Premiere: Skizzy Mars Releases New Track "American Dream"

Skizzy Mars is back.

Just one month after releasing his “2006” single, the 24-year-old Harlem rapper has come through with another record called “American Dream.” The song, which premieres exclusively on Complex, finds Skizzy rapping about his come-up and his experience growing up in an affluent world where he didn’t exactly fit in.

“How to make it in America/Real nigga, day one, ain’t a lot of us/Mom worked two jobs, it was hard for us/Me and sis made it out, now she proud of us,” he raps. “They didn’t teach me how to rap in those private schools/Wasn’t like my rich friends, had a lot to lose/Less money, less options, a lot of rules.”

Skizzy, who attended private prep schools in NYC, said he wanted to put out a track like this for some time; however, it wasn’t until recently that he got around to it.

“‘American Dream’ is a song I always wanted to make but never did for some reason,” he told Complex. “One day I went to the studio and decided I was going to tell some of my story and talk my shit for once. Ended up being one of my favorite songs ever.”