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[Verse 1]
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Go, go, away)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Go, go, away)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Go, go, away)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Go, go, away)
[Verse 2]
We just wanna party
Party just for you
We just want the money
Money just for you
I know you wanna party
Party just for me
Girl, you got me dancing (Girl, you got me dancing)
Dance and shake the frame
[Verse 3]
We just wanna party
Party just for you
We just want the money
Money just for you
I know you wanna party
Party just for me
Girl, you got me dancing (Girl, you got me dancing)
Dance and shake the frame
[Verse 4]
This is America
Don't catch you slipping now (Whoa)
Don't catch you slipping now (Whoa)
Look what I'm whipping up
This is America (Woo)
Don't catch you slipping now (Yeah)
Don't catch you slipping now
Look what I'm whipping up
[Verse 5]
This is America (Woo)
Don't catch you slipping now (Ay)
Look how I'm living now
Police be tripping now (Woo)
Yeah, this is America (Woo, woo)
Guns in my area (My area)
I got the strap (Hey)
I gotta carry 'em
[Verse 6]
Yeah-yeah, I'ma go into this (Uh)
Yeah-yeah, this is guerrilla (Woo)
Yeah-yeah, I'ma go get the bag
Yeah-yeah, or I'ma get the pad (Woo)
Yeah-yeah, I'm so cold like, yeah (Yeah)
I'm so dope like, yeah (Woo)
We gon' blow like, yeah (Straight up)
(Uh)
[Verse 7]
Ooh, tell somebody
You go tell somebody
Grandma told me, get your money, black man (Get your money)
Get your money, black man (Get your money)
Get your money, black man (Get your money)
Get your money, black man (Get yo-, black man)
Black man
[Verse 8]
(Woo)This is America (Woo)
Don't catch you slipping now (Don't catch you slipping now)
Don't catch you slipping now (Whoa)
Look what I'm whipping up! (Aah)
This is America (Yeah, yeah)
Don't catch you slipping now (Yeah, ay)
Don't catch you slipping now (Ay, woo)
Look what I'm whipping up
[Verse 9]
Look how I'm geeking out (Hey)
I'm so fitted (Woo)
I'm on Gucci
I'm so pretty (Yeah, yeah)
I'm gon' get it (Get it)
Watch me move (Ah, blaow)
This a celly
That's a tool, yeah (Woo)
On my Kodak (Woo)
Black
Ooh, know that (Yeah, yeah)
Ooh, ooh get it (Ooh)
Get it, get it, work it
Yeah (Woo)
[Verse 10]
Hunnid bands, hunnid bands, hunnid bands (Hunnid bands)
Contraband, contraband, contraband (Contraband)
I got the plug in Oaxaca (Whoa)
They gonna find you like Bucka (Blaow)
[Verse 11]
Ooh, tell somebody (America I just checked my following list and)
You go tell somebody (You motherfuckers owe me)
Grandma told me, get your money, black man (Black man)
Get your money, black man (Black man)
Get your money, black man (Black man)
Get your money, black man (Black man)
(1-2-3- get down)
[Verse 12]
Ooh, tell somebody
You go tell somebody
Grandma told me, get your money, black man (Black man)
Get your money, black man (Black man)
Get your money, black man (Black man)
Get your money, black man (Black man)
Black man
[Verse 13]
You just a black man in this world
You just a barcode, ay
You just a black man in this world
Drivin' expensive foreigns, ay
You just a big dawg, yeah
I kenneled him in the backyard
No probably ain't life to a dog
For a big dog
Written by: Donald Glover, Jeffery Williams, Ludwig Göransson

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