Streets, The - Two Nations Lyrics

He made this for P Diddy and P Diddy heard it and got offended lol He said no I don't want it.

best song ever m8 grats <3
i listen it every day :)

Are any Americans actually listening to this?

'It was honour that night though'Wish i'd have been at that Nas gig

I can't believe biggie was gonna be on this

That's crazy I thought it was a beat that was going to be used as a biggie tribute.

That's crazy I thought it was a beat that was going to be used as a biggie tribute.

I love his poem

I would  prefure to be shot than stabbed. Love you Mike, even you DOT shit, but fuck your politics bro. USA bitches. Come visit and I'll take to to the range, flip the switch drinks some beers and waste some bullets.

This isn't politics. Fuck hiphop.

USA A country founded by immigrants, and a country that hates immigrants.

Aint we some stinkers.

That Trickster ILLEGAL immigrants.....

p.s. Y'all dropped the ball on the second person plural.

You were among those who invented English, Mike? Just how old are you? :) 

Isn't that something that was on the Simpsons all Americans take literally?

Self awareness isn't a talent people have m8 haha!

lol me too some funny people on here man

it doesnt offend me at all that was the whole point i obviously failed to get that across

or the dentist...I'm sorry I couldn't resist.

Fuck dumbass gayass britain

U tell 'em chandlo

Tbh all music apart form rock is just amazing :)

prejadism

RIGHT although the crooked teeth thing is a steriotype that dates back to ww2 and has faaded in relevence really all steriotypes are dumb because theirs no such thing as an american or english steriotype both nations are so vast and incompass so many life styles that to keep returning to the posh londoner and the fat racist southerner is really more dissmisive than offensive

mike skinner. love u mate, but man u could have made a less strung out sounding bridge between our two countries bro

cheeky bloke

I was referring to the continent.

Africa is a continent not a country. Whilst rap gained popularity and grew into what it is today in NY in the 70s, it originated from Africa.

I love British music. Syd Barrett, radiohead, mike skinner, the beatles on and on. I was getting too uptight here. But I do think any rap historian will tell you that rap was born in the Bronx in the late 70's coming directly out of disco, regge, blues and jazz. These art forms melded together in the US. While native African music has heavy drum beats I don't think you can say Africa is the birth country of rap/hip-hop. Rap is influenced by African American slavery.

It's easy to say its just a joke. Its like, "your girl is ugly" oh come on be good sport. We kill are most talented people, we draw lots of attention to ourselves, some of us are fags, yeah ha ha ha ha yeah so funny. I know you wouldn't care if we said you ripped off our art form or have crooked teeth or are as dumb as we are because its all in good fun. What I just said was funny not offensive, right?

You also gave us Leo Sayer, we let him live though.

I'm 45th generation Roman.

lol, prejadism and over analising is coming into play. Its a joke song but i think people that make a bigger thing then it is on this are just trying to feed their own ego's of superority. If you're happy with yourself then any comments on here wouldn't bother you and you would just laugh at them, they do bother you then it's yourself you need to look at :D

"uk and the usa" *

@uk1duffy I totally agree except the "fuck the and usa" bit but its all good

@MooseheadDrinker ive been to fucking america, the size of you people is ridiculous. the kinda fat cunts you see maybe 3 times a year here you see every day in america. by the way british teeth arnt even that bad, only the really posh guys tend to have shit teeth

love these stupid comments im british bu love the usa u guys have the right ideas :)

@RATE1928 Not only do you have a huge obesity problem, you also have some of the worst teeth i have ever seen.

@AceH20Polo Good on you, sir :)

@MooseheadDrinker NO AS MUCH AS YOU

@GeorgeBush939 the uk is the 51st state?
that might be the single most insulting thing i have ever read on youtube.....you are apart of us...not the other way around

The U.K. is the 51st state of the U.S. All HAIL the queen. You kids have Mike and that's pretty awesome.

@sirsquiggly it`s called "spitting" in England , not hip-hop or rap.

@sirsquiggly Its more of an ironic joke than a serious diss on you guys, and he said he loved Biggie so its not as if he takes away any credit. Its basically about how Britain looks very small next to America, but we just joke about random shit like the language and don't hold any real bitterness like a few Americans think we all do. also sayin its a shame a bunch of crazy bastards have cut short the lives of some of your best talent.

"its no biggie we got no cash and no wonder.. we gave you ppl like john lennon.. even though you shot him aswell" LMAO!!! too good!

England borrowed and changed just as much of a language as the U.S. has... It's just been a longer time. So, no one cares.

@burger137 hip-hop. i understand the streets are also considered garage and all that, but he's still rapping/mc-ing.

We know it's a good song when it provokes so much thought and debate on YouTube, yanks and Brits can agree on that at least?

every country has its shitty aspects and good aspects, quit generalizing. Oh, and y'all might have invented the language but we invented the genre.

@pantsForPaco is that why the world heavy weight boxing champion is british?

@TKMSeznam12 you mean 'football' :)

@batedboy hey at least we kicked your arse at rugby last week :)

Does my bomb look big in this bag! - RIP Brazilian dude!

I'm proud cos we gave you people like John Lennon... even though you shot him as well!! Jokes!

@Failovic you brits have a problem with obesity as well

usa > uk and i'm not even american

USA is in better shape than the UK.

@TKMSeznam12 Thank you.

@TheFragglesrocked yeah men from london are more cold than anywhere else in the country. i'm from birmingham and there's a big difference in attitudes

@TKMSeznam12 I don't believe you. I don't have evidence proving otherwise, but it sounds like you don't have any either. I also find it hard to believe that getting rid of the U's was a middle finger to Britain. I think that was covered by declaring independence and killing thousands of their troops. But I guess I could be wrong...

@TheFragglesrocked what part of the UK did you go to??

@benjimingest6 It's a modified version.

@meldamo Persians who moved?? do english people look anything like persians??

@XxxRowan90 why?

@meldamo that is awful, siiimpily awful

@mazarellalovesyou we're not skipping the u - we just don't spell it that way. Perhaps you didn't notice we have our own language.

@mazarellalovesyou
I'm in the U.S. and I don't even pretend to try to defend what we've done to it. On papers I do put the 'u' in 'favourite' and 'colour' and such. it confuses people a bit, and I've been marked down for it by teachers, but I keep doing it.

@mazarellalovesyou Actually mate, England English took on all that, tryin to be like the frogs. It WAS trendy once. I know, hard to believe.

@TDZIOBA And europeans are just persians who moved...

Oh dam, im sorry i thought that seeing as i was talking about the indians that were in america before us europeans, i thought you would of maybe just managed to work out that i was talking about 'Native american indians, i didnt think anyone would be so well stupid not to realise, And yeah i kinda wrote an essay on the Native indians and all that so daaaaaaam your kinda looking like a fool right now yank

if all of america was spanish they would all be tanned, mostly ther white so most came from more english place...

It's THE Streets.. THE.. Not Streets.

I'm from Manchester and to me this is not overly brummie but you can still tell that he is from Birmingham from his accent.

you all need to calm down, i'm English, but all these angry English boys on here are just fools. this song isn't trying to say that America is just a big twat, it's just saying the two countries are different

there is no typical english accent, just a sterotypical english accent. Mike Skinner is from Birmingham, that is a typical brummie accent.

Ima go bleech my wig and polish my musket, HOWS YOUR MACCY D'S M8?

hahahaha bloody brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im going to go and chuckle over this with tea and scones with the fellows at the croquet club! p.s thought i might join in with ya seem as we are living up to our stereotypes ;)

@yourcommentsuck The internet was invented by a Scot living in Switzerland...

nobody cares

They are referred to as Indians in many books. In history books that talk about the era the modern Indians are typically referred to as the East Indians.
E.g. Hugh Brogan's 'The Penguin history of the USA' (I don't know that by heart, lol, I have it in front of me atm).
Bitch, don't whine about getting trolled, Ausfag.

More like: America? Bless... they're trying to forge a national identity out of disaffected European settlers and a vacant landscape with many resources but no history.

Teetering on the edge of a far right view... But good song

lol - gave u Lennon, you shot him as well - sigh

Lol nice one man, GO UK ENGLISH LOL. By the way guys this guy singing speaks with such a shit accent, this is not typical Eglish accent lol

COMING FROM UK, GOD BLESS UK,USA,AUSTRALIA AND ALL THE OTHER ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES

fuck off and die

'Two nations divided
By a common language
And about two hundred years of new songs and dances
But the difference is language
Or just the bits you got wrong
'Cause we were the ones who invented the language'

I cant believe how ignorant Americans are, If it wasn't for Europeans then Americans would be Indians. How can you be so proud to be from a continent you don't even come from. Unless you are an indians then you americans are just europeans who 'hopped across the pond'. Think about it.

fuck off im from england so yer english is from england, and australia is ok but you are all convicts that we sent over when our prisons got full!!
lol

no i am not going to say that Australia is the best country and i only missed out on the i.

ok i have tto agree with you on every thing but the Australa is the best country bit.
adding that bit kinda ruined your point.

i think you mean germanic dialect.
english as a language is an amalgamation of germanic, latin, norse, and celtic. the west germanic language has it;s roots in old frisian, so saying english is german is a fairly miopic view.

this tunes so funny man, skinner's got some raw talent for beats.
why r people takin it so serious in the comments? he said he was jokin bre chill!

Mexican is commonly seen as an ethnicity today, and it is classified as a Hispanic ethnicity. That means that it is traced back to the Iberian penninsula. Now I don't know what comment you were responding to and I looked for it and couldn't find it, but there was not a "Mexican" ethnic group untill the arrival of Spanish culture. It would make more sense to claim there was such a thing as an Anglo Saxon ethnic group before Saxons arrived in Britain. By definition that is impossible

Your previous point still stands? So you admit a complete contradiction to what you said before but still claim that your "point still stands" in some unimaginable way?

CUZ YOUR FOKED UP COUNTRY KILLS ALL GREAT ARTIST!
Biggie
2pac
jon lennon

The funny thing is that you are speaking of Aztecs as if it makes you particularly educated or informed to know that they existed. When you give such general or basic information on a subject as a basis for a point in a patronizing way where you suggest that you are educating someone we can have real low expectations for the substance of your point. And sure enough you didn't fail. Do you know what a Mestizo is? If you don't then look it up and re-read this comment of yours.

its not pronounced different, simply more than one way to spell it. As with many words.

wack ,.,., me off , kill , smash , smach on

suck it.

well strictley speaking the line they got the language wrong is inacurate because we share the same language because america was once part of the british empire hundreds of years ago culture as change the odd word but since then culture changed the language in england to

It's just a song. He says it's a joke. Can't believe people actually argue - ON YOUTUBE about 'what we did!' Who's the we? People before you did stuff like pillage and murder to overtake settlements. Races where enslaved to 'better' economy, and currently we are ALL enslaved by a system of residual debt we live in. Why would anyone want be any part that? Because 'thats the way the world works?'. Let's get it straight - we are one world, one species, & even deeper, one consiousness. Overstand.

I like.

I'm American, and I don't really give a fuck about any country. Also, not just Americans, pretty much 95% of the people on this planet are goddamn retarded.

Potentially, but they only joined in because they didn't like England either. Either way it was over 200 years ago, so really we can't say much about what would or wouldn't have happened. And if that's the case, steven, pretty much everyone in the world can be traced to Africa, so we're all Africans. I think everyone in this discussion is forgetting the fact that 85%, or probably more, of the American population are retarded and only care about themselves.

you're a fucktard, I was mocking douchemonger scruds as a "historian." and hardly, America the greatest nation alive/ever? Yeah, if you consider how utterly retarded pop culture is...how narrow minded the boomers are... how ignorant the middle class is... how shitty the education is..... then maybe.. maybe.. America just barely makes it into the top 12. As far as freedom, America #1... Where else can you succeed while being a fucking idiot but America? And no, definitely not one nation.

lol europeans travelled to america and some of them stayed and inbreeded and some of them mated with the natives to make mexicans so for a pro historian you dnt know much P.s england and americans are 1 nation thats why we are allies i like americans just not the ones who think they are the greatest nation alive

The Russians were only so "responsible" for victory because they retreated into the homeland and let a retarded military strategist follow...in winter.