[00:00.37]I know radio prolly ain't gonna play this
[00:02.52]
[00:03.44]But chopper going off in the hood man
[00:04.83]Like Afghanistan or the Gaza
[00:06.27]Strip somewhere man.
[00:07.22]
[00:08.66]Yeah, we hear it so much
[00:10.87]We probably numb to it by now.
[00:12.10]
[00:12.80]After all, it's the American way right?
[00:15.33]Home of the brave and free
[00:17.25]
[00:18.08](It's America)
[00:18.91]Free just to murder me
[00:21.20](Land of the handgun)
[00:22.61]Land of the beautiful
[00:25.15](Home of the shotgun)
[00:26.58]Cursed by the hate we throw
[00:28.35](You're dead if you ain't got one)
[00:29.45]Is this the new national anthem?
[00:34.38]It was like this before I got here baby,
[00:36.15]I ain't do it
[00:36.79]Is this the new national anthem?
[00:39.94](I ain't start it, I'm just a part of it)
[00:41.94]
[00:43.16]Turn it
[00:43.54]
[00:44.81]You say this the home
[00:45.53]Of the brave I guess
[00:46.47]I say this the home
[00:47.23]Of the K's and the vets
[00:48.22]All alone with the J's smoking yay
[00:49.43]Cause he stressed
[00:50.09]On chrome with a Tek
[00:50.85]Taught to spray for respect
[00:52.04]I learned from the best
[00:52.99]Used to stay in the jects
[00:54.03]Bought work from the vets
[00:54.95]Burning rubber in the vets
[00:55.71]This as good as it gets
[00:56.59]Used to play with the rats
[00:57.64]Then I got older and learned
[00:58.55]Stay away from the rats
[00:59.55]God blessed this nigga,
[01:00.33]To hustle up and make eight figures
[01:01.86]Turned from a goon
[01:02.75]To a great young nigga
[01:03.74]No complaining
[01:04.32]Just doing what it take young nigga
[01:05.50]I was raised in a decade
[01:06.58]Of hate young nigga
[01:07.59]Always dodging polices
[01:08.15]Because they hate young niggas
[01:09.44]And we hate them too,
[01:10.33]38 in him shoe
[01:11.24]All the changes the system
[01:12.10]Will take him through
[01:13.02]He ain't a killer
[01:13.71]But he will if you make him do it
[01:15.25]Homicide he'll ride,
[01:15.79]They'll put him on trial
[01:16.71]Let him have a life
[01:17.42]Sentence then do it with a smile
[01:18.85]And he only 19,
[01:19.50]He ain't even had a child
[01:20.50]As a child, told his mama
[01:21.37]He'll be gone for a while
[01:22.27]And she cried,
[01:23.03]Still they just put him inside
[01:24.29]Now she all on her own
[01:25.32]Because her other son died
[01:26.29]Listen to the politician
[01:26.97]As he lied and he lied
[01:28.07]He a snake in a suit,
[01:29.17]Trying to hide in disguise
[01:30.28]Home of the brave and free
[01:32.32](Well damn officer what did I do?)
[01:33.95]Free just to murder me
[01:35.99]Naw hold up man don't shoot,
[01:36.93]I live over there
[01:37.51]Land of the beautiful
[01:39.54](A man what you doin)
[01:41.52]Cursed by the hate we throw
[01:43.81](You trippin dawg)
[01:44.53]Is this the new national anthem
[01:49.99]
[01:51.82]Is this the new national anthem
[01:57.91]
[01:59.64]For the stars and the stripes
[02:00.59]Prison bars and the pipe
[02:01.49]Young nigga rolling weed
[02:02.13]In a cigar he can light
[02:03.12]Bang red either blue selling hard
[02:04.37]And the white
[02:05.17]Live by the gun,
[02:05.87]Never run from a fight
[02:06.96]Trayvon in a hoodie,
[02:07.83]Walking through the neighborhood he
[02:08.79]Didn't do shit to buddy,
[02:09.69]He didn't have to die did he?
[02:10.72]I guess it's because his dad
[02:11.61]Was a judge in the city
[02:12.53]They didn't want him in the pen
[02:13.58]With the thugs that could get him
[02:14.70]A jury of his peers
[02:15.50]Said all was forgiven
[02:16.33]But touch one of mine,
[02:17.15]Right or wrong,
[02:17.69]I'ma kill them
[02:18.24]Fill them with the lead
[02:19.07]Like they put in Martin Luther King's head
[02:20.38]Like they killed Malcolm X,
[02:21.46]Edgar Hoover did that
[02:22.19]You can catch me in the hood
[02:23.49]Where they shooting niggas at
[02:24.41]They don't know if Neighborhood
[02:25.10]Or the Hoovers did that
[02:25.95]Whether Piru or VL's
[02:26.64]
[02:27.29]Or GDs wit me we
[02:28.08]Down to uprise
[02:28.81]From the OG's to peewees
[02:30.22]Home of the brave and free
[02:32.51](Don't get it f**ked up)
[02:33.83]Free just to murder me
[02:35.32]If you ain't found something
[02:36.15]You're willing to die for,
[02:36.90]You ain't fit to live
[02:37.76]Land of the beautiful
[02:39.60]To get something you've never had,
[02:40.59]You must be willing to do something
[02:41.66]You've never done
[02:42.12]Cursed by the hate we throw
[02:43.46](I'ma die by mine)
[02:44.30]Is this the new national anthem
[02:50.62]
[02:51.86]Is this the new national anthem
[02:57.41]
[02:58.97]What are you doing
[03:00.27]Let me ask you something.
[03:01.62]If the kids are the future,
[03:02.72]Tell me why you
[03:03.44]Can get more for being C.O.,
[03:04.78]Than you can for being a teacher.
[03:06.20]
[03:06.94]Tell me why it means
[03:07.80]More to the government
[03:08.61]To pay the people
[03:09.25]Who got to watch over the prisoners,
[03:11.07]More than the people
[03:11.78]Who got to keep the children
[03:12.73]From becoming prisoners.
[03:13.60]
[03:14.14]That make sense?
[03:15.03]Tell me why 9 ounces
[03:16.18]Of crack will get you more time
[03:17.50]Than a rape right now.
[03:18.50]
[03:19.03]Tell me why them crazy white boys
[03:20.37]Can tote a gun
[03:21.26]But I can't right now.
[03:22.30]
[03:23.79]Yea I had felonies,
[03:24.44]I done did dirt in the streets,
[03:25.72]But I ain't ever gave it
[03:26.59]To anybody that didn't deserve it.
[03:27.56]You know what I mean?
[03:28.49]
[03:30.20]I ain't ever ran in no public place
[03:31.51]With no pistol shooting
[03:32.30]No innocent people.
[03:32.84]I ain't never ran in no school,
[03:34.04]Killing no kids.
[03:34.93]
[03:35.79]Man this is the result of you refusing
[03:37.22]To deal with the issues at hand.
[03:38.98]
[03:39.92]We are a product of the environment
[03:41.33]You placed us in
[03:42.24]
[03:43.18]We ain't do it
[03:44.26]We just lived through it
[03:45.19]Home of the brave and free
[03:47.08](Message to my people)
[03:47.97]
[03:48.79]Free just to murder me
[03:50.56]Stop waiting on folk to help you,
[03:51.86]Help yourself, it starts with you
[03:52.86]Land of the beautiful
[03:54.44]Get yourself out, reach back,
[03:55.83]Get somebody else out
[03:56.62]Cursed by the hate we throw
[03:59.32]Is this the new national anthem
[04:05.71]
[04:06.83]Is this the new national anthem
[04:13.02]
[04:13.70]Hell is you doin'