[00:01.62]They say the sky is the limit
[00:04.26]Well I guess it all depends on you
[00:08.11]In your views
[00:10.08]In this American dream
[00:12.60]Don't tell me that the sky is the limit
[00:16.13]Cause it ain't about what you can do
[00:19.87]It's a who knows who
[00:22.05]In this American dream
[00:46.50]Okay you got criminals everywhere, right?
[00:48.98]Criminals smugglin' dope across borders to feed America's high appetite
[00:53.53]Kis, pounds, ounces, grams, whatever the weight of substance is gettin' towed
[00:58.08]Cause drugs got a price
[00:59.61]Home hydroponics, LSD chemist
[01:02.08]Spoon cookin' heroine, junkies fill up methadone clinics
[01:05.22]Get caught for crack and catch a long sentence
[01:07.66]You ask me how I feel about that, maybe you got the wrong witness
[01:11.27]I heard Jay Z's cool with Obama
[01:13.82]Obama must be cool with me then I guess if I'm packin' up this Honda
[01:17.49]I highly doubt it but fuck it, it's worth a shout out
[01:20.03]At least that's what I tell the judge before I gracefully bowed out
[01:23.30]Meanwhile I'm gettin' taken to the county for recieve
[01:26.26]There's a news flash on the holdin' cell TV
[01:29.34]Boston bombed by a terrorist at a marathon
[01:32.40]8 year old killed and the killer's still free
[01:35.55]Shit is hard to believe
[01:36.90]They say the sky is the limit
[01:40.01]Well I guess it all depends on you
[01:44.12]In your views
[01:45.94]In this American dream
[01:48.75]Don't tell me that the sky is the limit
[01:51.99]Cause it ain't about what you can do
[01:55.78]It's a who knows who
[01:57.88]In this American dream
[02:00.02]I ain't no politically savvy citizen
[02:01.93]I'm just an average man who writes poetry about witnessin' fuckery
[02:05.00]And these police who always fuck with me
[02:08.08]Do time for sharin' dirt, my boy trusted me
[02:10.98]But I picked music over hustlin', and I made it out luckily
[02:14.22]Could've been on corners droppin' quarters from a bucket seat
[02:17.19]My cousins preach about the lord but all I see is crime
[02:19.96]If the Vatican has got the book then what the fuck is mine?
[02:22.99]Just a line with a hook
[02:24.65]You might as well be a rapper cause you signed and get booked
[02:27.81]All the same to a suit
[02:29.00]Black or white, you still a crook
[02:30.74]If you ain't a Justin Leave It to Beaver with that look
[02:33.61]Then just drop the egg in the skillet, let it cook
[02:36.56]Who y'all bein' took
[02:38.08]No I'm not a crook, son but this one ain't shook
[02:41.14]But I'm rollin' Mobb Deep, my dreams on a Harley Davidson
[02:43.84]Pigs, I hardly wave at them, yeah I said hardly
[02:46.96]If I'm rude then pardon me but remember...
[02:48.91]They say the sky is the limit
[02:51.95]Well I guess it all depends on you
[02:56.14]In your views
[02:57.96]In this American dream
[03:00.78]Don't tell me that the sky is the limit
[03:03.94]Cause it ain't about what you can do
[03:07.89]It's a who knows who
[03:09.96]In this American dream
[03:11.98]My grandparents retired from 9 to 5s
[03:14.00]Then paid for my hospital bills when mama was doin' lines
[03:16.87]I wasn't raised up like the model American
[03:20.01]But I love what it made me, life is all about where and whens
[03:23.11]Whos and hows that ultimately create my heritage
[03:25.84]My great grandaddy Otis would sit down in his chair and then
[03:29.06]Smoke a cigarette while he sipped on Muscatine moonshine
[03:32.16]Homemade, and reminisce about the old days
[03:35.46]He died of cancer when I was 5
[03:37.65]I wasn't allowed to go see him in his casket cause I would've cried
[03:41.30]I got so much value off life in such a short time
[03:44.20]Memories stick to my heart and today they still apply
[03:47.24]They used to share crops when they were poor
[03:49.68]He worked his ass off at the mill and then he opened up a store
[03:53.39]Both of my granddaddies fought a war
[03:55.59]So I can say what I'm sayin' in this record for you and yours
[03:58.76]For you and yours, true
[04:01.02]They say the sky is the limit
[04:03.94]Well I guess it all depends on you
[04:07.78]In your views
[04:09.88]In this American dream
[04:12.79]Don't tell me that the sky is the limit
[04:16.04]Cause it ain't about what you can do
[04:19.86]It's a who knows who
[04:21.86]In this American dream
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