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
Troopers lookin` for manslaughter
I gotta get back, for what they owe
Shoot`em in the back for the get back
Lead through shit bag, hold tie gag
Forget the life had, now we all rebels
Everything burnt down includin` the ghetto
We can see 4 miles the land its major rubble
And debris from the earth as we knew crumb
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