[00:00.80]Intro + hook: Reks
[00:01.62]This is the birth of a nation
[00:05.85]Native, Caucasian, American
[00:08.48]African slaves and immigrants settle in
[00:11.09]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens
[00:13.65]Beginning and end, birth of a nation
[00:16.18]Native, Caucasian, American
[00:19.00]African slaves and immigrants settle in
[00:21.69]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens
[00:24.68]Beginning and end, birth of a nation
[00:26.04]What began in the land for the native
[00:28.61]Was followed by the basis of ? made supreme through enslavement
[00:31.80]I can see the slave ships, with my forefathers' faces
[00:35.15]A predestiny beyond racist
[00:37.16]Misinterpretations, show victory for our nation
[00:40.89]A conquering of savage Indian, Negroid simpleton
[00:43.11]Greatest crimes where witnessed then, but no loss for men
[00:46.24]Minus the Anglo-Saxon fraction
[00:48.41]Skin pigmentation placed us in another class than white saddlers who embellished their past, so laugh
[00:53.41]The native's history was erased quick, therefore a face became faceless
[00:57.62]Dare I say a facelift was brought ? nostrils, bigger lips and eyes
[01:01.77]Something disguised as inhumane to brutalize
[01:04.71]Taught to love the bluish eyes, less you and I
[01:06.85]Take their statements so let's debate them
[01:09.23]The birth of a nation
[01:10.29]Native, Caucasian, American
[01:12.73]African slaves and immigrants settle in
[01:15.62]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens
[01:18.41]Beginning and end, birth of a nation
[01:21.16]Native, Caucasian, American
[01:23.89]African slaves and immigrants settle in
[01:26.63]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens
[01:28.94]Beginning and end, birth of a nation
[01:31.79]No longer natives they immigrated from all world places
[01:34.83]To make a broad new world, their own oasis
[01:37.33]A melting pot, placed in contrast with colonial ?
[01:40.28]English citizens wake up
[01:42.75]To new arrivals, been on survival
[01:44.10]Being religious or political
[01:46.06]Fleeing from prosecution is critical
[01:48.25]Told that an economy grows beyond your shores, then of course
[01:50.73]Do what it take to get across
[01:53.27]The vast ocean, last notion
[01:54.98]Of being lost in a land that ain't rightfully yours
[01:57.78]A people divided become, unified into one
[02:00.53]From Ellis Island to slums and ghettos marching to the beat of a drum
[02:03.52]Declare independence to some, freedom to all
[02:06.33]Come in the form of the speech of the gun, assemble young
[02:09.41]Tell 'em revolutionists come, have you been waiting
[02:11.92]Take a journey with Reks, birth of a nation
[02:15.73]Native, Caucasian, American
[02:18.10]African slaves and immigrants settle in
[02:20.39]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens
[02:23.18]Beginning and end, birth of a nation
[02:25.57]Native, Caucasian, American
[02:28.39]African slaves and immigrants settle in
[02:31.13]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens
[02:33.80]Beginning and end, birth of a nation
[02:36.28]Modern times tell me we progress, from destiny manifest
[02:39.51]Thirteen colonies expand to the west
[02:41.51]Fifty states now govern the universe, Big Brother request
[02:44.75]Little Brother show our power, respect
[02:47.11]Michelle stressed, for the first time she prolly U.S
[02:49.26]They tend to guess, we can and we did I guess
[02:52.30]But ?, Martin's dream deferred
[02:54.57] w on crash scene I heard
[02:55.67]Mother of a movement urge
[02:57.61] All my ? think equal to search, free people emerge
[03:00.90]From degrade depression submerge
[03:03.11]Supreme law found written in words, proclamation of revolt
[03:06.32]No longer to a king I serve
[03:08.64]This day and age do we really deserve, what was written in blood
[03:11.75]Evil look good, all ? preserved
[03:14.07]Playing crash through the tower after tower tumble down to the basement
[03:17.53]Birth of a nation
[03:20.38]Native, Caucasian, American
[03:22.73]African slaves and immigrants settle in
[03:25.01]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens
[03:27.72]Beginning and end, birth of a nation
[03:30.41]Native, Caucasian, American
[03:33.01]African slaves and immigrants settle in
[03:35.78]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens
[03:38.55]Beginning and end, birth of a nation
[03:41.73]Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take control.*