Hannibal Lecture-Public Enemy/Paris/MC Ren/Dead Prez

[ti:Hannibal Lecture] [ar:Public Enemy] [al:Rebirth Of A Nation] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.28]Being here in america doesn't make you an american [00:04.28]Being born here in america doesn't make you an american [00:07.98]Why if birth made you an american [00:09.84]You wouldn't need any legislation [00:11.52]You wouldn't need any amendments to the constitution [00:14.43]I don't see any american dream i see an american nightmare [00:18.26] [00:19.09]I'm one of the 42 million black people [00:21.44]Who are the victims of america [00:23.12]Aiyyo we all in together now all in together now [00:25.81]Hard truth soldierin hard truth soldier sh*t [00:28.87]Keep on servin em cause you know we do work [00:31.62]Mashin in my chevy down the streets of new york they feel me [00:34.79]I smooth grip and hit up the spot [00:36.95]Snatch flav as my dual pipes burn up the block [00:39.74]We bumpin hardcore heavyweight b boy blast [00:42.72]On the street they hear my beat my 69 is fast [00:45.76]Smash down lennox head up to the view [00:48.34]Some reporter wanna holla and i said it was cool [00:51.14]Wanna know about the album and the enemy's new [00:53.88]How p e and guerilla funk is keepin it movin [00:56.84]Breaking bread talking politics you know how it go [00:59.68]Bout the war and how it's shitty that we murder for dough [01:02.60]Then the reporter asked a question that i had to mash [01:05.81]How i would act if every day was maybe my last [01:08.46]How if every day i worried bout my family in this [01:11.08]I'd be murdered on these street in a puddle of piss [01:13.72]Or if i would get some news that my brother had died [01:16.73]If they ran up in my house and held my kids and my wife [01:19.90]Or if we was looted and somebody took all our thangs [01:22.45]If my sister was abducted never heard from again [01:25.49]I began to compare it so he could observe [01:28.35]When i made the parallels with how they living abroad [01:31.08]I can't ignore it these pigs ride deep in the streets [01:33.88]Cap a ni**a for his wallet beat another for free [01:36.55]And the cold part about it life is cheaper than that [01:39.57]Down there people on the bottom kill each other for scraps [01:42.50]Imagine that propoganda got the people confused [01:45.32]Damned by the media that keep em subdued [01:48.34]I been around the world seen a lot of sh*t in my life [01:51.31]Same sirens same ghetto birds swirlin at night [01:53.84]Same racism profilin each of us all [01:56.78]Same outsiders where we live enforcin the law [01:59.70]Gats clappin on the streets gunplayin with heat [02:02.47]Same prisons full of brothers herded in like sheep [02:05.40]Same turncoats that'll burn folks for pay [02:08.13]Same conditions in communities we die everyday [02:11.17]Same brutality and ignorance now what will it take [02:14.00]To break the motherf**kin cycle get the people away [02:16.75]That's why i'm fresh out of tears for em [02:19.64]All out of tears for em [02:20.81]Even though my heart goes out [02:22.08]What the f**k you cryin bout [02:23.29]Money for rebuilding but what about home [02:24.73]When the way we live is shitty where's the love for our own [02:28.27]I can't decide it it's real i hit you with proof [02:31.21]Maybe i'll be suicided cause i hit you with truth [02:33.88]See they kill for less than what we say on records to you [02:37.14]Hear the message in the music from a rebel to you now listen [02:40.06]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:43.15]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:46.00]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:48.98]Save us save us [02:51.72]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:54.53]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [02:57.34]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:00.26]Save us save us [03:02.95]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:05.93]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:08.79]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:11.66]Save us save us [03:14.37]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:17.41]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:20.29]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:23.18]Save us save us [03:25.80]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:28.82]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:31.64]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:34.58]Save us save us [03:37.42]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:40.20]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:43.04]Save my life you gotta save my life you gotta [03:45.95]Save us save us [03:48.31]Hannibal Lecture - Public Enemy [03:49.40]