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This American Life (Main) (Explicit) - The Next/Talib Kweli/Immortal Technique |
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It's getting hot we're baking under the upper crust |
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The apple pie that they making ain't enough for us |
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Think skin from hedge funds to hustlers |
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My president is black but still it's getting rougher cuz' |
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Big man sized checks with no amounts |
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While the little man is stashing his sh*t with no accounts |
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Leftovers for dinner he lives hand to mouth |
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Saving for the bills not thinking bout eating out |
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Looking at his wife filling with creeping doubt |
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She sees it in his eyes now he's sleeping on the couch |
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An every day occurrence across the 50 |
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States filling up with hate people walk with me |
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Why we all pissy it s a privilege isn't it |
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Prosperity and America should be synonyms |
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A wealthy nation keeping poor people living in the i'llest situations |
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Salute to the citizens |
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I hustle all day working at night |
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Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights |
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You struggle to feed the kids and the wife |
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Living this American life |
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They fooled us once they robbed us twice |
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Now they sit back making the people pay the price |
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Taxing the checks with venomous bites |
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We living this American life right |
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Separate the fact from the mystery |
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Stacking up the bodies built the statue of liberty |
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Opposition is in your proposition's propaganda |
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Jobs is going to china that's as popular as pandas |
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American idiot is more than a play on Broadway |
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Or a green day record graduation is foreplay |
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Because it happens right before you get f**ked |
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You stuck all day with no job watching judge Mathis Ellen and Maury |
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Waiting for the holidays looking for a vacation |
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In Brooklyn the destination is stay paid following |
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Booker's investigation cause a lack of education |
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I call myself a native but I have my reservations |
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Shopping escapism we addicted to the retail |
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That's ignorant as racism in paladino's emails |
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You probably like to f**k horses instead of females |
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God is in my heart but the devil is in the details |
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I hustle all day working at night |
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Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights |
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You struggle to feed the kids and the wife |
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Living this American life |
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They fooled us once they robbed us twice |
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Now they sit back making the people pay the price |
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Taxing the checks with venomous bites |
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We living this American life right |
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Millionaire rappers rhyming about welfare |
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Fake rich rappers that don't even have healthcare |
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I'll put you on the sun's surface and watch you melt there |
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Free mumia the Cuban 5 and Leonard peltier |
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And a whole lot of others that you don't care about |
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That exemplify America's spiritual whereabouts |
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They prepared the rout on a slave ship to oblivion |
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But dressed it up like a cruise through the Caribbean |
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What makes time contingent on the prime meridian |
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A cold blooded world designed by reptilians |
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Not snakes but empires of civilians |
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With modern day human sacrifice by the millions |
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Shot to the plot of American individuals |
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You're a fool for thinking that a republic's original |
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But you don't hear me about how it's gonna end one day |
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Too busy watching gladiator sports on Sundays |
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I hustle all day working at night |
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Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights |
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You struggle to feed the kids and the wife |
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Living this American life |
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They fooled us once they robbed us twice |
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Now they sit back making the people pay the price |
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Taxing the checks with venomous bites |
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We living this American life right |
