Album Name

New National Anthem (Feat. Skylar Grey) (Clean Ver.)

Artist

T.I.

Genre

랩/힙합

Release Date

2014.09.25

Release Agency

Sony Music

New National Anthem (Feat. Skylar Grey) (Clean Ver.) - T.I.
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
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 nigga
to hustle up
and make eight figures
Turned from a goon
to a great young nigga
No complaining just doing
what it take young nigga
I was raised
in a decade of hate young nigga
Always dodging polices
because they hate young niggas
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
what the fuck do you know about
being a black man in America
Is this the new national anthem
For the stars and the stripes
prison bars and the pipe
Young nigga rolling weed
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 shit 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 niggas 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 fucked 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
Cursed by the hate
we throw I’ma die by mine
Is this the new national anthem
Is this the new national anthem
Let me ask you something
If the kids are the
future tell me why
you can get more for being CO
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
sittin' around waiting on
governmentto do something for us
ain't never gonna happen partner
they don’t give a fuck about us
Is this the new national anthem
but don’t play
into their hand partner
you making it easy
for em hell is you doin'