Red Nation – English Lyrics

• By: Game, Lil Wayne

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Throw your motherfucking Cincinnati hats in the sky

Nigga don't ask why

Red laces in and out of them Air Max '95's

I walk on the moon, flow hotter than June

Any nigga want drama, I kick up a sand dune

Peace to my man 'Tune for giving his man room

Now we hittin' switches to the Spring Break, Cancun

Get it, nah, forget it, SuWoo I live it

Made the letter B more famous than a Red Sox fitted

But that was suicide, I don't live in Judah's eyes

Half of these rappers weren't trappin' when I was choppin' the do or die

Suge had me in, I went Puffy like Zab Judah eye

Dre called, told my baby momma, "Won't you decide"

She chose Doc, first day I pulled dude aside

Like its Aftermath for life and all I do is ride

Before I turn on 'em, I kill Satan

And stick my red flag in the ground, it's Red Nation, uh

Now blood the fuck-up

Every day's a gamble motherfucker, tough luck

And we gon' fuck the World 'til that bitch bust nuts

I can't tell you what's good, but I can tell you what's what

And that's B's up, hoes down

Lookin' in the mirror, I'm nowhere to be found

Blood, I'm a dog, call me a blood hound

Throwin' blood in the air, leave blood on the ground

Niggas'll trade they soul to be Drake or J. Cole

Live and die for this shit, word to Tupac Shakur's halo

One blood, plural, nigga I'm spendin' Euro's

Ferrari got an ice cream paint job, Dorrough

I'm up out the hood, where they pull guns on you like

Come up out ya hood, it ain't never all good

We roll up in backwoods, nigga get to actin' stupid

Get thrown in the back woods

Los Angeles, home of the scandalous

Pimp, hoes and gamblers

98 degree's on Christmas

Nigga we rollin' cannabis

Swisha sweet ain't it, I told her I'm Charles Louboutin

The bitch fainted, pulled her panties down, stain it

That's my Chi-lingo, yeah, I'm bilingual

Ball by myself, nigga, Ochocinco

Dancing with the stars, bullets and fast cars

And everybody bleed out here, word to God, uh

Now blood the fuck-up

Every day's a gamble motherfucker, tough luck

And we gon' fuck the World 'til that bitch bust nuts

I can't tell you what's good, but I can tell you what's what

And that's B's up, hoes down

Lookin' in the mirror, I'm nowhere to be found

Blood, I'm a dog, call me a blood hound

Throwin' blood in the air, leave blood on the ground

Russia got a Red Flag, US got Red Stripes

Last train to Paris, 'round the World in these red Nikes

Che Guevara of the New Era, test me

Louisville slugger, Yogi Berra in my new era

Got that natty on, tighter than a magnum

Walk in the club saggin' with a .38 magnum

Red Ralph Laurens, the double R sittin' on a hill like Lauren

Her and the car foreign

Got my red Dre Beats on, tryna put my peeps on

And I keep it hood like this Phantom is a Nissan

Where my nigga Jim Jones at?

Roll up the weed son, so many bloods in Compton had to get a NYC song

And while I'm out here, I might as well go shopping

And put this new bad bitch, I got her some red bottoms

And all these hatin' ass niggas want me dead

'Cause I'm Malcolm X before he turned Muslim, red, uh

Now blood the fuck-up

Every day's a gamble motherfucker, tough luck

And we gon' fuck the World 'til that bitch bust nuts

I can't tell you what's good, but I can tell you what's what

And that's B's up, hoes down

Lookin' in the mirror, I'm nowhere to be found

Blood, I'm a dog, call me a blood hound

Throwin' blood in the air, leave blood on the ground

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Key Grammar Structures

• Throw your motherfucking Cincinnati hats in the sky, nigga don't ask why

  ➔ Imperative Mood

  ➔ The sentence uses the imperative mood with 'throw' and 'don't ask' to give direct commands.

• I walk on the moon, flow hotter than June

  ➔ Simile

  ➔ The phrase 'flow hotter than June' uses a simile to compare the speaker's flow to the heat of June.

• Any nigga want drama, I kick up a sand dune

  ➔ Conditional Sentence (Type 1)

  ➔ This is a Type 1 conditional sentence, indicating a likely result if the condition is met: 'If any nigga wants drama, I kick up a sand dune.'

• Made the letter B more famous than a Red Sox fitted

  ➔ Comparative Adjective

  ➔ The phrase uses the comparative adjective 'more famous' to compare the fame of the letter B to that of a Red Sox fitted hat.

• Half of these rappers weren't trappin' when I was choppin' the do or die

  ➔ Past Continuous vs. Past Simple

  ➔ The sentence contrasts the past continuous 'weren't trappin'' with the past simple 'was choppin'', showing simultaneous actions in the past.

• And we gon' fuck the World 'til that bitch bust nuts

  ➔ Slang and Contraction

  ➔ The sentence uses slang ('bitch', 'bust nuts') and a contraction ('gon') to convey a casual and aggressive tone.

• Lookin' in the mirror, I'm nowhere to be found

  ➔ Present Continuous with 'be'

  ➔ The sentence uses the present continuous with 'be' to describe an action happening now: 'I'm nowhere to be found.'

• Got my red Dre Beats on, tryna put my peeps on

  ➔ Gerund

  ➔ The phrase 'tryna put my peeps on' uses a gerund ('put') to describe an action as a noun.