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[00:00.000]The Proud (Album Version|Explicit) - Talib Kweli
[00:08.453]Stand tall or don't stand at all c'mon
[00:10.768]Uhh yeah
[00:14.451]Break it down
[00:18.946]What we do
[00:20.756]We survive it's more than pride
[00:24.819]We stay alive ready to ride
[00:30.512]One two one two yo
[00:33.263]Aight put it down yo
[00:41.388]June 21 2001
[00:42.449]Timothy McVeigh is executed
[00:45.387]And the country breathe a sigh of relief
[00:48.450]Goodness prevails over evil it seems
[00:52.139]Somehow when he's gone we feel safer
[00:58.233]Little do we know
[01:00.236]Today the paper say Timothy McVeigh's in hell
[01:02.546]So everything's okay and all must be well
[01:05.048]I remember Oklahoma when they
[01:06.672]Put out the blaze
[01:07.671]And put Islamic terrorist bombing
[01:09.110]On the front page
[01:10.111]It's like saying only gays get AIDS
[01:11.798]Propaganda
[01:12.483]Like saying the problem's over
[01:13.859]When they locked that man up
[01:15.295]Wrong It's just the beginning the first inning
[01:17.920]Battle for America's soul
[01:19.422]The devil's winning
[01:20.233]The President is Bush
[01:21.171]The Vice President's a Dick
[01:22.485]So a whole lot of f**kin is what we gon' get
[01:24.860]They don't wanna raise the babies
[01:26.296]So the election is fixed
[01:27.298]That's why we don't be f**kin with politics
[01:28.797]They bet on that parents fought
[01:30.108]And got wet for that
[01:31.235]Hosed down bit by dogs
[01:32.423]And got blacks into house arrest for that
[01:34.109]It's all good except for that - we still poor
[01:37.054]Money power and respect
[01:39.014]Is what we kill for for real
[01:41.141]It's more than pride
[01:43.202]We stay alive ready to ride
[01:48.078]We survive it's more than pride
[01:53.242]We stay alive ready to ride
[01:59.872]August 4 2001
[02:01.055]A drunken police officer mows down
[02:03.557]An entire family in Brooklyn
[02:06.685]The judge lets him go with no bail
[02:09.180]It reminds us of just how worthless
[02:10.870]Our lives are to the justice system
[02:12.620]I struggle to explain the situation
[02:15.058]To my son it's hard
[02:18.933]Niggaz with knowledge is more dangerous
[02:20.435]Than than niggaz with guns
[02:21.375]They make the guns easy to get
[02:22.689]And try to keep niggaz dumb
[02:23.688]Target the gangs and graffiti with the Prop 21
[02:25.626]I already know the deal
[02:26.874]But what the f**k do I tell my son
[02:28.939]I want him livin right livin good
[02:30.562]Respect the rules
[02:31.376]He's five years old and he still
[02:32.282]Thinkin cops is cool
[02:33.469]How do I break the news that
[02:34.798]When he gets some size
[02:35.869]He'll be percieved as a threat
[02:37.495]Or see the fear in they eyes
[02:39.669]It's in they job description to terminate the threat
[02:41.234]So 41 shots to the body is what he can expect
[02:43.109]The precedent is set
[02:43.859]Don't matter if he follow the law
[02:45.047]I know I'll give my son pride
[02:46.359]And make him swallow it all (damn )
[02:48.109]F**k the pigs I think the pigs killed Big and 'Pac too
[02:50.733]If they didn't they know who did they got to
[02:53.441]Who they serve and protect ni**a not you
[02:55.373]Cops shot off of ten G's but they got glocks too
[02:57.769]Let you protect yourself or better yet respect yourself
[02:59.968]Straight into the hospital is
[03:01.343]Where you gotta check yourself
[03:02.592]They be gettin tips from snitches and rival crews
[03:04.852]Doin them favors so they workin for the ** dealers too
[03:07.483]Just business enforcers with hate in they holsters
[03:09.547]Shoot you in the back won't face you like a soldier
[03:12.798]Kurt Loder asked me what I say to a dead cop's wife
[03:15.112]Cops kill my people everyday that's life
[03:17.354]It's more than pride
[03:21.105]We stay alive ready to ride
[03:26.730]We survive it's more than pride
[03:29.105]We stay alive ready to ride
[03:33.919]September 11 2001
[03:35.044]Terrorists attack the Pentagon
[03:38.811]And the World Trade Center
[03:40.686]Kills thousand and permanently scars
[03:42.317]America's false sense of security
[03:43.944]We see the best examples
[03:46.503]Of humanity in the face of the worst
[03:48.380]As fire fighters police officers
[03:49.818]Rescue workers
[03:50.505]And volunteers of all sorts fight to save lives
[03:54.192]The world will never be the same again
[03:55.883]My heart go out to everybody at Ground Zero
[03:58.631]Red black yellow white and brown heroes
[04:01.535]It's more complicated than black and white
[04:04.287]To give your own life is the greatest sacrifice
[04:06.122]But it's hard for me to walk down the block
[04:09.184]Seeing rats and roaches
[04:11.626]Crack viles and 40 ounce posters
[04:13.092]People broken down from years of oppression
[04:14.905]Become patriots when they way of life is threatened
[04:16.718]It's a hard conversation to have
[04:17.905]We lost kids moms and dads
[04:19.778]People ready to fight for the flag
[04:21.217]Damn when did sh*t get this bad
[04:23.404]America kill the innocent too
[04:25.593]The cycle of violence is sad
[04:26.657]Damn Welcome to the world we here
[04:26.912]We've been at war for years
[04:29.127]But it's much more clear (yeah)
[04:30.441]We got to face what lies ahead
[04:32.127]Fight for our truth and freedom and
[04:34.378]Ride for the dead