8th of 10 free downloads. My explosive take on the vices of America. This song features 3 of the coldest verses i've ever written, which sporadicly jump from high-speed to insane-speed.
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Story behind the song
"Motivation"? Look around us. We live in tha latest incarnation of Babylon. My disgust w/my surroundings is enough to inspire a thousand songs like America.
This song literally took on a life of its own. Halfway through tha creative process I'd quit tryin to figure out what tha song was gonna become, and i simply let tha lyrics, rhyme schemes, and instrumental flow. Usually i know what i wanna say in each verse, how tha choruses are gonna change, and how i'm gonna rap before i ever start a song, but not w/this one. It grew beyond my wildest expectations & evolved into a creature unlike anything i'd ever created before.
Lyrics
America
(Chorus)
(Only in America) It's funny
the way that this fuckin country
was raised on tha dirty money
of slaves and tha blood of hundreds
(Only in America) I'm lovin
the way that tha ones who run it
are tha same ones that's stayin blunted
but say we're the ones that's wanted
(Repeat)
Throughout my days as a youth, I was always seekin the truth
about power and why is it tha key to tha throne?
as a child I believed it was wrong
til I saw for myself that tha weak will never conquer the strong
saw a nigga get killed cuz he lied for cheese
the gunshots had muffled his cries for peace
i felt my heart grow cold as tha nine released
the lesson that I could settle my rivalries
violently, but killin wasn't right for me
I'd rather rise through tha art of bribery
I'd slide g's to these niggas so they'd ride for me
then paid off all my enemies privately
an silently, my network had formed a clan
ambition and greed had corrupted tha lamb
i knew i must have my hands in it all, my plans
involved smugglin goods from forbidden lands
but that's tha chance I took so that I could rise
i'd deal in anything that made my money multiply
I specialized in crime when it's organized
like shippin keys from tha West Indies and I
was in the middle of a deal with tha Feds
when i fucked em over cuz they thought i was bluffin
betrayed the country now it's all or nothin
so i struck a couple deals with tha Russians
sold em dope by the case load, all in exchange for
missiles, oil, and exotic weapons
spies on my payroll told me to lay low
cuz the FBI had put a price on my head an
that's when i headed to the Orient
i slowly grin cuz i know i'll win
tha chance to come home again and i won't repent but then it's (only in ...)
(Chorus)
God knows i hate this fuckin country, to hell with tha money
i'm sick of tha lies and tha bullshit we're told
they act like we're nothin until they want somethin
and then they come around smilin like they're our folk
sayin we should trust in laws that aint just
but tha second that we do we're left in the dust
everybody that deals with us is gettin fucked
and you wonder why the rest of the world hates our guts
yet ya'll elect them hoes to be our leaders
how tha fuck you gone sit an believe em?!
they're tha same ones that enslaved out people
then convinced us that we weren't their equals
then you niggaz make it worse when you go
and join the army for a little bit of dough
you signed the line and so, now you've sold your soul
but all they tell you is that you're now on a journey to grow
then you were too caught up in the funds
and the fun of guns to realize what you've done
you've become a trained killer for President Bush
then you're sent to war to kill the people of Saddam
cuz some old white man got fucked in a deal
so the city of Baghdad was put to the flame
when you cowards return you're treated like heroes
even stopped to brag about the missions you made
but how many lives did you take?
how many wives did you break cuz their pride's in a grave?
you try to get high to erase
the questions in your mind but you cain't so you hide from the shame
in time you will find that their case was a lie
and they covered up the facts so the public would comply
never though to question why, innocents had to die
when we're supposedly "liberating" the same ones we fried
(Chorus)
Comin up lookin Death in tha eyez, the reason that i came to despise
my fate but the many sacrifices ensured
that i slowly matured from the pain i endured
no faith in man yet a heart that's pure
a shadow of the leader that i could be
just a shell of the man that i should be
livin nothin like the life that i wanna have
with a fraction of the money that i could see
and yet i would be, headed on the right path
but i cant stop thinkin that my kind is cursed
cuz everytime that we try to rise we get hurt
thinkin why's cuz you never real