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Yeah that's right |
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Chuck man, that's what you gotta do |
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You got to tell 'em |
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JUST LIKE |
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THAT, you know what |
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I'm sayin? |
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Cause yo, man let me tell you a little somethin man |
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All these brothers around here fiendin for that crack-a-lack-a-lack |
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You dig what |
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I'm sayin? |
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Yo man, all they wanna do is get what you got |
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But when you ain't got nuttin, then they wanna cut you off |
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So what you gotta do, you gotta play 'em long distance |
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You know what |
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I'm sayin? |
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I mean long distance |
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They think we takin shorts, show 'em this is |
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Cold Medina man |
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C'mon, kick it![Chuck D] |
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Back one more time, here to put the message in a rough rhyme |
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It's important that you knowin the time |
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Cause I'm seein the program, know what |
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I know anduntil we get together we will never be up for sure |
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So I wreck like |
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I'm posessed by |
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Malcolm XSee the feds want us dead, we too complex |
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I always speak the truth, comin from me to you |
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We movin as a unit so you |
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KNOW we refuse to lose |
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I got my eyes on the lies from |
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Washington |
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I'm a survivor, |
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I know how the |
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West was won |
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See a show and tell, the way the |
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CoIntelundermind the |
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REAL hip-hop so the cops can trail |
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But know bad boys move in silence |
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Save us all from the pain of a life of violence |
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They tappin my phone, full grown and knowin |
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And still prone to refute the lies, won't stop until we rise[Chorus: Chuck D + various samples] |
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Rise up! "C'mon, ah-c'mon" |
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Rise... rise up! "One more time" |
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We rise... rise up! "C'mon, ah-c'mon" |
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Rise... rise up! "To the beat y'all"[Chuck D] |
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I'm a hard truth soldier to the bone for change |
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Demonstrate and seperate the fact from strange |
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Blame companies killin our children |
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When the villain's on the record never think for a second that's the way we live |
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Wanna squeeze on the fleas at |
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MTVWe quiz knots for the cops at |
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BETSeize the time, always rhymin combinin the antidotefor dope |
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Interscope and fake gangster quotes |
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Cause I can recollect times when records set |
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Collect a dead brother you mind if you silence it yet |
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Rest the program, defeat the beastie |
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Cause on the street they do as we influenced by what we see |
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And yes it "Weighs a Ton" |
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I say it once again |
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That's why the |
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Enemy is down with |
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Paris and |
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KAMIt's all fam, we collide we live |
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Better decide on which side you ride, won't stop until we rise[Chorus][Flavor Flav] |
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Y'all don't know, y'all don't know uhh [x4][Chuck D] |
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I know the power of fame, ain't never playin no games |
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Never croonin is provin, that we ready for change |
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Never simpin but they pimpin my people, for the dollars |
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So I holla back it keep us from |
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EVIL 'til them devils are collared |
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And like I said it's on, |
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I say it once again |
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Better know the plan to keep us ignorant |
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Brother to brother, ain't no other can smother |
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Or erase my case, we marry words with |
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BASSJust another wicked rhyme that |
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I'm rappin on |
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S1's got my back if the clappin come |
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Pass on the work, makin sure the words are known |
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Keep 'em nervous, make 'em understand we servin foes |
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Keep it goin strong, nevertheless, know the enemy |
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And never back down, you can take it to press' |
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Less the mic like the art dart told you before |
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We for the prize emphasis the fight, now c'mon and rise[Chorus][ad libs of Chorus to fade] |
