Artist: Eminem
Album: Eminem Show
Song: White America
(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 X2
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 X2
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 X2
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...
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