New National Anthem (feat. Skylar Grey)

Too dense

I know radio probably ain't gon' play this

But chopper goin' off in the hood, man, like Afghanistan

Or the Gaza strip somewhere, man

Yeah, we hear it so much, we probably numb to it right 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 (Ya dead if you ain't got one)

Is this the new national anthem?

(It was like this 'fore 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, ay)

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, smokin' yay 'cause he stressed

On chrome, with a TEC, taught to spray for respect

I learned from the best, used to stay in the 'jects

I bought work from the vets, burnin' rubber in the 'Vettes

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 complainin', just doin' what it take, young ****

I was raised in a decade of hate, young ****

Always dodgin' police because they hate young ****

And we hate them too, .38 in him shoe

All the change in the system will take him through

He ain't a killer, but he will if you make him do

A 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 'cause her other son died

Listen to the politician as he lied and he lied

He a snake in a suit, tryna hide in disguise

Home of the brave and free (Well, damn, officer, what I do?)

Free just to murder me (Now hold up, man, don't shoot, I live over there)

Land of the beautiful (Ay, ay, what you doin', man?)

Cursed by the hate we throw (You trippin', dawg)

Is this the new national anthem? (How many times did it happen to you?)

(What the fuck do you know about bein' a black man in America?)

Is this the new national anthem?

(And you wonder why we walk around strapped, fuck is you sayin'?)

For the stars and the stripes, prison bars and the pipe

Young **** rollin' weed in a cigar he can light

Bang red, either blue, sellin' hard and the white

Live by the gun, never run from a fight

Trayvon in a hoodie walkin' through a neighborhood

He didn't do shit to buddy, he didn't have to die, did he?

I guess it's 'cause 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 'em

Fell 'em with the lead like they put in Martin Luther King head

Like they killed Malcolm X, Edgar Hoover did that

You can catch me in the hood where they shootin' **** at

They don't know if neighborhood or the Hoover did that

Whether Piru, or VL's, or GD's with me, we

Down to uprise from the OG to pee-wee

Home of the brave and free (Don't get it fucked up)

Free just to murder me

(If you ain't found somthin' you're willin' to die for, you ain't fit to live)

Land of the beautiful

(To get somethin' you never had, you must be willin' to do somethin')

(You've never done)

Cursed by the hate we throw (I'ma die by mine)

Is this the new national anthem?

(Ay, America, you done created a monster that refuses to be ignored)

(The jig is up)

Is this the new national anthem?

(Yeah, we're doin', we're losin' that shit doin' stupid shit)

(Hell is you changin', dawg? What is you doin'?)

Let me ask you somethin'

If the kids are the future

Tell me why you can get more for being a CO

Than you can for bein' a teacher?

Tell me why it means more to the government to pay the people

Who gotta watch over the prisoners

More than the people who gotta keep the children

From becomin' prisoners?

That make sense?

Tell me why nine 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?

Yeah, I had felonies, I done did dirt in the streets

ButI ain't never gave nobody didn't deserve it, know what I mean?

I ain't never ran in no public place with no pistol

Shootin' no innocent people

I ain't never ran in no school, killin' 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 places us in

We ain't do it, we just lived through it

Home of the brave and free

(Got a message to my people)

Free just to murder me

(Stop waitin' on folks 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?

(And that's the way we gon' to get ahead, man)

(Sittin' round waitin' on the government to do somethin' for us)

(Ain't gon' never happen, partner)

Is this the new national anthem? (They don't give a fuck about us)

(But don't play into they hands, partner)

(You makin' it easy for 'em, hell is you doin'?)