Jeezy Reunites Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole On His New Song "American Dream"

The trio sounds off about politics & racism.
Last week, Jeezy revealed the tracklist for his new album Pressure and fans immediately zeroed in on the song “American Dream.” Today, he dropped the full song ahead of his album release, and it features both J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar spitting about their come up and the state of American poltics. Soundsmith handles the production.

On his verse, Cole spits about mothers burying their children and the adverse effect of drugs:

Hysterical screams, coming from mothers that buried their kings
Or the unbearable pain of watching them walk out with the sheriff in chains
Becoming a number, they no longer care bout the name
White folks been getting rich off of cocaine
Through some underhanded methods, I don’t got time to explain
I done fear that I won’t reach ‘em in since reaching ain’t my thing
Jeezy drops a reference to his 2008 Barack Obama celebration song “My President”:

First my President was black, now my President is wack
I ain’t never going broke, what’s American in that
Meanwhile, Kendrick delivers a short verse at the end of the song:
I gotta eat, I gotta, make money with
I gotta feast, I gotta re-ly on what is known to the traveling man
Set his own, got my bible and my rifle in my hand, oh yeah
“American Dream” is Kendrick’s first time appearing on the same track as Cole since 2013’s “Forbidden Fruit,” a cut off Cole’s sophomore album Born Sinner. They did remix each others tracks in 2015 for their Black Friday release, although weren’t on a song together.
Both artists have worked with Jeezy in the past, too. Kendrick previously worked with the Atlanta rapper on songs like “Westside, Right on Time” and the remix of “R.I.P.,” while Cole recruited him for 2013’s “Kenny Lofton.