[ti:New National Anthem]
[ar:T.I.]
[al:New National Anthem]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:00.370] I know radio prolly ain't gonna play this
[00:03.440] But chopper going off in the hood man
[00:04.830] Like Afghanistan or the Gaza
[00:06.270] Strip somewhere man.
[00:08.660] Yeah, we hear it so much
[00:10.870] We probably numb to it by now.
[00:12.800] After all, it's the American way right?
[00:15.330] Home of the brave and free
[00:18.080] (It's America)
[00:18.910] Free just to murder me
[00:21.200] (Land of the handgun)
[00:22.610] Land of the beautiful
[00:25.150] (Home of the shotgun)
[00:26.580] Cursed by the hate we throw
[00:28.350] (You're dead if you ain't got one)
[00:29.450] Is this the new national anthem?
[00:34.380] It was like this before I got here baby,
[00:36.150] I ain't do it
[00:36.790] Is this the new national anthem?
[00:39.940] (I ain't start it, I'm just a part of it)
[00:43.160] Turn it
[00:44.810] You say this the home
[00:45.530] Of the brave I guess
[00:46.470] I say this the home
[00:47.230] Of the K's and the vets
[00:48.220] All alone with the J's smoking yay
[00:49.430] Cause he stressed
[00:50.090] On chrome with a Tek
[00:50.850] Taught to spray for respect
[00:52.040] I learned from the best
[00:52.990] Used to stay in the jects
[00:54.030] Bought work from the vets
[00:54.950] Burning rubber in the vets
[00:55.710] This as good as it gets
[00:56.590] Used to play with the rats
[00:57.640] Then I got older and learned
[00:58.550] Stay away from the rats
[00:59.550] God blessed this *****,
[01:00.330] To hustle up and make eight figures
[01:01.860] Turned from a goon
[01:02.750] To a great young *****
[01:03.740] No complaining
[01:04.320] Just doing what it take young *****
[01:05.500] I was raised in a decade
[01:06.580] Of hate young *****
[01:07.590] Always dodging polices
[01:08.150] Because they hate young ******
[01:09.440] And we hate them too,
[01:10.330] 38 in him shoe
[01:11.240] All the changes the system
[01:12.100] Will take him through
[01:13.020] He ain't a killer
[01:13.710] But he will if you make him do it
[01:15.250] Homicide he'll ride,
[01:15.790] They'll put him on trial
[01:16.710] Let him have a life
[01:17.420] Sentence then do it with a smile
[01:18.850] And he only 19,
[01:19.500] He ain't even had a child
[01:20.500] As a child, told his mama
[01:21.370] He'll be gone for a while
[01:22.270] And she cried,
[01:23.030] Still they just put him inside
[01:24.290] Now she all on her own
[01:25.320] Because her other son died
[01:26.290] Listen to the politician
[01:26.970] As he lied and he lied
[01:28.070] He a snake in a suit,
[01:29.170] Trying to hide in disguise
[01:30.280] Home of the brave and free
[01:32.320] (Well damn officer what did I do?)
[01:33.950] Free just to murder me
[01:35.990] Naw hold up man don't shoot,
[01:36.930] I live over there
[01:37.510] Land of the beautiful
[01:39.540] (A man what you doin)
[01:41.520] Cursed by the hate we throw
[01:43.810] (You trippin dawg)
[01:44.530] Is this the new national anthem
[01:51.820] Is this the new national anthem
[01:59.640] For the stars and the stripes
[02:00.590] Prison bars and the pipe
[02:01.490] Young ***** rolling ****
[02:02.130] In a cigar he can light
[02:03.120] Bang red either blue selling hard
[02:04.370] And the white
[02:05.170] Live by the gun,
[02:05.870] Never run from a fight
[02:06.960] Trayvon in a hoodie,
[02:07.830] Walking through the neighborhood he
[02:08.790] Didn't do **** to buddy,
[02:09.690] He didn't have to die did he?
[02:10.720] I guess it's because his dad
[02:11.610] Was a judge in the city
[02:12.530] They didn't want him in the pen
[02:13.580] With the thugs that could get him
[02:14.700] A jury of his peers
[02:15.500] Said all was forgiven
[02:16.330] But touch one of mine,
[02:17.150] Right or wrong,
[02:17.690] I'ma kill them
[02:18.240] Fill them with the lead
[02:19.070] Like they put in Martin Luther King's head
[02:20.380] Like they killed Malcolm X,
[02:21.460] Edgar Hoover did that
[02:22.190] You can catch me in the hood
[02:23.490] Where they shooting ****** at
[02:24.410] They don't know if Neighborhood
[02:25.100] Or the Hoovers did that
[02:25.950] Whether Piru or VL's
[02:27.290] Or GDs wit me we
[02:28.080] Down to uprise
[02:28.810] From the OG's to peewees
[02:30.220] Home of the brave and free
[02:32.510] (Don't get it ****** up)
[02:33.830] Free just to murder me
[02:35.320] If you ain't found something
[02:36.150] You're willing to die for,
[02:36.900] You ain't fit to live
[02:37.760] Land of the beautiful
[02:39.600] To get something you've never had,
[02:40.590] You must be willing to do something
[02:41.660] You've never done
[02:42.120] Cursed by the hate we throw
[02:43.460] (I'ma die by mine)
[02:44.300] Is this the new national anthem
[02:51.860] Is this the new national anthem
[02:58.970] What are you doing
[03:00.270] Let me ask you something.
[03:01.620] If the kids are the future,
[03:02.720] Tell me why you
[03:03.440] Can get more for being C.O.,
[03:04.780] Than you can for being a teacher.
[03:06.940] Tell me why it means
[03:07.800] More to the government
[03:08.610] To pay the people
[03:09.250] Who got to watch over the prisoners,
[03:11.070] More than the people
[03:11.780] Who got to keep the children
[03:12.730] From becoming prisoners.
[03:14.140] That make sense?
[03:15.030] Tell me why 9 ounces
[03:16.180] Of crack will get you more time
[03:17.500] Than a rape right now.
[03:19.030] Tell me why them crazy white boys
[03:20.370] Can tote a gun
[03:21.260] But I can't right now.
[03:23.790] Yea I had felonies,
[03:24.440] I done did dirt in the streets,
[03:25.720] But I ain't ever gave it
[03:26.590] To anybody that didn't deserve it.
[03:27.560] You know what I mean?
[03:30.200] I ain't ever ran in no public place
[03:31.510] With no pistol shooting
[03:32.300] No innocent people.
[03:32.840] I ain't never ran in no school,
[03:34.040] Killing no kids.
[03:35.790] Man this is the result of you refusing
[03:37.220] To deal with the issues at hand.
[03:39.920] We are a product of the environment
[03:41.330] You placed us in
[03:43.180] We ain't do it
[03:44.260] We just lived through it
[03:45.190] Home of the brave and free
[03:47.080] (Message to my people)
[03:48.790] Free just to murder me
[03:50.560] Stop waiting on folk to help you,
[03:51.860] Help yourself, it starts with you
[03:52.860] Land of the beautiful
[03:54.440] Get yourself out, reach back,
[03:55.830] Get somebody else out
[03:56.620] Cursed by the hate we throw
[03:59.320] Is this the new national anthem
[04:06.830] Is this the new national anthem
[04:13.700] Hell is you doin'