Lyrics
Man I work for had 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 jeans stand over its expectations
Never forgetting where we came from
Your gangster
Your gangster is not defined by how many rocks are in your watch
But more how many rocks you move while on your watch
Gangsters, hustlers, republicans and democrats
Pimps and hoes
Conservatives, labour, the seller
The buyer, the product, the producer
So you are what you are in this world
A gangster is absorbed and adored by those that
Don't understand the laws that govern the gangstermen
Gangstermen
Gangstermen 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 fiend
Taxed by the 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
And 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 seed
Cut the bullshit
You know that if it wasn't for this, there would be no that
Which we call, the American Gangster