marilyn Monroe blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro Hed want me to spit
the strong survive, Nas bear witness The is all I can see White cop acquitted for murder, cop, cop a plea That 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 enough niggas in
Who give you the dances, trends and fashion? But when it comes to residuals, they look us Woven into the fabric, they stand us Even in white tee's, blue and red bandannas
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 you think it is)
Assassinations, relations indigenous people built a new nation Involuntary labor, took a knife split a naval Took her premature baby, let her man see you her
If I could travel to the I'd a wheelbarrow full of dynamite through your covenant Love to sit in on the Senate and the whole 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, we in the free world? Death penalty in Texas, young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the casually how I made it out the hood, dazzle me How far we really third world savagery? When the fall imagine how crazy that'll be
(America, America) (America, this is not you think it is) (America, this is not you think it is)