Hannibal Lecture-Public Enemy/Paris/Dead Prez/Kam

[ti:Hannibal Lecture] [ar:Public Enemy] [al:Rebirth Of A Nation (Clean)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.19]Being here in America doesn't make you an American [00:03.52] [00:04.60]Being born here in America doesn't make you an American [00:07.32] [00:08.02]Why if birth made you an American you wouldn't need any legislation [00:10.84] [00:11.45]You wouldn't need any amendments to the Constitution [00:13.90] [00:14.41]I don't see any American dream I see an American nightmare [00:17.98] [00:19.03]I'm one of the 42 million black people who are the victims of America [00:22.67]Aiyyo we all in together now all in together now [00:25.82]Hard truth soldierin hard truth soldier SH*T [00:28.79]Keep on servin 'em cause you know we do work [00:31.57]Mashin in my Chevy down the streets of New York they feel me [00:34.61]I smooth grip and hit up the spot [00:36.89]Snatch Flav as my dual pipes burn up the block [00:39.68]We bumpin hardcore heavyweight b-boy blast [00:42.56]On the street they hear my beat my 69 is fast [00:45.25] [00:45.85]Smash down Lennox head up to the 'View [00:48.37]Some reporter wanna holla and I said it was cool [00:51.17]Wanna know about the album and the Enemy's new [00:54.15]How P E and Guerilla Funk is keepin it movin [00:56.83]Breakin bread talkin politics you know how it go [00:59.75]'Bout the war and how it's shitty that we murder for dough [01:02.39]Then the reporter asked a question that I had to mash [01:05.61]How I would act if every day was maybe my last [01:08.26]How if every day I worried 'bout my family in this [01:11.19]I'd be murdered on these street in a puddle of piss [01:14.00]Or if I would get some news that my brother had died [01:16.91]If they ran up in my house and held my kids and my wife [01:19.80]Or if we was looted and somebody took all our thangs [01:22.65]If my sister was abducted never heard from again [01:25.47]I began to compare it so he could observe [01:28.40]When I made the parallels with how they livin abroad [01:31.24]I can't ignore it these pigs ride deep in the streets [01:34.02]Cap a ni**a for his wallet beat another for free [01:36.89]And the cold part about it life is cheaper than that [01:39.69]Down there people on the bottom kill each other for scraps [01:42.48]Imagine that propoganda got the people confused [01:45.07] [01:45.60]Damned by the media that keep 'em subdued [01:48.29]I been around the world seen a lot of sh*t in my life [01:51.16]Same sirens same ghetto birds swirlin at night [01:53.90]Same racism profilin each of us all [01:56.82]Same outsiders where we live enforcin the law [01:59.77]Gats clappin on the streets gunplayin with heat [02:02.69]Same prisons full of brothers herded in like sheep [02:05.33]Same turncoats that'll burn folks for pay [02:08.31]Same conditions in communities we die everyday [02:11.05]Same brutality and ignorance now what will it take [02:14.05]To break the motherf**kin cycle get the people away [02:16.76]That's why I'm fresh out of tears for 'em all out of tears for 'em [02:20.27]Even though my heart goes out what the f**k you cryin 'bout [02:22.89]Money for rebuilding but what about home [02:25.28]When the way we live is shitty where's the love for our own [02:28.40]I can't decide it it's real I hit you with proof [02:31.17]Maybe I'll be suicided cause I hit you with truth [02:33.85]See they kill for less than what we say on records to you [02:36.91]Hear the message in the music from a rebel to you now listen [02:40.14]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:43.16]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:46.08]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:48.70]Save us save us [02:50.97] [02:51.82]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:54.63]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:57.49]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:59.92] [03:00.44]Save us save us [03:02.49] [03:03.23]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:06.07]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:08.96]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:11.81]Save us save us [03:13.87] [03:14.70]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:17.51]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:20.30]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:23.40]Save us save us [03:25.57]Hannibal Lecture - Public Enemy