New National Anthem - T.I.

New National Anthem LRC歌词

[00:00.37]I know radio prolly ain't gonna play this

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[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.

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[00:08.66]Yeah, we hear it so much

[00:10.87]We probably numb to it by now.

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[00:12.80]After all, it's the American way right?

[00:15.33]Home of the brave and free

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[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)

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[00:43.16]Turn it

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[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 *****,

[01:00.33]To hustle up and make eight figures

[01:01.86]Turned from a goon

[01:02.75]To a great young *****

[01:03.74]No complaining

[01:04.32]Just doing what it take young *****

[01:05.50]I was raised in a decade

[01:06.58]Of hate young *****

[01:07.59]Always dodging polices

[01:08.15]Because they hate young ******

[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

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[01:51.82]Is this the new national anthem

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[01:59.64]For the stars and the stripes

[02:00.59]Prison bars and the pipe

[02:01.49]Young ***** rolling ****

[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 **** 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 ****** 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

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[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 ****** 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

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[02:51.86]Is this the new national anthem

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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?

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[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.

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[03:35.79]Man this is the result of you refusing

[03:37.22]To deal with the issues at hand.

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[03:39.92]We are a product of the environment

[03:41.33]You placed us in

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[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)

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[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

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[04:06.83]Is this the new national anthem

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[04:13.70]Hell is you doin'