Lyrics

• Man I worked for one of the biggest companies in New York City

• He didn't own his own company

• White man owned it, so they owned him

• Nobody owns me though

• (Your gangster is not defined)

• Your gangster is not defined by how low your jeans fall by your waist

• But more how your genes stand over his expectations

• Never forget where you came from

• (Your gangster)

• Your gangster is not defined by how many rocks are in your watch

• But rather how many rocks you move while on your watch

• (Gangsters, hustlers, republicans, democrats, pimps and hoes)

• Conservatives, labor, the seller, the buyer, the product, the producer

• (See you are what you are in this world)

• The gangster is absorbed and adored

• By those that don't understand the laws that govern gangsterment

• (Gangsterment)

• Gangsterment allows you to make up your own laws

• And create brand new words

• Gangster mentality

• (Gangster mentality, an American way created by the white

• Mastered by the black, and absorbed by the fiends

• Taxed by the governmentality

• Charted by forbes

• If you believe in Jay-Z then you too can be a gangster)

• The you too can be a gangster by any means necessary

• 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

• (To be a gangster swagger is not a must

• It's a liability, a cliche, a bad suit, cut the bullshit

• You know if it wasn't for this, there would be no that)

• Which we call, the American Gangster

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