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[Intro (Nas talking)]
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Yo, it's like waking up from a bad dream (Americaaa)
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Just to figure out you wasn't dreaming in the first place (Nooo...)
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[Verse:]
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If all I saw was gangsters
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Coming up as a youngster
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Pussy and money the only language I clung to
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Claim to, unrolled myself up to become one
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Ain't ya happy I chose rap? I'm amongst the
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Streets deceiving
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Can't believe my achievements
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Cultural strata
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Persona's that of a non-needer
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Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver
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For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
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To my G's on the flee from the coppers (coppers)
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Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors (parlors)
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From the slums I come up a phoenix
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Caked up, tryin' to take what I'm eating
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Came up a dismissive kid (kid)
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You lucky if you allowed to witness this
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Savvy mouth
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While hardly a man's man
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Who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties
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Jezebel's and Stella Mccartney's?
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For years, all that
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How could I not be dead?
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This old German
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Said I was a thug with a knotty head
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Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled
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With a face like he wonder where I got my bread
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Probably all these stones he see
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From my shows overseas
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From crime to rhyme
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My story is I'm from the home of the thieves
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[Chorus 1]
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America (America), pay attention
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Wake up (America)
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This is not what you think it is
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America (America), pay attention
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Wake up (America)
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This is not what you think it is
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[Verse 2:]
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Blessed
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The lord is a G, he gotta be
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Who's the God of suckers and snitches?
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The economy
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Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe
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Blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro
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He'd want me to spit this
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Only the strong survive
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Nas bear witness
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The hypocrisy is all I can see
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White cop acquitted for murder
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Black cop cop a plea
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That type of shit make me stop and think
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We in chronic need of a second look of the law books
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And the whole race dichotomy
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Too many rappers, athletes, and actors
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But not enough niggas in nasa
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Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion?
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But when it comes to residuals, they look past us
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Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us
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Even in white tee's, blue jeans, and red bandannas
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[Chorus 2:]
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America (America) pay attention
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Wake up (America)
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This is not what you think it is
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America (America)
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Pay attention (America)
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This is not what you think it is
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America (America)
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(This is not what you think it is)
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[Verse 3:]
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Assassinations
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Diplomatic relations
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Killed indigenous people
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Built a new nation
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Involuntary labor
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Took a knife split a woman naval
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Took her premature baby
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Let her man see you rape her
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If I could travel to the 1700's
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I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite
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Through your covenant
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Love to sit in on the Senate
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And tell the whole government
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Y'all don't treat women fair
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She read about herself in the bible
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Believing she the reason sin is here
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You played her, with an apron
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Like, "Bring me my dinner, dear."
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She the nigger here
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Ain't we in the free world?
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Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls
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Barbarity, I'm in the double-are casualty
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Bugging how I made it out the hood, dazzle me
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How far we really from third world savagery
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When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be
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[Chorus 3]
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America (America, America)
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America (America)
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(This is not what you think it is)
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America (America ohhh)
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This is not what you think it is
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