This Is America

Album: Single release only (2018)
Charted: 6 1
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  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away

    We just wanna party
    Party just for you
    We just want the money
    Money just for you
    I know you wanna party (yeah)
    Party just for free
    Girl, you got me dancin' (girl, you got me dancin')
    Dance and shake the frame
    We just wanna party (yeah)
    Party just for you (yeah)
    We just want the money (yeah)
    Money just for you (ooh)
    I know you wanna party (yeah)
    Party just for free (yeah)
    Girl, you got me dancin' (girl, you got me dancin')
    Dance and shake the frame (ooh)

    This is America
    Don't catch you slippin' now
    Don't catch you slippin' now
    Look what I'm whippin' now
    This is America (woo)
    Don't catch you slippin' now
    Don't catch you slippin' now
    Look what I'm whippin' now

    This is America (skrrt, skrrt, woo)
    Don't catch you slippin' now (ayy)
    Look at how I'm livin' now
    Police be trippin' now (woo)
    Yeah, this is America (woo, ayy)
    Guns in my area (word, my area)
    I got the strap (ayy, ayy)
    I gotta carry 'em
    Yeah, yeah, I'ma go into this (ugh)
    Yeah, yeah, this is guerilla, woo
    Yeah, yeah, I'ma go get the bag
    Yeah, yeah, or I'ma get the pad
    Yeah, yeah, I'm so cold like yeah (yeah)
    I'm so dope like yeah (woo)
    We gon' blow like yeah (straight up, uh)

    Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody
    You go tell somebody
    Grandma told me
    Get your money, black man (get your money)
    Get your money, black man (get your money)
    Get your money, black man (get your, black man)
    Get your money, black man (get your, black man)
    Black man

    This is America (woo, ayy)
    Don't catch you slippin' now (woo, woo, don't catch you slippin', now)
    Don't catch you slippin' now (ayy, woah)
    Look what I'm whippin' now (Slime)
    This is America (yeah, yeah)
    Don't catch you slippin' now (woah, ayy)
    Don't catch you slippin' now (ayy, woo)
    Look what I'm whippin' now (ayy)

    Look how I'm geekin' out (hey)
    I'm so fitted (I'm so fitted, woo)
    I'm on Gucci (I'm on Gucci)
    I'm so pretty (yeah, yeah)
    I'm gon' get it (ayy, I'm gon' get it)
    Watch me move (blaow)
    This a celly (ha)
    That's a tool (yeah)
    On my Kodak (woo, Black)
    Ooh, know that (yeah, know that, hold on)
    Get it (get it, get it)
    Ooh, work it (21)
    Hunnid bands, hunnid bands, hunnid bands (hunnid bands)
    Contraband, contraband, contraband (contraband)
    I got the plug on Oaxaca (woah)
    They gonna find you like blocka (blaow)

    Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody
    (America, I just checked my following list and)
    You go tell somebody
    (You mothafuckas owe me)
    Grandma told me
    Get your money, black man (black man)
    Get your money, black man (black man)
    Get your money, black man (black man)
    Get your money, black man (black man)
    Black man (one, two, three, get down)

    Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody
    You go tell somebody
    Grandma told me, "Get your money," black man
    Get your money, black man (black man)
    Get your money, black man (black man)
    Get your money, black man (black man)
    Black man

    You just a black man in this world
    You just a barcode, ayy
    You just a black man in this world
    Drivin' expensive foreigns, ayy
    You just a big dawg, yeah
    I kenneled him in the backyard
    No, probably ain't life to a dog
    For a big dog Writer/s: Donald Glover, Ludwig Goransson
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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