Birth Of A Nation (Reks)-East Coast Avengers

[00:00.80]Intro + hook: Reks [00:01.62]This is the birth of a nation [00:05.85]Native, Caucasian, American [00:08.48]African slaves and immigrants settle in [00:11.09]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens [00:13.65]Beginning and end, birth of a nation [00:16.18]Native, Caucasian, American [00:19.00]African slaves and immigrants settle in [00:21.69]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens [00:24.68]Beginning and end, birth of a nation [00:26.04]What began in the land for the native [00:28.61]Was followed by the basis of ? made supreme through enslavement [00:31.80]I can see the slave ships, with my forefathers' faces [00:35.15]A predestiny beyond racist [00:37.16]Misinterpretations, show victory for our nation [00:40.89]A conquering of savage Indian, Negroid simpleton [00:43.11]Greatest crimes where witnessed then, but no loss for men [00:46.24]Minus the Anglo-Saxon fraction [00:48.41]Skin pigmentation placed us in another class than white saddlers who embellished their past, so laugh [00:53.41]The native's history was erased quick, therefore a face became faceless [00:57.62]Dare I say a facelift was brought ? nostrils, bigger lips and eyes [01:01.77]Something disguised as inhumane to brutalize [01:04.71]Taught to love the bluish eyes, less you and I [01:06.85]Take their statements so let's debate them [01:09.23]The birth of a nation [01:10.29]Native, Caucasian, American [01:12.73]African slaves and immigrants settle in [01:15.62]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens [01:18.41]Beginning and end, birth of a nation [01:21.16]Native, Caucasian, American [01:23.89]African slaves and immigrants settle in [01:26.63]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens [01:28.94]Beginning and end, birth of a nation [01:31.79]No longer natives they immigrated from all world places [01:34.83]To make a broad new world, their own oasis [01:37.33]A melting pot, placed in contrast with colonial ? [01:40.28]English citizens wake up [01:42.75]To new arrivals, been on survival [01:44.10]Being religious or political [01:46.06]Fleeing from prosecution is critical [01:48.25]Told that an economy grows beyond your shores, then of course [01:50.73]Do what it take to get across [01:53.27]The vast ocean, last notion [01:54.98]Of being lost in a land that ain't rightfully yours [01:57.78]A people divided become, unified into one [02:00.53]From Ellis Island to slums and ghettos marching to the beat of a drum [02:03.52]Declare independence to some, freedom to all [02:06.33]Come in the form of the speech of the gun, assemble young [02:09.41]Tell 'em revolutionists come, have you been waiting [02:11.92]Take a journey with Reks, birth of a nation [02:15.73]Native, Caucasian, American [02:18.10]African slaves and immigrants settle in [02:20.39]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens [02:23.18]Beginning and end, birth of a nation [02:25.57]Native, Caucasian, American [02:28.39]African slaves and immigrants settle in [02:31.13]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens [02:33.80]Beginning and end, birth of a nation [02:36.28]Modern times tell me we progress, from destiny manifest [02:39.51]Thirteen colonies expand to the west [02:41.51]Fifty states now govern the universe, Big Brother request [02:44.75]Little Brother show our power, respect [02:47.11]Michelle stressed, for the first time she prolly U.S [02:49.26]They tend to guess, we can and we did I guess [02:52.30]But ?, Martin's dream deferred [02:54.57] w on crash scene I heard [02:55.67]Mother of a movement urge [02:57.61] All my ? think equal to search, free people emerge [03:00.90]From degrade depression submerge [03:03.11]Supreme law found written in words, proclamation of revolt [03:06.32]No longer to a king I serve [03:08.64]This day and age do we really deserve, what was written in blood [03:11.75]Evil look good, all ? preserved [03:14.07]Playing crash through the tower after tower tumble down to the basement [03:17.53]Birth of a nation [03:20.38]Native, Caucasian, American [03:22.73]African slaves and immigrants settle in [03:25.01]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens [03:27.72]Beginning and end, birth of a nation [03:30.41]Native, Caucasian, American [03:33.01]African slaves and immigrants settle in [03:35.78]Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens [03:38.55]Beginning and end, birth of a nation [03:41.73]Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take control.*