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I know radio prolly ain't gonna play this |
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But chopper going off in the hood man |
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Like Afghanistan or the Gaza |
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Strip somewhere man. |
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Yeah, we hear it so much |
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We probably numb to it by now. |
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After all, it's the American way right? |
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Home of the brave and free |
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(It's America) |
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Free just to murder me |
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(Land of the handgun) |
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Land of the beautiful |
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(Home of the shotgun) |
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Cursed by the hate we throw |
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(You're dead if you ain't got one) |
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Is this the new national anthem? |
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It was like this before I got here baby, |
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I ain't do it |
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Is this the new national anthem? |
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(I ain't start it, I'm just a part of it) |
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Turn it |
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You say this the home |
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Of the brave I guess |
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I say this the home |
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Of the K's and the vets |
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All alone with the J's smoking yay |
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Cause he stressed |
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On chrome with a Tek |
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Taught to spray for respect |
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I learned from the best |
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Used to stay in the jects |
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Bought work from the vets |
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Burning rubber in the vets |
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This as good as it gets |
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Used to play with the rats |
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Then I got older and learned |
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Stay away from the rats |
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God blessed this nigga, |
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To hustle up and make eight figures |
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Turned from a goon |
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To a great young nigga |
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No complaining |
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Just doing what it take young nigga |
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I was raised in a decade |
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Of hate young nigga |
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Always dodging polices |
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Because they hate young niggas |
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And we hate them too, |
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38 in him shoe |
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All the changes the system |
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Will take him through |
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He ain't a killer |
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But he will if you make him do it |
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Homicide he'll ride, |
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They'll put him on trial |
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Let him have a life |
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Sentence then do it with a smile |
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And he only 19, |
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He ain't even had a child |
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As a child, told his mama |
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He'll be gone for a while |
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And she cried, |
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Still they just put him inside |
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Now she all on her own |
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Because her other son died |
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Listen to the politician |
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As he lied and he lied |
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He a snake in a suit, |
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Trying to hide in disguise |
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Home of the brave and free |
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(Well damn officer what did I do?) |
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Free just to murder me |
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Naw hold up man don't shoot, |
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I live over there |
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Land of the beautiful |
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(A man what you doin) |
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Cursed by the hate we throw |
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(You trippin dawg) |
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Is this the new national anthem |
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Is this the new national anthem |
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For the stars and the stripes |
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Prison bars and the pipe |
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Young nigga rolling weed |
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In a cigar he can light |
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Bang red either blue selling hard |
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And the white |
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Live by the gun, |
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Never run from a fight |
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Trayvon in a hoodie, |
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Walking through the neighborhood he |
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Didn't do shit to buddy, |
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He didn't have to die did he? |
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I guess it's because his dad |
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Was a judge in the city |
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They didn't want him in the pen |
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With the thugs that could get him |
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A jury of his peers |
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Said all was forgiven |
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But touch one of mine, |
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Right or wrong, |
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I'ma kill them |
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Fill them with the lead |
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Like they put in Martin Luther King's head |
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Like they killed Malcolm X, |
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Edgar Hoover did that |
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You can catch me in the hood |
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Where they shooting niggas at |
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They don't know if Neighborhood |
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Or the Hoovers did that |
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Whether Piru or VL's |
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Or GDs wit me we |
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Down to uprise |
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From the OG's to peewees |
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Home of the brave and free |
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(Don't get it f**ked up) |
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Free just to murder me |
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If you ain't found something |
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You're willing to die for, |
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You ain't fit to live |
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Land of the beautiful |
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To get something you've never had, |
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You must be willing to do something |
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You've never done |
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Cursed by the hate we throw |
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(I'ma die by mine) |
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Is this the new national anthem |
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Is this the new national anthem |
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What are you doing |
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Let me ask you something. |
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If the kids are the future, |
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Tell me why you |
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Can get more for being C.O., |
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Than you can for being a teacher. |
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Tell me why it means |
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More to the government |
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To pay the people |
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Who got to watch over the prisoners, |
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More than the people |
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Who got to keep the children |
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From becoming prisoners. |
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That make sense? |
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Tell me why 9 ounces |
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Of crack will get you more time |
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Than a rape right now. |
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Tell me why them crazy white boys |
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Can tote a gun |
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But I can't right now. |
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Yea I had felonies, |
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I done did dirt in the streets, |
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But I ain't ever gave it |
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To anybody that didn't deserve it. |
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You know what I mean? |
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I ain't ever ran in no public place |
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With no pistol shooting |
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No innocent people. |
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I ain't never ran in no school, |
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Killing no kids. |
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Man this is the result of you refusing |
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To deal with the issues at hand. |
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We are a product of the environment |
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You placed us in |
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We ain't do it |
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We just lived through it |
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Home of the brave and free |
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(Message to my people) |
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Free just to murder me |
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Stop waiting on folk to help you, |
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Help yourself, it starts with you |
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Land of the beautiful |
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Get yourself out, reach back, |
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Get somebody else out |
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Cursed by the hate we throw |
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Is this the new national anthem |
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Is this the new national anthem |
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Hell is you doin' |