[Intro: DJ Khaled] Hey yo, it's DJ Khaled And I'm rocking with my people ¡Mayday! And this is the TNT remix! Strange Music, We the Best! Let's go!
[Verse 1: Black Thought] Yo, I think I'm Hirohito, Idi Amin Dada Ayatollah Khomeini, Maximilien, Osama Am I part of the problem, the subject of the column I'd probably Jackson Pollock you in the chest for the dollar The psychotic by-product of a parasite Shrilling in the terabyte, staring in the blaring lights Hot as sun, intended to be Fahrenheit, Sahara Nights Invisible civil rights, look at what I've been living like
[Verse 2: Bernz] Bandwagon massacre, wiretap party line Guinea pig, gimme this, gimme that with fries on the side Bitch, I've seen it all before pour in every soul That's how that shit goes, Adderall tab in the flow Phantom V is in the cold, wiling out these silly souls Started easy and is creeping quickly to mama's for door Show me who ain't a whore, show me an actual pimp Sold my life at the purchase price in the government list
[Verse 3: Wrekonize] This is the beginning of rising, now follow me into the end I really don't find it surprising, they trying to set fire again We set the blaze to ever change talking, backdrafting Walk across the cracked glass, the papa shot in Baghdad For every child that can't grasp the dreams we've been having on the regular Cause the evil around them is so secular I'll light the match and bring the heat until it turns Pour my whisky out and let it burn
[Hook] Let burn it up in Tunisia, burn this bitch down Starting up a revolution, take it to a higher ground Let burn it up in Tunisia, burn this bitch down Starting up a revolution, take it to a higher ground Let burn it up in Tunisia
[Verse 4: Stevie Stone] Stone Stevie Stone, one of them, wanna be him Some are checking the summer's them None of them understand Feeling like we kicked around, chew me up, spit me out Underestimate a man, gasoline and doze me down Protest, violent, food for thought Blindfolded, wicked ways, turn the cheek, wear them tall Middle East, bill of lease, finally found my inner beast Sacrificed my whole life on a cause: get rich
[Verse 5: Jay Rock] I'm just part of an evolution Higher power, come join the revolution You don't need no application, just your three fingers Pledge allegiance, life is what you make it, yeah Light it up, free your mind before the system try to take it Lock you up, set you down, trying to give you cases That's what it is, all these wreckers give them cuffs like I'm chasing Life is like a traffic jam plus I'm standing racism
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[Verse 6: Jon Connor] Television full of illusions here to confuse us While advertisers getting that paper we getting stupid And all the while we don’t realize how gone the youth is Transforced they think they choose it, I see resistance as useless And the truth is I was born where niggas get it on for looking at them wrong And chicks throw bleach balloon bombs at the prom When I got word they’d finally killed Osama and Saddam I’m thinking “all of yall is calm til Vietnam is on your lawn" I’m from the city where guns get drawn picking up your moms from their salon And it goes down, this ain’t no song, this is my life, right or wrong We live in a time where wars get made whether we like it or not And the ones that make them ain’t the ones that get shot, now picture that Just wanted my fair shake at the American dream Now I lay my head down at night and hear America scream Look at me now, I’m right here, and it’s quite clear Flint, Michigan’s own, Jon Connor, I’m America’s nightmare