Intro - A Cappella

Your gangster is not defined

(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 up to their expectations

Your gangster (your gangster)

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

But more how many rocks you move while owning watch

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

Conservatives, labour

The seller, the buyer, the product, the producer

The gangster is absorbed and adored by those

That don't understand the laws that govern the gangsterment

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, governmentality (governmentality)

Charted by Forbes, if you believe in Jay-Z

Then you too can be a gangster (then 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, haha

To be a gangster, swagger is not a must, it's a liability

A cliché, 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