Young Gifted and Black

And out of the mercy of Allah and
The law written in our nature
We call an individual into existence
And when that individual comes
I make no apologies for what I'm about to do

I'm America's worst nightmare
I'm young, black
And holdin' my nuts like "Chyeah!"
Y'all was in the pub, having a light beer
I was at the club, having a fight there
Y'all can go home, husband and wife there
My mama at work tryna buy me the right gear
Nine years old, uncle lost his life here
I grew up thinking 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
Sell me you go bye bye here, " damn!
There's a different set of rules
We abide by here
You need a gun niggas might drive by here
Y'all having fun
Racing all your hotrods there
Downloading all our music on your iPods there
I'm Chuck D, standing in the crosshairs here
Y'all straight, chicks got horse hair here
Y'all ain't gotta be in fear
Of y'all bosses there
You lose your job, your pop rich
Y'all don't care so I don't care
Y'all acting like y'all don't hear
All the screams from the ghetto
All the teens 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 devil here
Gotta be a better way somebody
Call a reverend here
Yeah, y'all must really be in heaven there
Somebody tell God that we got
A couple questions here
My lil' 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