Lyrics Intro.lrc JAY-Z & Idris Elba
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[ar: JAY-Z & Idris Elba]
[al: American Gangster]
[ti: Intro]
[length: 02:01]
[00:19.73]”Man I worked for one of the biggest companies in New York City.
[00:20.88]He didn’t own his own company. White man owned it, so they owned him. Nobody owns me though.”
[00:33.35](Your gangster is not defined)
[00:36.23]Your gangster is not defined by how low your jeans fall by your waist, but more how your genes stand over his expectations. Never forget where you came from.
[00:40.38](Your gangster)
[00:41.67]Your gangster is not defined by how many rocks are in your watch, but rather how many rocks you move while on your watch.
[00:43.45](Gangsters, hustlers, republicans, democrats, pimps and hoes.)
[00:44.86]Conservatives, labor, the seller, the buyer, the product, the producer.
[00:48.36](See you are what you are in this world.)
[00:50.05]The gangster is absorbed and adored by those that don’t understand the laws that govern gangsterment.
[00:57.36](Gangsterment)
[00:58.72]Gangsterment allows you to make up your own laws and create brand new words.
[01:05.49]Gangster mentality.
[01:07.53](Gangster mentality, an American way created by the white, mastered by the black, and absorbed by the fiends, taxed by the governmentality, charted by forbes.
[01:20.35]If you believe in Jay-Z then you too can be a gangster.)
[01:24.14]The you too can be a gangster by any means necessary. By any means necessary, by owning that dream. I mean it’s a long walk to freedom but, while deep,
[01:39.18]Deep, deep inside the bush.
[01:40.33](The war on terror screams, damn it feels good)
[01:41.72]Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
[01:43.64](To be a gangster swagger is not a must, it’s a liability, a cliche, a bad suit, cut the bullshit. You know if it wasn’t for this, there would be no that.)
[01:58.00]Which we call, the American Gangster.
[02:01.38]Year of Release: 2007