Born in Amerikkka
Born in America
The land of the free
Where cops killin' niggas
Lookin' just like me
RIP Eric G
Wake up you gotta see
The melinated tax
Is such a fatal fee
Modern day lynching
From the justice tree
If you ever go to court
Probably make you take a plea
If you poor and you black
Double guilty
Sorry white America
I gotta spill the tea
Took us from our land
Splitting up our families
Back in Africa
We probably came from royalty
Biggest forced migration
When they brought us overseas
We the ones that built the nation
But they want us on our knees
Begging for our reparations
Like they gave the Japanese
We just want our liberation
But you threw away the keys
Need a better situation
But you feeding us disease
Liquor stores on every corner
Every street a Mickey Ds
It's a Sunday morning under the Georgia sun
A black man named Ahmaud goes on a run
This run will be assaulted by two blasts of a gun
Running while black
A crime punishable by death
As Ahmaud takes his final breaths
The whites bulrush Michigan's Capitol steps
And still the black half of America is afforded no rest
Born in America
The home of the brave
Rather die like a martyr
Than live as a slave
And they hate me cuz I'm smarter
But I'm never getting getting phased
Just gotta go harder harder
Till the day we get some change
Skin folk getting slaughtered
Another hashtag on ya page
While they fetishize our bodies
And they demonize our rage
Tears be flowin' just like water
You can't understand the pain
Leave a daughter with no father
Lil Gianna got me prayin'
Voices could not get no louder
We was marchin' in the rain
Then the boys in blue
Drop a little flash bang
Took a knee right to the neck
A rubber bullet to the brain
Held a bible like a Nazi
And then nothing was the same
East coast west coast
Strange fruit still hang
But they call it suicide
Same shit different name
We gone have a freedom summer
If you hearing what I'm saying
Free 'em all like Moses
Break 'em out the chains
The land of the free
Where cops killin' niggas
Lookin' just like me
RIP Eric G
Wake up you gotta see
The melinated tax
Is such a fatal fee
Modern day lynching
From the justice tree
If you ever go to court
Probably make you take a plea
If you poor and you black
Double guilty
Sorry white America
I gotta spill the tea
Took us from our land
Splitting up our families
Back in Africa
We probably came from royalty
Biggest forced migration
When they brought us overseas
We the ones that built the nation
But they want us on our knees
Begging for our reparations
Like they gave the Japanese
We just want our liberation
But you threw away the keys
Need a better situation
But you feeding us disease
Liquor stores on every corner
Every street a Mickey Ds
It's a Sunday morning under the Georgia sun
A black man named Ahmaud goes on a run
This run will be assaulted by two blasts of a gun
Running while black
A crime punishable by death
As Ahmaud takes his final breaths
The whites bulrush Michigan's Capitol steps
And still the black half of America is afforded no rest
Born in America
The home of the brave
Rather die like a martyr
Than live as a slave
And they hate me cuz I'm smarter
But I'm never getting getting phased
Just gotta go harder harder
Till the day we get some change
Skin folk getting slaughtered
Another hashtag on ya page
While they fetishize our bodies
And they demonize our rage
Tears be flowin' just like water
You can't understand the pain
Leave a daughter with no father
Lil Gianna got me prayin'
Voices could not get no louder
We was marchin' in the rain
Then the boys in blue
Drop a little flash bang
Took a knee right to the neck
A rubber bullet to the brain
Held a bible like a Nazi
And then nothing was the same
East coast west coast
Strange fruit still hang
But they call it suicide
Same shit different name
We gone have a freedom summer
If you hearing what I'm saying
Free 'em all like Moses
Break 'em out the chains
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Writer(s): Taaj-udeen Davis
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