[Prelude]
America! We love you!
How many people are proud to
be citizens of this beautiful country of ours?
The stripes and the stars for
the rights that men have died for to protect
The women and men who have
broke their necks for the freedom of speech the United States government has
sworn to uphold.
(Yo I want everybody to listen to the words of this song) or
so we're told...
[Verse 1]
I never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see,
so many
motherfuckin' people who feel like me
who share the same views and the same
exact beliefs,
it's like a fuckin' army marchin' in back of me
So many
lives I touch, so much anger aimed in no particular direction,
just sprays
and sprays and straight through your radio waves it plays and plays,
till it
stays stuck in your head for days and days
who woulda thought, standing in
this mirror bleachin' my hair,
with some peroxide, reachin for a t-shirt to
wear
that I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this?
How could I
predict my words would have an impact like this
I must've struck a chord,
with somebody up in the office,
cuz Congress keeps telling me I ain't
causin' nuthin' but problems
and now they're sayin' I'm in trouble with the
government,
I'm lovin' it, I shoveled shit all my life
and now I'm
dumping it on...
[Chorus 2x]
White America!
I could be one of your kids
White
America!
Little Eric looks just like this
White America!
Erica loves my
shit
I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get
[Verse 2]
Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself,
if
they were brown Shady lose, Shady sits on the shelf
but Shady's cute, Shady
knew Shady's dimples would help,
make ladies swoon baby, ooh baby! Look at my
sales
Lets do the math, If I was black I would've sold half,
I ain't have
to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that
but I could rap, so fuck
school, I'm too cool to go back,
gimme the mic, show me where the fuckin'
studio's at
When I was underground, no one gave a fuck I was white,
no
labels wanted to sign me almost gave up, I was like
Fuck it, until I met Dre,
the only one to look past,
gave me a chance, and I lit a fire up under his
ass
helped him get back to the top, every fan black that
I got was
probably his in exchange for every white fan that he's got
Like damn, we just
swapped. Sittin' back lookin' at shit, wow,
I'm like my skin is it starting
to work to my benefit now?
[Chorus 2x]
[Verse 3]
See the problem is I speak to suburban kids
who otherwise
would of never knew these words exist
whose moms probably woulda never gave
two squirts of piss,
till I created so much motherfuckin'
turbulence
straight out the tube, right into your living room I came,
and
kids flipped when they knew I was produced by Dre
That's all it took, and
they were instantly hooked right in,
and they connected with me too because
I looked like them
that's why they put my lyrics up under this microscope,
searchin' with a fine tooth comb, its like this rope
waitin' to choke,
tightening around my throat,
watching me while I write this, like I don't
like this (Nope)
All I hear is: lyrics, lyrics, constant controversy,
sponsors working round the clock, to try to stop my concerts early
surely
hip hop was never a problem in Harlem only in Boston,
after it bothered the
fathers of daughters starting to blossom
so now I'm catchin' the flack from
these activists when they raggin',
actin' like I'm the first rapper to smack
a bitch, or say faggot
shit, just look at me like I'm your closest pal, the
posterchild, the mother fuckin' spokesman now for...
[Chorus 2x]
[Verse 4]
So to the parents of America
I am the derringer aimed at
little Erica, to attack her character
The ringleader of this circus of
worthless pawns
Sent to lead the march right up to the steps of Congress
And piss on the lawns of the White House and replace it with a Parental
Advisory sticker
To spit liquor in the faces of in this democracy of
hypocrisy
Fuck you Ms. Cheney! Fuck you Tipper Gore!
Fuck you with the
freest of speech this divided states of embarassment will allow me to have, Fuck
you!
I'm just kiddin' America, you know I love you...