Young, Gifted and Black

I'm America's worst nightmare

I'm young, black, and holdin' my nuts like yeah

Y'all was in the pub, havin' a light beer

I was at the club, havin' a fight there

Y'all can go home, husband and wife there

My momma at work trying to buy me the right gear

Nine years old, uncle lost his life here

I grew up thinkin' life ain't fair

How can I get a real job, china white right there

Right in front of my sight like here, yeah

There's your ticket out the ghetto, take flight right here

Tell me you go bye bye here, damn

There's a different set of rules we abide by here

You need a gun, **** might drive by here

You're havin' fun, racin' all your hot rods there

Downloading all our music on your iPods there

I'm Chuck D standin' in the crosshairs here

Y'all straight, chicks got horse head hair

Y'all ain't gotta be in fear of your bosses there

Y'all lose your job, your pop rich, y'all don't care

So I don't care, you're acting like y'all don't hear

All the screams from the ghetto, all the teams ducking metal here

So they steam like a kettle here

Tryna take they mind to a whole different level here

Yeah, we real close to the devil here

Gotta be a better way, somebody call the reverend here

Yeah, y'all must really be in heaven here

Somebody tell God that we got a couple questions here

My little cuz never got to see his seventh year

And I'm so used to pain that I ain't even shed a tear

Yeah

Jay is like, the epitome of the American dream

I mean, he had to come up in a very difficult environment

Um, and he's like, he said himself, he's been fighting all his life

And um, he has taken his talent

And his creativity

And gone to like

I think he's probably done things that are pretty much unparalleled