1.
Intro (Words of Malcolm) (1:24) real
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Taken from the speech
"The Ballot or the Bullet" by Malcolm X on First Amendment
Records (recorded live in Detroit, MI on April 12, 1964) - Excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
(Chapter 19:1965) read by Wyze
2. New World Order (5:34)
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Darkness no longer,a child is born.
Mother shed tears of joy as baby test its lungs.
But daddy's not there where he ought to be,
somewhere in Georgia, scheming and shooting craps on his knees.
Another victim born, out here in the hood
And based on statistics, it really ain't all good.
Welfare takes the tab,
and daddy can't sign.
And it cant' be seen
the family becomes a crime.
The hunt is on, and brother you're the prey.
Serving time in jail,
it just ain't the way.
I'm living so hard baby, that my hair is gray.
We got to make a change,
it's a brand new day.
A new world order
A brand new day
(It's a new day)
A change of mind
for the human race
(It's a new day)
A new world order
A brand new day
(It's a new day)
A change of mind
for the human race
Operation in flux, and it's on the way
we just marched a million plus the other day
LOOK!
We all witnessed the sweat
rolling down Ms. Liberty's head.
She knows the sleeping giant
is no longer sleeping dead.
Oh what a fulfillment of prophesy.
Let us teach the children
freedom's never been free.
It's ok to cry.
Go ahead and cry.
Cause Jesus wept,
but hope and faith he kept.
It's a new day.
A new world order
A brand new day
(It's a new day)
A change of mind
for the human race
(It's a new day)
A new world order
A brand new day
(It's a new day)
A change of mind
for the human race
The die has been cast
and there's no need to fear,
cause people the answer to your prayers are here.
Sister Mary don't you weep.
Tell mother not to moan.
We need the love,
and daddy's coming home.
There's no need to worry
the times dictate a plan.
Mother Earth's giving birth to a brand new man.
Sister I know you're misunderstood,
but hold on to your man.
Cause the future looks good.
It's a new day.
A new world order
A brand new day
(It's a new day)
A change of mind
for the human race
(It's a new day)
A new world order
A brand new day
(It's a new day)
A change of mind
for the human race
Beware of the last and false prophecies.
We are many with eyes,
but don't really see.
We must be merciful my friend
to obtain the same.
So if you break the chain,
don't pass the blame.
We should say unto all,
and I'll say it again,
it's not just to win,
shake a hand, make a friend.
We who are pure at heart, somehow might see,
there's still light in the world,
come rejoice with me.
It's a new day.
A new world order
A brand new day
(It's a new day)
A change of mind
for the human race
(It's a new day)
A new world order
A brand new day
(It's a new day)
A change of mind
for the human race
It's a new day
It's a new day
It's a new day
It's a new day
3.
G.O.D. (Gaining One's
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Common Sense w/ Cee Lo (1997)
To be 25.
You know,
it's time to survive in the world.
About to have a little boy, or baby girl.
Who knows?
Anyway, just when you start getting a little age and experience
till you start thinking about stuff,
try to make the right moves.
So bust it out this is what I was thinking...
Yo
The education of the Lon, Lonnie Lynn,
began, began with time.
Being, my blood line is one with the divine
in time brother, you will discover the light.
Some say that God is black
and the devil's white,
well the devil is wrong
and God is what's right.
I fight, with myself in the ring of doubt and fear.
The rain ain't gone but I can still see clear.
As a child, given religion with no answer to why,
just told, "believe in Jesus" cause for me he did die.
Curiosity killed, the catechism
understanding and wisdom
became the rhythm that I played to.
And, became a slave to master self.
A rich man is one with knowledge, happiness, and his health.
My mind has dealt with the books of Zen, Tao, the lessons,
Qu'ran and the Bible,
to me they all vital.
And got truth within 'em.
Gotta read them boys,
you just can't skim em.
Different branches of the belief,
from one root that stem em,
but people of the venom try to trim em,
and use religion as an emblem.
When it should be,
a natural way of life.
Who am I or they to say to whom you pray ain't right?
If that's what got you doing right and got you this far,
whether you say "in Jesus name" or "hum due Allah".
Long as you know there's a being that's supreme to you
you let that show towards others and the things you do.
Cause when the trumpets blowing, 24 elders surround the throne,
only a hundred forty-four thousand gonna get home.
Only a hundred forty-four thousand gonna get home.
Only a hundred forty-four thousand gonna get it baby.
I've lived and I've learned
I have taken and I've earned
I have laughed, I've cried
I have failed and I have tried.
Sunshine, pouring rain
I found joy through all my pain
I just want to be happy with being me
Let me voice my concern
So many of my fellow brothers have given themselves a title that their actions didn't earn.
Our ignorance is in the same breath as our innocence.
Subconsciously, seeking to find an impressionable mind to convince.
I finally come to the realization why black people in the worst place...
It's hard to correct yourself when you don't know who you are in the first place.
So I try to find a clue in you
but evidently, white folk know more black history than we do.
Why we being lied to I ain't know
Our history was purposefully hidden.
Damn, something in me want to know who I am.
So I, begin my search,
my journey started in church
gave my heart ache relief
when I started to understand belief.
Hustling was like a gift
spent my share time on the streets.
Taught me survival from this evil
I'm just gonna have to deal with.
And I felt like a fool, butI tried to learn in school,
it almost seemed like rehearsal
when on the science and math universal.
Taken elders advise, read the bible and the Qu'ran,
searched scrolls from the Hebrew Israelites,
hold on this ain't right, Jesus wasn't white.
Some leaders are granted with insight,
it's all in a plan but
it took me some time to overstand
you still created with the imperfection of man
So, with following I disagree.
By no means have I forgotten or forgiven what's been done to me.
But I do know the devil ain't no white man
The devil is a spiritual mind
it's color blind, and there's evil white folks and even in the end you'll surely find,
there's no positivity without negativity.
But one side you're gonna have to choose
And each chance to speak I refuse to misuse.
So how can you call yourself God when you let a worldly possession
become an obsession
and the way write your rhyme and can't follow your lesson.
If a seed is sown
you make sure it's known
you make sure it's grown.
If you God then save your own don't mentally enslave your own.
If you God than save your own don't mentally enslave your own.
If you God then save your own don't mentally enslave your own.
Well I've lived and I've learned
I have taken and I've earned
I have laughed, I've cried
I have failed and I have tried.
Sunshine, pouring rain
I found joy through my pain
I just want to be happy with being me
4. We're a Winner
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The Impressions (ABC,
1968)
We're a winner
and never let anybody say,
"boy you can't make it"
Cause a feeble mind is in your way
No more tears do we cry
And we have finally dried our eyes
And we're moving on up
Lord have mercy, we're moving on up
We're living proof, and all's alert
That we're too from the good black dirt
And we're a winner
And everybody knows it too
We just keep on pushing.
Like your leaders tell you to
At last that blessed day has come
And I don't care where you come from
We're all moving on up
Lord have mercy, we're moving on up
Hey hey, we're moving on up
Lord have mercy we're moving on up
I don't mind leaving here, to show the world we have no fear
Cause we're a winner
And everybody knows it too
We just keep on pushing
Like your leaders tell you to
At last that blessed day has come
And I don't care where you come from
We just gone move on up
Lord have mercy we're moving on up
We just keep on pushing
We're a winner
Lord, baby, everybody
Hey, you know we're moving on up
We're a winner
Yeah
5. It's OK (4:19)
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No Additives, No Preservatives
(All Natural Music, 1998)
It's Windy City Style
It's Windy City Style
My man Panic from the Molemen on the beat
I'ma send this one out to my man Mr. Green Weedz from the old school UNIson Crew
This is how we do Windy City Style
It's Windy City Style, now check it...
When brothers who were once real get a record deal
And poetry and prose start switching like hoes
Those who was once skilled try to go commercial
while other imbeciles, attempt to immerse you.
With fictional narratives, that ain't that imperative.
About things they never done and ways that they never live
But while I work hard to kick my nine-to-the-five
cause I never relied on kicking rhymes to survive.
When rappers start thinking about, selling units
that's when they fall victim to, stale influence.
Suckers be lying, cause they too lazy
to do for theyself, relying on true shady
schemes for wealth, and plus they got a baby,
and can't even help self, they seed or they lady.
It's crazy cause the same sucker chasing the dollar,
won't even consider the life-style of a scholar
But to escape the swallow
he sell la-la and Wallabees,
and open up his blocks twentieth beauty parlor.
He's a sucker, infatuated with America
for lucci all my children play theyself like Erica.
I lyrically box brothers, who be on the box-cutters
can't even nick, when I kick the one-two and a son
is magic, but tragic, the way you ride the johnson
like Baily on the mic I'm a dust you with the daily
See a rhyme should be designed to make a brother lose his mental,
and force hip hop to reach its fullest potential.
So dummies come simple like Langston Hughes,
I watch them kneel like Zora,
and Tom like Cruise.
It's OK
You ain't got to live a life of a thug
It's OK
you ain't got to rhyme about selling drugs
It's OK
you ain't got to fit a commercial niche
It's OK
and you ain't got to call your sister a bitch
It's OK
you ain't got to play the role of a fool
It's OK
you can be dope and still finish school
It's OK
you ain't got to glorify what's wrong
It's OK
and you ain't got to sample R&B songs
All these half-pint suckers is followers,
they can never measure up to a lit(ead)er,
they be the,
same sorry negroes, who try to convey
that it's all good,
naw brother, it's just OK.
Now on the mic like a leper I
leave people petrified
rip a rappers rep and pride,
tell em step aside.
Brothers running while we rus(sian)hin like Pushkin,
attack like a push pin
I push pens cross the paper
but D be dodging the dotted
making grants, but holding off on the handcock
getting grants, and building up a fan block
of hard core heads, who'd die to see the man rock.
So should a sucker dare step to oppose this
the crowd might stone him to death, like Mosses.
Crew'll kick a sucker smack dead in the ass crack
for trying to attack
with weak ass wise cracks.
But me I just battle back, with lyrical technique
more deadly than ass kicks, and letting the tec speak.
The Capitol, can't cap Capital's capital.
So Capital gains
and maintain a rapid flow,
of currency changing hands within the community,
and currently Polygram and Sony are suing me.
But I passed the polygraph,
these labels ain't screwing me.
D ain't polygamous,
too polemic for politics.
A sodomist's gonorrhea
will burn like Sodom and Gomora
so we ain't a whore to companies for no quarter.
Underground and independent I'm a direct descendant
Of the first pioneer
while suckers perspire fear.
Hoping that they get resigned for the next year
I stay at least a leg up on em like a papsmere
Don't even rap near
Capital D, you best to stand clear
It's OK
You ain't got to live a life of crime
It's OK
you ain't got to be a sucker to rhyme
It's OK
you ain't got to dance in your videos
It's OK
and you ain't got to chill with $2 hoes
It's OK
you ain't got to hollar out keep it real
It's OK
you can be dope and kick what you feel
It's OK
you ain't gotta wish that you was a star
It's OK
all you gotta do is be who you are
It's OK yall
6. Inner City Blues (3:02)
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Marvin Gaye (1971)
Rockets, moon shots
spend it on the have nots.
Money, we make it.
Before we see it, you take it.
Oh, make you wanna holler,
the way they do my life.
Make me wanna holler,
the way they do my life.
This ain't livin', This ain't livin'
No, no baby, this ain't livin'
No, no, no, no.
Inflation no chance
to increase finance.
Bills pile up sky high
Send that boy off to die.
Ohh, make me wanna holler,
the way they do my life.
Make me wanna holler,
the way they do my life.
Hang ups, let downs
bad breaks, set backs.
Natural fact is,
oh honey that I can't pay my, taxes.
Oh, make me wanna holler,
and throw up both my hands.
Yea, it makes me wanna holler,
and throw up both my hands.
Crime is increasing
trigger happy policing.
Panic is spreading
God knows where we're heading.
Oh, make me wanna holler
They don't understand
7. The Message (4:45)
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 (1982)
It's like a jungle sometimes
it makes me wonder how I keep from going under.
It's like a jungle sometimes
it makes me wonder how I keep from going under.
Broken glass, everywhere
people pissing on the stairs you know they just don't care.
I can't take the smell,
can't take the noise
got no money to move out
I guess I've got no choice.
Rats in the front room
roaches in the back,
junkies in the alley with the baseball bat.
I tried to get away but I couldn't get far
cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car.
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under.
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under.
Standing on the front stoop hanging out the window,
watching all the cars go by
roaring as the breezes blow.
Crazy lady living in a bag
eating out of garbage pales,
used to be a fag-hag.
Such a life to tangle
skip the life in dangle
the sickened princess seemed to lost her senses
Down at the peep show watching all the creeps
so she can tell stories to the girls back home.
She went to the city and got, so so so-ditty.
She had to get a pimp she couldn't make it on her own.
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head.
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under.
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under.
My brother's doing bad
stole my mother's TV
says she watches too much
it's just not healthy.
All My Children in the daytime
Dallas at night.
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight.
The bill collectors they ring my phone
and scare my wife when I'm not home.
Got a bum education
double-digit inflation
can't take the train to the job
there's a strike at the station.
Mean armed King Kong standing on my back
can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac.
A mid range migraine
cancer membranes
sometimes I think I'm going insane
I swear I might hijack a plane.
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head.
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under.
My son said "daddy I don't wanna go to school
cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool.
And all the kids smoke refer,
I think it'd be cheaper,
if I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper."
I dance to the beat
shuffle my feet
wear my shirt and tie and run with the creeps.
Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny,
you got have a car in this land of milk and honey.
They pushed that girl in front of the train.
Took her to the doctor sewed her arm on again
Stabbed that man right in his heart,
gave him a transplant for a brand new start.
I can't walk through the park cause it's crazy after dark.
I keep my hand on the gun cause they got me on the run.
I feel like an outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
heard em say you want some more living on a sea-saw.
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head.
Say what?
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me
wonder
how I keep from going under.
A child is born with no state of mind
blind to the ways of mankind.
God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
cause only God knows what you'll go through.
You'll grow in the ghetto living second rate
and your eyes will sing a song of deep hate.
The places you play in and where you stay
looks like one great big ally way.
You'll admire all the number book takers
thugs, pimps and pushers
and the big money makers.
Driving big cars spending $20s and $10s
and you want to grow up to be just like them.
Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers,
pick pocket paddlers, even pan handlers.
You say "I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool"
but then you wind up dropping out of high school.
Now you're unemployed,
all non void,
walking around like your pretty boy Floyd.
Turned stickup kid,
now look what you done did,
got sent up for an eight year bid.
Now your manhood is took
and you're a maytag,
spend the next two years as an undercover fag.
Being used and abused to serve like hell
til one day, you was found hung dead in a cell.
It was plain to see that your life was lost
you was cold and your body swung back and forth.
But now your eyes sing the sad sad song
of how you live so fast and die so young.
So don't push me cause I'm close to the edge,
I'm trying not to lose my head.
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under...
8. Say it Loud (4:49)
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James Brown (1969)
Work your bad self
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Look here, some people say we got a lot of malice
some say it's a lot of nerve
but I say we won't quit moving until we get what we deserve.
We've been buked
and we've been scarred
we've been treated bad, talked about
as sure as you born.
But just as sure as it takes two eyes to
make a pair,
brother we can't quit until we get our share.
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
One more time
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
I've worked on jobs,
with my feet and my hands
and all the work I did was for the other man.
But now we demand a chance, to do things for ourselves,
we're tired of beating our heads against the wall,
and working for someone else.
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Alright
Your out of sight
So tuff, you're tuff enough
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Now, we demand a chance to do things by ourselves
We're tired of beating our heads against the wall,
and working for someone else.
Look here, there's one more thing I got to say right here.
Now, now we're people,
we like the birds and the bees.
But we'd rather die on our feet,
then keep living on our knees.
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Lord, Lordy, Lordy
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Alright now, Lord
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Let me hear ya
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Now, we demand a chance to do things by ourselves
We're tired of beating our heads against the wall,
and working for someone else.
You know we're people too,
we like the birds and the bees.
But we'd rather die on our feet,
then keep living on our knees.
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Let me hear you
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Alright, out of sight
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
Say it loud
"I'm black and I'm proud"
9. Everybody Is a Star
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Sly and the Family Stone (1970)
Everybody is a star, who could reign and chase the dust away.
Everybody wants to shine.
Who will come out on a cloudy day?
Tis the sun that loves you round,
when the system tries to bring you down.
Ever had to shine at night?
You don't need darkness to do what you think is right.
Everybody is a star
I can feel it when you shine on me.
I love you for who you are.
Not the one you feel you need to be.
Ever catch a falling star?
Ain't no stopping till it's in the ground.
Everybody is a star.
One big circle moving round and round.
Shine, shine, shine, shine.
10. Redemption Song
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Bob Marley (1980)
Old pirates, yes, they rob I,
sold I to the merchant ships.
Minutes after they took I,
from the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
by the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation,
triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing,
these songs of freedom?
Cause all I ever have,
redemption songs,
redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
none but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
while we stand aside and look?
Oh, some say it's just a part of it,
we've got to fulfil the book.
Won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom?
Cause all I ever have,
redemption songs,
redemption songs,
redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
none but ourselves can free our minds.
Whoa, have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets
while we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it,
we've got to fulfill the book.
Won't you help to sing,
these songs of freedom?
Cause all I ever had,
redemption songs.
All I ever had,
redemption songs.
These songs of freedom.
Songs of freedom.
11. People Get Ready
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The Impressions (1965)
People get ready there's a train a coming
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board.
All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming
Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord.
So people get ready for the train to Jordan.
Picking up passengers coast to coast.
Faith is the key,
open the doors and board 'em.
There's hope for all
among the love the most.
There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
who would hurt all mankind, just to save his own.
Believe me now
have pity on those whose chances grow thinner.
For there's no hiding place…
against the kingdom's throne.
So, people get ready, there's a train a coming.
You don't need no baggage, you just get
on board.
All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming.
Don't need no ticket,
you just thank the Lord.
12. 10 Years Old (0:52)
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Nikki Giovanni (1976)
I paid my thirty cents
and rode by the bus window all the way down.
I felt a little funny with no hair on my head,
but my knees were shiny cause Auntie Maebell cleaned me up.
And I got off on time and walked past the lions and the guards
straight up to the desk and said,
"Dr. Doolittle stereoscope please."
And this really old woman said,
"Do you have a library card?"
And I said,
"I live here up the street."
And she said,
"Do you HAVE a library card?"
And I said,
"This is the only place I can use the stereoscope for Dr. Doolittle. Miss Washington brought us here this spring to see it."
And another lady said,
"Give the boy what he want, he wanna lead the race."
And I said,
"No ma'am, I want to see Dr. Doolittle."
And she said,
"Same thing son, same thing."
13. You Can't Blame the
Youth (4:07) real
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Peter Tosh (1973)
You can't blame the youths, you can't fool the youths.
You can't blame the youths of today, you can't fool the youths.
You teaching youths to learn in school
that the cow jumped over the moon.
Teaching youths to learn in school
that the dishes run away with spoon.
So you can't blame the youths of today, you can't fool the youths.
You can't blame the youths none at all, you can't fool the youths.
You teach the youths about Christopher Columbus
and you said he was a very great man.
You teach the youths about Marco Polo
and you said he was a very great man.
You teach the youths about the Pirate Hawkins
and you said he was a very great man.
You teach the youths about the Pirate Morgan
and you said he was a very great man.
So you can't blame the youths when they don't learn, you can't fool the youths.
You can't blame the youths of today, you can't fool the youths.
When every Christmas come, you buy the youths a pretty toy gun.
When every Christmas comes around, you buy the youths a fancy toy gun.
So you can't blame the youths when they get back, you can't fool the youths.
You can't blame the youths of today, you can't fool the youths.
Said he was a very great man,
said he was a very great man.
You teach the youths about Christopher Columbus and you said he was a very great man.
You teach the youths about Marco Polo
and you said he was a very great man.
You teach the youths about the Pirate Hawkins
and you said he was a very great man.
You teach the youths about the Pirate Morgan
and you said he was a very great man.
So you can't blame the youths, you can't fool the youths.
You can't blame the youths of today,
You can't fool the youths, yeah.
14. Global Dynamics
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Dilated Peoples (1997)
So I won't call you master
though to you I sold mine
My microphone shine
I keep your children filled in
colorful swirls and building,
but not getting caught in a kind of killing.
See paranoia will destroy ya,
and I got a lot, maybe too much for ya.
My veins are swelling, stress racks my brain,
the point where my head and neck connects is in flames.
We've come along way since the first mainframe,
and there's more going on then computer games.
We've got Inter-net,
world wide web sites
things you might get caught in,
if you don't keep your head right.
Organize and educate the youth
but most would pass up Revolution to loot.
Won't fight for your rights but you'll die to look cute.
Most would pass up Revolution to loot.
Ay yo it goes with out saying whose delivery is nicest
so I say lady Liberty represents Isis.
Execs don't think Midas'll touch science,
but messing with my mind got me on the verge of violence.
Or stopping this whole rap wrote in silence,
but going against the negative grain is my defiance.
The enlightened titan might win
I see the symbols in libraries, in schools, lodges, churches and temples.
If we fighting for peace, got me mad enough to shoot,
but most would pass up Revolution to loot.
Won't fight for your rights but you'll die to look cute,
most would pass up Revolution to loot.
Ay yo times are critical the scenery's unstable,
my peeps are like "release steam" but I seem unable.
I trip on microchips and ponder transformers
and feel the radio waves and satellites upon us.
Zoom on the Earth, zoom on California,
zoom on Los Angeles, zoom on me warning ya.
If they shoot a slug and strike me like a
understand the government and industry's the catalyst
A battle was lost but quiet war still wages
police engage us, like potential bigamists,
pages, they're limitless, cages to sentences,
till this anti-material particle finishes.
With this unworkable body, oh Lord,
Rothchild figured how to get the rich and poor.
Extra promissory notes, that most people can't afford
they'll collect your collateral, and finance your war.
Feeling like the Last Poets, this is madness,
breaking down the mean machine related to a blacklist.
Or despite this movie liz biz,
think for a minute kid, you know where Egypt is.
I work for victory though,
I'm taught by history,
and ignorance as a status symbol makes no sense to me.
I work for victory though, I'm taught by history,
and ignorance as a status symbol makes no sense to me.
Things I once thought pagan I find shocking like Raiden.
Voyage to self discovery, but no it's not maiden,
it's just that it's never been made in this form, this storm I will weather
till the weather gets warm.
I work for victory though,
I'm taught by history,
and ignorance as a status symbol makes no sense to me.
I speak especially to kids of the pyramids,
build with the symmetry, raw gives the energy.
Enemies try to throw me off the path to friendly show me.
I levitate and watch the demons gearing up below me.
If you let out a bullet, then they let out a virus,
so called paranoid,
Dilated, Iriscience
15. Big Brother (3:33)
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Stevie Wonder (1972)
Your name is big brother You say that you're watching me on the tele.
Seeing me go nowhere.
Your name is big brother,
you say that you're tired of me protesting.
Children dying everyday.
My name is nobody,
but I can't wait to see your face inside my door.
Your name is big brother,
You say that you got me all in your notebook.
Writing it down everyday.
Your name is I'll see ya,
I'll change if you vote me in as the pres.
The President of your soul.
I live in the ghetto,
you just come to visit me 'round election time.
I live in the ghetto,
someday I will move on my feet to the other side.
My name is secluded,
we live in a house the size of a matchbox.
Roaches live with us wall to wall.
You've killed all our leaders,
I don't even have to do nothin' to you.
You'll cause your own country to fall.
16. Sound of da Police
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KRS -One (1993)
Stand clear!
Don't man a-talk
You can't stand where I stand, you can't walk where I walk.
Watch out! We run New York,
Police man come, we bust him out the park.
I know this for a fact, you don't like how I act,
you claim I'm sellin' crack,
but you be doin' that!
I'd rather say "see ya"
cause I would never be ya.
Be a officer?
You WICKED overseer!
Ya hotshot, wanna get props and be a saviour?
First show a little respect, change your behavior.
Change your attitude, change your plan, There could never really be justice on stolen land.
Are you really for peace and equality?
Or when my car is hooked up, you know you wanna follow me.
Your laws are minimal,
Cause you won't even think about lookin' at the real criminal!
This has got to cease,
cause we be getting HYPED to the sound of da police!
BWOOP BWOOP
That's the sound of da police
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of the beast
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of da police
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of the beast
Now here's a likkle truth,
open up your eye,
while you're checking out the boom-bap, check the exercise...
Take the word "overseer," like a sample repeat it very quickly in accrue for example. Overseer Overseer Overseer
Overseer, Ovicer, Officer, Officer, Officer! Yeah, officer from overseer
You need a little clarity?
Check the similarity!
The overseer rode around the plantation.
The officer is off patrolling all the nation.
The overseer could stop you what you're doing.
The officer will pull you over just when he's pursuing.
The overseer had the right to get ill,
and if you fought back, the overseer had the right to kill.
The officer has the right to arrest,
And if you fight back they put a hole in your chest!
They both ride horses.
After 400 years, I've got no choices!
The police them have a little gun,
so when I'm on the streets, I walk around with a bigger one.
"BWOOP BWOOP"
I hear it all day
Just so they can run the light and be upon they way.
BWOOP BWOOP
That's the sound of da police
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of the beast
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of da police
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of the beast
Check out the message in a rough stylee.
The real criminals are the C-O-P.
You check for undercover and the one PD.
But just a mere Black man, them want check me.
Them check out me car for it shine like the sun,
but them jealous or them vexed cause them can't afford one.
Black people still slaves up til today,
but the Black police officer nah see it that way.
Him want a salary.
Him want it.
So he put on a badge and kill people for it.
My grandfather had to deal with the cops,
my great-grandfather dealt with the cops,
my great grandfather had to deal with the cops.
And then my great, great, great, great... when it's gonna stop?!
BWOOP BWOOP
That's the sound of da police
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of the beast
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of da police
BWOOP BWOOP
that's the sound of the beast
17. Johannesburg
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Gil Scott-Heron (1975)
Say what's the word?
Tell me brother, have you heard
a from Johannesburg?
Tell me what's the word now?
Sister woman have you heard
from Johannesburg?
They tell me that our brothers are over there
defying' the Man.
We don't know for sure because the news we get
is unreliable man.
Yes I hate it when the blood starts flowin',
but I'm glad to see resistance growin'.
Somebody tell me what's the word?
Tell me brother, have you heard
a from Johannesburg?
What's the word?
Tell me women have you heard,
from Johannesburg?
They tell me that our brothers over there
refuse to work in the mines.
They may not get the news but they need to know
we're on their side.
Now sometimes distance brings misunderstanding,
but deep in my heart I'm demanding.
Somebody tell me what's the word?
Tell me brother have you heard
from Johannesburg?
I know it's something happening tell me
What's the word?
Sister woman have you heard
about Johannesburg?
I know that they're strugglin' over there
they ain't gonna free me.
But we all got to be strugglin'
if we're gonna be free.
Don't you wanna be free, free?
Somebody hey
We have to come together
Tell me that our brothers are over there
refuse to work in the mines.
They, may not get the news
But they need to know,
We're on their side.
Yes, I hate it when the blood starts flowing,
But I'm glad to SEE RESISTANCE GROWING!
Somebody tell me what's the word?
JOHANNESBURG!
so what's the word?
JOHANNESBURG!
So what's the word?
JOHANNESBURG!
So what's the word?
JOHANNESBURG!
So get it from the drum
JOHANNESBURG!
So haven't you heard?
J OHANNESBURG!
You gotta get one
JOHANNESBURG!
Somebody, tell me what's happening...
18. Dear Mama
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2Pac (1995)
You are appreciated
When I was young me and my mama had beef
seventeen years old kicked out on the streets.
Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face.
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place.
Suspended from school; and scared to go home,
I was a fool with the big boys, breaking all the rules.
I shed tears with my baby sister.
Over the years
we was poorer than the other little kids.
And even though we had different daddy's, the same drama
When things went wrong we'd blame mama
I reminisce on the stress I caused,
it was hell,
hugging on my mama from a jail cell.
And who'd think in elementary,
heeey, I'd see the penitentiary, one day?
And running from the police, that's right.
Mama catch me, put a whooping to my backside.
And even though you was a crack fiend mama,
you always was a black queen, mama.
I finally understand
for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.
You always was committed.
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it.
There's no way I can pay you back,
but the plan is to show you that I understand.
You are appreciated.
Lady...
Don't cha know we love ya?
Sweet lady
Dear mama
Place no one above ya, sweet lady
You are appreciated
Don't cha know we love ya?
And dear mama
Now ain't nobody tell us it was fair,
no love from my daddy cause the coward wasn't there.
He passed away and I didn't cry,
cause my anger
wouldn't let me feel for a stranger.
They say I'm wrong and I'm heartless,
but all along I was lookin for a father he was gone.
I hung around with the thugs,
and even though they sold drugs
they showed a young brother love.
I moved out and started really hanging,
I needed money of my own so I started slanging.
I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks,
It feels good putting money in your mailbox.
I love paying rent when the rent's due.
I hope ya got the diamond necklace that I sent to you.
Cause when I was low you was there for me,
and never left me alone because you cared for me.
And I could see you coming home after work late,
you're in the kitchen trying to fix us a hot plate.
Ya just working with the scraps you was given,
and mama made miracles every
Thanksgiving.
But now the road got rough, you're alone.
You're trying to raise two bad kids on your own.
And there's no way I can pay you back,
but my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
Lady...
Don't cha know we love ya?
Sweet lady
Dear mama
Place no one above ya, sweet lady
You are appreciated
Don't cha know we love ya?
Pour out some liquor and I reminisce,
cause through the drama I can always depend on my mama.
And when it seems that I'm hopeless,
you say the words that can get me back in focus.
When I was sick as a little kid,
to keep me happy there's no limit to the things you did.
And all my childhood memories
are full of all the sweet things you did for me.
And even though I act craaazy
I gotta thank the Lord that you made me.
There are no words that can express how I feel,
You never kept a secret, always stayed real.
And I appreciate how you raised me
and all the extra love that you gave me.
I wish I could take the pain away.
If you can make it through the night there's a brighter day.
Everything will be alright if ya hold on.
It's a struggle everyday, gotta roll on.
And there's no way I can pay you back,
But my plan is to show you that I understand.
You are appreciated.
Lady...
Don't cha know we love ya?
Sweet lady
Dear mama
Place no one above ya, sweet lady
You are appreciated
Don't cha know we love ya?
19. Keep on Pushing (2:33)
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The Impressions (1964)
Keep on pushing
Keep on pushing
I got to keep on pushing,
I can't stop now
Move up a little higher
Some way or some how
Cause I've got my strength
Don't make sense, not to
Keep on pushing
Hallelu-jah
Hallelu-jah
Keep on pushing
Now maybe someday
I'll reach that higher goal
I know I can make it
With just a little bit of soul
Cause I've got my strength
and it don't make sense, not to
Keep on pushing
Now Look a look, look a look,
A look a yonder
What's that I see?
A great big stone wall
Stands there ahead of me
But I've got my pride
and I'll move the wall aside
And keep on pushing
Hallelu - jah
Hallelu - jah
Keep on pushing
Keep on pushing
What I say?
Keep on pushing
20. Success is Destiny
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The Grouch (1997)
Success is destiny
choose your own path
put in work and do it fast
use your heart and it will last.
Success is destiny
choose your own path
put in work and do it fast
use your heart.
One for five
that's like two for fifteen
I mix dreams with reality
for the love, not the salary
My mentality in a nutshell wasn't always cut well,
and so dry
I remember when I
didn't have the means for making songs
those who did were taking long
and treating me like I was faking.
Awakening every morning to the urge
yet no money to splurge with.
Until this day I don't know how I ever got over the first ridge.
Of it's thirsty kids ready to drain my hopes away
I'd scope the days would end and begin and fools would role play.
Nothing really changed except attitudes,
to those who had em I show my gratitude
they helped me
I'm not mad at you
Scattered crews in the wind led me to the point which I'm at now.
When I rip give me dap now,
I don't accept the scraps.
Success is destiny
choose your own path
put in work and do it fast
use your heart and it will last.
Success is destiny
choose your own path
put in work and do it fast
use your heart
I can't pretend that my debts aren't greater than my yearly income
but then in some ways it pays to be broke.
I stay with these folks called friends
constantly building an empire
so when in dire straits
we aspire and elevate higher
and expectations refreshed and awake
and exerting what it takes to keep from hurting
proper wording at the right time
no blurting out I stay composed,
to keep from burning out
or stray from those only saying flows.
And girls portraying hoes,
I'm not into that.
Got into rap as a child
when commended acts had a style.
When the television dial wasn't needed.
I wasn't feeling cheated
when I bought an album.
But now the uncompleted talcumed up to cover up the odor.
They be on some high performance s--- with out a motor?
I'm a voter for the world "real" to mean that
but that wish is but a dream that
never seems to come true,
it never seems,
to come true.
In the immortal words of Johnson,
"I will survive"
You be on that b---- s--- but me I'm keeping it live.
So why are you still talking to me?
Fool shut the f--- up,
go speak with Mr. Charlie,
and please don't try to suck up.
He doesn't like a kiss ass,
get out and do that s--- fast,
get a grasp on life
don't be lazy and try to slip past.
Twice or three times I almost quit,
but now I see I'm fit for the script.
Unflipped of course
I'm the source of my product
not a product piece,
at least 95% I put the crease
in my J - cards,
and in my revenue too.
I stay hard headed,
and never too true,
so should you.
Success is destiny
choose your own path
put in work and do it fast
use your heart and it will last
Success is destiny
choose your own path
put in work and do it fast
use your heart.
21. Outro (Its's on us)
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Taken from the Philadelphia International All Stars single
"Lets Clean Up the Ghetto" (PIR, 1977)
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