American born, American raised, American made
[Chorus 2X]
My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Naw, never)
Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
Cause the things I seen (We seen too much)
[Verse 1 (Nas)]
It was packed on the Ryker's bus
The tight cuffs is holdin' me shackled
The life of a thug caught in the devil's lap
On the streets I was invincible
Cowards would duck at a glimpse if they knew
What my pistol would do, a fuckin' killa
Mothers of dope fiend embarrassin' me
All in front of my friends
In the street smile with no teeth
I never knew daddy, heard he had a 72 caddy
Died in a robbery, can't remember him, was probably 3
Why didn't my folks just die in this society
Why wasn't I a child of a doctor, who left stocks for me
Two little brothers, two sisters, them shortiez gots to eat
Mother's a junkie, she twisted, so all they got is me
I'm the provider, with goals to do much better than my father
Whether through drugs sold, or holdin' revolvers
Blurry visions of dad holdin' me high
It comes to me slowly, the words he would cry
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2 (Millenium Thug)]
It is I that step up
Me that don't give a fuck, you that bold, then it's all over soldier
Hummers and Range's through the desert
Fuck a 20 years, long as we got gas and we got water
years
words
whether
warden
visit
visions
verse
twisted
troopers
tight
through
think
things
state
startin
stars
soldier
society
smile
slowly
water
sisters
sight
shoes
shackled
scheme
swear
rubble
wants
robbery
escape
drugs
desert
every
everything
crumble
daddy
cowards
brothers
street
pistol
everyday
ducks
country
caddy
closer
scribe
invincible
doctor
folks
clean
bloody
homicide
debris
cause
bitch
goals
billion
anywhere
bench
dearest
yesterday
repeat
child
machine
apart
hummers
streets
shitted
block
behind
dollar
breath
blurry
could
color
teeth
broadcast
cares
slaves
comes
major
cuffs
burnt
buried
business
caught
american
chest
mommy
nobody
everytime
walls
remember
father
fatigues
fence
fiend
gates
revolvers
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