UnamericanDreamers

Was meant to be since back when Herc was spinning records As the underground connected And the Get Down was elected as rhythmic combatant of our oppression Starting piecing up as the war was digressing This direction we on course had spawned in '73 We learned to rhyme by spinning stories on competitive beats These blocks was hot so it was cool to have a vent for the streets Niggas tired in the city cuz that shit never sleeps No Sugar Hill just dirt ditches only thing cement would ever grow is weeds Fast Mecca, is we ever gon' eat? The culture hungry for a change would take a second to see While upstate Marva Daniel teaching Elementary That's before she had my mom or thoughts of mentioning me We proceed mom growing up to Rev and MC, eventually it got Tricky Grandmas student shot dead in the streets Many people in Buffalo would end up resting in peace Put them children in athletics even set up a league In his memory for hopes to grow up better than he Our hands get dirty for that white picket fence in them trees Another brother killed in search of the American Dream My pops the first kid in Queens with that NWA And Pac had just linked up with Shock when he moved Back to the Bay School an hour way in Austin drinking lean when Screw was popping And his pops was live in Oakland way back when them feds was watching Newton and them Malcom X adoptions They kill our leaders now we looking at Hip Hop for profit Good and evil, so the cultures being cut for losses Now Hov has dropped the same year my parents met in college Things have changed said Mr. Wallace, not a single thing bout rap modest Guess we doing what the system taught us Work for you, ain't bout community go ditch them projects Chase these objects, raid and conquer Plant commercial phonies so the game is what us natives robbed of Don't disobey the margin Ain't no safe deposits, changed the combinations So we slaving tryna rake these dollars Lay the carpets Then rape our pockets or our bodies but 'you're famous aren't ya?' Was once our art become a monster In the belly of it tryna make an offer off our latest optic It's too late the label ate our weight in losses And they'll implicate and lock us Now all you got is Allah, Because them things you're promised start to fade away into familiar darkness As Salaam Wa Alaikum, Wa Alaikum As Salaam Can turn your back on faith, or find it in how you lay your drums Still them struggle psalms in hopes that better days will come Aspire to inspire my people about what ain't been done Dre dropped in '01, I'm talking bout a different legend Same year the Blueprint for my style debuted on 9/11 It was clear we'd taken steps into a fine direction I'm Hip Hop 'cause since then there's been an omnipresence Now, we gon' see who takes it the farthest Named that school after my grandma 'cause '04 she had departed If my mom ain't chase American Dreams from where she had started There's a chance that cracker could've popped me in that super market Welcome to the American Dream