Yeah, its like up from a bad dream (America) Just to out you wasnt 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 myself up to become one Ain't ya I chose rap, I'm amongst tha?
Streets deceivin, can't my achievements strata, persona's that of a non-needer Because I need nada except for Prada beaver For cold winters, tattoos got my sleeveless
To my G's on the flee the coppers bodies 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's man who woulda The beach and wild parties Jezebel's and McCartney's
For all that, how can I not be dead? This old German said I was a with a notty head Looked at my Benz and called that a sled With a face he wonder where I got my bread
all these stones he see From my shows From crime to rhyme, my is I'm the home of the thieves
America, pay (America) Wake up, is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not what you it is
Blessed, the is a G, he gotta be Who's the God of suckers and snitches? The Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a death to Fidel Castro Hed me to spit this
Only the strong survive, Nas bear The is all I can see cop acquitted for murder, black 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 whole dichotomy Too rappers, athletes and actors But not niggas in NASA
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, jeans 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, is not what you think it is)
Assassinations, relations Killed indigenous people built a new Involuntary labor, took a knife split a woman 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 tell the government don't treat women fair, she read about herself in the Bible
Believin she the sin is here You played her with an 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 casually Buggin how I it out the hood, dazzle me How far we really third world savagery? When the empire imagine how crazy that'll be
(America, America) (America, this is not you think it is) (America, this is not you think it is)