Music Video
Music Video
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Nas
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Nasir Jones
Songwriter
Leshawn Lewis
Songwriter
Alvin West
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Nas
Executive Producer
L.E.S. for Total Package Productions and Track Masters Entertainment, Inc.
Producer
Al "Xtraordinaire" West for Xtraordinaire Entertainment
Producer
Steve Stoute
Executive Producer
Kevin Crause
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
Can I talk to ya?
[Verse 2]
Step up to the White House, let me in
What's my reason for being? I'm ya next of kin
And we built this motherfucker
You wanna kill me 'cause my hunger?
Mr. America, young, black **** want ya
I wanna talk to the man, understand?
Understand this motherfucking G-pack in my hand
Look what happened to San Fran
Young girl hit by policeman
Twelve shots up in her dome, damn
**** thought we slept but the architect said
The Pentagon's from Egypt, government secret
The 99 to 2-G computer shutdown, what now?
Extension on Earth, human cutdown
**** play with PlayStations, they build a space stations
On Mars, plotting civilizations
Dissing us, discriminating different races
Tax payers pay for more jail for black and Latin faces
Why play? Face us
[Verse 3]
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
Can I talk to ya?
[Verse 4]
I'm just a black man, why y'all made it so hard? Damn
**** gotta go create his own job
Mr. Mayor, imagine this was your backyard
Mr. Governor, imagine it's your kids that starve
Imagine your kids gotta sling crack to survive
Swing a mack to be live, cardiac and get high
It's the ghetto life, yeah, I celebrate it, I live it
And all I got is what you left me with, I'ma get it
And y'all combining all the countries, we gon' do the same
Combine all the clique to make one gang
It ain't a black and white thing
It's to make a change, citizens of a higher plane
[Verse 5]
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
Can I talk to ya?
[Verse 6]
What y'all waiting for, the world to blow up?
Before you hear this, rewind this, four minutes before we timeless
Let y'all **** bang my shit before Saddam hits
Let Nostradamus tell us what time it is
They try to buy us with dough
Fake black leaders of puppets always talking 'bout the city budget
The news got it all confused, lying to the public
They eyes watches, stay wise, move above it
Water floods predicted, hurricanes, twisters
It's all signs of the Armageddon, three sixes
People verse the system, politics verse religion
Holy war, Muslim verse Christian
**** in high places, they don't got the balls for this
People in power sit back and watch them slaughter us
Mr. President, I assume it was negligence
But your streets are upside down, I'm here to represent
[Verse 7]
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
I wanna talk to the mayor, to the governor, to the motherfucking president
I wanna talk to the FBI and the CIA and the motherfucking congressman
Can I talk to ya?
[Verse 8]
Can I talk to you, Mr. President?
Know what I'm sayin? **** tryna get with the computers, man
Know what I'm saying? We ain't John Henry
Banging down a fucking cave, fighting against a machine, ****
We want to be part of the establishment, ****
That's what we stepping up for
You know what I mean? Ain't no cartoon out here
You know what I mean? This shit is real
[Verse 9]
Total package in this ****
L-E-S in this ****
Ill will ****
Fuckin' the track up, know what I'm saying?
Mr. President fucking wanna keep us from establishment
**** is with it, **** are American, baby
American made
Written by: Alvin West, Leshawn Lewis, Nasir Jones
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