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