White America
[00:00.15] America! Ha ha ha! We love you
[00:07.15] How many people are proud to be citizens
[00:09.65] Of this beautiful country of ours, the stripes and the stars
[00:12.90] For the rights that men have died for to protect?
[00:16.15] The women and men who have broke their necks
[00:17.90] For the freedom of speech the United States government has sworn to uphold… or so we're told
[00:24.15] (Yo, I want everybody to listen to the words of this song)
[00:25.40] I never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see
[00:28.40] So many motherfuckin' people who feel like me
[00:31.65] Who share the same views and the same exact beliefs
[00:34.65] It's like a fuckin' army marchin' in back of me
[00:37.90] So many lives I touched, so much anger aimed
[00:41.15] In no particular direction, just sprays and sprays
[00:44.40] And straight through your radio waves, it plays and plays
[00:47.65] 'Til it stays stuck in your head for days and days
[00:50.65] Who would've thought standin' in this mirror, bleachin' my hair
[00:53.90] With some peroxide, reachin' for a t-shirt to wear
[00:57.15] That I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this?
[01:00.40] How could I predict my words would have an impact like this?
[01:03.65] I must've struck a chord with somebody up in the office
[01:06.90] 'Cause Congress keep tellin' me I ain't causin' nothin' but problems
[01:09.90] And now they're sayin' I'm in trouble with the government
[01:12.65] I'm lovin' it, I shoveled shit all my life, and now I'm dumpin' it on
[01:16.65] White America! I could be one of your kids
[01:19.40] White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[01:22.65] White America! Erica loves my shit
[01:26.15] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get! (Yah!)
[01:29.65] White America! I could be one of your kids
[01:32.40] White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[01:35.65] White America! Erica loves my shit
[01:38.65] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[01:42.15] Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself
[01:45.15] If they were brown, Shady'd lose, Shady sits on the shelf
[01:48.40] But Shady's cute, Shady knew Shady's dimples would help
[01:51.40] Make ladies swoon, baby (Ooh, baby!) — Look at my sales!
[01:54.65] Let's do the math: if I was black, I would've sold half
[01:58.15] I ain't have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that
[02:01.15] But I could rap, so fuck school, I'm too cool to go back
[02:04.40] Give me the mic! Show me where the fuckin' studio's at
[02:07.40] When I was underground, no one gave a fuck I was white
[02:10.65] No labels wanted to sign me, almost gave up, I was like
[02:13.90] "Fuck it," until I met Dre, the only one to look past
[02:16.90] Gave me a chance and I lit a fire up under his ass
[02:20.40] Helped him get back to the top, every fan black that I got
[02:23.40] Was prob'ly his in exchange for every white fan that he's got
[02:26.90] Like damn, we just swapped: sittin' back lookin' at shit, wow
[02:29.90] I'm like my skin is it startin' to work to my benefit now? It's—
[02:33.15] White America! I could be one of your kids
[02:36.40] White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[02:39.65] White America! Erica loves my shit
[02:42.65] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get! (Yah!)
[02:46.15] White America! I could be one of your kids
[02:49.15] White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[02:52.40] White America! Erica loves my shit
[02:55.65] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[02:58.90] See, the problem is I speak to suburban kids
[03:01.90] Who otherwise would've never knew these words exist
[03:05.15] Whose moms prob'ly would've never gave two squirts of piss
[03:08.40] 'Til I created so much motherfuckin' turbulence
[03:11.65] Straight out the tube, right into your livin' rooms I came
[03:14.65] And kids flipped when they knew I was produced by Dre
[03:17.90] That's all it took, and they were instantly hooked right in
[03:21.15] And they connected with me too, because I looked like them
[03:24.15] That's why they put my lyrics up under this microscope
[03:27.40] Searchin' with a fine tooth comb, it's like this rope
[03:30.90] Waitin' to choke, tightenin' around my throat
[03:34.15] Watchin' me while I write this, like, "I don't like this note!"
[03:37.40] All I hear is: lyrics, lyrics, constant controversy
[03:39.90] Sponsors workin' 'round the clock to try to stop my concerts early
[03:42.90] Surely hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston
[03:46.65] After it bothered the fathers of daughters startin' to blossom
[03:49.90] So now I'm catchin' the flak from these activists when they raggin'
[03:53.15] Actin' like I'm the first rapper to smack a bitch or say "faggot", shit
[03:57.15] Just look at me like I'm your closest pal
[03:59.40] The poster child, the motherfuckin' spokesman now, for—
[04:03.15] White America! I could be one of your kids
[04:06.15] White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[04:09.15] White America! Erica loves my shit
[04:12.40] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get! (Yah!)
[04:15.65] White America! I could be one of your kids
[04:18.90] White America! Little Eric looks just like this
[04:22.15] White America! Erica loves my shit
[04:25.15] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[04:29.15] So to the parents of America, I am the Derringer
[04:32.65] Aimed at little Erica to attack her character
[04:35.90] The ringleader of this circus of worthless pawns
[04:39.40] Sent to lead the march right up to the steps of Congress
[04:42.90] And piss on the lawns of the White House
[04:45.40] To burn the *galf* and replace it with a Parental Advisory sticker
[04:49.90] To spit liquor in the faces of this democracy of hypocrisy
[04:54.40] Fuck you, Ms. Cheney! Fuck you, Tipper Gore!
[04:58.90] Fuck you with the freest of speech this Divided States of Embarrassment will allow me to have! Fuck you!
[05:19.15] Ha ha ha, I'm just playin', America
[05:22.90] You know I love you
