American Me - C.L. Smooth

People of the press

We are in a state of emergency

The President is here to address the terrorist level rising

And the upgrade of homeland security

We are in the position as a nation

Where critical times are hard to accept

We will answer your questions in the order received

Ladies and gentlemen, The President

How I’m coming in the land of opportunity

A few love to see me get it

The rest spend their energy trying to ruin me

I move like it’s two of me;

you run up on it it’s said

It’s like I got eyes in the back of my head

If there was any doubt before, I could never return

Watch and learn, this the type of heat that make Pete squirm

Next turn, the cream of the crop, even if screwed and chopped

It’s like an orphan rich families adopt

When they left CL with nathin — only wishing me

A lifetime of rabbit ears and pure frustration

From that, to standing ovation

Just to let 'em see my brand new LP sweep the nation

You’re dealing with a much wiser mind with inner strength to find

And force rougher hands to fall in line

And locked down in your town, strung out and still not free

For the world to see American Me

In a jam, they wanna chase me like Uncle Sam

Have me leave my life it’s crazy

Come back home, give me 52 states to roam

And complain when it’s time to pay me

I’m on top of my game when it comes to the country

People thinking oh it’s just gravy

I’m as hard as they come, straight out the slum

Nothing comes for free it’s American Me

Like I’m giving you your last rites, when you see my face

All you’re looking at is stars and stripes

With three-fourths of the drug law

So now you know why we build with bricks, they build with straw

Against the mark of the beast

Cause sometimes men must fight wars to truly have peace

Hear to conquer valleys of foreign soil

'til you show me all your hidden weapons and fields of oil

I’m sending in troops, heavy press want the inside scoop

I’m like mums the word up in this coop — oversee that God

When they move that quick

Admire my swag to use it as a measuring stick

I paid my dues, why we can’t lose, plus I refuse

To let 'em stagnate the growth of my blues

The pattern of me is sign no statements, cop no plea

In what can only be American Me

That’s why they all jockey for position

Just the crabs in the barrel, but watch me from the outside fishin'

This is stop look and listen, besides the shine and glisten

You learn and earn when nothin' is a given

Meet soldiers in victory, lames in defeat

Bunk with heads in the joint who can’t live on the street

When I die for the principle, stand for the code

Where I never gotta come back, I just reload~!

Like the bars in the bing, the puppet on the string

Names ring but can only be one king

I’m talkin' 'bout a whole new leadership, my voice on them beats

And how they gotta come up out them seats

I bang hard and unscripted, strong black and gifted

Missed it, is how the top spot got shifted

CL’s the key, to the way things have to be

Living the dream, American Me