JAY-Z - Young, Gifted and Black (Album Version (Explicit))

[00:15.22] I'm America's worst nightmare [00:17.33] I'm young, black, and holding my nuts like, yeah [00:19.59] While ya'll was at the pub, havin' a light beer [00:22.18] I was at the club, havin' a fight there [00:24.87] Ya'll can go home, husband and wife there [00:27.05] My momma at work tryin' to buy me the right gear [00:29.60] Nine years old uncle lost his life here [00:32.43] I grew up thinkin' life ain't fair [00:34.25] How can I get a real job, China white right there [00:37.06] Right in front of my sight like here, yeah [00:39.29] There's ya ticket out the ghetto take flight right here [00:42.18] Tell on me you go bye-bye here, damn [00:44.20] There's a different set of rules we abide by here [00:47.19] You need a gun, niggas might drive by here [00:49.86] Ya'll havin' fun, racin' all ya hot-rods there [00:52.34] Downloadin' all our music on ya iPods there [00:54.89] I'm Chuck-D, standin' in the crosshairs here [00:57.29] Ya'll straight, chicks got horse hair here [00:59.73] Ya'll ain't gotta be in fear of ya'll bosses there [01:02.20] You lose your job, your pop rich, ya'll don't care [01:04.87] So I don't care, ya'll acting like ya'll don't hear [01:07.19] All the screams from the ghetto [01:09.17] Or the teens ducking metal here [01:10.29] So they steam like a kettle here [01:12.64] Trying to take they mind to a whole different level here [01:15.30] Yeah, we real close to devil here [01:17.41] Got to be a better way somebody call a reverend here [01:20.19] Yeah, have mercy really be in heaven here [01:22.81] Somebody tell God that we got a couple of questions here [01:25.32] My little cousin never got to see his seventh year [01:28.50] And I'm so used to pain that I ain't even shed a tear [01:30.53]