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This Is America

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Words

668

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Intro: Choir

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

Bridge: Childish Gambino & Young Thug

We just wanna party

Party just for you

We just want the money

Money just for you (Yeah)

I know you wanna party

Party just for free

Girl, you got me dancin' (Girl, you got me dancin')

Dance and shake the frame (Yeah)

We just wanna party (Yeah)

Party just for you (Yeah)

We just want the money (Yeah)

Money just for you (You)

I know you wanna party (Yeah)

Party just for free (Yeah)

Girl, you got me dancin' (Girl, you got me dancin', yeah)

Dance and shake the frame (Ooh)

Chorus: Childish Gambino

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

Verse 1: Childish Gambino, Young Thug, Blocboy JB & 21 Savage

This is America (Skrrt, skrrt, woo)

Don't catch you slippin' now (Ayy)

Look 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)

Refrain: Choir & Childish Gambino

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody

You go tell somebody

Grandma told me

Get your money, Black man (Get your— Black man)

Get your money, Black man (Get your—Black man)

Get your money, Black man (Get your—Black man)

Get your money, Black man (Get your—Black man)

Black man

Chorus: Childish Gambino, Young Thug, Slim Jxmmi & Quavo

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)

Verse 2: Childish Gambino, Quavo, Young Thug, 21 Savage & BlocBoy JB

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, woo)

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 (Woo, get it, get it)

Ooh, work it (21)

Hunnid bands, hunnid bands, hunnid bands (Hunnid bands)

Contraband, contraband, contraband (Contraband)

I got the plug in Oaxaca (Woah)

They gonna find you like "blocka" (Blaow)

Refrain: Choir, Childish Gambino, & Young Thug

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

(1, 2, 3—get down)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody

You go tell somebody

Grandma told me, "Get your money"

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

Outro: Young Thug

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

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