Nas - America

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[00:02.22]If all I saw was gangsters
[00:10.97]Coming up as a youngster
[00:16.07]P***y and money the only language I clung ta
[00:20.50]Claim ta unrolled myself up to become one
[00:26.66]Ain't ya happy I chose rap
[00:28.13]I'm amongst tha
[00:29.17]Streets deceiving
[00:29.95]Can't believe my achievements
[00:31.30]Cultural strata
[00:32.39]Persona's that of a non-needer
[00:34.15]Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver
[00:36.47]For cold winters tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
[00:39.53]To my g's on the flee from the coppers
[00:41.80]Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors
[00:44.31]From the slums I come up a phoenix
[00:46.14]Caked up tryna take what I'm eating
[00:48.01]Came up a dismissive kid
[00:49.88]You lucky if you allowed to witness this
[00:52.30]Savvy mouth
[00:53.61]Wild hardly
[00:54.51]A man's man
[00:55.14]Who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties
[00:57.49]Jezebel's and Stella McCartney's
[00:59.52]For years all that
[01:01.03]How could I not be dead
[01:02.42]This old German
[01:03.36]Said I was a thug with a notty head
[01:04.90]Looked at my Benz and called that a n**i sled
[01:07.75]With a face like he wonder where I got my bread
[01:10.43]Probably all these stones he see
[01:14.06]From my shows overseas
[01:17.87]From crime to rhyme
[01:25.51]My stories is I'm from the home of the thieves
[01:36.48]Blessed
[01:36.97]The lord is a g he gotta be
[01:38.57]Who's the God of suckers and snitches
[01:40.14]The economy
[01:41.04]Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe
[01:42.56]Blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro
[01:44.53]He'd want me to spit this
[01:45.59]Only the strong survive
[01:47.04]Nas bear witness
[01:48.53]The hypocrisy is all I can see
[01:50.35]White cop acquitted for murder
[01:51.86]Black cop cop a plea
[01:53.21]That type of s**t make me stop and think
[01:55.09]We in chronic need of a second look of the law books
[01:58.39]And the whole race dichotomy
[02:00.35]Too many rappers athletes and actors
[02:03.02]But not enough n***as in NASA
[02:04.63]Who give you the latest dances trends and fashion
[02:07.29]But when it comes to residuals they look past us
[02:09.72]Woven into the fabric they can't stand us
[02:11.84]Even in white tee's blue jeans and red bandanas
[02:15.47]Assassinations
[02:19.76]Diplomatic relations
[02:23.09]Killed indigenous people
[02:25.06]Built a new nation
[02:28.68]Involuntary labor
[02:34.64]Took a knife split a woman naval
[02:43.68]Took her premature baby
[02:45.84]Let her man see you R**e her
[02:47.88]If I could travel to the 1700's
[02:54.38]I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite
[02:56.80]Through your covenant
[02:57.71]Love to sit in on the Senate
[02:58.86]And tell the whole government
[02:59.95]Y'all don't treat women fair
[03:01.26]She read about herself in the bible
[03:02.81]Believing she the reason sin is here
[03:04.58]You played her with an apron
[03:05.90]Like bring me my dinner dear
[03:07.35]She the n****r here
[03:08.36]Ain't we in the free world
[03:09.58]Death penalty in Texas k**l young boys and girls
[03:11.97]Barbarity I'm in the double-R casually
[03:14.70]Bugging how I made it out the hood dazzle me
[03:17.16]How far we really from third world savagery
[03:19.71]When the empire fall imagine how crazy that'll be