[ti:America]
[ar:Nas]
[al:Untitled]
[by:李泽昊]
[00:02.00]Nas - America
[00:07.00]LRC by lzh ,from jiangxi pingxiang
[00:12.00]@ @
[03:23.70][02:16.45][01:19.23][00:17.00]
[00:18.86]If all I saw was gangsters
[00:20.75]Coming up as a youngster
[00:21.82]Pussy and money the only language I clung ta
[00:24.11]Claim ta, unrolled myself up to become one
[00:26.29]Ain't ya happy I chose rap
[00:28.39]I'm amongst tha
[00:29.46]Streets deceiving
[00:30.33]Can't believe my achievements
[00:31.68]Cultural strata
[00:32.68]Persona's that of a non-needer
[00:33.82]Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver
[00:36.55]For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
[00:38.62]To my g's on the flee from the coppers
[00:41.54]Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors
[00:43.64]From the slums I come up a phoenix
[00:45.91]Caked up, tryna take what I'm eating
[00:48.03]Came up a dismissive kid
[00:49.75]You lucky if you allowed to witness this
[00:52.15]Savvy mouth
[00:53.56]Wild, hardly
[00:54.69]A man's man
[00:55.43]Who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties
[00:57.63]Jezebel's and Stella McCartney's
[00:59.36]For years, all that
[01:01.06]How could I not be dead
[01:02.57]This old German
[01:03.72]Said I was a thug with a notty head
[01:05.11]Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled
[01:07.34]With a face like he wonder where I got my bread
[01:09.72]Probably all these stones he see
[01:12.29]From my shows overseas
[01:13.56]From crime to rhyme
[01:15.78]My stories is I'm from the home of the thieves
[01:35.45]Blessed
[01:37.54]The lord is a g, he gotta be
[01:39.06]Who's the God of suckers and snitches
[01:39.89]The economy
[01:41.18]Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe
[01:42.57]Blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro
[01:44.30]He'd want me to spit this
[01:45.82]Only the strong survive
[01:47.26]Nas bear witness
[01:48.52]The hypocrisy is all I can see
[01:50.68]White cop acquitted for murder
[01:52.08]Black cop cop a plea
[01:53.19]That type of shit make me stop and think
[01:55.40]We in chronic need of a second look of the law books
[01:57.59]And the whole race dichotomy
[02:00.15]Too many rappers, athletes, and actors
[02:02.37]But not enough niggas in NASA
[02:04.86]Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion
[02:07.32]But when it comes to residuals, they look past us
[02:09.65]Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us
[02:11.99]Even in white tee's, blue jeans, and red bandanas
[02:42.74]Assassinations
[02:44.66]Diplomatic relations
[02:45.78]Killed indigenous people
[02:47.06]Built a new nation
[02:48.21]Involuntary labor
[02:49.35]Took a knife split a woman naval
[02:50.61]Took her premature baby
[02:51.93]Let her man see you rape her
[02:53.26]If I could travel to the 1700's
[02:54.83]I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite
[02:57.02]Through your covenant
[02:57.84]Love to sit in on the Senate
[02:59.03]And tell the whole government
[03:00.31]Y'all don't treat women fair
[03:01.49]She read about herself in the bible
[03:02.83]Believing she the reason sin is here
[03:04.25]You played her, with an apron
[03:06.25]Like bring me my dinner, dear
[03:06.93]She the nigger here
[03:08.17]Ain't we in the free world
[03:09.61]Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls
[03:11.63]Barbarity, I'm in the double-R casually
[03:14.19]Bugging how I made it out the hood, dazzle me
[03:17.00]How far we really from third world savagery
[03:19.45]When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be
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