No pain no gain is the flame in your brain

And I can't tell you 'you can't do it'

You will taste the pain

You gotta be tough and rough like any superstar

That you see on TV and what is called a gangsta



Hah, hah, hah, you really think you could be

Just with the hat on your head and a fist like an O.G.

Mad it is you know to think you are

Hardcore as the guys in L.A. are



Well, my pal, you don't need all that hardcore

Yo motherfucker, you know what's your fist for

To put a brick upon a brick now won't you quit

Yet to give me that bullshit cause this is not america

Don't give me that bullshit cause this is not america



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This is not - ah this is not

This is not - this is not america



There's people getting sprayed with the bullet of pain

By the media the guns and you're the aim

Again 'n' again 'n' again 'n' again

An american media don't make a man



Of all you soft ice wanna T's - ah who you wanna be?

Be an invidual; show personality

Take all it takes to be somebody else

And don't belive all of what the hype tells



Cause if you're down with yourself, and if you're down with your soul

- Ah, you will quick understand what this was for

Don't think you gotta be like the 'homies' are

Cause all you want is bliss and this is not america

Cause all you want is bliss and this is not america



Chorus