[Intro:]
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I know radio probably ain't gonna play this
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But chopper going off in the hood, man, like
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Afghanistan or the Gaza strip somewhere, man
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Yeah, we hear it so much we probably numb to it by now
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After all, it's the American way, right?
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Hook:
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Home of the brave and free (it's America)
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Free just to murder me (land of the handgun)
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Land of the beautiful (home of the shotgun)
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Cursed by the hate we throw (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, 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, yeah!
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You say this the home of the brave, I guess
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I say this the home of the Ks and the vets
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All alone with the Js smoking yay cause he stressed
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On chrome with a Tek taught to spray for respect.
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I learned from the best, used to stay in the 'jets'
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Bought work from the vets burning rubber in the vests
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This as good as it gets used to play with the rats
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God blessed this nigga, to hustle up and make eight figures
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Turned from a goon to a great young nigga
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No complaining just doing what it take, young nigga
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I was raised in a decade of hate, young nigga
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Always dodging polices because they hate, young niggas!
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And we hate them too, 38 in him shoe
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All the changes the system will take him through
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He ain't a killer, but he will if you make him do it
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Homicide he'll ride, they'll put him on trial
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Let him have a life sentence, then do it with a smile
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And he only 19, he ain't even had a child
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As a child, told his mama hell be gone for a while.
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And she cried, still they just put him inside
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Now she all on her own because her other son died
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Listen to the politician as he lied and he lied
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He a snake in a suit, trying to hide in disguise.
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Hook:
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Home of the brave and free (well damn officer, what did I do?)
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Free just to murder me (now hold up, man, don't shoot, I live over there)
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Land of the beautiful (a man what you doin)
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Cursed by the hate we throw (you tripping dwag)
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Is this the new national anthem?
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(How many times has that ever happened to you,
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What the fuck do you know about being a black man in America?)
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(It was like this before I got here, baby, I ain't do it)
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Is this the new national anthem?
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(And you wonder why we walk around with straps)
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Is this the new national anthem?
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(Fuck is you say?)
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For the stars and the stripes prison bars and the pipe
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Young nigga rolling weed in a cigar he can light
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Bang red either blue selling hard and the white.
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Live by the gun, never run from a figth
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Trayvon in a hoodie, walking through the neighborhood
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He didn't do shit to buddy, he didn't have to die, did he?
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I guess it's because his dad was a judge in the city
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They didn't want him in the pen with the thugs that could get him.
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A jury of his peers said all was forgiven,
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But touch one of mine, right or wrong, I'mma kill them
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Fill them with the lead like they put in Martin Luther King's head
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Like they killed Malcolm X, Edgar Hoover did that!
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You can catch me in the hood where they shooting niggas at
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They don't know if Neighborhood or the Hoovers did that
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Whether Piru or VL's or GDs with me
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We down to uprise from the OGs to peewees.
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Hook:
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Home of the brave and free (don't get it fucked up)
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Free just to murder me
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(If you ain't found something you're willing to die for, you ain't fit to live)
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Land of the beautiful
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(To get something you never had,
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You must be willing to do something you've never done)
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Cursed by the hate we throw (I'mma die by mine)
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Is this the new national anthem? (America!
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You refused to be ignored!)
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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 can get more for being the CO
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Than you can for being a teacher?!
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Tell me why it means more to the government
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To pay the people who got to watch over the prisoners,
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More than the people who got to keep the children from becoming prisoners.
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That makes sense?
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Tell me why 9 ounces of crack will get you more time than a rape, right now!
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Tell me why them crazy white boys can tote a gun, but I can't right now.
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Yeah, I had felonies, I done did dirt in the streets,
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But I ain't ever gave it 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 with no pistol shooting no innocent people
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I ain't never ran in no school killing no kids
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Man, this is the result of you refusing 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, we ain't do it, we just lived through it
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Hook:
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Home of the brave and free (message to my people)
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Free just to murder me
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(Stop waiting on folk to help you, help yourself, it starts with you
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Land of the beautiful
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(You get yourself out, reach back, get somebody else out)
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Cursed by the hate we throw
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(And that's the way we were going to get ahead)
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Is this the new national anthem?
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(Sitting around,
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Waiting on government to do something for us,
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Ain't never gonna happen, partner!
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They don't give a fuck about us!)
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Is this the new national anthem, but don't play into their hand, partner,
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You making it easy for 'em,
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Hell is you doing?)
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New National Anthem
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| T.I. |
