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Killing us one by one in one way or another |
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American will find a way to eliminate the problem one by one |
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The problem is the troubles in the black youth of the ghettos |
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And one by one we are being wiped off the face of this earth |
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At an extremely alarming rate |
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And even more alarming is the fact that we are not fighting back |
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Brothers, sistas, niggas |
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When I say niggas it is not the nigga we are grown to fear |
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It is not the nigga we say as if it has no meaning |
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But to me it means, never ignorant, getting goals, accomplishes, nigga |
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Niggas what are we going to do, walk blind into a line or fight |
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Fight and die if we must like niggas |
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This is for the masses the lower classes |
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The ones you left out, jobs were givin', better livin' |
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But we were kept out, made to feel inferior, but we're the superior |
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Break the chains in out brains that made us fear, yah |
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Pledge a legiance to a flag that neglects us |
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Honor a man that who refuses to respect us |
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Emancipation, proclamation, please |
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Nigga just said that to save the nation |
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These are lies that we all accepted |
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Say no to drugs but the governments keep it |
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Running through our community, killing the unity |
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The war on drugs is a war on you and me |
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And yet they say this is the home of the free |
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But if you ask me it's all about hypocracy |
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The constitution, yo, it don't apply to me |
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Lady Liberty still the bitch lied to me |
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Steady strong, nobody's gonna like what I pumpin' |
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But it's wrong to keeping someone from learning something |
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So get up, it's time to start nation building |
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I'm fed up, we gotta start teaching children |
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That they can be all that they wanna to be |
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There's much more to life than just poverty |
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This is defiantly, ahh, words of wisdom |
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America, America, America |
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I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault |
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For suppressing and punishing my people |
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I charge you with robbery for robbing me of my history |
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I charge you with false imprisonment for keeping me |
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Trapped in the projects and the jury finds you guilty on all accounts |
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And you are to serve the consequences of your evil schemes |
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Prosecutor, do you have any more evidence? |
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Words of wisdom |
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They shine upon the strength of an nation |
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Conquer the enemy on with education |
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Protect thy self, reach with what you wanna do |
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Know thy self, teach what we been through |
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On with the knowledge of the place, then |
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No one will ever oppress this race again |
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No Malcolm X in my history text, why is that? |
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'Cuss he tried to educate and liberate all blacks |
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Why is Martin Luther King in my book each week? |
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He told blacks, if they get smacked, turn the other cheek |
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I don't get it, so many questions went through my mind |
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I get sweated, they act as if asking questions is a crime |
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But forget it, one day I'm gonna prove them wrong |
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Now every brother had to smother on the welfare line |
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The American dream, though it seems it attainable |
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They're pulling your sleeve, don't believe 'cuz it will strangle, yah |
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Pulling the life of your brain, I can't explain |
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Beg as you can obtain from which you came |
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Swear that your mother is living in equality |
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Forgetting your brother that's living her apology |
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Thought they had us beat when they took our kids |
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But the battle ain't over till the black man sings words of wisdom |
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But the battle ain't over till the black man sings words of wisdom |
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Nightmare, that's what I am, America's nightmare |
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I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me |
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I shine of a reminder of what you have done to my people |
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For four hundred plus years |
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You should be scared, you should be running |
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You should be trying to silence me, ha ha |
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But you cannot escape fate, well, it is my turn to come |
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Just as you rose you shall fall by my hands |
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America, you reap what you sow |
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2pacalypse America's nightmare |
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Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob America's nightmare |
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Above the Law America's nightmare, Paris America's nightmare |
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Public Enemy America's nightmare, Krs-One America's nightmare |
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Mutulu Shakur America's nightmare |
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Geronimo Pratt America's nightmare |
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Assada Shakur America's nightmare |