New National Anthem-T.I./Skylar Grey

[ti:New National Anthem] [ar:T.I.] [al:New National Anthem] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]New National Anthem - T.I./Skylar Grey [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 ni**a, [01:00.33]To hustle up and make eight figures [01:01.86]Turned from a goon [01:02.75]To a great young ni**a [01:03.74]No complaining [01:04.32]Just doing what it take young ni**a [01:05.50]I was raised in a decade [01:06.58]Of hate young ni**a [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 ni**a rolling w**d [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 sh*t 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 k**l 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 R**e 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'?