歌手:T.I.
专辑:《Paperwork》

I know radio prolly ain't gonna play this

But chopper going off in the hood man
Like Afghanistan or the Gaza
Strip somewhere man.

Yeah, we hear it so much
We probably numb to it by now.

After all, it's the American way right?
Home of the brave and free

(It's America)
Free just to murder me
(Land of the handgun)
Land of the beautiful
(Home of the shotgun)
Cursed by the hate we throw
(You're dead if you ain't got one)
Is this the new national anthem?
It was like this before I got here baby,
I ain't do it
Is this the new national anthem?
(I ain't start it, I'm just a part of it)

Turn it

You say this the home
Of the brave I guess
I say this the home
Of the K's and the vets
All alone with the J's smoking yay
Cause he stressed
On chrome with a Tek
Taught to spray for respect
I learned from the best
Used to stay in the jects
Bought work from the vets
Burning rubber in the vets
This as good as it gets
Used to play with the rats
Then I got older and learned
Stay away from the rats
God blessed this *****,
To hustle up and make eight figures
Turned from a goon
To a great young *****
No complaining
Just doing what it take young *****
I was raised in a decade
Of hate young *****
Always dodging polices
Because they hate young ******
And we hate them too,
38 in him shoe
All the changes the system
Will take him through
He ain't a killer
But he will if you make him do it
Homicide he'll ride,
They'll put him on trial
Let him have a life
Sentence then do it with a smile
And he only 19,
He ain't even had a child
As a child, told his mama
He'll be gone for a while
And she cried,
Still they just put him inside
Now she all on her own
Because her other son died
Listen to the politician
As he lied and he lied
He a snake in a suit,
Trying to hide in disguise
Home of the brave and free
(Well damn officer what did I do?)
Free just to murder me
Naw hold up man don't shoot,
I live over there
Land of the beautiful
(A man what you doin)
Cursed by the hate we throw
(You trippin dawg)
Is this the new national anthem

Is this the new national anthem

For the stars and the stripes
Prison bars and the pipe
Young ***** rolling ****
In a cigar he can light
Bang red either blue selling hard
And the white
Live by the gun,
Never run from a fight
Trayvon in a hoodie,
Walking through the neighborhood he
Didn't do **** to buddy,
He didn't have to die did he?
I guess it's because his dad
Was a judge in the city
They didn't want him in the pen
With the thugs that could get him
A jury of his peers
Said all was forgiven
But touch one of mine,
Right or wrong,
I'ma kill them
Fill them with the lead
Like they put in Martin Luther King's head
Like they killed Malcolm X,
Edgar Hoover did that
You can catch me in the hood
Where they shooting ****** at
They don't know if Neighborhood
Or the Hoovers did that
Whether Piru or VL's

Or GDs wit me we
Down to uprise
From the OG's to peewees
Home of the brave and free
(Don't get it ****** up)
Free just to murder me
If you ain't found something
You're willing to die for,
You ain't fit to live
Land of the beautiful
To get something you've never had,
You must be willing to do something
You've never done
Cursed by the hate we throw
(I'ma die by mine)
Is this the new national anthem

Is this the new national anthem

What are you doing
Let me ask you something.
If the kids are the future,
Tell me why you
Can get more for being C.O.,
Than you can for being a teacher.

Tell me why it means
More to the government
To pay the people
Who got to watch over the prisoners,
More than the people
Who got to keep the children
From becoming prisoners.

That make sense?
Tell me why 9 ounces
Of crack will get you more time
Than a rape right now.

Tell me why them crazy white boys
Can tote a gun
But I can't right now.

Yea I had felonies,
I done did dirt in the streets,
But I ain't ever gave it
To anybody that didn't deserve it.
You know what I mean?

I ain't ever ran in no public place
With no pistol shooting
No innocent people.
I ain't never ran in no school,
Killing no kids.

Man this is the result of you refusing
To deal with the issues at hand.

We are a product of the environment
You placed us in

We ain't do it
We just lived through it
Home of the brave and free
(Message to my people)

Free just to murder me
Stop waiting on folk to help you,
Help yourself, it starts with you
Land of the beautiful
Get yourself out, reach back,
Get somebody else out
Cursed by the hate we throw
Is this the new national anthem

Is this the new national anthem

Hell is you doin'