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[ intro: kool moe dee ] |
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And yes y'all |
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The sounds that you hear |
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Is gonna be so rare |
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You have no fear |
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Cause three live brothers are here |
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We got krs-one from boogie down productions |
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Special shout to melodie |
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We got my man chuck d in the house from public enemy |
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And I am kool moe dee |
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So are - you - ready? |
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[ verse 1: kool moe dee ] |
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Are you ready, to elevate |
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As I rhyme on time you'll illuminate |
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Hard as diamond, knowledge shinin |
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It's that time and it's all in the timin |
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400 years blood, sweat and tears |
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The rain is over, and the sun is here |
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Yeah, bright and clear, countdown to the year |
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No fear, cause I'm in there |
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Holdin my mic like the staff of ra |
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Bringin true light after dark |
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Brothers are live, but still unborn |
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It's almost morn and it's time to mourn |
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See the light like a crack of dawn |
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The comatosed and the cracked are re-born |
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Reurgitatin the garbage we're fed |
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Cause this time dawn is dawn of the dead |
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[ chorus ] |
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Ain't that funky? |
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(yeah, that's funky) |
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Ain't that funky? |
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(yeah, that's funky) |
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Ain't that funky? |
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(yeah, that's funky) |
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Rise and shine |
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Ain't that funky? |
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(yeah, that's funky) |
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Ain't that funky? |
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(yeah, that's funky) |
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Ain't that funky? |
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(yeah, that's funky) |
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Get up |
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[ verse 2: kool moe dee ] |
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I rise and shine like the sun on the one |
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We dance together, we overcome |
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A wake-up call to wake up all |
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Stand up tall, get up and get up, y'all |
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Clap your hands in jubilation, meditation |
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Recreation, procreation of the mind |
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If you seek, we'll find |
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Born two times, but still one of a kind |
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Learn your past, find your path |
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The truth is infinite, like math |
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Countdown to the year 2000 |
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The thought alone is arousin |
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When we see our way with the third eye |
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Rise with the sun and think with a bird's eye |
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View, as I watch our exodus |
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When the higher conscious connect it's just |
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[ variations of chorus ] |
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[ verse 3: kool moe dee ] |
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The microphone is my funky scepter |
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When I speak on beat I'm tryin to connect us |
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To what's left us messed up |
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Egos dressed up, got us effed up |
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You see onto instead of into |
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You see what you want to, instead of what you been through |
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You can take the rhyme I say |
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Read it, hand it, see em three ways |
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Combine the rhyme to anyone of nine |
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For some still the light won't shine |
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You can take a shot in the dark, but keep missin |
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You aim with one eye, you just don't listen |
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Cause see, in the dark you need all three |
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Your eyes are ears when you hear what you see |
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The five senses are all correlated |
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The sixth and seventh is how you elevate it |
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[ variations of chorus ] |
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[ verse 4: krs-one ] |
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Ring-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding |
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This a krs with a different something |
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What, come in a dance and we come down for sing |
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This a krs me say - come! |
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Nuff slaveships come from africa |
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Full of africans, sold in america |
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Now you want me to call myself american |
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Even though america kill di african |
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Check it, white man is european |
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And blackman is african |
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White man never say euro-american |
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So why should the blackman say afro-american? |
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If the blackman is american with a afro |
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Then the white man is american with a long nose |
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It should be long-nose-american for the white man |
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Jump around and move your bottom |
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What |
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[ variations of chorus ] |
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[ verse 5: chuck d ] |
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Make no mistake, we don't shake or stutter |
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So heed the word of the brothers |
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Who makes a boy into a man |
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It's the job of another man |
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Who knows his role as a father |
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He bothers to give his son his soul |
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And pass it on, to never front |
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Cause papa don't raise no punks |
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Got to make it know and to pass it down |
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Yeah, sounds like a job for the brotherman now |
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Got to help a mother for me |
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Each one teach one, if you can't find one |
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Talk to the little ones |
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And you'll see they'll listen |
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To few while missin |
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Peace, to rise and shine |
