[00:00.550]America! Ha ha ha! We love you
[00:07.347]How many people are proud to be citizens
[00:11.006]Of this beautiful country of ours, the stripes and the stars
[00:14.301]For the rights that men have died for to protect?
[00:17.333]The women and men who have broke their necks
[00:20.098]For the freedom of speech the United States government has sworn to uphold… or so we're told
[00:24.191](Yo, I want everybody to listen to the words of this song)
[00:26.942]I never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see
[00:30.224]So many mother****in' people who feel like me
[00:33.551]Who share the same views and the same exact beliefs
[00:37.193]It's like a ****in' army marchin' in back of me
[00:40.507]So many lives I touched, so much anger aimed
[00:43.771]In no particular direction, just sprays and sprays
[00:47.660]And straight through your radio waves, it plays and plays
[00:50.961]'Til it stays stuck in your head for days and days
[00:54.520]Who would've thought standin' in this mirror, bleachin' my hair
[00:57.833]With some peroxide, reachin' for a t-shirt to wear
[01:01.410]That I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this?
[01:04.693]How could I predict my words would have an impact like this?
[01:08.007]I must've struck a chord with somebody up in the office
[01:11.583]'Cause Congress keep tellin' me I ain't causin' nothin' but problems
[01:14.880]And now they're sayin' I'm in trouble with the government
[01:18.256]I'm lovin' it, I shoveled shit all my life, and now I'm dumpin' it on
[01:21.835]White America! I could be one of your kids
[01:25.179]White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[01:28.708]White America! Erica loves my shit
[01:31.740]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get! (Yah!)
[01:35.551]White America! I could be one of your kids
[01:39.176]White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[01:42.474]White America! Erica loves my shit
[01:45.505]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[01:49.084]Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself
[01:52.145]If they were brown, Shady'd lose, Shady sits on the shelf
[01:56.020]But Shady's cute, Shady knew Shady's dimples would help
[01:59.567]Make ladies swoon, baby (Ooh, baby!) — Look at my sales!
[02:02.864]Let's do the math: If I was black, I would've sold half
[02:06.474]I ain't have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that
[02:09.787]But I could rap, so **** school, I'm too cool to go back
[02:13.888]Give me the mic! Show me where the ****in' studio's at
[02:16.630]When I was underground, no one gave a **** I was white
[02:19.894]No labels wanted to sign me, almost gave up, I was like
[02:23.239]"**** it," until I met Dre, the only one to look past
[02:27.147]Gave me a chance and I lit a fire up under his ass
[02:30.458]Helped him get back to the top, every fan black that I got
[02:33.771]Was prob'ly his in exchange for every white fan that he's got
[02:37.319]Like damn, we just swapped: sittin' back lookin' at shit, wow
[02:40.614]I'm like my skin is it startin' to work to my benefit now? It's—
[02:43.911]White America! I could be one of your kids
[02:47.487]White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[02:51.037]White America! Erica loves my shit
[02:54.302]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get! (Yah!)
[02:57.879]White America! I could be one of your kids
[03:01.177]White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[03:04.709]White America! Erica loves my shit
[03:08.005]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[03:11.864]See, the problem is I speak to suburban kids
[03:14.927]Who otherwise would've never knew these words exist
[03:18.224]Whose moms prob'ly would've never gave two squirts of piss
[03:21.876]'Til I created so much mother****in' turbulence
[03:25.191]Straight out the tube, right into your livin' rooms I came
[03:28.724]And kids flipped when they knew I was produced by Dre
[03:32.022]That's all it took, and they were instantly hooked right in
[03:35.566]And they connected with me too, because I looked like them
[03:39.114]That's why they put my lyrics up under this microscope
[03:42.396]Searchin' with a fine tooth comb, it's like this rope
[03:46.239]Waitin' to choke, tightenin' around my throat
[03:49.895]Watchin' me while I write this, like, "I don't like this note!"
[03:53.270]All I hear is: lyrics, lyrics, constant controversy
[03:55.503]Sponsors workin' 'round the clock to try to stop my concerts early
[03:59.315]Surely hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston
[04:03.142]After it bothered the fathers of daughters startin' to blossom
[04:06.440]So now I'm catchin' the flak from these activists when they raggin'
[04:10.002]Actin' like I'm the first rapper to smack a b***h or say "faggot", shit
[04:13.798]Just look at me like I'm your closest pal
[04:16.626]The poster child, the mother****in' spokesman now, for—
[04:20.443]White America! I could be one of your kids
[04:23.456]White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[04:26.989]White America! Erica loves my shit
[04:29.921]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get! (Yah!)
[04:33.738]White America! I could be one of your kids
[04:37.089]White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[04:40.513]White America! Erica loves my shit
[04:43.954]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[04:48.479]So to the parents of America, I am the Derringer
[04:52.277]Aimed at little Erica to attack her character
[04:55.582]The ringleader of this circus of worthless pawns
[04:58.908]Sent to lead the march right up to the steps of Congress
[05:03.529]And piss on the lawns of the White House
[05:05.732]To burn the *galf*​​ and replace it with a Parental Advisory sticker
[05:09.084]To spit liquor in the faces of this democracy of hypocrisy
[05:15.059]**** you, Ms. Cheney! **** you, Tipper Gore!
[05:19.585]**** you with the freest of speech this
[05:20.679]Divided States of Embarrassment will allow me to have! **** you!
[05:43.364]Ha ha ha, I'm just playin', America
[05:46.340]You know I love you