America Lyrics - Untitled - Nas

(Verse One - Nas) 

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

Pussy and money the only language I clung to 

Cling to, I rolled myself up to become one 

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

Streets they see me, they can't believe my achievements 

Cultural-strata, persona is that of a non-needer 

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

From cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless 

Tell my G's don't flee from the coppers 

Stiff bodies don't freeze at funeral parlors 

From the slums I come up a phoenix 

Caked up trying to take what I'm eatin' 

Came up a dismissive kid 

You lucky if you allowed to witness this 

Savvy mouth, while 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 

With a face like he wondered where I got my bread 

Probably all the stones he see, from my shows overseas 

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

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(Hook - Nas) 

America 

Pay attention 

Wake up 

America 

This is not what you think it is 

America 

Pay attention 

This is not what you think it is 

(Verese Two - Nas) 

Blessed, the Lord is a G, he gotta be 

Whose 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 could see 

White cop acquitted for murder 

Black cop cop a plea 

That type of shit make stop you 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 niggas at NASA 

Who gave 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 the white tees, blue jeans and red bandanas 

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(Hook - Nas) 

America 

Pay attention 

Wake up 

America 

This is not what you think it is 

America 

Pay attention 

This is not what you think it is 

America 

This is not what you think it is 

(Verse Three - Nas) 

Assassinations, diplomatic relations 

Killed indigenous people, built a new nation 

Involuntary labor took a nice little women 

Even took a premature baby, let a man see you rape her 

If I could travel to the 1700s 

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

covenant 

Let her 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 nigga here, ain't we in the free world? 

Death penalty in Texas killed young boys and girls 

Barbarity, I'm in a double R casualty 

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

How far we really from third world savagery? 

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

(Hook - Nas) 

America 

America 

This is not what you think it is 

America 

This is not what you think it is 

America