This is not what you think it is
Ain't ya happy I chose rap, I'm amongst tha?
White cop acquitted for murder, black cop, cop a plea
And the whole race dichotomy
She the nigger here, ain't we in the free world?
For years all that, how can I not be dead?
If I could travel to the 1700's
When the empire fall imagine how crazy that'll be
America, pay attention
From crime to rhyme, my stories is
From my shows overseas
But when it comes to residuals, they look past us
America
The beach houses and wild parties
Jezebel's and Stella McCartney's
(America, this is not what you think it is)
Killed indigenous people built a new nation
(America)
(America)
Just to figure out you wasn’t dreamin’ in the first place
You played her with an apron like, “Bring me my dinner, dear”
How far we really from third world savagery?
I'm from the home of the thieves
Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro
From the slums I come up a phoenix caked up
Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled
America, pay attention
Wild? Hardly, a man's man who would’a knew
Wake up, this is not what you think it is
The hypocrisy is all I can see
America
America, pay attention
Love to sit in on the Senate and tell the whole government
I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite through your covenant
We in chronic need of a second look of the law books
America
(America, America)
But not enough niggas in NASA
Death penalty in Texas, kill young boys and girls
(America)
Even in white tee's, blue jeans and red bandannas
America, pay attention
To my G's on the flee from the coppers
You lucky if you allowed to witness this savvy mouth
That type of shit make me stop and think
(America)
(America)
(America, this is not what you think it is)
Claim ta, I bought myself up to become one
Pussy and money the only language I clung ta
This old German said I was a thug with a notty head
For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
Who's the God of suckers and snitches? The economy
Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors
Only the strong survive, Nas bear witness
(America)
This is not what you think it is
America
With a face like he wonder where I got my bread
Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us
Assassinations, diplomatic relations
Wake up, this is not what you think it is
Took her premature baby, let her man see you rape her
Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver
If all I saw was gangsters comin’ up as a youngster
Believin’ she the reason sin is here
Probably all these stones he see
Who give you the latest dances, trends and fashion?
Streets deceivin’, can't believe my achievements
Buggin’ how I made it out the hood, dazzle me
Blessed, the Lord is a G, he gotta be
Involuntary labor, took a knife split a woman naval
Too many rappers, athletes and actors
Tryna take what I'm eatin’ ‘n’ came up a dismissive kid
(America, this is not what you think it is)
He’d want me to spit this
Cultural strata, persona's that of a non-needer
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R casually
Y'all don't treat women fair, she read about herself in the Bible
