[00:00.00]This American Life (Main) (Explicit) - The Next/Talib Kweli/Immortal Technique
[00:12.93]It's getting hot we're baking under the upper crust
[00:15.96]The apple pie that they making ain't enough for us
[00:18.90]Think skin from hedge funds to hustlers
[00:21.38]My president is black but still it's getting rougher cuz'
[00:25.03]Big man sized checks with no amounts
[00:27.54]While the little man is stashing his sh*t with no accounts
[00:30.55]Leftovers for dinner he lives hand to mouth
[00:33.83]Saving for the bills not thinking bout eating out
[00:36.48]Looking at his wife filling with creeping doubt
[00:39.87]She sees it in his eyes now he's sleeping on the couch
[00:42.58]An every day occurrence across the 50
[00:45.01]States filling up with hate people walk with me
[00:48.19]Why we all pissy it s a privilege isn't it
[00:51.56]Prosperity and America should be synonyms
[00:54.61]A wealthy nation keeping poor people living in the i'llest situations
[00:59.09]Salute to the citizens
[01:01.04]I hustle all day working at night
[01:03.27]Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights
[01:06.71]You struggle to feed the kids and the wife
[01:09.20]Living this American life
[01:12.63]They fooled us once they robbed us twice
[01:15.21]Now they sit back making the people pay the price
[01:17.79]Taxing the checks with venomous bites
[01:21.37]We living this American life right
[01:25.21]Separate the fact from the mystery
[01:27.63]Stacking up the bodies built the statue of liberty
[01:30.45]Opposition is in your proposition's propaganda
[01:33.26]Jobs is going to china that's as popular as pandas
[01:36.58]American idiot is more than a play on Broadway
[01:38.90]Or a green day record graduation is foreplay
[01:42.46]Because it happens right before you get f**ked
[01:45.74]You stuck all day with no job watching judge Mathis Ellen and Maury
[01:48.84]Waiting for the holidays looking for a vacation
[01:51.22]In Brooklyn the destination is stay paid following
[01:54.57]Booker's investigation cause a lack of education
[01:57.02]I call myself a native but I have my reservations
[02:00.33]Shopping escapism we addicted to the retail
[02:03.32]That's ignorant as racism in paladino's emails
[02:06.54]You probably like to f**k horses instead of females
[02:09.46]God is in my heart but the devil is in the details
[02:12.94]I hustle all day working at night
[02:15.11]Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights
[02:18.63]You struggle to feed the kids and the wife
[02:21.16]Living this American life
[02:24.76]They fooled us once they robbed us twice
[02:27.20]Now they sit back making the people pay the price
[02:30.60]Taxing the checks with venomous bites
[02:33.16]We living this American life right
[02:36.48]Millionaire rappers rhyming about welfare
[02:39.09]Fake rich rappers that don't even have healthcare
[02:42.53]I'll put you on the sun's surface and watch you melt there
[02:46.38]Free mumia the Cuban 5 and Leonard peltier
[02:48.57]And a whole lot of others that you don't care about
[02:51.86]That exemplify America's spiritual whereabouts
[02:54.16]They prepared the rout on a slave ship to oblivion
[02:57.14]But dressed it up like a cruise through the Caribbean
[03:00.53]What makes time contingent on the prime meridian
[03:02.98]A cold blooded world designed by reptilians
[03:06.33]Not snakes but empires of civilians
[03:09.26]With modern day human sacrifice by the millions
[03:12.45]Shot to the plot of American individuals
[03:15.32]You're a fool for thinking that a republic's original
[03:18.51]But you don't hear me about how it's gonna end one day
[03:21.26]Too busy watching gladiator sports on Sundays
[03:24.83]I hustle all day working at night
[03:27.15]Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights
[03:30.63]You struggle to feed the kids and the wife
[03:33.29]Living this American life
[03:36.64]They fooled us once they robbed us twice
[03:39.11]Now they sit back making the people pay the price
[03:42.53]Taxing the checks with venomous bites
[03:45.30]We living this American life right