[00:00:00] American Dream - Jeezy (杰伊·詹金斯)/J. Cole (J. 科尔)/Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔) [00:00:00] Written by:Jay Jenkins/Jermaine Cole/Bilal Oliver/Dominick Lamb/Keith Alexander Fogah/Julius Preston/Jamie Dean McKay/Kendrick Duckworth/Macintosh Hundal [00:00:00] Cryin' [00:00:01] Yeah what's up yeah what's up [00:00:05] Welcome to America baby uh [00:00:06] Home of the brave American dream you know yeah [00:00:09] Uh yeah yeah [00:00:11] Let's go [00:00:12] I just want a big ol' bag of money when I see my jeweler [00:00:15] Get a hard on when I'm counting up that mula wassup [00:00:18] Scarface into living life like a king [00:00:21] Every day eating good with my team the American dream [00:00:25] First they said I wouldn't but I knew that [00:00:26] I would make it [00:00:28] Copped my first pie yeah I knew that I could bake it wassup [00:00:31] Scarface vision living life like a king [00:00:34] Every day grinding hard with my team the American dream [00:00:37] You either good or you great you either real or you fake [00:00:40] That's why I stay spittin' the real because the real ones relate [00:00:44] Y'all must was raised by some haters you niggas go ahead and hate [00:00:46] F F four car garage for the 'rari that b**th came with the estate [00:00:50] I swear them streets get so tricky glad I ain't fall for the bait [00:00:53] So focused and I'm determined can see that sh*t in my face [00:00:56] You niggas go 'head and face it lil' b**th ain't sh*t 'bout me basic [00:00:59] Hit a lick on them b**ches and went and iced out a bracelet [00:01:02] Never let my flaws and my past come get the best of me [00:01:05] Turn a two fifty to a half I got the recipe [00:01:08] First my president was black now my president is wack [00:01:11] I ain't never going broke what's American in that [00:01:14] I just want a big ol' bag of money when I see my jeweler [00:01:18] Get a hard on when I'm counting up that mula ha ha [00:01:21] Scarface into living life like a king [00:01:23] Every day eating good with my team the American dream [00:01:27] First they said I wouldn't but I knew that I would make it alright [00:01:30] Copped my first pie yeah I knew that I could bake it alright [00:01:33] Scarface vision living life like a king [00:01:36] Every day grinding hard with my team the American dream [00:01:40] Got money to make blow out the candles then cut up the cake [00:01:43] Then I put it on plate I'm running the game you running in place [00:01:46] Still a youngin' at heart but mentally b**th I'm a hunnid' and eight [00:01:49] Like pun in the late 90s my niggas is juggling weight [00:01:52] Running from state to state gun in the waist for safety [00:01:55] I'm on a paper chase whatever it takes to make me [00:01:58] A millionaire silly cause how many really get there [00:02:01] I mean how many niggas is Jeezy [00:02:03] Y'all make this sh*t sound so easy [00:02:04] Breezy turn on the TV see these niggas that trap on the CD [00:02:08] Meanwhile back home my niggas sell crack at the BP [00:02:11] Hoping one day they can be thee [00:02:13] Niggas is there on the screen [00:02:14] 'Cause that's the American dream [00:02:15] Now here go the thing listen [00:02:17] Hysterical screams coming from mothers that buried their kings [00:02:20] Or the unbearable pain of watching 'em walk out with the sheriff in chains [00:02:24] Becoming a number they no longer care about the name [00:02:27] White folks been getting rich off of c*****e [00:02:29] Through some underhanded methods I don't got time to explain [00:02:32] Out of fear that I won't reach 'em and since preaching ain't my thing [00:02:35] I just drop a gem or two within a few verses I sing [00:02:38] For all my real niggas trapped inside the game [00:02:41] You know that already [00:02:42] I just want a big ol' bag of money when I see my jeweler [00:02:45] Get a hard on when I'm counting up that mula ha ha [00:02:48] Scarface into living life like a king [00:02:51] Every day eating good with my team the American dream [00:02:55] First they said I wouldn't but I knew that I would make it