American Dream-Jeezy/J. Cole/Kendrick Lamar

[00:00.00](Cryin', cryin', cryin')Yeah, what’s up? [00:03.50](Yeah, what’s up?) [00:04.72]Welcome to America baby (uh) [00:06.22]Home of the brave, American Dream (yeah) [00:08.45]Uh, yeah (uh, yeah) [00:11.46]Let’s go [00:12.29]I just want a big ol' bag of money when I see my jeweler [00:15.24]Get a hard-on when I'm counting up that mula [00:18.30]Scarface, into living life like a king [00:21.27]Every day eating good with my team (the American Dream) [00:25.03]First they said I wouldn't, but I knew that I would make it [00:27.67]Copped my first pie, yeah, I knew that I could bake it [00:30.76]Scarface vision, living life like a king [00:33.81]Every day grinding hard with my team (the American Dream) [00:37.60]You either good or you great [00:39.09]You either real or you fake [00:40.55]That's why I stay spitting the real [00:42.15]Because the real ones relate [00:43.64]Y'all must was raised by some haters [00:45.41]You *****s go 'head and hate [00:46.78]F-F-Four car garage for the 'Rari, [00:48.34]That ******* came with the estate [00:49.88]I swear them streets get so tricky, [00:51.50]Glad I ain't fall for the bait [00:52.93]So focused and I'm determined, [00:54.48]Can see that *******t in my face [00:56.08]You *****s go 'head and face it [00:57.82]Lil *******, ain't *******t 'bout me basic [00:59.28]Hit a lick on them ******* and win an iced out bracelet [01:02.40]Never let my flaws and my past come get the best of me [01:05.15]Turn a two fifty to a half, I got the recipe [01:08.33]First my President was Black, now my President is wack [01:11.15]I ain't never going broke, what's American in that? [01:14.26]I just want a big ol' bag of money when I see my jeweler [01:17.59]Get a hard-on when I'm counting up that mula [01:20.60]Scarface, into living life like a king [01:23.76]Every day eating good with my team (the American Dream) [01:27.42]First they said I wouldn't, but I knew that I would make it [01:29.99]Copped my first pie, yeah, I knew that I could bake it [01:33.15]Scarface vision, living life like a king [01:36.24]Every day grinding hard with my team (the American Dream) [01:39.98]Got money to make, [01:41.10]Blow out the candles then cut up the cake [01:42.72]Then I put it on plate, [01:44.27]I'm running the game, you running in place [01:45.81]Still a youngin' at heart, [01:47.38]But mentally, ******* I'm a hundred-and-eight [01:49.00]Like Pun in the late 90s, my *****s is juggling weight [01:52.02]Running from state to state, gunning up ways to safety [01:54.36]I'm on a paper chase, whatever it takes to make me [01:57.60]A millionaire, silly cause how many really get there? [02:00.64]I mean, how many *****s is Jeezy? [02:02.57]Y'all make this *******t sound so easy [02:04.35]Breezy, turn on the TV, see these *****s that trap on the CD [02:07.77]Meanwhile, back home, my *****s sell crack at the BP [02:10.95]Hoping one day they can be the [02:12.63]*****s is there on the screen [02:14.12]'Cause that's the American Dream [02:15.52]Now here go the thing, listen [02:17.13]Hysterical screams, [02:18.73]Coming from mothers that buried their kings [02:20.13]Or the unbearable pain of watching them [02:21.80]Walk out with the sheriff in chains [02:23.52]Becoming a number, they no longer care bout the name [02:26.40]White folks been getting rich off of ******* [02:29.18]Through some underhanded methods, [02:30.81]I don't got time to explain [02:32.17]Out of fear that I won't reach 'em [02:33.84]And since preaching ain't my thing [02:35.36]I just drop a gem or two within a few verses I sing [02:38.25]For all my real *****s trapped inside the game [02:40.97]You know that already [02:42.02]I just want a big ol' bag of money when I see my jeweler [02:44.81]Get a hard-on when I'm counting up that mula [02:47.92]Scarface, into living life like a king [02:51.01]Every day eating good with my team (the American Dream) [02:54.40]First they said I wouldn't, but I knew that I would make it [02:57.26]Copped my first pie, yeah, I knew that I could bake it [03:00.42]Scarface vision, living life like a king [03:03.49]Every day grinding hard with my team (the American Dream) [03:07.22](Yeah yuh) [03:07.82]These streets made for ballin' (yeah yuh) [03:11.00]Ten toes ain't for fallin' (yeah yuh) [03:14.05]I hear the world callin' [03:16.24]Tell me if ya all in (tell me if ya all in) [03:19.23]Look, look, I gotta eat, I gotta, make money with [03:22.74]I gotta feast, [03:23.89]I gotta re-ly on what is known to the travelin' man [03:28.32]Set his own, got my Bible and my rifle in my hand, oh yeah [03:31.88]I gotta eat, I gotta, make money with [03:35.44]I gotta feast, [03:36.54]I gotta re-ly on what is known to the travelin' man [03:40.70]Set his own, got my Bible and my rifle in my hand, oh yeah [03:44.36](Cryin', cryin', cryin', cryin', cryin' , cryin'...)