America (Explicit)

Yo, it's like wakin' up from a bad dream

(America)

Just to figure out you wasn't dreamin' in the first place (No)

If all I saw was gangsters comin' up as a youngster

Pussy and money the only language I clung to

Claim to, I mold myself up to become one

Ain't you happy I chose rap? I'm a monster

Streets deceivin', can't believe my achievements

Cultural strata, persona's that of a non-needer

'Cause I don't need nada 'cept for Prada beaver

For cold winters, tattoos got my summer sleeveless

To my G's on the flee from the coppers

Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors

From the slums, I come up, a phoenix caked up

Tryna take what I'm eatin', came up a dismissive kid

You lucky if you allowed to witness this

Savvy, mild, wild, hardly

A man's man, who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties

Jezebels and Stella McCartneys

For years, all that, how can I not be dead?

This old German said I was a thug with a knotty head

Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled

Wit' a face like he wonder where I got my bread

Probably all these stones he see from shows overseas

From crime to rhyme, my story is I'm from the home of the thieves

America, pay attention (America)

Wake up, this is not what you think it is (America)

America, pay attention (America)

This is not what you think it is

Blessed, the Lord is a G, he gotta be

Who's the god of suckers and snitches? The economy

Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe, blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro

He want me to spit this

Only the strong survive, Nas bear witness

The hypocrisy is all I can see

White cop acquitted for murder, black cop cop a plea

That type of shit make me stop and think

We in chronic need of a second look of the law books

And the whole race dichotomy

Too many rappers, athletes, and actors

But not enough **** in NASA

Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashions?

But when it come to residuals, they look past us

Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us

Even in white tees, blue jeans, and red bandanas

America, pay attention (America)

Wake up, this is not what you think it is (America)

America, pay attention (America)

This is not what you think it is

America (America, America)

(This is not what you think it is)

Assassinations, diplomatic relations

Killed indigenous people, built a new nation

Involuntary labor, took a knife, split a woman navel

Took her premature baby, let her man see you rape her

If I could travel to the 1700s

I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite through your covenant

Love to sit on the Senate and tell the whole government

"Y'all don't treat women fair", she read about herself in the Bible

Believin' she the reason sin is here

You played her with an apron like, "Bring me my dinner, dear"

She the **** here, ain't we in the free world?

Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls

Barbarity, I'm in the double R casually

Buggin' how I made it out the hood, dazzle me

How far are we really from third world savagery

When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be

America (America, America, America)

America (America, America, this is not what you think it is, oh)

America (America, oh)

America (This is not what you think it is)