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(22 million black victims of Americanism are waking up) |
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As-salaam-alaikum, blackman |
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Time to make a stand |
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Time to wake up, and |
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Time to make a plan and band |
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Together like China |
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We need to find a |
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Better form of unity |
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Then we'll be |
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In the right path, on the right track |
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Dark or light black |
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Don't let em tell you it's wrong to fight back |
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(Come on) |
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But the enemy is not your brother |
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It's that other muthafucka |
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The one that baited, robbed and degraded you |
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And he don't like to see you've made it through |
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The bullshit that came with bein a brotherman |
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Stolen from the motherland |
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Placed in another land? |
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400 and some odd years ago |
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Till about the time we wore afros |
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We've come so far so fast |
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From what they call the past |
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But that just passed |
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And we're the last in line for justice, what's this? |
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Naw man, that ain't gon' work, yo, bust this |
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Black to the future, back to the past |
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History is a mystery, cause it has |
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All the info |
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You need to know |
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Where you're from, why'd you come |
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And that'll tell you where you're going |
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(We gotta unite |
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We gotta work together in unity and harmony) |
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Black to the future |
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(Come on) [x3] |
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(Into the future) |
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Black to the future, what a funky concept |
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A poet with soul, brothers and sisters, let's step |
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Together in sync, just think about the outcome |
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We know where we're goin, because we know where we came from |
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A united state of mind |
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But not the kind |
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That the United States government fakes |
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(Nope) They don't practise what they preach |
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Maybe they don't believe in those false beliefs |
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Themselves, and I can tell, cause they look scared |
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To see us comin up, because they're not prepared |
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For a new breed of leaders |
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Eager and fired up |
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And tired of |
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The lies you feed us |
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So we just |
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(What?) |
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Got together like one nation under a groove |
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Gettin down, and the funk of it can move |
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And start a movement of self-improvement |
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And before you know it, you went |
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Black to the future |
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Black to the |
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F-u-t- |
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U-r-e |
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(Get on up) |
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(Come on) |
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(Get on up, brotherman) |
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(I want you to get on up) |
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I grab the mic with a kung-fu grip |
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So it don't slip, and come out on a positive black tip |
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Hip all my brothers and sisters to the real deal |
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With unity and knowledge I feel we'll |
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Uprise, who knows what lies |
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Ahead, but you can't see if you're livin with shut eyes |
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So realize, united we stand, divided we fall |
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Provided we all heed the call |
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Comin from the muslim, or the rasta man |
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Two forms of a positive blackman |
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W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T |
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King and X, Farrakhan and Jesse |
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Men with means that differ |
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But their goals were equal |
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To uplift African people |
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Through violence or non-violence, I don't care |
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As long as we get there (Where?) |
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Black to the future |
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(Into the future) |
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What a funky concept |
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[Man] |
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Hey brother |
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Excuse me, man |
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I don't mean to bother you, man |
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But I - |
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Brother, you think I can get a little bit change from you? |
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[Jef] Some change, man? |
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[Man] |
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Yeah man, I just need a little bit change, man |
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You give me some change |
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That's all I'm askin |
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[Jef] |
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Aight man, I'm gon' give you this change, man |
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But I want you to listen to me for a second, alright? |
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[Man] Alright man, whatcha got to say? |
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[Jef] |
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Brothers always talkin about change |
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Brothers'll change their clothes |
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To go out on the street and make some quick change |
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A brother might even kill another brother over the wrong change |
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Brothers change from men to women |
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Brothers change their hair from natural to that damn jherri curl |
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Brothers even change their eyes, man |
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Brothers always talkin bout change |
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Goin through changes |
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Changes, changes, changes |
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But when it come time for a real change |
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Brothers change their mind, man |
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[Man] |
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Aw man, I - I hear you, man |
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Hey man, you gave me more change than I asked for |
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You must be one of them revolutionaries, man... |