I got the blood of America coursing through my veins
Imma show you what it’s like when your family tree hangs
I got the history of the country in my blood
I spilled it and it drank it and filled itself up
I'm the blood of America lapping on the shores
I'm a mix of everything and yet I am still pure
And I listen to my ancestors as they are speaking
Cuz this is what it’s like to be Black, white and Puerto Rican

Across the Bering Strait Imma give it straight to ya
Following the big game, and I’m spreading all thru the
New continents, including the equator and below,
In the Caribbean I became the Taino
I’m the Arawak tribe cultivating the cassava
I’m the life in the life fished out of the agua
I’m the warrior Borinquen steady warding of a Carib
I’m a beautiful culture anything but barbaric
I'm Columbus set sail with vision and a dream
Guided some by the stars but mostly by my greed
I am slaying and enslaving, I am raping I am raped,
I’m the precious few in the mountains who escaped
I say that it's for Jesus but all of that's a lie
I'm looking for the gold, for the silks, for the spice
I'm looking to take what was already mine
I am the war that is coursing through my bloodline

I got the blood of America coursing through my veins
Imma show you what it’s like when your family tree hangs
I got the history of the country in my blood
I spilled it and it drank it and filled itself up
I'm the blood of America lapping on the shores
I'm a mix of everything and yet I am still pure
And I listen to my ancestors as they are speaking
Cuz this is what it’s like to be Black, white and Puerto Rican

I'm the rhythm I'm the drum, first man first music
I'm the griot and the story that is passed down through it
I’m an African civilization with true freedom
That is until we see enough of all those Europeans
I am captured, I am marched, packed into a slave ship
I am tortured I am murdered if I try escaping
I am tossed into the ocean I am riddled with disease
If I survive the passage they will steal my family
I am sold and bought on an auction block
I built an empire and didn't see a drop
I Crack the whip on your body but your soul's I am breaking
I'm a slave most of the history of this nation
I fought for both sides in a war they called civil
I gained my freedom (from myself) but that was superficial
I’m the Jim Crow laws that came on charging
I’m the line from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

I got the blood of America coursing through my veins
Imma show you what it’s like when your family tree hangs
I got the history of the country in my blood
I spilled it and it drank it and filled itself up
I'm the blood of America lapping on the shores
I'm a mix of everything and yet I am still pure
And I listen to my ancestors as they are speaking
Cuz this is what it’s like to be Black, white and Puerto Rican