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[00:00.00]"American Dream"
[00:16.04]Ever since day one
[00:17.05]Somebody probably say you wouldn't be nothin'
[00:19.20]I bet they told you this over and over again on repeat like a re-run
[00:23.11]Nobody ever told you you could live up
[00:25.26]To anything you want, don't give up
[00:27.17]They rather tell you, you're destined for failure
[00:29.48]That's what they tell you
[00:31.23]But you just say
[00:32.33]What about Martin?
[00:33.29]What about Garvey?
[00:34.18]What about Rosa?
[00:35.13]What about Malcolm?
[00:36.08]What if somebody told they they wouldn't be nothin'
[00:38.39]And they believed this, think about the outcome
[00:40.39]Would we even be the way we are today?
[00:41.80]Even if it weren't, could have been a harder way
[00:43.70]Even though we lost a lot of people on the way
[00:45.81]Had to sacrifice to get us in a better place
[00:47.92]I hope you listen to these wizzords
[00:50.87]All they want us thinking about is sipping on some sizzurp
[00:54.78]And they got us thinking something better we don't deserve
[00:58.85]And that we shouldn't try it's no use
[01:00.55]But that couldn't be further from the truth
[01:03.56]Don't believe them that's what they told me too
[01:06.72]When I was growing up (they told me)
[01:09.53]They told me (that I wouldn't make it too far)
[01:13.38]And when I got a little older
[01:15.39](They told me) they told me, yeah
[01:19.39](That I wouldn't be anything)
[01:21.65]That's what they told me, they told me, they told me
[01:24.55]But we are leaders
[01:25.61]That's what they told me, they told me, they told me
[01:27.83]We're supposed to be kings and queens
[01:29.43]That's what they told me, they told me, they told me
[01:32.64]When we don't believe them
[01:33.64]That's what they told me, they told me, they told me
[01:35.80]Trying to live the American Dream
[01:37.81]They see the baller's and celebrities
[01:40.11]As a reminder the people they would never be
[01:41.86]Jealousy got them sick without a remedy
[01:43.82]Thinking when I die nobody's gonna remember me
[01:45.83]I was told that nobody care
[01:47.38]So the dreams that I had turned to nightmares
[01:49.38]Cause this thing called life really ain't fair
[01:51.54]Need help but it ain't there
[01:53.04]So you know it's really hard to stay dedicated
[01:55.00]When the baller's screaming they was never educated
[01:57.00]On the corner getting high just to medicate it
[01:59.11]Cause the teachers just told him he would never make it
[02:01.01]Now he feeling like he made it cause he stuck in paper
[02:03.07]But probably won't let him spend the money later
[02:05.22]Nobody ever told us we could be greater
[02:06.97]Everybody on the ground in the paper chasers
[02:09.28]I hope you listen to these wizzords
[02:11.93]All they want us thinking about is sipping on some sizzurp
[02:15.90]And they got us thinking something better we don't deserve
[02:19.96]And that you shouldn't try it's no use
[02:21.80]But that couldn't be further from the truth
[02:24.72]Don't believe them that's what they told me too
[02:27.97]When I was growing up (they told me)
[02:30.37]They told me (that I wouldn't make it too far)
[02:34.63]And when I got a little older
[02:37.39](They told me) they told me, yeah
[02:40.59](That I wouldn't be anything)
[02:42.40]That's what they told me, they told me, they told me
[02:44.90]But we are leaders
[02:46.90]That's what they told me, they told me, they told me
[02:48.91]We're supposed to be kings and queens
[02:50.47]That's what they told me, they told me, they told me
[02:52.72]When we don't believe them
[02:55.03]That's what they told me, they told me, they told me
[02:57.30]Trying to live the American Dream
[03:01.78]They'd rather see me dead, never gone make it
[03:04.78]They'd rather see me fail, never gonna be anything
[03:07.59]They'd rather see me in jail, you're never gonna be shit
[03:10.96]Everybody die, (you ain't shit, yo daddy ain't shit)
[03:13.30]But not everybody lives, I told you
[03:20.32]We gotta get out of this
[03:23.32]You just gotta tell yourself
[03:25.83]That somehow I'm a make it
[03:28.04]by og