Letters to the Editor
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Yeah Gibson, We On That...
[Gansters, Hustlers, Republicans and Democrats, Pimps and Hoes]/ Conservatives, Labor, the Seller, the Buyer, the Product, the Producer/.../ [American] Gangsterment allows you to make up your own laws and create brand new words/ An American Way created by the White, Mastered by the Black and absorbed by the Fiends/ Taxed by the Governmentality, Charted by Forbes/.../ You too can be a gangster by any means necessary, by owning that dream/ I mean it's a long walk to Freedom but/ while deep, deep, deep inside the Bush/ [the war on terror screams, damn it feels good]/ Damn it feels good to be a Gangster.../ Cut the Bullsh*t/ You know if it wasn't for this/ There wouldn't be no that/ which we call/ The American Gangster...
I'm cut from the cloth of the Kennedey's/ Frank Sinatra havin dinner with the Genovese'/
Ignorant Shit
I missed that part/ where it stopped being about Imus/ What do my lyrics got to do/ with this sh*t?/ Scarface the movie did more/ than scarface the rapper to me/.../ are you saying what I'm spitting/ is worse than these 'celebutantes'/ showing the kitten, you kidding?/ let's stop bullsh*tting/ til we all without sin let's stop the pulpittin...
Say Hello (To the Bad Guy)
We ain't thugs for the sake/ of just bein thugs/ nobody do that where/ we grew up Ni**a, duh/ The poverty line we not above/ out comes the mask and gloves/ cause we ain't feelin the love/ we ain't doin crime for the/ sake of doin crime/ we movin dimes cause we ain't doin fine/ one out of three of us is/ locked up doin time/ you know what that type/ of Sh*t can do to a Ni**a mind?/.../
Ya'll ain't give me forty acres/ and a mule/ so I got my Glock 40, now I'm cool/ And if Al Sharpton is speakin for me/ somebody get him the word/ and tell him I don't approve/ Tell him I remove the curses/ If he can tell me our schools gone/ be perfect/ when Jena 6 don't exist temm him/ that's when I'll stop sayin Bitch (bitch!)
Respectfully, Jay-Z 'American Gangster'