American Gangster-Jay-Z/Maxwell

[ti:American Gangster] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:American Summer Nights] [by:] [offset:0] [00:15.09]I'm from the 80's' Home of the heroine' [00:17.15]Error of the hustlers' uh'The world is my custy [00:19.83]New rich porter' The way I flip quarters [00:22.20]Front on all these other rap artists' but me [00:24.45]Momma was a mink wearer' Papa ran numbers [00:26.32]So it's plain to see' where my whole plan come from [00:29.19]American dream' I'm living the life still [00:31.50]The way I shine is like a zillion dollar light bill [00:33.76]Still I'm grinding' army jacket lining [00:35.76]40 below timbs on' getting my M's on [00:38.38]My best friends gone' I seen bad days [00:40.56]Still find songs that I hear him on [00:42.86]Getting my Mary J Blige Reminisce on [00:45.10]I hear his voice in my mind' like' ni**a live on [00:47.53]So I get on that fly sh*t I been on [00:49.71]Spin on corners in enzo with rims on [00:52.14]But for info' puffin on Endo-Nesia [00:54.27]Give me amnesia [00:56.08]I ease up' that right' I'm high ni**a [00:57.78]I want the sky' [00:58.84]The world when I'm done [00:59.72]I'm give it to my sons [01:00.84]Let 'em live it up' split it up' switch it up' [01:03.84]Sixes kit it up' man I did it up' done [01:05.71]The rest of my belongings belong in the hall of fame' a list of hits next to all my names [01:09.64]I came [01:10.51] [01:22.63]If the sky should fall [01:23.75]And it all goes tomorrow' and they foreclose on the house and auction off all my cars [01:27.00] [01:27.65]Don't cry for me Argentina' I mobbed the beamer [01:30.45]Took trips abroad' got mobbed in Sardina [01:33.07]In Ibiza I had pizza in the club [01:35.25]Ladies know I'm that guy' they wanna piece of my love [01:37.62]Now they wanna ya boy like Mike in his prime [01:39.87]Billie Jean the goddamn boy ain't mine [01:41.99]And the Roc break up' had the people losing hope [01:44.30]Can't lie they had Muhammad Hovi on the ropes [01:46.61]Now I'm back in the go mode' back in the go-go's [01:49.23]Throwing the diamond up' repping the logo [01:51.35]Rose gold rose flow' I'm okay though [01:53.47]What Don't kill me makes stronger than before so [01:55.90]Here we go and I'm not domino [01:57.97]When it all falls down' I'm like Kanye's jaw [02:00.09]I might break but I don't fold' till I hold the sky in my hand [02:03.53]Yeah that's my goal [02:05.50]And then I bid you Freddy Adu [02:06.99]Prodigal Child' y'all not ready for the future [02:09.74] [02:10.68]Then I disappear in the Bermuda Triangle [02:12.86]My name will be viewed such [02:14.98]Here's to the man that refused to give up [02:17.35]I want the sky ni**a' Chuuuuuuch