[00:00:00] American Dream-August Alsina [00:00:15] Ever since day one [00:00:17] Somebody probably say you wouldn't be nothin' [00:00:19] I bet they told you this over [00:00:20] And over again on repeat like a re-run [00:00:23] Nobody ever told you you could live up [00:00:25] To anything you want don't give up [00:00:27] They rather tell you you're destined for failure [00:00:30] That's what they tell you [00:00:31] But you just say [00:00:32] What about martin [00:00:33] What about garvey [00:00:34] What about rosa [00:00:35] What about malcolm [00:00:36] What if somebody told 'em they [00:00:37] would never be nothin' [00:00:38] And they believed this think about the outcome [00:00:40] Would we even be the way we are today [00:00:42] Even if it weren't could have been a harder way [00:00:44] Even though we lost a lot of people on the way [00:00:46] Had to sacrifice to get us in a better place [00:00:48] I hope you listen to these wizzords [00:00:50] All they want us thinking [00:00:52] about is sipping on some sizzurp [00:00:54] And they got us thinking something better [00:00:57] we don't deserve [00:00:58] And that we shouldn't try it's no use [00:01:00] But that couldn't be further from the truth [00:01:03] Don't believe it that's what they told me too [00:01:06] When I was growing up they told me [00:01:09] They told me that I wouldn't make it too far [00:01:13] And when I got a little older [00:01:16] They told me they told me yeah [00:01:19] That I wouldn't be anything [00:01:21] That's what they told me they told me [00:01:24] When we were little ones [00:01:25] That's what they told me they told me [00:01:27] We're supposed to be kings and queens [00:01:29] That's what they told me [00:01:31] they told me they told me [00:01:32] When we don't believe them [00:01:33] That's what they told me they told me [00:01:35] Trying to live the american dream [00:01:38] They see the ballers and celebrities [00:01:39] As a reminder of the people they would never be [00:01:42] Jealousy got them sick without a remedy [00:01:43] Thinking when I die nobody's gonna remember me [00:01:45] I was told that nobody care [00:01:47] So the dreams that I had turned to nightmares [00:01:49] Cause this thing called life really ain't fair [00:01:51] Need help but it ain't there [00:01:53] See you know it's really hard to stay dedicated [00:01:55] When the bottom screaming they was never educated [00:01:57] On the come up getting high just to medicate it [00:01:59] Cause the teachers just told him he [00:02:00] would never make it [00:02:01] Now he feeling like he made it [00:02:02] cause he stuck in paper [00:02:03] But probably won't let him spend the money later [00:02:05] Nobody ever told us we could be greater [00:02:07] To everybody on the ground in the paper chasers [00:02:09] I hope you listen to these wizzords [00:02:12] All they want us thinking [00:02:14] about is sipping on some sizzurp [00:02:16] And they got us thinking something [00:02:18] better we don't deserve [00:02:20] And that we shouldn't try it's no use [00:02:22] But that couldn't be further from the truth [00:02:24] Don't believe it that's what they told me too [00:02:28] When I was growing up they told me [00:02:30] They told me that I wouldn't make it too far [00:02:34] And when I got a little older [00:02:37] They told me they told me yeah [00:02:40] That I wouldn't be anything [00:02:42] That's what they told me they told me they told me [00:02:45] When we were little ones [00:02:46] That's what they told me they told me [00:02:48] We're supposed to be kings and queens [00:02:50] That's what they told me they told me they told me [00:02:53] When we don't believe them [00:02:54] That's what they told me they told me [00:02:56] Trying to live the american dream [00:02:59] That's what they told me they told me they told me [00:03:02] They'd rather see me dead never gone make it [00:03:04] They'd rather see me fail never gonna be anything [00:03:07] They'd rather see me in jail [00:03:09] you're never gonna be shit [00:03:10] Everybody die you ain't shit