[00:33.80]Ah, American hypnotize
[00:35.19]Been sad since about '09
[00:37.24]Was scared of **** in my mind, now I smile in my pic's online
[00:41.40]Isolation taught me patience 'bout the way to go
[00:43.34]Had to learn my mama depression wasn't my own
[00:45.28]Had to feel the pressures of the pessimism
[00:47.13]Trying to convince me that realism was a better vision
[00:49.16]Never been accepted in the ghetto, but I'm on Division
[00:51.12]And I'm livin', inability to be myself in a room full of ******
[00:55.30]Focused on hittin stains and gettin' *******
[00:57.10]I don't speak, I'm silent as a mouse by my own house
[00:59.11]With a bit of bitterness, worried about fittin' in
[01:01.52]And my uncle in the pen taught me how to be a man
[01:03.40]But he failed to mention why he did what he did
[01:05.73]Why my dad had to dip 'fore I learned how to tie my sneakers?
[01:08.40]While my mama boyfriend think he hiding the fact he sell *****
[01:12.58]We was kids, that ain't mean we was stupid
[01:15.70]First time I'd seen a gun, thinking if he'd shoot it
[01:17.78]Shotgun in my mama mouth, please don't do it
[01:19.94]She ran home naked and came right to us
[01:21.89]And I go to school the next day like ain't **** happen
[01:24.43]excelled in great grades and they ain't matter
[01:26.65]Standardized tests educate data
[01:28.65]You love the hype ****, but they ain't Saba
[01:30.73]You ain't seen addicts until my family
[01:32.79]Granny lost her brother, her other brother, her daddy
[01:34.95]You wonder why I don't drink
[01:36.33]Wonder why I don't smoke
[01:37.25]Wonder why I don't live
[01:38.30]Wonder why I'm so gray
[01:39.33]Wonder what's a fun night
[01:40.38]Waiting for the punchlines
[01:41.26]Want the beat quantized, you should play some other ****
[01:43.43]*****, we was traumatized, you talkin' 'bout the government?
[01:45.30]Had to get my ass whooped, fight's how we settle it
[01:47.25]I wish I didn't have to be famous to be important
[01:49.52]I used to wish that my parents could keep it cordial
[01:51.90]I hated my life until I played the piano
[01:53.85]They raided my best friend, he red-handed
[01:55.83]Scene of this **** like a scene of a movie
[01:57.72]Meanwhile, I'm the kid in the private schooling
[01:59.79]Wearing my glasses, playing my computer
[02:01.77]Drawing cartoons, was a straight-A student
[02:03.93]On a scholarship and I hated that
[02:06.13]Left the hood, somehow I made it back
[02:11.90]Back to life, back to reality
[02:16.57]Will my life, ever belong to me?
[02:20.63]Hypothesize the definition of free
[02:24.59]Realize this dream wasn't meant to be
[02:45.00]Hey, boss, how ya doin'? It's Pops, here's my bucket list, it's pretty short
[02:54.75]I want us to go see Vatican City, I wanna go see Mecca, I wanna visit Israel
[03:01.13]I wanna visit Morocco, I wanna see the Egyptian pyramids, the Mayan pyramids in South America
[03:10.37]But most importantly, what I'm saying is that I want us to all do this together
[03:15.43]I'm proud of you, man. Peace
[03:18.91]I too am an American dreamer
[03:21.90]I too dream of American freedom
[03:23.12]I too sing an American plea
[03:24.97]I too scream 'til liberty rings and (x4)