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Killing in the name of
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Uh!
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
But now you do what they told ya!
Well, now you do what they told ya
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Uh!
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Come on!
Ugh!
Yeah!
Come on!
Ugh!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Motherfucker!
Ugh! |
Come wit it now
Come wit it now
The microphone explodes, shattering the mold
Either drop the hits like de la O or get the fuck off the commode
With the sure shot, sure to make the bodies drop
Drop and dont copy, yo, dont call this a co-op
Terror rains drenchin, quenchin the thirst
Of the power dons, that five-sided Fistagon
The rotten sore on the face of Mother Earth gets bigger
The trigger’s cold, empty your purse
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war, cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble, that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we dont know keeps the contracts alive and movin
They dont gotta burn the books, they just remove em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pockets full of shells
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Bulls on parade, uh
Come wit it now
Come wit it now
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade |
Come on
Ugh
Come on
Although ya try to discredit, ya still never read it
The needle, Ill thread it, radically poetic
Standin with the fury that they had in 66
And like E-Double Im Mad, still knee deep in the systems shit
Hoover, he was a body remover
Ill give you a dose but itll never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy
Movements come and movements go
Leaders speak, movements cease when their heads are flown
Cause all these punks got bullets in their heads
Departments of police, the judges , the feds
Networks at work, keeping people calm
You know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot
Yeah
Yeah, back in this
With poetry my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin that finesse
What do I got to, what do I got to do to wake you up?
To shake you up, to break the structure up?
Cause blood still flows in the gutter
Im like taking photos, mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove, then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the Stutter Step then bomb a left upon the fascists
Yeah, several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream and put it to an end
You better beware of retribution with mind war
20/20 visions and murals with metaphors
Networks at work, keepin people calm
Ya know they murdered X and tried to blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot
What was the price on his head?
What was the price on his head!?
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard
I think I heard a shot
Black Nationalism...
may be a brave contender for this position
But should he abandon his supposed obedience
To the White liberal doctrine of non-violence
And embrace Black Nationalism
Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible
To pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them
Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible
To pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them
And neutralize them, and neutralize them
And neutralize them, and neutralize them
And neutralize them
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
How long? Not long
Cause what you reap is what you sow |
Huh
Yeah, were comin back in with another bombtrack
Think ya know its all of that, huh
Ayo, so check this out, yeah
Know your enemy
Come on
Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist
As we move into 92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know, ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify, defy
Im a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We dont need the key, well break in
Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Fist in ya face in the place and Ill drop the style clearly
Know your enemy
Know your enemy
Yeah
Ayo, get with this, ugh
Word is born
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E
Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Now something must be done
About vengeance, a badge, and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Now action must be taken
We dont need the key, well break in
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Sick of, sick of, sick of, sick of you
Time has come to pay
Know your enemy
Come on
Yes, I know my enemies
Theyre the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity
Assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy
Brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams |
Transmission, third World War, third round
A decade of the weapon of sound above ground
No shelter if youre looking for shade
I lick shots at the brutal charade
As the polls close like a casket
On truth devoured, silent play on the shadow of power
A spectacle, monopolized
The cameras eyes on choice disguised
Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil?
Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?
Yes a spectacle, monopolized
They hold the reins, stole your eyes
All the Fistagons, the bullets and bombs
Who stuff the banks, who staff the party ranks
More for Gore or the son of a drug lord
None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord!
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Contact, I hijacked the frequencies
Blockin the beltway, move on DC
Way past the days of bombin MCs
Sound off, Mumia, go on, be free
Who got em? Yo, check the federal file
All you pen devils know the trial was vile
Army of pigs try to silence my style
Off em all out the box, its my radio dial
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now |
Yeah
The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
So raise your fists and march around
Just dont take what you need
Ill jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or Ill drag you to your grave
Im deep inside your children
Theyll betray you in my name
Hey, hey
Sleep now in the fire
Hey, hey
Sleep now in the fire
The lie is my expense
The scope of my desire
The party blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
I am the Niña, the Pinta, the Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer
The agents of orange, the priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire
Hey, hey
Sleep now in the fire
Hey, hey, hey
Sleep now in the fire
For its the end of history
Its caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one that makes you ill
The Niña, the Pinta, the Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer
The agents of orange, the priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire
Yeah
Sleep now in the fire
Sleep now in the fire
Sleep now in the fire
Sleep now in the fire |
This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow rules when the set commands ya
Said it was blue, when ya blood was red
Thats how ya got a bullet blasted through ya head
Blasted through ya head, blasted through ya head
I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen, you was mesmerized
Cellular phones, soundin a death tone
Corporations cold turn ya to stone before ya realize
They load the clip in, omnicolor
Said they pack the nine, they fire it at prime time
The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mothafuckas lost their minds!
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high? Yeah
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high?
Run it
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high? Yeah
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high?
Checka, checka, check it out
They load the clip in, omnicolor
Said they pack the nine, they fire it at prime time
The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mothafuckas lost their minds!
No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again, jack, and then rewind the tape
And then play it again, and again, and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin all the lies that theyre tellin ya
Buyin all the products that theyre sellin ya
They say jump and ya say how high?
Ya braindead, ya got a fuckin bullet in ya head
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high, yeah
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Ugh
Yeah
Yeah
Fuck
Ya standin in line
Believin the lies
Ya bowin down to the flag
Ya got a bullet in ya head
Ya standin in line
Believin the lies
Ya bowin down to the flag
Ya got a bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in the head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
Ya got a bullet in ya fuckin head
Yeah
Yeah |
Crank the music up
Bring that shit in, uh
Yeah, the movements in motion with massive militant poetry
Now check this out, uh
In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us, teaches us to read and write
So-called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge and bow down to their god
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time, ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back
Bam, heres the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam, step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, Ill drop the style and clear
Its the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change and to counteract
We gotta take the power back
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on
We gotta take the power back
The present curriculum, I put my fist in em
Eurocentric, every last one of em
See right through the red, white, and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back
Weve got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causing tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
Im inferior? Whos inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior
Of the system who cares about only one culture
And that, is why we gotta take the power back
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on
We gotta take the power back
Ayo check, were gonna have to break it
Break it, break it down, aw shit
And like this
Uh! Come on
Yeah, bring it back the other way
Uh
The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he cant recall
The students eyes dont perceive the lies
Bouncing off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit
And listen to that bullshit that hed learned in school
Europe aint my rope to swing on
Cant learn a thing from it, yet we hang from it
(Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin Weathermen)
Expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on
We gotta take the power back
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
Uh!
Yeah, take it back, yall
Take it back, a-take it back, a-take it back, yall
Come on, take it back, yall
Take it back, a-take it back, a-take it back, yall
Come on, uh, yeah |
Uh
The movie ran through me
The glamour subdue me
The tabloid untied me
Im empty. please fill me
Mister Anchor, assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice, it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you, my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes, the car is our wheelchair
My witness, your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless ones
Who travel now in coffins
While on the corner
The jurys sleepless
We found your weakness
And its right outside your door
Now testify
Now testify
Its right outside your door, now testify
Yes, testify
Its right outside your door
With precision you feed me
My witness, Im hungry
Your temple, it calms me, so I can carry on
My slaving, sweating the skin right off my bones
On a bed of fire, Im choking on the smoke that fills my home
The wrecking ball is rushing
Witness your blushing
The pipeline is gushing
While here we lie in tombs
While on the corner
The jurys sleepless
We found your weakness
And its right outside your door
Now testify
Yeah, testify
Its right outside your door
Now testify
Now testify
And its right outside your door
Mass graves for the pump when the price is set
When the price is set
Mass graves for the pump when the price is set
When the price is set
Mass graves for the pump when the price is set
When the price is set
Mass graves for the pump when the price is set
When the price is set
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?
Now testify
Testify
Its right outside your door
Now testify
Testify
Its right outside your door |
Yeah, Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people aint seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
So now Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people aint seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
So now Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
Bangin this bolo tight, on this solo flight, cant fight alone
Funk the track, my verbs sly like the Family Stone
Them pen devils set the stage for the war at home
Locked without a wage, youre standing in the drop zone
The clockers born, starin at an empty plate
Mamas torn hands cover her sunken face
We hungry but them belly full
The structure is set, ya never change it with a ballot pull
In the ruins theres a network for the toxic rock
Schoolyard to precinct, suburb to project block
Bosses rode south for new flesh and a factory floor
The remains left chained to the powder war
Cant waste a day when the night brings a hearse
So make a move and plead the fifth cause ya cant plead the first
Cant waste a day when the night brings a hearse
So now Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people aint seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
Yes, Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people aint seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
So now Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
Yeah
Bear witness to the sickest shot while suckers get romantic
They aint gonna send us campin like they did my man Fred Hampton
Still we lampin, still clockin dirt for our sweat
A ballots dead, so a bullets what I get
A thousand years they had the tools, we should be takin em
Fuck the G-ride, I want the machines that are makin em
Our target straight with a room full of armed pawns
To off the Kings on the west side at dawn
Cant waste a day when the night brings a hearse
Make a move and plead the fifth cause ya cant plead the first
Cant waste a day, when the night brings a hearse
So now Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people aint seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
Yeah, Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
These people aint seen a brown-skinned man
Since their grandparents bought one
Yeah, Im rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun
Just a quiet, peaceful dance
Just a quiet, peaceful dance
Yeaah
Just a quiet, peaceful dance
Just a quiet, peaceful dance
Just a quiet, peaceful dance
For the things well never have
Just a quiet, peaceful dance
For the things we dont have |
Uhh
Ayy, yo, its just another bombtrack, uh
Ayy, yo, its just another bombtrack, yeah
It goes a one, two, three
Yeah, and its just another bombtrack
And suckers be thinkin that they can fake this
But Ima drop it at a higher level
Cause Im inclined to stoop down, hand out some beatdowns
Could run a train on punk fools that think they run the game
But I learned to burn that bridge and delete
Those who compete at a level thats obsolete
Instead, I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag
To recall the downfall and the businesses that burnt us all
See through the news and the views that twist reality
Enough, I call the bluff, fuck Manifest Destiny
Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch em burn
With the thoughts from a militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch em burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
It goes a one, two, three, another funky, radical bombtrack
Started as a sketch in my notebook
And now dope hooks make punks take another look
My thoughts ya hear and ya begin to fear
That ya card will get pulled if ya interfere
With the thoughts from a militant, militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch em burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Hey, yo, its just another bombtrack
Check it out
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn |
Uh
Pump, pump, woo!
Come on
Uh
Solo, Im a soloist on a solo list
All live, never on a floppy disk
Inka, inka, bottle of ink
Paintings of rebellion drawn up by the thoughts I think
Yeah
Come on
The militant poet in once again, check it
Its set up like a deck of cards
Theyre sendin us to early graves for all the diamonds
Theyll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades
With poetry, I paint the pictures that hit
More like the murals that fit
Dont turn away, get in front of it
Brotha, did ya forget ya name?
Did ya lose it on the wall playin Tic-Tac-Toe?
Yo, check the diagonal, three brothers gone, come on
Doesnt that make it three in a row?
Come on
Uh
Drop that
Uh
Come on
Yeah
Uh
Brotha, did ya forget ya name?
Did ya lose it on the wall playin Tic-Tac-Toe?
Yo, check the diagonal, three million gone, come on
Cause you know theyre counting backwards to zero
Environment, the environment exceeding
On the level of our unconsciousness
For example, what does the billboard say?
Come and play, come and play
Forget about the movement
Yeah
Uh
Aw, bring that shit in
Uh
Hey
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah right
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah, right
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah, right |
Yeah, people come up
Yeah, we better turn the bass up on this one
Check it, since fifteen hundred and sixteen, Mayans attacked and overseen
Now crawl amidst the ruins of this empty dream
With their borders and boots on top of us
Pullin knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis
But how you gonna get what you need to get?
The gut eaters, blood drenched get offensive like Tet
The fifth sun sets get back reclaim
The spirit of Cuauhtémoc, alive and untamed
Now face the funk now blastin out your speaker
On the one, Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal your name but now you got a gun
Yeah, this is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
Yeah, never forget that the whip snapped ya back
Your spine cracked for tobacc-oh, Im the Marlboro Man, uh
Our past blastin on through the verses
Brigades of taxi cabs rollin Broadway like hearses
Troops strippin zoots, shots of red mist
Sailors blood on the deck, come sister, resist
From the era of terror, check this photo lens
Now the City of Angels does the ethnic cleanse, uh
Heads bobbin to the funk out your speaker
On the one, Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal your name but now you found a gun
Youre history
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again, yeah
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around
Of the sun |
Feel the funk blast
Feel the funk blast
Feel the funk blast
Feel the funk blast
Feel the funk blast
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, check it out, yo, yo, yo
I be walkin God like a dog, my narrative, fearless
My word war returns to burn like Baldwin home from Paris
Like Steel from a furnace, I was born landless
This is the native son, born of Zapatas guns
Stroll through the shanties and the cities remains
Same bodies buried hungry but with different last names
These vultures rob everything, leave nothing but chains
Pick a point on the globe, yes, the pictures the same
Theres a bank, theres a church, a myth and a hearse
A mall and a loan, a child dead at birth
Theres a widow pig parrot, a rebel to tame
A white-hooded judge, a syringe and a vein
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
This aint subliminal, feel the critical mass approach horizon
The pulse of the condemned, sound off Americas demise
The anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, yes, I spit fire
Hope lies in the smoldering rubble of empires
Yes, back through the shanties and the cities remains
Same bodies buried hungry , but with different last names
Them vultures robbin everyone, leave nothing but chains
Pick a point here at home, yes, the pictures the same
Theres a field full of slaves, some corn and some debt
Theres a ditch full of bodies, the check for the rent
Theres a tap, the phone, the silence of stone
The numb black screen that be feelin like home
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Theres a mass without roofs, theres a prison to fill
Theres a countrys soul that reads post no bills
Theres a strike and a line of cops outside of the mill
Theres a right to obey and theres a right to kill
Theres a mass without roofs, theres a prison to fill
Theres a countrys soul that reads post no bills
Theres a strike and a line of cops outside of the mill
Cause theres a right to obey and theres the right to kill |
Turn on the radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Fear is your only god on the radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Turn it off, turn on the radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Fear is your only god on the radio
Nah, fuck it
Your savior, my guillotine, crosses and kerosene
Merge on the networks, slangin nerve gas
Up jump the boogie, then bang, let em hang
While the paranoid try to stuff the void
Lets capture this AM mayhem
Undressed and blessed by the Lord
The power pendulum swings by the umbilical cord
Shock around the clock, from noon til noon
Men grabbin they mics and stuff em into the womb
Terrors the product ya push
Well, Im a truth addict, aw shit, I got a headrush
Sheep tremble and here come the votes
Thrown from the throat, cages and scapegoats
Undressed and blessed by the Lord
The same devil that ran around Managua wit a sword
Check out the new style that Ollie found
A tune with a bullet to shut down the devil sound
Shut down the devil sound
The program of Vietnow
Shut down the devil sound
Turn on the radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Fear is your only god on the radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Turn it off, turn on the radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Fear is your only god on the radio
Nah, fuck it
Your savior, my guillotine, crosses and kerosene
Flex the cerebellum, fire, uh
Somebody gotta shell em, these evil angels lists
Hittin the AM playlist, paid to say this
That ones inhuman, illegal, single, woman
The one without a movement
The transmissions whippin our backs
Yeah, comin down like bats from Stacey Koon and
Terrors the product ya push
Well, Im a truth addict, aw shit, I got a headrush
The sheep tremble and here come the votes
Thrown from the throat, cages and scapegoats
One caution, the mics a detonator, unwound
To shut down the devil sound
Shut down the devil sound
Check the heads bow in Vietnow
Shut down the devil sound
Is all the world jails and churches?
Is all the world jails and churches?
Is all the world jails and churches?
Is all the world jails and churches?
Is all the world jails and churches?
Radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Fear is your only god on the radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Turn it off, turn on the radio
Nah, fuck it, turn it off
Fear is your only god on the radio
Nah, fuck it
Your savior, my guillotine, crosses and kerosene
Fear is ya, fear is ya
Fear is your only god
Fear is ya, fear is ya
Fear is your only god
Fear is ya, fear is ya
Fear is your only god
Fear is ya, fear is ya
Fear is your only god |
Huh!
Check it
Uh!
Silence, something about silence makes me sick
Cause silence can be violent sorta like a slit wrist
If the vibe was suicide, then you would push the button
But if ya bowin down, then let me do the cuttin
Some speak the sounds but speak in silent voices
Like radio is silent though it fills the air with noises
Its transmissions bring submission as ya mold to the unreal
And mad boy grips the microphone with a fistful of steel
Yeah
And mad boy grips the microphone with a fistful of steel
With a fistful of steel
With a fistful of steel
With a fistful of steel
Its time to flow like the fluid in ya veins
If ya will it, I will spill it and ya out
Just as quick as ya came
Not a silent one, but a defiant one
Never a normal one cause Im the bastard son
With the visions of the move, vocals not to soothe
But to ignite and put in flight my sense of militance
Groovin, playin that game called survival
The status, the elite, the enemy, the rival
The silent sheep slippin, riffin, trippin
Give you a glimpse of the reality Im grippin
Steppin into the jam and Im slammin like Shaquille
Mad boy grips the microphone with a fistful of steel
Yeah
And mad boy grips the microphone with a fistful of steel
With a fistful of steel
With a fistful of steel
With a fistful of steel
Aw shit
And if the vibe was suicide, then you would push the button
But if youre bowin down, then let me do the cuttin
Yeah
Come on
A .44 full of bullets
Face full of pale
Eyes full of empty
A stare full of nails
The roulette ball
Rolls alone on the wheel
A mind full of fire
And a fistful of steel
And if the vibe was suicide, then you would push the button
But if youre bowin down, then let me do the cuttin
Yeah
With a fistful of steel, uh
Come on
Uh, with a fistful of steel
Uh |
The main attraction, distraction
Got ya number than number than numb
Empty ya pockets, son, they got you thinkin that
What ya need is what they selling
Make you think that buying is rebelling
From the theaters to malls on every shore
The thin line between entertainment and war
The frontline is everywhere
There be no shelter here
Spielberg, the nightmare works so push it far
Amistad was a whip, the truth was feathered and tarred
Memories erased, burned and scarred
Trade in ya history for a VCR
Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture, Americana
Chained to the dream they got you searchin for
The thin line between entertainment and war
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
Hospitals not profit full
The market bulls got pockets full
To advertise some hip disguise
View the world from American eyes
The poor adore, keep fiendin for more
The thin line between entertainment and war
They fix the need, develop the taste
Buy their products or get laid to waste
Coca-Cola is back in the veins of Saigon
And Rambo too, hes got a dope pair of Nikes on
Godzilla, pure mothafuckin filler
To keep ya eyes off the real killer
Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture, Americana
Chained to the dream they got you searchin for
The thin line between entertainment and war
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
American eyes, American eyes
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothing behind
American eyes, American eyes
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothing behind
Just stare
Just stare
Just stare
Just stare
Relive the nightmare |
A jail cell is freedom from the pain in my home
Hatred passed on, passed on, and passed on
A world of violent rage but its one that I can recognize
Having never seen the color of my fathers eyes
Yes, I dwell in hell, but its a hell that I can grip
I tried to grip my family but I slipped
To escape from the pain in an existence mundane
I got a nine, a sign, a set, and now I got a name
Read my writing on the wall
No ones here to catch me when I fall
Death is on my side
Suicide
A jail cell is freedom from the pain in my home
Hatred passed on, passed on, and passed on
A world of violent rage but its one that I can recognize
Having never seen the color of my fathers eyes
Yes, I dwell in hell, but its a hell that I can grip
I tried to grip my family but I slipped
To escape from the pain in an existence mundane
I got a nine, a sign, a set, and now I got a name
Read my writing on the wall
No ones here to catch me when I fall
Caught between my culture and the system
Genocide
Read my writing on the wall
No ones here to catch me when I fall
If ignorance is bliss
Then knock the smile off my face
Yeah
If we dont take action now
Well settle for nothing later
Well settle for nothing now
And well settle for nothing later
If we dont take action now
Well settle for nothing later
Well settle for nothing now
And well settle for nothing later
If we dont take action now
Well settle for nothing later
Well settle for nothing now
And well settle for nothing later
If we dont take action now
Well settle for nothing later
Well settle for nothing now
And well settle for nothing later |
Rebel, rebel and yell
Cause our people still dwell in hell
Locked in a cell, yes, the structures a cell
Mad is the story I tell
How long can we wait?
Come on, seein whats at stake
Action for reaction
If your minds in a somewhat complacent state, get a check up
This is a stick up
Our freedom, or your life
Lord, I wish I could be peaceful
But there can be no sequel
Now freedom must be fundamental
In Johannesburg, or South Central
On the mic cause someone should tell em
To kick in the township rebellion
Yeah, what about that, sucka?
Yeah, so you thought you could get with the hardlines
That fill your mind
Thoughts, battles fought, and lessons taught
Yes, Ill display the fitness, and flip like a gymnast
Raise my fist and resist!
Asleep though we stand in the midst of the war
Gotta get mine, gotta get more
Keepin the mic warm against the norm
Cause what does it offer me?
I think often its nothin but a coffin
Gotta get wreck til our necks never swing on a rope
From here to the cape of no hope
Now freedom must be fundamental
In Johannesburg, or South Central
On the mic cause someone should tell em
To kick in the township rebellion
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Whats it gonna take?
Shackle their minds when theyre bent on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Shackle their minds when theyre left on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Shackled our minds when were bent on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Shackled our minds when were left on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Lost
Lost
Shackle your minds and youre left on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Just shackle your minds when youre bent on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Lost
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm |
My fears hunt me down
Capturing my memories
The frontier of loss
They try to escape across the street where
Jesus stripped bare
And raped the spirit He was supposed to nurture
In the name of my
In the name of my
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Like autumn leaves his sense fell from him
An empty glass of himself shattered somewhere within
His thoughts like a hundred moths
Trapped in a lampshade
Somewhere within
Their wings banging and burning
On through endless night
Forever awake he lies shaking and starving
Praying for someone to turn off the light
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
My fear is hunting me down
Capturing my memories
The frontier of loss
They try to escape across the street where
Jesus stripped bare
And raped the spirit He was supposed to nurture
In the name of my
In the name of my
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man |
Uh
Got no card, so I got not soul
Life is prison, no parole, no control
The jura got my number on a wire tap
Cause I jack for Similac, fuck a Cadillac
Survive, one motive, no hope
Cause every sidewalk I walk is like a tightrope
Yes, I know my deadline, sire, when my life expires
Im sendin paper south under the barbed wire
The mother of my child will lose her mind at my grave
Its my life for their life, so call it a free trade
Por vida and our name up on the stall
I took a death trip when I tried to cross the white wall
Walk unseen past the graves and the gates
Born without a face
One motive, no hope, uh
Born without a face
Walk unseen past the graves and the gates
Born without a face
One motive, no hope, uh
Yeah, born without a face
Without a face
Yeah, I tried to look back to my past long lost
A blood donor to the land owner holocaust
Pops heart stopped, in came the air drop
Flooded the trench, he couldnt shake the toxic shock
Maize was all we needed to sustain
Now her golden skin burns, insecticide rain
Ya down wit DDT, yeah, you know me
Im raped for the grapes, profit for the bourgeoisie
War tape boomin, path is Luminoso
Im headed north like my name was Kid Cisco
To survive, one motive, no hope, uh
Its hard to breathe with Wilsons hand around my throat, uh
Strangled and mangled, another SS curtain call
When I tried to cross the white walls
When I tried to cross the white walls
Walk unseen past the graves and the gates
Born without a face
One motive, no hope, uh
Born without a face
Walk unseen past the graves and the gates
Born without a face
One motive, no hope, uh
Born without a face
You say fortify
Reaction, you divide
You say fortify
Reaction, re-action
You say fortify
Reaction, re-action
You say fortify
Reaction, you divide |
No matter how hard you try, you cant stop us now
No matter how hard you try, you cant stop us now
Were the renegades of this atomic age
This atomic age of renegades
Renegades of this atomic age
This atomic age of renegades
Since the Prehistoric ages and the days of ancient Greece
Right down through the Middle Ages
Planet Earth kept going through changes
And then no renaissance came
And times continued to change
Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades
Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine
Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
They were renegades of their time and age
So many renegades!
Were the Renegades of funk
Were the Renegades of funk
Were the Renegades of funk
Were the Renegades of funk
From a different solar system
Many, many galaxies away
We are the force of another creation
A new musical revelation
And were on this musical mission, to help the others listen
And groove from land to land, singin electronic chants like
Zulu Nation
Revelations
Destroy all nations
Destroy all nations
Destroy all nations
Destroy all nations
Destroy all nations
Destroy all nations
Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies
They change the course of history
Everyday people like you and me
Were the renegades, were the people with our own philosophies
We change the course of history
Everyday people like you and me
Come on
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
With Poppin, sockin, rockin puttin a side of hip-hop
Because where were goin there aint no stoppin
Poppin, sockin, rockin, puttin a side of hip-hop
Because where were goin there aint no stoppin
Poppin and sockin and rockin and puttin a side of hip-hop
Cause were poppin, sockin, rockin puttin a side of hip-hop
Poppin, sockin, rockin puttin a side of HIP-HOP!!
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were teachers of the funk and not of empty popping
Were blessed with the force and the sight of electronics
With the bass, and the treble, the horns, and our vocals
Cause every time I pop into the beat, we get fresh
Come on
Come on
There was a time when our music
Was something called The Bay Street beat
People would gather from all around
To get down to the big sound
You had to be a renegade in those days
To take a man to the dance floor
Say jam sucka
Say jam sucka
Say groove sucka
Now groove sucka
Now dance sucka
Now dance sucka
Say move sucka
Now move sucka
Say jam sucka
Say jam sucka
Say groove sucka
Now groove sucka
Say dance sucka
Say dance sucka
Say move sucka
Now move sucka
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk
Were the renegades of funk |
Come wit it now
Come wit it now
The microphone explodes, shattering the mold
Either drop the hits like de la O or get the fuck off the commode
With the sure shot, sure to make a body drop
Drop and dont copy, yo, dont call this a co-op
Terror rains drenchin, quenchin the thirst
Of the power don, that five-sided Fistagon
The rotten sore on the face of Mother Earth gets bigger
The triggers cold, empty your purse
Rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
No need, just feed the war, cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble, that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery, now
What we dont know keep the contracts alive and moving
They dont gotta burn the books, they just remove em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pocket full of shells
Rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
Listen, birds chirpin, dogs barkin, kids missin, milk cartons
Soul dark as black markets, war is startin, more is sparkin
Glory prophets praise Muhammad
Diffrent Strokes, Philip Drummond
Gave me crack, like Im plumbin, Jesus Christ, second comin
Cut myself, now Im numbin, never scared, never runnin
Chosen one, Im one hunnid, pray for me, pray for London
Guilty me, he aint done and gun me down, all for nothin
Precedent in abundance, president is a puppet
Gotta hate it, gotta love it, pass a class, I rise above it
Wise enough, advise the public, pistol bust, screamin, Fuck it
Donald Trump, Donald Duck, what the fuck is the difference?
Now, we stuck in a rut, this aint what I envisioned
What is what? What is guts when you dont have intuition?
Not a saint, not a sin, tell me, whats my real religion?
Genocide, Genesis, they say its a new beginning
Im a sinner, you a sinner, I can see the devil grinning
Rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family
With a pocket full of shells
Bulls on parade
Come wit it now
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade |
The sun ablaze as Marias foot touches the surface of sand
On northern land, as human contraband
Some rico from Jalisco passed her name to the Boss
She stuffed into a truckbed, she clutches her cross
Here comes the exhaust and it rips through her lungs
Shes off fast to the pasture, like cattle shell cross
Degree 106, sweat and vomit are thrown
And she prays and suffocates upon the memories of home
Of Yanqui guns for blood, debts on the loans
Of smoldering fields, rape, rubble and bones
Of graves hidden, trapped up in visions of war
Of nothing, no one, nobody, no more
These are her mountains and skies and she radiates
Through historys rivers of blood, she regenerates
And like the sun disappears only to reappear
Shes eternally here
Her time is near
Never conquered but here
To tear away at the mask
And now she got a quota, the needle and thread crucifixion
Sold and shipped across the new line of Mason Dixon
Rippin through denim, the point an inch from her vein
The foreman approach, his steps now pound in her brain
His presence, it terrifies and eclipses her days
No minutes to rest, no moments to pray
And with a whisper he whips her, her soul chained to his will
My job is to kill if you forget to take your pill
Her arms jerk, the sisters gather round her and scream
As if in a dream, eyes on the crimson stream
Numb as her wrists spit shots of blood to the floor
I am nothing, no one, nobody, no more
These are her mountains and skies and she radiates
Through historys rivers of blood, she regenerates
And like the sun disappears only to reappear
Shes eternally here
Her time is near
Never conquered but here
To tear away at the mask
Away at the mask
To tear away at the mask
No minutes to rest
No moment to pray
No minutes to rest
No moment to pray
No minutes to rest
It eclipses her day
Just a moment to pray
To tear away at the mask
Away at the mask
To tear away at the mask
To tear away at the mask |
Oh, wait a minute now
Huh-huh
Come on
Oh, wait a minute now
Check
To the Young R to the E, the B to the E, the L
Never give up, just live up
Fed upon America, Ill be spittin it up
Rippin it up for an even amount in each cup
To my brothers burning bare feet on black top
Whose curled neath the shadows from the gaze of the cops
Whose huntin for 9 to 5s through factory locks
Is now hunted on this modern day auction block
Mic check, ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
Mic check, ha ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?
Mic check, ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
Mic check, ha ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?
Check, check, check, check, the check
Oh, packin
Flexin and mashin with complex text
Fast and in a fashion that snap back necks
Quicker than a fed cash the company checks
I be the Fire only Marley could catch
Yes, I be the flame in the cellar, beware
Nameless cold millions gaspin for air
The naked and wageless, scream within cages
What, they make you pull your shit
Just to get your share, what?
Mic check, ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
Mic check, ha ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?
Mic check, ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
Mic check, ha ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?
Well walk em down with the warriors sound
With this mic device, I spit nonfiction
Who got the power?, this be my question
The mass or the few in this torn nation?
The priest, the book, or the congregation?
The politricks who rob and hold down your zone?
Or those who give the thieves the key to their homes?
The pig whos free to murder one Shucklak
Or survivors who make a move and murder one back?
With this mic device, I spit nonfiction
Who got the power?, this be my question
The mass of the few in this torn nation?
The priest, the book, or the congregation?
The politricks who rob and hold down your zone?
Or those who give the thieves the key to their homes?
The pig whos free to murder one Shucklak
Or survivors who make a move and murder one back?
Mic check, ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
Mic check, ha ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?
Mic check, ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
Mic check, ha ha ha ha
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what? |
His spit is worth more than her work
Pass the purse to the pugilists
Hes a prize-fighter
And he bought rings and he owns kin
And now hes swinging
And now hes the champion
Hey revolver, dont mothers make good fathers? Revolver
Hey revolver, dont mothers make good fathers? Revolver
A spotless domain
Hides festering hopes, shes certain theres more
Pictures of fields without fences
A spotless domain
Hides festering hopes, shes certain theres more
Pictures of fields without fences
Her body numbs as he approaches the door
As he approaches the door
As he approaches the door
As he approaches the door
As he approaches
Hey revolver, dont mothers make good fathers? Revolver
Hey revolver, dont mothers make good fathers? Revolver
Hey revolver, dont mothers make good fathers? Revolver
Hey revolver, dont mothers make good fathers? Revolver
Yeah
Hey revolver, dont mothers make good fathers? Revolver
Hey revolver, dont mothers make good fathers? Revolver
Revolver
Revolver
Revolver
Revolver |
Yeah, ya tryin to tire me, tire me
I can see you in front of me, front of me
Ya tryin to tire me, tire me
Why dont you get from in front of me?
Oh, shes got everyones eyes
In every home theres a sickening distress
Of roll that film shes a precious, a precious one
But were all gonna, nah, were already dead
Were already dead
And those colorful words for the Laos frontiersmen
Who passed away with the truth amidst the eulogies of bliss
Who will know now what I know about you?
Now that historys a flowery cancerous mess
Yeah, ya tryin to tire me, a mess
Overbearing, yes, ya tryin to tire me, a mess
Yeah, ya tryin to tire me, tire me
So get the fuck from in front of me
Nah, lets see it broken, bloody and undressed
Were already dead
{Guitar solo}
In a violent time, in a violent time
In a violent time, in a violent time
In a violent time, in a violent time
In a violent time, in a violent time
I wanna be Jackie Onassis
I wanna wear a pair of dark sunglasses
I wanna be Jackie O
Oh, oh, oh, oh, please dont die
Yeah, ya tryin to tire me, tire me
I can see you in front of me, front of me
Ya tryin to tire me, tire me
Why dont you get from in front of me?
Were already dead
Were already dead
Were already dead
Were already dead |
The sisters are in so check the front line
Seems I spent the 80s in the Haiti state of mind
Cast me into classes for electroshock
Straight incarcerated, the curriculums a cell block
Im swimming in half truths and it makes me wanna spit
Instructor come separate the healthy from the sick
Ya weigh me on a scale, smelling burnt skin
Its dark now in Dachau and Im screaming from within
Cause Im cell locked in the doctrines of the right
Enslaved by dogma, talk about my birthrights
Yet at every turn Im running into Hells gates
So I grip the cannon like Fanon and pass the shells to my classmates
Aw, power to the people
Cause the bosss right to live is mine to die
So Im going out heavy sorta like Mount Tai
With the five centuries of penitentiary so let the guilty hang
In the year of the boomerang
I got no property but yo, Im a piece of it
So let the guilty hang
I got no property but yo, Im a piece of it
So let the guilty hang
I got no property but yo, Im a piece of it
So let the guilty hang
I got no property but yo, Im a piece of it
In the year of the boomerang
Yeah
Now its upon you
Now its upon you
The sistas are in so check the front line
Seems I spent the 80s in the Haiti state of mind
Cast me into classes for electro shock
Straight incarcerated, the curriculums a cell block
Im swimmin in half truths and it makes me wanna spit
Instructor come separate the healthy from the sick
Ya weigh me on a scale, smellin burnt skin
Its dark now in Dachau and Im screamin from within
Cause Im cell locked in tha doctrines of the right
Enslaved by dogma, talk about my birthrights
Yet at every turn Im runnin into Hells gates
So I grip the cannon like Fanon and pass the shells to my classmates
Aw, power to the people
Cause the bosses right to live is mine to die
So Im goin out heavy sorta like Mount Tai
With the five centuries of penitentiary so let the guilty hang
In the year of the boomerang
I got no property but yo, I’m a piece of it
So let tha guilty hang
I got no property but yo, I’m a piece of it
In the year of the Boomerang
I got no property but yo, I’m a piece of it
So let tha guilty hang
I got no property but yo, I’m a piece of it
In the year of the boomerang
Yeah
Now its upon you
Now its upon you
You
You
You
You
You
You
You
You
Yeah |
Mic check and one, two, one, two
Mic check and one, two
Mic check and one, two
Lick off the shot, my stories shock ya like Ellison
Mainline adrenaline, Gaza to Tienanmen
From the basement Im dwellin in
I cock back the sling to stone a settler
Breaks him off clean, call me the upsetter
Here comes the hands on the leashes, the cross
The capital, the pale families, the fear, and the mouthpieces
The single sista lynch, the cell doors crash
The masters drums echo, echo, echo, echo, echo, echo
Roll right, roll call
But now were alright, were all calm
Roll right, roll call
But now were alright, were all calm
This hits like fists, bomb with the left and dont miss
With the sickest stilo, I spark fear like pigs in the park
Head crack, I hijack the papers
The vapors caught fire up in your mind, come back, rewind one time
Here comes the hands on the leashes, the cross
The capital, the pale families, the fear, and the mouthpieces
The single sista lynch, the cell doors crash
The masters drums echo, echo, echo, echo, echo
Roll right, roll call
But now were alright, were all calm
Roll right, roll call
We gotta take em to the seventh level
We gotta take em to the seventh level
For their lives and my lives were never settled
Come on, dont freeze when zero hour comes
Come on
Come on, dont freeze when zero hour comes
Come on
Send em to the seventh level
Send em to the seventh level
Send em to the seventh level
Send em to the seventh level
For their lives and my lives were never settled |
Satellites and pair of mirrors and
And a man without a home
With a horse and a rider
And a clever, cunning killer
Silent in error and vocal in spotlights
Lying always, sucking on a bottle of
That sweet indulgent fluid
Oh greed, oh yes, oh greed, oh yes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Your friendship is a fog
That disappears when the wind redirects
You
Yes, you
Fathers expectations
Soul soaked in spit and urine
And you gotta make it where?
To a sanctuary thats a fragile American hell
An empty dream
A selfish, horrific vision
Passed on like the deadliest of viruses
Crushing you and your naive profession
Have no illusions, boy
Vomit all ideals and serve
Sleep and wake and serve and
Dont just think, just wake and serve and
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, your friendship is a fog
That disappears when the wind redirects
You
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you
Interested in you |
A mass of hands press on the market window
Ghosts of progress dressed in slow death
Feeding on hunger and glaring through the promise
Upon the food that rots slowly in the aisle
A mass of nameless at the oasis
That hides the graves beneath the masters hill
Buried for drinking the rivers water while
Shackled to the the line at the empty well
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound over the new ground
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound over new ground
Listen to the fascist sing
Take hope here, war is elsewhere
You were chosen, this is Gods land
Soon well be free of blot and mixture
Seeds planted by our forefathers hand
A mass of promises begin to rupture
Like the pockets of the new world kings
Like swollen stomachs In Appalachia
Like the priest that fucked you as he whispered holy things
A mass of tears have transformed the stones now
Sharpened on suffering and woven into the slings
Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress
Taking today what tomorrow never brings
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound over the new ground
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound over new ground
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound over the new ground
Aint the new sound just like the old sound?
Look at the noose now, over the, over the, over the burning ground
Aint it funny how the factorys doors close?
Round the time that the school doors close?
Round the time that the doors of the jail cells
Open up to greet you like the reaper?
Aint it funny how the factorys doors close?
Round the time that the school doors close?
Round the time that a hundred thousand jail cells
Open up to greet you like the reaper?
Oasis
This is no oasis
This is the new sound, just like that old sound
Just like the noose wound over the new ground
This is the new sound, just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound over new ground
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall
Like ashes in the fall |
Man walks along the railroad track
Hes goin some place and theres no turnin back
The Highway Patrol chopper comin up over the ridge
Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge
The shelter line stretchin around the corner
Welcome to the New World Order
Families sleepin in their cars out in the Southwest
No job, no home, no peace, no rest, no rest
And the highway is alive tonight
Nobodys foolin nobody as to where it goes
Im sitting down here in a campfire light
Searchin for the ghost of Tom Joad
He pulls his prayer book out of a sleepin bag
The preacher lights up a bud and takes a drag
Hes waitin for the time when the last shall be first, and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box neath the underpass
With a one-way ticket to the promised land
With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
Lookin for a pillow of solid rock
Bathin in the citys aqueducts
And the highway is alive tonight
Nobodys foolin nobody as to where it goes
Im sittin down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
Now Tom said
Ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Wherever theres a fight against blood and hatred in the air
Look for me, Ma, Ill be there
Wherever somebodys strugglin for a place to stand
For a decent job or a helpin hand
Wherever somebody is strugglin to be free
Look in their eyes, Ma, youll see me
Youll see me
Youll see me
Youll see me
Youll see me
Youll see me
Youll see me
Youll see me
Youll see me
And the highway is alive tonight
Nobodys foolin nobody as to where it goes
Im sittin down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of Tom Joad |
Flip this capital eclipse
The vocal tone has got em sweating their own apocalypse
Yes, rebel of the grains stand masterless
The masked ones cap one, NAFTA coming with the new disaster
And yes, we in with the wind and the Plan de Ayala kin
Coming back around again
The slave driver saliva, one night, power turns
Them devils mouths dry, now Mexico burns
So here they come, one by one, them killers of the new frontier
Occupy, causing fear, come on
With the wind below
We in with the wind below
With the wind below
Flip this capital eclipse
Them bury life wit IMF shifts, and poison lips
Yo, they talk it while slicing our veins, yo, so mark it
From the FINCAS overseers to them vultures playing markets
She aint got nothing but weapon and shawl
She is Chol, Tzotzil, Tojolobal, Tzeltal
The tools are her tools, Ejidos and ovaries
She was strangled, now through a barrel she breathes
She is the wind below
The wind below
She is the wind below
And all the shareholders gonna flex and try to annex the truth
While the new trust is gonna flex and cast their image in you
Yeah, all the shareholders gonna flex and try to annex the truth
And while the new trust tries to flex and cast their image in you
And GE is gonna flex and try and annex the truth
And NBC is gonna flex and cast their image in you
And Disney bought the fantasies and piles of eyes
And ABCs new thrill rides of trials and lies
And while the gut eaters strain to pull the mud from their mouths
They force our ears to go deaf to the screams in the south, yeah
But we in with the wind below
But we in with the wind below
But we in with the wind below |
Hey, dont miss out on what youre passing
Youre missing the hootah of the funky Buddha
Eluder of the fucked up styles that get wicked
So come on as I start to kick it
Cause were like outlaws stridding
Suckers are hiding
Jump behind the bush
When they see me driving by
Hanging out my window
And my magnum taking out some putos
Acting kinda loco
Im just another local kid
From the street getting paid for my vocals
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
Ive been doin all the dumb shit, yo, because nothin is coming from it
Im not gonna waste no time fucking around, I got ya humming
Hummin, comin at ya
Then you know I had to gat ya
Time for some action, just a fraction of friction
I got the clearance to run the interference
Into your satellite, shining a battle light
Swing out the gat, and I know that well gat you right
Heres an example, just a little sample
How I could just kill a man
One time tried to come in my home
Take my chrome, I said, Yo, its on
Take cover son, or youre assed out
How do you like my chrome? Then I watched the rookie pass out
Didnt have to blast him but I did any way
Ha ha ha ha ha! Young punk had to pay
So I just killed the man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
Its gonna be a long time before I finish
One of the many missions that I have to establish
To light my spliff, ignite you with these site
So if you aint down
Bullshit
Say some punk tried to get you for your auto
Would call the one time and play the role model?
No, I think youll play like a thug
Next, hear the shot of a magnum slug
Humming, coming at ya!
Yeah, you know Im gonna to gat ya
How do you know where Im at
When you havent been where Ive been?
Understand where Im coming from
While youre up on the hill in your big home
Im out here risking my dome, just for a bucket, or a fast ducat
Just to stay alive, yo, I gotta say, Fuck it
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
Here is something you cant understand
How I could just kill a man
How I could just kill a man
How I could just kill a man |
Come on, check it
Through steel walls, your voice blastin on
True rebel, my brother, Mumia, I reflect upon
You the spark, that set the prairie fires on
Make the masses a mastodon path to trample the fascists on
At fifteen exposed Phillys finest killing machine
Boots and mad guns, they pacify ya young
Cause and effect, smell the smoke in the breeze
My panther, my brother, we are at war until youre free
Youll never silence the voice of the voiceless
Youll never silence the voice of the voiceless
Well, the powerful got nervous cause he refused to be they servant
Cause he spit truth that burned like black churches
Prose and verses, a million poor in hearses
Watch the decision of Dred Scott as it reverses
Long as the rope is tight around Mumias neck
Let there be no rich white life we bound to respect
Cause and effect, cant ya smell the smoke in the breeze?
My panther, my brother, we are at war until youre free
Youll never silence the voice of the voiceless
Youll never silence the voice of the voiceless
Youll never silence the voice of the voiceless
Youll never silence the voice of the voiceless
And Orwells hell, a terror era coming through
But this little brothers watching you too
And Orwells hell, a terror era coming through
But this little brothers watching you too, watching you too |
Every official that comes in, cripples us, leaves us maimed
Silent and tamed
And with our flesh and bones, he builds his homes
Southern fist, rise through the jungle mist
Clenched to smash power so cancerous
A black flag and a red star
A rising sun loomin over Los Angeles
Yes, for Raza livin in La La
Like Gaza on to the dawn of Intifada
Reach for the lessons the masked pass on
And seize the metropolis, its you its built on
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a new years day
Come on
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land
Their existence is a crime
Their seat, their robe, their tie
Their land deeds, their hired guns
Theyre the crime
Shots heard underground round the rapture
The worlds eye captured at last in a Mexican pasture
The masked screaming land or death
Within a breath, a war from the depth of time
Who shot four puppet governors in a line
Who shook all the world bankers who think they can rhyme
Shot the landlords who knew it was mine
Yes, its a war from the depth of time
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Come on
Ugh, hear the masked scream
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
Its land or death
Yeah, uh
Come on
Come on
Yes, yes
Yes
Its war within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death |
Hungry people dont stay hungry for long
They get hope from fire and smoke as the weak grow strong
Hungry people dont stay hungry for long
They get hope from fire and smoke as they reach for the dawn
The spirit of Jackson now screams through the ruins
Through factory chains and the ghost of the Union
The forgotten remains disappear to their new homes
The knife, the thrust, the life burns to the raw bone
The blood on the floor of the tear is still dryin
Cover the spread sheets, the Dow Jones skyin
The cell block live stock, the bodies they buyin
Old south order, new northern horizon!
Violence in all hands, embrace it if need be
Livin been warfare, I press it to CD
Violence in all hands, embrace it if need be
Livin been warfare, I press it to CD
A fire in the masters house is set
A fire in the masters house is set
A fire in the masters house is set
A fire in the masters house is set
Hungry people dont stay hungry for long
They get hope from fire and smoke as the weak grow strong
Hungry people dont stay hungry for long
They get hope from fire and smoke as they reach for the dawn
Yo, yo, check the high tech terror of the new order athletes
Peering into the eyes of the child already on trial
These armies rippin families apart, get em on file
Convictions fit the stock profile all the while
Films of dogs, cuttin through homes
Ripping skin from bones, yes, the new millennium homes
Privatizing through private eyes, an era rising
Of the old south order, new northern horizon
Violence in all hands, embrace it if need be
Livin been warfare, I press it to CD
Violence in all hands, embrace it if need be
Livin been warfare, I press it to CD
A fire in the masters house is set
A fire in the masters house is set
A fire in the masters house is set
A fire in the masters house is set |
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
They can be fuckin wit other niggas shit, but they cant be fuckin wit mine
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
They can be fuckin wit other niggas shit, but they cant be fuckin wit mine
I was raised in the hood called what the dif?
Where the brothers in the hood, we chivalrous
So I rest defense on my ligaments
Pistol grip pump on my lap, riskin it
Full life, living it, never giving it back
Too late for slipping, so slack up
On my lap, its on your lips, so track shot
A steel dick, more clip for pump but
All Im saying there aint no question who the man is
In my Civic or in this showbiz
I shit a fool, kill the fool, come on, what you say?
I think I can take care of all you motherfuckers, dont delay right away
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
They can be fuckin wit other niggas shit, but they cant be fuckin wit mine
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
They can be fuckin wit other niggas shit, but they cant be fuckin wit mine
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times, right?
Cause tricks be out for your blind side
Never understood it, but remember I showed you
That in these times, you gotta look over your shoulder, strap
Well, that aint nothin but the intent of gettin high
And a cop giving you shit for just passing you by
If youre ever in trouble or on the double, best to call your pals
If you aint got none now, sucka, I got a million
Styles around me
Are we getting along? We family, we better be
We got your back, we got your back, kid
Just dont be pointing one of them guns, aight man
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
They can be fuckin wit other niggas shit, but they cant be fuckin wit mine
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
They can be fuckin wit other niggas shit, but they cant be fuckin wit mine |
Yo, I was a fiend before I became a teen
I melted microphones instead of cones of ice cream
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Shot grabbed the mic and try to say, Yes yall!
They tried to take it, and say that Im too small
Cool, cause I dont get upset
I kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, then I jet
Back to the lab, without a mic to grab
So then I add all the rhymes I had
One after the another one, then I make another one
To diss the opposite then ask if the brothers done
I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine
But I dont need a cigarette, know what I mean?
Im raging, ripping up the stage and
Dont it sound amazing cause every rhyme is made and
Thought of, cause its sort of an addiction
Magnetized by the mixing
E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T , a smooth operator operating correctly
But back to the problem, I got a habit
You cant solve it, you silly rabbit
The prescription is a hypertone thats thorough when
I fiend for a microphone like heroin
Soon as the bass kicks, I need a fix
Gimme a stage and a mic and a mix
And Ill put you in a mood or is it a state of
Unawareness? Beware, its the re-animator
A menace to a microphone, a lethal weapon
An assasinator, if the people aint stepping
You see a part of me that you never seen
When Im fiendin for a microphone
Cause I take it to the maximum, I cant relax see, Im
Hype as a hypochrondriac cause the rap be one
Hell of a antidote, something you cant smoke
More than dope, youre trying to move away but you cant, youre broke
More than cracked up, you should have backed up
For those who act up need to be more than smacked up
E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T , a smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated, originated
It fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated, complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated, originated
It fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated, complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated, originated
It fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated, complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated, originated
It fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated, complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
It fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
It fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Cause Im an E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
E-F-F-E-C-T, a smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T , a smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
Cause Im an E-F-F-E-C-T |
I aint gonna work on Maggies Farm no more
No, I aint gonna work on Maggies Farm no more
Well, I wake up in the morning, fold my hands, and pray for rain
I got a head full of ideas that are drivin me insane
Its a shame, the way she makes me
Scrub the floor
I aint gonna work on, nah
I aint gonna work on Maggies Farm no more
I aint gonna work for Maggies brother no more
Nah, I aint gonna work for Maggies brother no more
Well, he hands you a nickel, and he hands you a dime
And he asks you with a grin, if youre havin a good time
Then he fines you every time you slam the door
I aint gonna work for, nah
I aint gonna work for Maggies brother no more
I aint gonna work for Maggies pa no more
No, I aint gonna work for Maggies pa no more
Well, he puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks
His bedroom window, it is made out of bricks
The National Guard .stands around his door
I aint gonna work for, nah
I aint gonna work for Maggies pa no more
I aint gonna work for Maggies ma no more
No, I aint gonna work for Maggies ma no more
Well, she talks to all the servants about man and God and law
And everybody says shes the brains behind ma
Shes sixty-eight but she says shes twenty-four
I aint gonna work for, nah
I aint gonna work for Maggies ma no more
I aint gonna work on Maggies Farm no more
No, I aint gonna work on Maggies Farm no more
Well, I try my best to be just like I am
But everybody wants you
To be just like them
They sing while they slave, and I just get bored
I aint gonna work on, nah
I aint gonna work on Maggies Farm no more |
Greed!
Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture, lost in the overthrow
They came to seize and take whatever they please
Then all they gave back was death and disease
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system, responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
AIDS is killing the entire African nation
And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation
But these governments, they dont mind their procrastination
They say, Well kill them off, take their land and go there for vacation.
My peoples culture was strong, it was pure
And if not for that white greed, it wouldve endured
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system
Their minds enslaved, their souls encaged
I feel the rage, its brutality can never be undone
But the sun is not yet set
The bass and drums and microphones a threat
Thats when ya investigate the crimes from the inside
And see that theyre responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Ya cram ya culture down my throat
Say Im inferior when I find it I choke
You fill my mind with a false sense of history
And then you wonder why I have no identity?
Well, Ill strike a match and itll catch and
Spread the insight we need
A tiny fire, burning bright
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
A yes yes yall
And ya dont stop
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
A yes yes yall
And ya dont stop
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
Yeah |
Coolin on the scene like a horse in a stable
A brother got ill, and tried to snatch a fat cable
I stepped back, like it wasnt no thing
I punched him in the jaw with the fat gold ring
I had an ace in the hole when it came to that
Yo Z, you was packin? You know I was strapped
Posse kept rollin, it was hard to get with em
So I stepped back, and unbuttoned my Lee denim
They kept coming, just like I figured
So I stepped back, and started sprayin niggas
What a way to go out, out like a sucker
But Im on track, like a Long Island train
That can head up your mission, suckers who be dissin
Always on my jock like a snake always hissing
Grabbing and tapping me like Luther Vandross
Take me to the bar for the drink and make a toast
Givin best wishes to the best MC
And when the spot is blown and yo, you know its me
Because Im housin
Cause Im housin
Because Im housin
Cause Im housin
Because Im housin
Because Im housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Cause Im housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Cause Im housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Cause Im housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Coolin at a party, no better yet disco
Head feelin mellow from a bottle of Cisco
Move
To crush and fry a sucker MC like Crisco
Gimme the cue, check, one, two
Dont try to come off on me, because you doo-doo
You treatin me the Z to the D, like a stepchild
Let me tell you homeboy, youre livin foul
MCs, you know who you are
On the bandwagon, why Z? Cause you a star
This is the year when the jokers are wild
When a fag cant hack it and try to bite your style
I get hip to the scheme, before it happens
If it gets wild, then I start cappin
But for now, since everythings calm
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Because Im housin
Cause Im housin
Cause Im housin
Cause Im housin
Because Im housin
Come on
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Cause Im housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Cause Im housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Because Im housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Because Im housin
Relate to the matter, relate to the matter, relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Relate to the matter, relate to the matter, relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Relate to the matter, relate to the matter, relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Relate to the matter, relate to the matter, relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Cause Im housin
Cause Im housin
Cause Im housin
Cause Im housin |
The hills find peace, locked armed guard posts
Safe from the screams of the children born as ghosts
Gates, guns and alarms shape the calm of the dawn
Peering down into the basin where death lives on
When young run foaming at the mouth with hate
When burning batons beat the freezing who shake
Under the toxic sunsets they dine and toast
Of walls deny the terror faced
By the children born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
One book and forty ghosts stuffed in a room
Ah, the school as a tomb
Where home is a wasteland, taste the razor wire
And thought is locked in the womb
The tales that tear at the myth of the dream
A suffering that shocks the lives off the screen
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts |
Good evening
We want to just quickly send a nice friendly message to the uh
Fraternal Order of Police in Philadelphia
Heres something nice and friendly
Heres something nice and friendly
Heres something nice and friendly
It goes something like this
Fuck tha police, comin straight out the underground
A young nigga got it bad cuz Im brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, cause I aint the one
For a punk muthafucka with a badge and a gun
To be beaten on, and thrown in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fuckin with me cause Im a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin my car, thinkin every ... is sellin narcotics
Youd rather see me in the pen
Than me and Lorenzo chillin in a Benz-o
... outta shape
And when Im finished, bring the yellow tape
To mark off the scene of the slaughter
No control of bread and water
Young niggas...
A young nigga on a warpath
And when Im finished, yo, theres gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin in L.A
Yo, I got somethin to say
Fuck tha police
Come on! Off, What?
Fuck tha police
Yeah!
Come on!
Fuck tha police
Yeah
Fuck tha police, comin straight out the underground
A young nigga got his badge cause Im brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, cause I aint the one
For a punk muthafucka with a badge and a gun
To be beaten on, and thrown in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fuckin with me cause Im a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin my car, lookin for the product
Thinkin every nigga is sellin narcotics
Youd rather see me in the pen
Then me and Lorenzo chilling in a Benz-o
Beat the police outta shape
And when Im finished, bring the yellow tape
To mark off the scene of the slaughter
No control of bread and water
I dont know if they fags or what
Search a nigga down and grabbin his nuts
And on the other hand, a gun they cant get none
But dont let it be a black and a white one
Cause theyll slam ya down into the street top
Black police showin out for the white cop
Yeah, brothas will swarm
On any muthafucka in a blue uniform
Just cause we in Washington DC
Punk police are afraid of me
Word!
Punk on a warpath
And when Im finished, it be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin in L.A
Hey yo, we got somethin to say
Fuck tha police
Come on! Sing that shit loud
Come on!
Come on one more time, here we go, here we go
Come on, one more, gotta do it
Right now, yeah, check it out |
Lookin like a bunch of Frat boys at summer camp and shit
Hadda be flashin like the daily double
Hadda be playin on TV
Hadda be loud-mouthed on the comedy hour
Hadda be announced over loud speakers
The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
It hadda be said in old ladies language
It hadda be said in American headlines
Kennedy stretched and smiled
And got double-crossed by lowlife goons and agents
Rich bankers with criminal connections
Dope-pushers in CIA working with
Dope-pushers from Cuba working with
Big time syndicate Tampa, Florida
It hadda be said with a big mouth
It hadda be moaned over factory foghorns
It hadda be chattered on car radio news broadcasts
It hadda be screamed in the kitchen
It hadda be yelled in the basement where uncles were fighting
It hadda be howled on the streets by newsboys to bus conductors
Hadda be foghorned into New York harbor
Hadda echo under hard hats
Hadda turn up the volume in the university ballrooms
Hadda be written in library books, footnoted
Hadda be in the headlines of the Times and Le Monde
It hadda be barked over TV
Hadda be heard in side alleys through ballroom doors
It hadda be played on wire services
Hadda be bells ringing
Comedians stopped dead in the middle of a joke in Las Vegas
Hadda be FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover
And Frank Costello syndicate mouthpiece
Meeting in Central Park, New York together weekends
Reported Time magazine
Hadda be the Mafia and the CIA together starting a war on Cuba
Bay of Pigs and poison assassination headlines
Hadda be the dope cops in the Mafia
Sold all that heroin in America
Hadda be the FBI and organized crime working it together in cahoots against the commies
Hadda be ringing on multinational cash registers
World-wide laundry for organized criminal money
Hadda be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI together
Bigger than Nixon and bigger than war
Hadda be a gorged throat full of murder
Hadda be a mounted ass, a solid mass of rage
Hadda be a red hot head, a scream in the back of the throat
Hadda be in Kissingers brain
Hadda be in Rockefellers mouth
Hadda be the central intelligence, the family, offing the agency Mafia
One big set of criminal gangs working together in cahoots
Hitmen, murderers everywhere
Outrage gonna make secret, drunk, brutal, dirty, and rich
On top of a slag heap of prisons
Industrial cancer
Plutonium smog
Garbage cities, grandmas bedsores
Fathers resentments
Hadda be the rulers
Wanting law and order
And they got rich on wanting protection for the status quo
Wanted junkies
Wanted Attica
Wanted Kent State
Wanted war in Indochina
Yeah
It hadda be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI
Multinational capitalists
Strong armed squads
Private detective agencies for the oh so very rich
And their armies, their navies and Air Force bombing planes
Hadda be capitalism
The vortex of this rage
This competition man to man
The horses head in a capitalists bed
The Cubans turf in competitions
Hitmen in gang wars across oceans
Bombing Cambodia settled the score
With White House pots and pans
A warning to Mediterranean governments
The secret police have braced for decades
The NKPD and CIA keep each others secrets
The OGBU and DIA never hit their own
The KGB and the FBI, one mind
Brute force and full of money
One mind, brute force, and full of money
One mind, brute force, and full of money
One mind, brute force, and full of money
One mind, brute force, and full of money
And full of money
And full of money
And full of money
It hadda be rich and they hadda be powerful
They hadda murder in Indonesia five hundred thousand
Hadda murder in Indochina two million
Hadda murder in Czechoslovakia
Hadda murder in Chile
Hadda murder in Russia
And hadda murder in America
That was a poem by Allen Ginsberg called Hadda Be Playing On The Jukebox. Hes a great poet |
Its a Beautiful world we live in
A sweet romantic place
Beautiful people everywhere
The way they show they care
Makes me want to say
Its a beautiful world
Oh, what a beautiful world
For you
Its a wonderful time to be here
Its nice to be alive
Wonderful people everywhere
The way they comb their hair
Makes me want to say
Its a wonderful place
Oh, what a wonderful place
For you
For you
For you
For you
For you
For you
Not me |
Greed!
Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture, lost in the overthrow
They came to seize and take whatever they please
Then all they gave back was death and disease
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system, responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
AIDS is killing the entire African nation
And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation
But these governments, they dont mind their procrastination
They say, Well kill them off, take their land and go there for vacation.
My peoples culture was strong
It was pure and if not for that white greed
It wouldve endured
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system
Their minds enslaved, their souls encaged
I feel the rage
Its brutality can never be undone
But the sun is not yet set
The bass and drums and microphones a threat
Thats when ya investigate the crimes from the inside
And see that theyre responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Ya cram ya culture down my throat
Say Im inferior when I find it I choke
Ya fill my mind with a false sense of history
And then you wonder why I have no identity?
Well Ill strike a match and itll catch and
Spread the insight we need
A tiny fire, burning bright
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
A yes yes yall
And ya dont stop
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
A yes yes yall
And ya dont stop
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
Yeah! |
Come
Bring it on, bring it on now
Solo, Im a soloist on a solo list
All live, never on a floppy disk
Inka, inka, bottle of ink
Paintings of rebellion
Drawn up by the thoughts I think
Oh, come on, oh
You see a set up like a deck of cards
Theyre sending us to early graves for all the diamonds
They use a pair of clubs to beat the spades
With poetry I paint the pictures that hit
More like the murals that fit
Dont turn away, get in front of it
Brotha, did you forget your name?
Did you lose it on the wall playin tic-tac-toe?
Yo, check the diagonal, three brothers gone, come on
Doesnt that make it three in a row?
Your anger is a gift
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Drop it
Sista, did you forget your name?
Did you lose it on the wall playin tic-tac-toe?
Yo, check the diagonal, three million gone, come on
Cause you know theyre counting backwards to zero
Environment, the environment exceeding on the level
Of our unconsciousness
For example what does the billboard say?
Come and play, come and play, forget about the movement
Forget about yourselfs, forget about your culture
And forget about your history and just fly, and just fly
Your anger is a gift
Yeah yeah
Bring that shit in
Freedom for the real
Freedom for the real
Freedom for the real
Freedom for the real
Freedom for the real
Freedom for the real
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah right
Yeah, freedom, yeah |
You tell me you like the taste
You just need an excuse
You tell me it calms your nerves
You just think it looks cool
You tell me you want to be different
You just change for the same
You tell me its only natural
You just need the proof
Did you fucking get it?
Its in my eyes, its in my eyes
Its in my eyes, its in my eyes
Its in my eyes, its in my eyes
Its in my eyes, its in my eyes
And it doesnt look that way to me
In my eyes
And it doesnt look that way to me
In my eyes
You tell me that nothing matters
Youre just fucking scared
You tell me that Im better
You just hate yourself
You tell me that you like her
You just wish you did
You tell me that I make no difference
Well, at least Im fucking trying
What the fuck have you done?
Its in my eyes, its in my eyes
Its in my eyes, its in my eyes
Its in my eyes, its in my eyes
Its in my eyes, its in my eyes
And it doesnt look that way to me
In my eyes
And it doesnt look that way to me
In my eyes |
Were gonna kick em out
Well, I feel pretty good
And I guess that I could get crazy now, baby
We all got in tune
When the dressing room got hazy
I know how you want it
When youre hot and tight
The girl cant stand it
When you do it right
When youre up on the stand
Let me kick out the jams
Kick out the jams, were gonna kick em out
And Im startin to sweat
You know my shirts all wet
What a feeling now, baby
The sound that abound and resounds and rebounds straight off of the ceilin
You gotta have it, baby
You cant do without
You get that feelin, gotta kick em out
Put that mic in my hand
And let me kick out the jams
Kick out the jams, we gotta kick em out
Alright, alright, alright, all
Gotta give it up
You know you cant get enough, Miss McKenzie
Cause it gets in your brain
And it drives you insane a loopy frenzy
The wigglin guitar and a crash on the drums
We wanna keep on rockin til the mornin comes
Let me be who I am
And let me kick out the jams
Yeah, kick out the jams
I done kicked em out |
This song is called A Bullet in Your Head
So get with this
This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow rules when the set commands ya
They said it was blue when ya blood was red, yeah
Thats how ya got a bullet blasted through your head
Blasted through your head, blasted through your head
I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen you was mesmerized
Cellular phones soundin a death tone
Corporations cold turn you to stone before you realize
They load the clip in omnicolor
Said they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And motherfuckers lost their minds
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say How high?
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say How high?
Check-a, check-a, check this shit out
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say How high?
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say How high?
Check-a, check-a, check it out
They load the clip in omnicolor
They pack the 9, they fire it at the prime time
The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And muthafuckers lost their minds
No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
And then play it again and again and again
Until your mind is locked in
Believin all the lies that theyre tellin ya
Buyin all the products that theyre sellin ya
They say jump and you say how high
You brain dead? You gotta fuckin bullet in your head?
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say How high?
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say How high?
Uh, yeah
Shit, what?
Your standin in line
Believin the lies
Your bowin down to the flag
You got a bullet in your head
Am I standing in line?
Am I believin the lies?
Im bowin down to the flag
I got a bullet in the head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
A bullet in your head
You gotta bullet in your fuckin head
Yeah, yeah! |
Yeah
Pump, pump, whew!
Pump, pump, pump, pump, right
Air, check it, uh
Lyrical champion, the lyrical champion
Lyrical champion, we say the mindsets a threat
Lyrical champion, the lyrical champion
Lyrical champion, we say the mindsets a threat, uh
You know!
You know the mindsets a threat
Go! Go!
Check it
In the industry, you see, they keep a yellow tape
Got the microphone because we want to be free
Never oppress, nor to relay your stress
May lack ability, but now youre put to the test
I run a set in the cool atmosphere
Dont worry about my dumb kicks or the car that I steer
That material pressure is just a digressor
Be livin my life, for they have not yet bothered with pressure, uh
Drop it!
Ease up!
Bringin in the new lifestyle in 1991 now
With the raggamuffin style were bringin it deep, yo
Now bring it down
Aw, shit
Listen to what Im sayin
Materialism Im slayin
Chasin a prediction, know what I mean
Its the system your obeyin
Throwin it like a catcher
You say what you think, you dancer
Runnin the free nation
Moneys not free, if you thinkin you want the answer
GO!
I run a set in the cool atmosphere
Dont worry about my dumb kicks or the car that I steer
That material pressure is just a digressor
Be livin my life, for they have not yet bothered with pressure, uh
Yes!
In the new sound!
Ease up! |
Zapatas blood
Wasnt spilt in vain
So now the most poor, the most poor
The most poor wage war, wage war
To reclaim their name
Zapatas blood
Wasnt spilt in vain
So now the most poor, the most poor
The most poor wage war, wage war
To reclaim their terrain
Yeah
On January first, 1994
The indigenous farmers of Southern Mexico
Declared war on an unjust
And illegitimate government
Out of the depths of the most wild, the most poor
Came a just arm struggle
For democracy, justice, and liberty
And it wont stop
Until that 65 year old dictatorship
The Partido Revolucionario Institucional
Is buried in the ground
And the peoples voice is heard once again
Yeah
So check it out
On January first of 94 they became known as a Zapatista movement
And they have a saying
And I want you all to sing along with me real quick
It goes something like this
It goes:
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Sing that shit
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Come on!
Yeah!
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves |
Everywhere I hear the sound of marching charging feet, boy
Cause summers here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
Tell me. what can a poor boy do
Cept for sing for a rock n roll band?
Cause in this sleepy L.A. town
Theres just no place for a street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
Do you think the, time is right for a palace revolution
Where I live, the game to play is compromise solution
Well, then what can a poor boy
Cept for sing for a rock n roll band?
Cause in this sleepy L.A. town
Theres just no place for a street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
Well, what else can a poor boy do?
Well, what else can a poor boy do?
Well, what else can a poor boy do?
Well, what else can a poor boy do?
Hey, my name is, called disturbance
Ill shout and scream, Ill kill the king, Ill rail at all his servants
Well, what can a poor boy do
For sing for a rock n roll band?
In this sleepy L.A. town
Theres just no place for
For a street fighting man
A street fighting man
For a street fighting man
A street fighting man
For a street fighting man
A street fighting man
For a street fighting man
A street fighting man
For a street fighting man
A street fighting man
For a street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man
A street fighting man |
Hey yo, let me be front, this is real and not a stunt
Im comin to the forefront
Shovel for the rebel and clear the lane
Cause this jam is like a tomahawk, chump
Teach ya, Ill never stop droppin topics
Vocal power, yes I got it
On central but their trying to clamp it down
Flag was waving the wrong way so I shot it, down!
Get down at the same time come up, down!
This is the crime that shut us up
I dont give a fuck because the words and the thoughts still hit
And like I said, its not a skit
Jump another hit, yeah
Ya know I dont need a drum kit
Make em say, Aw shit
The rebellion is true and legit
Down!
Get down! And clear the lane
Down!
Get down! And clear the lane
Down!
Get down! And clear the lane
Down!
Get down! Yeah!
The rebel, youll never disable
Defiance, with the cards up on the table
Pulling cards, keep the governments in check
Yo! I think we need a new deck
Never could trust a phillabusta
The mic is like a fist and itll bust ya
With words cold hittin with the underground
And now youre checkin out the new sound
Live hit, a live pop
Live rock and ya dont stop
It goes on and on and on
Whos a threat? Cmon, the war is on!
Start droppin, our words are never safe
Fighting myself til Im where I gotta be
A challenge, dont sweat it, now dont you forget it
Check me? What? Wait, you better slow down
Realize I cant confine my rhyme to a beat
I need cash so pinnacle is never ever weak
Places are fluid and diluted and complete
Check me once, calm down, take a seat
Strip the chains the freedoms there but then its gone!
Uh, clear the lane
Uh, clear the lane
Uh, clear the lane
Uh, clear the lane
Defiance, rippin up the sound set
Every time Im grippin the mic it is a sound threat
Resist against the suckers that bring the bass in
Timmy C, bring that bass in
Uh, clear the lane
Uh, clear the lane
Uh, clear the lane
Uh, clear the lane |
Down on the street where the faces shine
Floatin around on a real low mind
See a pretty thing in a wall
See a pretty thing in a wall
In a wall
In a wall
In a wall
Yeah
Uh
Yeah, deep in the night Im lost in love
Yeah, deep in the night Im lost in love
A thousand eyes, they look at you
A thousand eyes, they, they look at you
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Yeah
Uh, where faces shine
A real low mind
Faces shine
A real low, a real low, a real low, a real, real low
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Oh, come on
Yeah, yeah, yeah |
Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist, thats with
As we move into 92
Still in a room without a view
You got to know, you got to know that when I
Amp up and amplify defy Im a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We dont need the key, well break in
Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Fist in ya face, in the place
And Ill drop the style clearly
Know your enemy, know your enemy
Come on
Word is born fight the war
Now Ive got no patience
So sick of complacence
D the E F the I A the N and C the E
Mind of a revolutionary so clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What, the land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy?
Now something must be done about vengeance, a badge and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Now action must be taken
We dont need the key well break in
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
And Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Im sick of, sick of, sick of you
Time has come to pay
Come on
Come on
Yes I know my enemies
Theyre the teachers who taught me to fight me
Yeah compromise, conformity, assimilation
Submission, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams |
Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist, thats with
As we move into 92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know
Ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify
Defy
Im a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We dont need the key
Well break in
Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Fist in ya face, in the place
And Ill drop the style clearly, yeah
Know your enemy
Know your enemy!
Ugh
Come on
Word is bond
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D the E the F the I the A the N the C the E
Mind of a revolutionary
So clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy?
Ya got to know
Ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify
Defy
Im a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We dont need the key
Well break in
Know your enemy
Yeah
Youve got to know your enemies
Somethings got to be done |
Talkin about the American Indian movement
Well in 1977, after a series of long struggles against the BIA
Get that spotlight out of my fuckin eye, man
Get that thing off
Talkin to people I cant even see em
In 1977, after a long series of struggles
The Oglala Sioux reservation was under attack by the FBI
People who were involved in the movement there
Involved in defending their culture, defending their freedom
Were bein taken away, were bein kidnapped
Were bein murdered and one man
Who happened to be one of the leaders of AIM
Was thrown in jail
He has sat there for 17 years for crimes he did not commit
His name is Leonard Peltier, and this brothers been in jail
And has served his people, and has served true freedom
And constitutional rights and is being denied his own
And I think its a hypocrisy all of us need to expose in this country
So that if we wanna raise our voice
For ourselves in America the same doesnt happen
Weve got, weve got some pamphlets in the back
Where were sellin some shirts
Please pick one up, and please send, please, send
Your name or theres an address you can send or whats his name
Fuckin Dixey Crack Clinton, whoever that fuckin punk is
Lets fill this punks room full of fuckin mail
I know its not the fuckin most powerful form of fuckin change But lets get this fuckin ball rollin all right
This song is called Bombtrack
One time for ya fuckin mind, Minnesota
Check this shit out
Yeah, it goes a-1, 2, 3
Yeah, its just another bombtrack and suckers be thinkin that they can fade this
But, Im gonna drop it at a higher level
Cause Im inclined to stoop down, hand out some beat-downs
Cold run a train on punk hos, that think they run the game
But I learned to burn that bridge, and delete
Those who compete at a level thats obsolete
Instead, I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag
To recall the downfall, and the businesses that burnt us all
See through the news and the views, that twist reality
Enough, I call the bluff, fuck Manifest Destiny
Landlords and power whores, on my people they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite, and then watch em burn
With the thoughts from a militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite
And then watch em burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
It goes a
Another funky radical bombtrack
Started as a sketch in my notebook
And now dope hooks make punks take another look
My thoughts ya hear and ya begin to fear
That ya card will get pulled if ya interfere
With the thoughts from a militant militant mind
Hardline, hardline after mothafuckin hardline
Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite
And then watch em burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn |
Drop it
Hey, uh
Try to crack and somehow react
Vocal snaps attract
Im trying to rap
Those who try to subdue the truth
Lose their condition
Were labelled inactive
Being 91
The twentieth century
Brooklyn is a magnum in a bottle of kerosine
Flame ignites into the black sending fright
Tortured and weak minds
And words and insight
Back to the explosion on the stage
Guns fear
Presence of war creates a dangerous atmosphere
Using my brain a certain power is obtained
Using the strength Ive gained
A struggle remains, but I
Choose another tune to uplift
Yeah, you know my anger is a gift
A gift to expect the test we all must face
Hah, out my face
Release the reason
Allow the pain
The actors change
But the plays the same
Cmon
In the narrows
In the narrows
In the narrows
Some are the holders of power
But will start a galactic shower
Turn to my brother, little power, structure itself
Hate only motivates and creates more hate
State to state
I set it straight and investigate
Dull fate
While teachers taught me lessons
At the oppression I react with aggression
Yo, my section after section
No need for repressing
Just take the mic and a rap another session
No need for guessing
Yeah
And that shit that youre stressin
Release the reason
Align the pain
The actors change
But the plays the same
Release the reason
Align the pain
The actors change
But the plays the same
Ugh!
UGH!
Divine are stepping up and proving to suckas
They cannot dumben up their style
And I do it with a smile
When I put punks on trial, taking em back again
Yeah
The name of the comprehender
The style I drop is going on and on
To the punks who recognize the style
And realize that Im not no Punk Kid
Just stepping up for the mic hit
Ugh! |
Cmon!
The A-U-T-O-L-O-G-I-C
The A-U-T-O-L-O-G-I-C
Hey
The A-U-T-O-L-O-G-I-C
Drop auto logic
You thought you could get with
Me and Tommy hittin man
Cold dropped a smash hits
Angry as a veteran
Back in the force
Cause Im not frontin
Comin upon the stage Ill say ya somethin
Clear as a project
The style is hectic
Guess Im left with
A system skeptic
The truths Im droppin
From the pulpit Im yellin
Inspired by gunshots from a township rebellion
Word is a rough mix
Sign of justice
The rhyme is allowed cause you cant fillibust this
Style Ill catch ya
Ill catch ya the rapture
Ya murdered my level head
Ya know that I have to
Drop auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Drop auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Drop auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Stop before you take a wrong turn
Stop before you step up on the stage and get burned
Stop and just listen
Im dismissing competition with decisions
So I guess youll have to listen and learn
Creative
So what ya gonna do?
Aint no fading
So what ya gonna do?
Grab the microphone and say a check one two
The kids solo
Unafraid of any crew
Cause Im the type of brother with the maddest
Status
Statue or poll
Paid in full
No bull never dull
Always in control
Taking no shit like I was Manute Bol
Uh
Aw yeah
It goes a just like that yeah
Now break it down
Auto logic
On auto pilot
Silence equals death
And death equals silence
The crew that doesnt choose to speak their mind
Is a crew that looses power over time
And now that ya finally woke up
Yo wish your motherfuckin ass would have spoke up
Voices in full
The balled of the bullet
The mic is a trigger and I pull it
Droppin and smashin
Thrashin and bashin the set
Mentally and spiritually correct
Back and ya know its a treat
Cause every time I step ya know I wont forget ta
Drop auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Drop auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Drop auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Drop auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Drop auto logic
Yo I got to drop the logic
Come on |
Rebel, rebel and yell
Cause our people still dwell in hell
Locked in a cell
Yes, the structures a cell
Mad is the story I tell
How long can we wait?
Come on, seein whats at stake
Action for reaction
If your minds in a somewhat complacent state
Get a check up
This is a stick up
Our freedom or your life
Lord, I wish I could be peacful
But there can be no sequel
Now freedom must be fundamental
In Johannesburg or South Central
On the mic, cause someone should tell em
To kick in the township rebellion
Come on, ugh
Yeah, what about that sucka
Yeah, so you thought you could get with the hard rhymes
That fill your mind
Thoughts, battles fought
And lessons taught
Yes Ill display the fitness
And flip like a gymnast
Cause rhyme after rhyme
And droppin line after line
Your locked in a test of the mind
Your style is lagging behind, stuck in 89
Yes Im inclined, Im wearing a blind
Come to get some in 91
No freedom in the land of the free
If ya see it then tell me
Now freedom must be fundamental
In Johannesburg or South Central
On the mic, cause someone should tell em
To kick in the township rebellion
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Ugh
Come on
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Come on
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform
Fight the war, fuck the norm |
One, two
One, two, three, yeah!
Inslumnational, underground
Thunder pounds when I stomp the ground
Like a million elephants and silverback orangutans
You cant stop the train
Who want some? Dont come unprepared
Ill be there, but when I leave there
Better be a household name
Weatherman tellin us it aint gon rain
So now we sittin in a drop-top, soakin wet
In a silk suit, tryin not to sweat
Hit somersaults without the net
But thisll be the year that we wont forget
1-9-9-9, Anno Domini anything goes
Be what you wanna be as long as you know
Consequences are given for livin
The fence is too high to jump in jail
Too low to dig, I might just touch hell—hot
Get a life now they on sale
Then I might cast you a spell
Look at what came in the mail
A scale and some Arm & Hammer
Soul gold grill and a baby mama
Black Cadillac and a pack of Pampers
Stack of questions with no answers
Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS
Make a nigga wanna stay on tour for days
Get back home, things are wrong
Well, not really, it was bad all along
Before you left adds up to a ball of power
Thoughts at a thousand miles per hour
Hello, ghetto, let your brain breathe
Believe theres always more, ah
Dont pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad
Dont pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad
Uno, dos, tres, its on
Did you ever think a pimp rock a microphone?
Like that there boy and will still stay street
Big things happen every time we meet
Like a track team, crack fiend dying to geek
OutKast bumpin up and down the street
Slant back Cadillac, bout five niggas deep
75 MCs freestyling to the beat
Cause we get crunk, stay drunk, at the club
Shouldve bought an ounce, but ya copped a dub
Shouldve held back, but ya threw the punch
Supposed to meet your girl but ya packed a lunch
No D to the U to the G for you
Got a son on the way by the name of Bamboo
Got a little baby girl four year, Jordan
Never turned my back on my kids, there for them
Shouldve hit it, quit it, rag top
Before you re-up, get a laptop
Make a business for yourself, boy, set some goals
Make a fat diamond out of dusty coals
Record number four, but we on a roll
Hold up, slow up, stop, Control
Like Janet, Planet Stankonias on ya
Moving like Floyd, comin straight to Florida
Lock all your windows, then block the corridors
Pullin off my belt cause a whippings in order
Like a three-piece fish before I cut your daughter
Yo quiero Taco Bell, then I hit the border
Pity pat rappers trying to get to five
Im a microphone fiend tryin to stay alive
When you come to ATL, boy, you better not hide
Cause the Dungeon Family gon ride, high!
Dont pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad, yeah
Bombs over Baghdad, yeah
Bombs over Baghdad, yeah
Bombs over Baghdad, yeah
Bombs over Baghdad, yeah
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Bob your head, rag top
Dont pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad
Dont pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad
Yeah, dont even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad |
The classrooms the last room to get the truth
I said the classrooms the last room to get the truth
Yeah, the classrooms the last room to get the truth
Yeah, bring that shit in!
Yeah, check this out yall
As I kick it like wicked style, uh
In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us, teaches us to read and write
So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge and bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Heres the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam, step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, Ill drop the style and clear
Its the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless, we need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change and to counteract
We gotta take the power back
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back
The present curriculum, I put my fist in em
Eurocentric every last one of em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back
Weve got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causin tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
Im inferior? Whos inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior of the system
Who cares about only one culture
And that is why we gotta take the power back
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back
Break it down like this
Uh!
Like this!
Come on!
The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he cant recall
The students eyes dont perceive the lies
Bouncing off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school
Europe aint my rope to swing on
Cant learn a thing from it, yet I hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin weathermen
To expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back
We gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
Yeah! Yeah!
Take it back yall
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back yall, come on!
Take it back yall
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back yall, come on!
Yeah! |
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Uh!
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
But now you do what they told ya
Well now you do what they told ya
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those who died by wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who die are justified by wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Uh!
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Come on!
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me!
Motherfucker!
Ugh! |
A jail cell is freedom from the pain in my home
Hatred passed on passed on and passed on
A world of violent rage but its one that I can recognize
Having never seen the color of my fathers eyes
Yes, I dwell in hell but its a hell that I can grip
I tried to grip my family but I slipped
To escape from the pain in an existence mundane
I got a nine, a sign, a set, and now I got a name!
Read my writing on the wall!
No ones here to catch me when I fall!
Death is on my side!
Suicide!
A jail cell is freedom from the pain in my home
Hatred passed on passed on and passed on
A world of violent rage but its one that I can recognize
Having never seen the color of my fathers eyes
Yes, I dwell in hell but its a hell that I can grip
I tried to grip my family but I slipped
To escape from the pain in an existence mundane
I got a nine, a sign, a set, and now I got a name!
Read my writing on the wall!
No ones here to catch me when I fall!
Caught between my culture and the system
Genocide!
Read my writing on the wall!
No ones here to catch me when I fall!
If ignorance is bliss
Then knock the smile off my face!
Yeah!
If we dont take action now
We settle for nothing later
Settle for nothing now
And well settle for nothing later
If we dont take action now
We settle for nothing later
Settle for nothing now
And well settle for nothing later
If we dont take action now
We settle for nothing later
Settle for nothing now
And well settle for nothing later
If we dont take action now
Now, now
Now, now
Now, now
Now, now
Now, now
Now, now
Now, now |
It seems as if soon
As the wall in Germany fell
That the US government was busy building another one
At the border beween the US and Mexico
Since 1986, as a result of a lot of the hate talk and hysteria
That the government of the United States has been speaking
1,500 bodies have been found at the border
We wrote this song in response to it
Its called Without a Face
Uh, I got no card, so I got not soul
Life is prison, no parole, no control
Jura got my number on a wire tap
Cause I jack for Similac, fuck a Cadillac
Survive, one motive no hope
Cause every sidewalk I walk is like a tightrope
Yes, I know my deadline, sire, when my life expires
Im sendin paper south under the barbed wire
The mother of my child will lose her mind at my grave
Its my life for their life, so call it a free trade
Por vida and our name up on the stall
I took a death trip, when I tried to cross the white wall
Walk unseen past the graves and the gates
Born without a face
Born without a face
Walk unseen past the graves an the gates
Born without a face
One motive no hope, uh, yeah
Born without a face
Without a face!
I tried to look back to my past long lost
A blood donor to the land owner holocaust
Pops heart stopped, in came the air drop
Flooded the trench, he couldnt shake the toxic shock
Maize, was all we needed to sustain
Golden skin burns, insecticide rain
Ya down with DDT, yeah, you know me
Im raped for the grapes, profit for the bourgeoisie
War tape boomin, path is Luminoso
Im headed north like my name was Kid Cisco
To survive, one motive no hope, uh
Its hard to breathe with Wilsons hand around my throat, uh
Strangled and mangled, another SS curtain call
When I tried to cross the white wall
When I tried to cross the white wall
Walk unseen past the graves and the gates
Born without a face!
One motive no hope, uh
Without a face!
Walk unseen past the graves and the gates
Born without a face!
One motive no hope, uh
Without a face!
You say, fortify
Reaction, you divide
You say, fortify
Reaction
You say, fortify
Reaction, you divide
You say, fortify
Reaction
Re-Action
Re-Action
Re-Action |
Hey check this out right about now
I wanna introduce a brotha
That came all the way out here from the strong island
New York
And hes one of the fathers of revolutionary music
In our time period
He was a huge influence on us and we wanna bring him out right now
So check it out
We got a man by the name of Chuck D, from Public Enemy
Yeah
Wassup, wassup!
Wassup, wassup!
Wassup, wassup!
Wassup, wassup!
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo
Im with Rage on the stage and I back Zack
Tim on the bass, Tom in your face
We got Brad on the drums, can you get some?
Drummer in the ? can you get some?
Pump pump on my lap at all times
We murder the boom-bap
This is the rage in your ear
Here ye, here ye
The crowd so near me, but you still dont hear me
I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers
They wanted me for the army or whatever
Picture me given a damn - I said never
Here is a land that never gave a damn
About a brother like me and myself
Because they never did
I wasnt wit it, but just that very minute it
Occurred to me
The suckers had authority
Cold sweatin as I dwell in my cell
How long has it been?
They got me sittin in the state pen
I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before
I contemplated a plan on the cell floor
Im not a fugitive on the run
But a brother like me begun to be another one
Public enemy servin time, they drew the line yall
To criticize me for some crime
Never the less they could not understand that Im a black man
And I could never be a veteran
On the strength, the situations unreal
I got a raw deal, Zack, so Im lookin for the steel
Peace yall
Cmon yall, give it up for Chuck D!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah! |
Uggh!
Pull, pull
Yeah
Solo, Im a soloist on a solo list
All live, never on a floppy disk
Inka, inka, bottle of ink
Paintings of rebellion
Drawn up by the thoughts I think
Come on
Brotha, did ya forget ya name?
Did ya lose it on the wall
Playin tic-tac-toe?
Yo, check the diagonal
Three brothers gone
Come on
Doesnt that make it three in a row?
Anger is a gift
Hey
Yes, aw yeah
Ugh!
Check that!
Ugh!
Come on
Yeah
Ugh
Drop it
Brotha, did ya forget ya name?
Did ya lose it on the wall
Playin tic-tac-toe?
Yo, check the diagonal
Three brothers gone
Come on
Doesnt it make three in a row
Environment
The environment exceeding on the level
Of our unconsciousness
For example
What does the billboard say
Come and play, come and play
Forget about the movement
Anger is a gift
Ugh!
Hey
Bring that shit in
Ugh!
Hey!
Freedom, yeah
Freedom yeah right
Freedom yeah!
Freedom!
Yeah!
Freedom!
Yeah right!
Freedom!
Yeah!
Freedom!
Yeah!
Right! |
Ughh!
Hey yo, its just another bombtrack ughh!
Come on, hey yo, its just another bombtrack ugh
It goes a-one, two, three
And its just another bomb track
And suckas be thinkin that they can fade this
But Im gonna drop it at a higher level
Cause Im inclined to stoop down
Hand out some beat-downs
Cold runna train on punk hos that
Think they run the game
But I learned to burn that bridge and delete
Those who compete at a level thats obsolete
Instead I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag
As I recall our downfall
And the business that burned us all
See through the news and the views that twist reality
Enough, I call the bluff, fuck manifest destiny
Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits I ignite
And then watch em burn
With the thoughts from a militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits I ignite
And then watch em burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
It goes a one, two, three
Another funky radical bombtrack
Started as a sketch in my notebook
And now dope hooks make punks take another look
My thoughts ya hear and ya begin to fear
That ya card will get pulled if ya interfere
With the thoughts from a militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits I ignite
And then watch em burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn! |
Earth shares what Earth receives
And now only blood brings life
A tiller bring life, producer bring life
Protector bring life, soiled hands bring life
The tree of democracy shall be watered by the blood of revolution
So go plant a seed, go plant a seed for harvest
Go plant a seed for harvest producer
Producer, producer, producer, producer
Producer, producer, producer, producer
Producer, producer, producer, producer
Producer, producer, producer, producer
Producer, producer, producer, producer
Producer, producer
And it all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall
It all shall fall
I first met you and the ideas you uphold while incarserated A victim of a social experiment
Eventually addicted to your eight hour injections of hypocracy and arrogance and greed
Forced to sit with coplicity in front of my executioners
As they blugeoned me with their so called superior values and demanded my submission
I bacame an indentured servant in a factory
Where I myself was the product
Whos useful quality was to protect their palaces
Every word uttered from their mouths strangeled me
So that every thought I express
Shall sow the seed for the noose around their necks
And set fire to their homes
And every word uttered from their mouths strangeled me
So that every thought I express
Shall sow the seed for the noose around their necks
And set fire to their homes
And set fire to their homes
And set fire to their homes
And set fire to their homes
And set fire to their homes
And it all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall by the grace of the people and
It all shall fall
Fall
Fall
Fall
Fall
Fall
Fall
Fall
Fall |
In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and right
So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Heres the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, Ill drop the style and clear
Its the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back
Yeah, take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back
The present curriculum
I put my fist in em
Eurocentric every last one of em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
Weve got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causin tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
Im inferior? Whos inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back
We gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back
Ah yeah were gonna break it down
Aw shit!
Ugh!
Dont stop, and ya dont stop
Ugh
Like this, come on
Ugh
The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he cant recall
The students eyes dont perceive the lies
Bouncing off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school
What about that, the system ?
Come on
We gotta take the power back
We gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back
No more lies
Ugh! Come on, ugh
Check it
Take it back yall
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back yall, come on!
Take it back yall
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back yall, come on!
Ugh!
Yeah! |
Yeah, its just another bombtrack
And suckers be thinkin that they can fade this
But, Im gonna drop it at a higher level
Cause Im inclined to stoop down, hand out some beat-downs
Cold run a train on punk hos, that think they run the game
But I learned to burn that bridge, and delete
Those who compete, at a level thats obsolete
Instead, I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag
To recall the downfall, and the businesses that burnt us all
See through the news and the views, that twist reality
Enough, I call the bluff, fuck Manifest Destiny
The landlords and power whores, on my people they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite, and then watch em burn
With the thoughts from a militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
The landlords and power whores on my people they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite and I watch em burn
Watch em burn
Another funky radical bombtrack
Started as a sketch in my notebook
Yeah now dope hooks make punks take another look
My thoughts ya hear and ya begin to fear
That ya card will get pulled if you interfere
With the thoughts from a militant militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
The landlords and power whores on my people they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite, then I watch em burn
Watch em burn
Yeah watch them burn
Watch em burn
Yeah I tried to look back to my past long lost
A blood donor to the land owner Holocaust
Pops heart stopped, in came the air drop
Flooded the trench, couldnt shake the toxic shock
Maize, was all we needed to sustain
Now her golden skin burns, insecticide rain
Ya down wit DDT - yeah, you know me
Im raped for the grapes, and the profit for the bourgeoisie
War tape boomin, path is Luminoso
Im headed north like my name was Kid Cisco
To survive, just a prophet lost and learned
I got to break em off and watch em burn
Watch em burn |
Huh
Yeah, were comin back in with another bomb track
Think ya know its all of that, huh
Ayyo, so check this out, yeah
Know your enemy
Cmon
Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist
As we, move into 92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know, ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify, defy
Im a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We dont need the key, well break in
Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Fist in ya face in the place and Ill drop the style clearly
Know your enemy
Know your enemy
Yeah
Ayyo, get with this, ugh
Word is born
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E
Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Now something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to Rage Against em
Now action must be taken
We dont need the key, well break in
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Sick of, sick of, sick of, sick of you
Time has come to pay
Know your enemy
Cmon
Yes, I know my enemies!
Theyre the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams |
This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow rules when the set commands ya
Said it was blue
When ya blood was read
Thats how ya got a bullet blasted through ya head
Blasted through ya head
Blasted through ya head
I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen
You were mesmerized
Cellular phones soundin a death tone
Corporations cold
Turn ya to stone before ya realize
They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the nine, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Run it!
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Checka, checka, check it out
They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the nine, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds
No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
And then play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin all the lies that theyre tellin ya
Buyin all the products that theyre sellin ya
They say jump and ya say how high
Ya brain-dead
Ya gotta fuckin bullet in ya head
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Uggh! Yeah! Yea!
Ya standin in line
Believin the lies
Ya bowin down to the flag
Ya gotta bullet in ya head
Ya standin in line
Believin the lies
Ya bowin down to the flag
Ya gotta bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
Ya gotta bullet in ya fuckin head!
Yeah!
Yeah! |
Here we go
9-5 is the blood for your sweat
Pay the landlord, hes taking your blood for the rent
Yo
The balance dead so a bullets what I get
When my Mao-Say-Tung gets offensive like Tet
The whip snapped my back
My spine cracked
For tobacco
Im the Marlboro man
Can I make London bridges fall
If they do me like Mumia Abu-Jamal
Nobody move
Nobody move
86 Philly pigs drive a whole city block
And Im campin like Hampton
Read the word of the innocent
Yet death row is locked
Capitol-i-ism
Check the wrong rhythm
And so they say let Saigons be Saigons
But wait a Ho-Chi-minute
Waste the day cause the night brings a hearse
Make a move and plead the fifth
Ya cant plead the first
Are you ready to testify?
Get ready to testify
Are you ready to testify?
Get ready to testify
The revolutionary aesthetic
Black leather, beret and powder blue
However meanacing this human form on the outside looks
Without revolutionary action
Its ever so translucent
I stand admist grandeous gestures
Postures and platforms of romanticism
Creating more noise than answers
Creating more noise than the sirens
That keep our children crouched in corners
I sit and watch us do the blind mans dance
And I cant stand the smell of false composure
So I take a Ho-Chi minute to meditate
And think
And then tune to the word of Jose Matin
Doing is the best way of saying
Doing is the best way of saying
Doing is the best way of saying
Doing is the best way of saying
9-5 is the blood for your sweat
Pay the landlord, hes taking your blood for the rent Yo
The balance dead so a bullets what I get
When my Mao-Say-Tung gets effective like tet
The whip snap my back
My spine crack
Front to back
Ohhh what a Marlboro man
Can I make London bridges fall
If they do me like Mumia Abu-Jamal
Nobody move
Nobody move
86 Philly pigs drive a whole city block
And Im campin like Hampton
Read the word of the innocent
Yet death row is locked
Capitol-i-ism
Check the wrong rhythm
And so they say let Saigons be Saigons
But wait a Ho-Chi-minute
Waste the day cause the night brings a hearse
Make a move and plead the fifth
Ya cant plead the first
Are you ready to testify?
Get ready to testify
Are you ready to testify?
Get ready to testify
Cmon
Doing is the best way of saying
Doing is the best way of saying |
Come with it now
Come with it now
The microphone explodes, shattering the mold
Either drop the hits like de la O or get the fuck off the commode
With the sure shot, sure to make the bodies drop
Drop and dont copy, yo, dont call this a co-op
Terror rains drenchin, quenchin the thirst
Of the power dons, that five-sided Fistagon
The rotten sore on the face of Mother Earth gets bigger
The trigger’s cold, empty your purse
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war, cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble, that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we dont know keeps the contracts alive and movin
They dont gotta burn the books, they just remove em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pockets full of shells
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Bulls on parade, uh
Come with it now
Come with it now
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade |
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
But I wont do what you tell me
Now youre under control
Those who died are justified for
Wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justified those that died by
Wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified for
Wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Killing in the name
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
But you, youre under control
Now you do what they told
Those who died are justified for
Wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justified those that died by
Wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified for
Wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Killing in the name
Motherfucker |
Come with it now!
Come with it now!
The microphone explodes, shattering the mold
Either drop the hits like de la O or get the fuck off the commode
With the sure shot, sure to make the bodies drop
Drop and dont copy, yo, dont call this a co-op
Terror rains drenchin, quenchin the thirst
Of the power dons, that five-sided Fistagon
The rotten sore on the face of Mother Earth gets bigger
The trigger’s cold, empty your purse
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war, cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble, that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery, now
What we dont know keeps the contracts alive and movin
They dont gotta burn the books, they just remove em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pockets full of shells
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Bulls on parade! Uh...
Come with it now
Come with it now
Bulls on parade!
Bulls on parade!
Bulls on parade!
Bulls on parade!
Bulls on parade!
Bulls on parade! |
Zapatas blood
Wasnt spilt in vain
So now the most poor, the most poor
The most poor wage war, wage war
To reclaim their name
Zapatas blood
Wasnt spilt in vain
So now the most poor, the most poor
The most poor wage war, wage war
To reclaim their terrain
Yeah
On January first, 1994
The indigenous farmers of Southern Mexico
Declared war on an unjust
And illegitimate government
Out of the depths of the most wild, the most poor
Came a just arm struggle
For democracy, justice, and liberty
And it wont stop
Until that 65 year old dictatorship
The Partido Revolucionario Institucional
Is buried in the ground
And thе peoples voice is hеard once again
Yeah
So check it out
On January first of 94 they became known as a Zapatista movement
And they have a saying
And I want you all to sing along with me real quick
It goes something like this
It goes:
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Sing that shit
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Come on!
Yeah!
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves
Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves |
Buenas noches, nosotros estamos, Rabia contra la maquina de Los Angeles, California
The movie ran through me
The glamour subdue me
The tabloid untied me
Im empty. please fill me
Mister Anchor, assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice, it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you, my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes, the car is our wheelchair
My witness, your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless
Who travel now in coffins
The jurys sleepless
We found your weaknеss
And its right outside your door
Now testify
Testify
Its right outsidе your door, testify
Testify
With precision you feed me
My witness, Im hungry
Your temple, it calms me, so I can carry on
My slaving, sweating the skin right off my bones
On a bed of fire, Im choking on the smoke that fills my home
The wrecking ball is rushing
Witness your blushing
Pipelines is gushing
While here we lie in tombs
While on the corner
The jurys sleepless
We found your weakness
And its right outside your door
Now testify
Testify
Its right outside your door
Testify
Now testify
Mass graves for the pump when the price is set
When the price is set
Mass graves for the pump when the price is set
When the price is set
Mass graves for the pump when the price is set
When the price is set
Mass graves for the pump when the price is set
When the price is set
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?
Now testify
Testify
Its right outside your door
Testify
Now testify
Its right outside your door |
Made You Go Down Rodeo |
Killing in the name of
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Uh!
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
But now you do what they told ya!
Well, now you do what they told ya
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Uh!
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, theyre the chosen whites
Come on!
Ugh!
Yeah!
Come on!
Ugh!
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Fuck you, I wont do what you tell me
Motherfucker!
Ugh! |
Oh shit
Come on
Call that shit up
Pump that shit up
Yeah
Since fifteen hundred and sixteen, Mayans attacked and overseen
Crawl amidst the ruins of this empty dream
With their borders and boots on top of us
Pullin knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis
How you gonna get what you need to get?
The gut eaters, blood drenched get offensive like Tet
The fifth sun sets get back reclaim
The spirit of Cuauhtémoc, alive and untamed
Face the funk now blastin out your speaker
On the one, Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal your name but now you got a gun
Yeah, this is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
Dont ever forget that the whip snapped ya back
Your spine cracked for tobacc-oh, Im the Marlboro Man, uh
Our past blastin on through the verses
Brigades of taxi cabs rollin Broadway like hearses
Troops strippin zoots, shots of red mist
Sailors blood on the deck, come sister, resist
The era of terror, check this photo lens
Now the City of Angels does the ethnic cleanse, uh
Heads bobbin to the funk out your speaker
On the one, Maya, Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal your name but now you found a gun
Youre history
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again, why, why
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around again,
Its comin back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin back around, yeah
Of the sun |
We dont have to play
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what, do what
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what, do what
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what, do what
We dont have to play
We dont have to play
Fuck you I wont do what you tell me
Killing in the name of
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Ugh!
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
Now you do what they told ya
We dont have to play
We dont have to play
Fuck you I wont do what you tell me
We dont have to play
We dont have to play |
Yeah
The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
So raise your fists and march around
Just dont take what you need
Ill jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or Ill drag you to your grave
Im deep inside your children
Theyll betray you in my name
Hey, hey
Sleep now in the fire
The lie is my expense
Its the cost of my desire
The party blеssed me with its future
And I protеct it with fire
I am the Niña, the Pinta, the Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer
The agents of orange, priests of Hiroshima
Sleep now in the fire
Sleep now in the fire
Hey, hey
Sleep now in the fire
Hey, hey
Sleep now in the fire
For its the end of history
Its caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one that makes you ill
The Niña, the Pinta, the Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer
The agents of orange, the priests of Hiroshima
Sleep now in the fire
Sleep now in the fire
Sleep now in the fire
Sleep now in the fire
Sleep now in the fire |
Just bounce to this
Everybody just bounce to this
Aint no funk, its funky, its Doggystyle
Aint no funk, its funky, its Doggystyle
Shucks, stomping in my big blue chucks
More bounce to the ounce while Im ditching you klutz
Bump-bump-bump-bump while youre bumping your sounds
Its the zoo and the Pound we dont eff around
Relax your mind and let your conscience be free
And get down, stomping grounds is the LBC
I slid up out the game and MCs get wacked
But now Im back , so go get your strap
Watch your head, I break bread
Wit Gs, Muslims, hard-heads and dreds
Bounce, rock while rollerskating
On them 20 inch tires with the platinum Daytons
Im not that BG popping all that junk
About Ill touch you up, he sound like a punk
I been there and done that, no inspiration
All day demonstration beat conversation
Aint no funk, its funky, its Doggystyle
Aint no funk, its funky, its Doggystyle
I keep brothers in the studio, word is bond
Been working on ya new album for two years strong
And still cant come up with the right song
You know what they say:Study long, study wrong
All aboard the train so come along
Cos we keep the glue stuck against the bone
Its alright aint no room for wrong
Doggyland is the motherland, make yourself at home
I got money loads by the barrels
I even got a few fans thats crazy like DeNiro
Im international money maker, player hater
Shake up for the sake of spending dollars and I always holler
At a player though cos players know the real from the fake
You can put that on your toast, your coast and your state
I give you people what you like
What I look like in jail and cant get on the mic
Aint no funk, its funky, its Doggystyle
Aint no funk, its funky, its Doggystyle
Snoop, come bounce to this
Snoop, come bounce to this
Snoop, come bounce to this
Killing up crews, give em the real street blues
Have em sliding in their eel-skins, grooving in their tennis shoes
Of course it dont stop being a Westside ridah
Wit no tattoos thats how they got you
I lay conversation on wax and CDs
BGs and originals, here come the mission
Making biters ride the Pound for the rest of the season
Doggy DPG ya lil homey
Look, I represent the LBC-ment
Windows tint, fool thats the president
I hit you with a tune every blue moon
Collard on your plate so you can stuff it in your face
Ooh, say your Grace before you touch your plate
It taste like its laced but it aint
This one puff uncut, no doubt
Everybody know I gotta ounce in the house
Aint no funk, its funky, its Doggystyle
Aint no funk, its funky, its Doggystyle
Snoop, come bounce to this
Snoop, come bounce to this
Snoop, come bounce to this
Snoop
Death row. 1-9-9-7. Snoop D-O-double G. Rage Against the Machine
Rock and roll hip hop
You thought Id fall off. Ill fall off into this dope-ass rock and
Roll track. Yknow?
Charlie Wilson. Bow down
Aw yeah
This is crackin yall. This how we doin it
You know
Biatch!
Bounce to this
Bounce to this
Bounce to this
Bounce to this
When I say Bow, you say Wow
Bow
Bow
Bow
Bow
Bow
And you dont stop
Death Row
Hahahahaha
How you like dem apples?
DPG, Rage Against the Machine
Roc N Roll
Dem
What difference do it make?
Just bounce to this |
Transmission, third World War, third round
A decade of the weapon of sound above ground
No shelter if youre looking for shade
I lick shots at the brutal charade
As the polls close like a casket
On truth devoured, silent play on the shadow of power
A spectacle, monopolized
The cameras eyes on choice disguised
Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil?
Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?
Yes a spectacle, monopolized
They hold the reins, stole your eyes
Fistagons, thе bullets and bombs
Who stuff the banks and staff the party ranks
Morе for Gore or the son of a drug lord
None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord!
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Come on
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
, I hijacked the frequencies
Blockin the beltway, move on DC
Way past the days of bombin MCs
Sound off, Mumia, go on, be free
Who got em? Check the federal file
All you pen devils know the trial was vile
Army of pigs try to silence my style
Off em all out the box, its my radio dial
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Lights out, guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up
Lights out, guerrilla radio
It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now |
Every official that comes in, cripples us, leaves us maimed
Silent and tamed
And with our flesh and bones, he builds his homes
Southern fist, rise through the jungle mist
Clenched to smash power so cancerous
A black flag and a red star
A rising sun loomin over Los Angeles
Yes, for Raza livin in La La
Like Gaza on to the dawn of Intifada
Reach for the lessons the masked pass on
And seize the metropolis, its you its built on
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a nеw years day
Everything can change on a nеw years day
And everything changed on a new years day
Come on
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land
Their existence is a crime
Their seat, their robe, their tie
Their land deeds, their hired guns
Theyre the crime
Shots heard underground round the rapture
The worlds eye captured at last in a Mexican pasture
The masked screaming land or death
Within a breath, a war from the depth of time
Who shot four puppet governors in a line
Who shook all the world bankers who think they can rhyme
Shot the landlords who knew it was mine
Yes, its a war from the depth of time
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Come on
Ugh, hear the masked scream
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
Its land or death
Yeah, uh
Come on
Come on
Yes, yes
Yes
Its war within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death
War within a breath
Its land or death |
My fears hunt me down
Capturing my memories
The frontier of loss
They try to escape across the street where
Jesus stripped bare
And raped the spirit He was supposed to nurture
In the name of my
In the name of my
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Like autumn leaves his sense fell from him
An empty glass of himself shattered somewhere within
His thoughts like a hundred moths
Trapped in a lampshade
Somewhere within
Their wings banging and burning
On through endless night
Forever awake he lies shaking and starving
Praying for someone to turn off the light
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
My fear is hunting me down
Capturing my memories
The frontier of loss
They try to escape across the street where
Jesus stripped bare
And raped the spirit He was supposed to nurture
In the name of my
In the name of my
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man
Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
Born of a broken man, never a broken man |
Unintelligible Screaming
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ahhh
EeeeeeeeeEE EEEEEEeeeaaaAAA AAAAAAaaa
Riders on my motorcycle
[Sammy O}
Rib-bib-bib-bub
Rib-bub-bub-bibib
Rib Rib Rib
Rib-ib-ib
Ungh
Screams
Hi, Im Peter Griffin
Hey Peter
[Sammy O.}
Screams
Screams again
Bu-ta-ka-ta-bu-tu-bu-ka
Bu-ta-ka-ta
laughter
Baby
Screams
Hold me close
Don’t let go
Yeah
Baby, ooooohhh
Screams
You didnt get it
The postage
I didnt have the stamps
I needed you
To deliver my letters
And in this corner
Screams
Respect for the dead
Bwow-bwow-bwow
Bu-na-bu-na
Bwow-bwow-bwow
Bu-na-bu-na
Bwow-bwow-bwow
Bu-na-bu-na
Bwow-bwow-bwow
Bu-na-bu-na
Bwow-bwow-bwow
I just farted |
The main attraction, distraction
Got ya number than number than numb
Empty ya pockets, son, they got you thinkin that
What ya need is what they selling
Make you think that buying is rebelling
From the theaters to malls on every shore
The thin line between entertainment and war
The frontline is everywhere, there be no shelter here
Spielberg, the nightmare works so push it far
Amistad was a whip, the truth was featherеd and tarred
Memories еrased, burned and scarred
Trade in ya history for a VCR
Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture, Americana
Chained to the dream they got you searchin for
The thin line between entertainment and war
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
Hospitals not profit full
The market bulls got pockets full
To advertise some hip disguise
View the world from American eyes
The poor adore, keep fiendin for more
The thin line between entertainment and war
They fix the need, develop the taste
Buy their products or get laid to waste
Coca-Cola is back in the veins of Saigon
And Rambo too, hes got a dope pair of Nikes on
And Godzilla, pure mothafuckin filler
To keep ya eyes off the real killer
Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture, Americana
Chained to the dream they got you searchin for
Tha thin line between entertainment and war
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
There be no shelter here
American eyes, American eyes
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothing behind
American eyes, American eyes
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothing behind
Just stare
Just stare
Just stare
Just stare
Relive the nightmare |
Feel the funk blast
Feel the funk blast
Feel the funk blast
Feel the funk blast
Feel the funk blast
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo
I be walkin God like a dog, my narrative, fearless
Word war returns to burn like Baldwin home from Paris
Steel from a furnace, I was born landless
This is the native son, born of Zapata’s guns
Through the shanties and the cities remains
Same bodies buried hungry but with different last names
These vultures rob everything, leave nothing but chains
Pick a point on the globe, the pictures the same
A bank and a church, a myth and a hearse
A mall and a loan, a child dead at birth
A widow pig parrot, rebel to tame
A white-hooded judge, a syringe and a vein
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
I’m calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
This aint subliminal, feel the critical mass approach horizon
The pulse of the condemned, sound off Americas demise
The anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, yes, I spit fire
Hope lies in the smoldering rubble of empires
Back through the shanties and the cities remains
Same bodies buried hungry, but with different last names
Vultures robbin everyone, leave nothing but chains
Pick a point here at home, the pictures the same
Field full of slaves, some corn and some debt
A ditch full of bodies, check for the rent
Theres the tap, the phone, the silence of stone
The numb black screen that be feelin’ like home
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
What you say, what you say, what you say, what?
I’m calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
I’m calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Im calm like a bomb
Theres a mass without roofs, a prison to fill
A country’s soul that reads post no bills
A strike and a line of cops outside of the mill
A right to obey and a right to kill
A mass without roofs, a prison to fill
A countrys soul that reads post no bills
A strike and a line of cops outside of the mill
A right to obey and a right to kill |
Come with it now
Come with it now
This microphone explodes, shattering the mold
Either drop the hits like de la O or get the fuck off the commode
With the sure shot, sure to make the bodies drop
Drop and dont copy, yo, dont call this a co-op
Terror rains drenchin, quenchin the thirst
Of the power dons, that five-sided Fistagon
That rotten sore on the face of Mother Earth gets bigger
Triggers cold, empty your purse
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war, cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble, that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
We dont know keeps the contracts alive and movin
They dont gotta burn the books, they just remove em
Arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally round the family with a pocket full of shells
Uh, bulls on parade, woo
Transform
Uh-huh
Uh
Come with it now
Come with it now
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Gracias |
Huh
Yeah, were comin back in with another bombtrack
Think ya know its all of that, huh
Ayo, so check this out, yeah
Know your enemy
Come on
Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist
As we move into 92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know, ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify, defy
Im a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We dont need the key, well break in
Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Fist in ya face in the place and Ill drop the style clearly
Know your enemy
Know your enemy
Yeah
Ayo, get with this, ugh
Word is born
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E
Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Now something must be done
About vengeance, a badge, and a gun
Cause Ill rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Now action must be taken
We dont need the key, well break in
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Sick of, sick of, sick of, sick of you
Time has come to pay
Know your enemy
Come on
Yes, I know my enemies
Theyre the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity
Assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy
Brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams |
Rebel, rebel and yell
Cause our people still dwell in hell
Locked in a cell, yes, the structures a cell
Mad is the story I tell
How long can we wait?
Come on, seein whats at stake
Action for reaction
If your minds in a somewhat complacent state, get a check up
This is a stick up
Our freedom, or your life
Lord, I wish I could be peaceful
But there can be no sequel
Now freedom must be fundamental
In Johannesburg, or South Central
On the mic cause someone should tell em
To kick in the township rebellion
Yeah, what about that, sucka?
Yeah, so you thought you could get with the hardlines
That fill your mind
Thoughts, battles fought, and lessons taught
Yes, Ill display the fitness, and flip like a gymnast
Raise my fist and resist!
Asleep though we stand in the midst of the war
Gotta get mine, gotta get more
Keepin the mic warm against the norm
Cause what does it offer me?
I think often its nothin but a coffin
Gotta get wreck til our necks never swing on a rope
From here to the cape of no hope
Now freedom must be fundamental
In Johannesburg, or South Central
On the mic cause someone should tell em
To kick in the township rebellion
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Whats it gonna take?
Shackle their minds when theyre bent on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Shackle their minds when theyre left on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Shackled our minds when were bent on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Shackled our minds when were left on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Lost
Lost
Shackle your minds and youre left on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Just shackle your minds when youre bent on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost
Lost
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Why stand on a silent platform?
Fight the war, fuck the norm |
Uh
Pump, pump, woo!
Come on
Uh
Solo, Im a soloist on a solo list
All live, never on a floppy disk
Inka, inka, bottle of ink
Paintings of rebellion drawn up by the thoughts I think
Yeah
Come on
The militant poet in once again, check it
Its set up like a deck of cards
Theyre sendin us to early graves for all the diamonds
Theyll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades
With poetry, I paint the pictures that hit
More like the murals that fit
Dont turn away, get in front of it
Brotha, did ya forget ya name?
Did ya lose it on the wall playin Tic-Tac-Toe?
Yo, check the diagonal, three brothers gone, come on
Doesnt that make it three in a row?
Come on
Uh
Drop that
Uh
Come on
Yeah
Uh
Brotha, did ya forget ya name?
Did ya lose it on the wall playin Tic-Tac-Toe?
Yo, check the diagonal, three million gone, come on
Cause you know theyre counting backwards to zero
Environment, the environment exceeding
On the level of our unconsciousness
For example, what does the billboard say?
Come and play, come and play
Forget about the movement
Yeah
Uh
Aw, bring that shit in
Uh
Hey
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah right
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah, right
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, yeah, right |
Uhh
Ayy, yo, its just another bombtrack, uh
Ayy, yo, its just another bombtrack, yeah
It goes a one, two, three
Yeah, and its just another bombtrack
And suckers be thinkin that they can fake this
But Ima drop it at a higher level
Cause Im inclined to stoop down, hand out some beatdowns
Could run a train on punk fools that think they run the game
But I learned to burn that bridge and delete
Those who compete at a level thats obsolete
Instead, I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag
To recall the downfall and the businessеs that burnt us all
See through the news and the viеws that twist reality
Enough, I call the bluff, fuck Manifest Destiny
Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch em burn
With the thoughts from a militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch em burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
It goes a one, two, three, another funky, radical bombtrack
Started as a sketch in my notebook
And now dope hooks make punks take another look
My thoughts ya hear and ya begin to fear
That ya card will get pulled if ya interfere
With the thoughts from a militant, militant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns
Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch em burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Hey, yo, its just another bombtrack
Check it out
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, youre gonna burn
Burn |
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Open up your hate and let it flow into me
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
You mother, get up, come on, get down with the sickness
You f, get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Madness is the gift that has been given to me
Drowning deep in my sea of loathing
Broken, your servant, I kneel
It seems whats left of my human side
Is slowly changing in me
Looking at my own reflection
When suddenly it changes, violently it changes
Oh no, there is no turning back now
Youve woken up the demon in me
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Open up your hate and let it flow into me
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
You mother, get up, come on, get down with the sickness
You f, get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Madness is the gift that has been given to me
Hey now, youre an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, youre a rock star
Get the show on, get paid
And all that glitters is gold
Only shooting stars break the mold
Oh, wah-ah-ah-ah!
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Open up your hate and let it flow into me
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness
You mother, get up, come on, get down with the sickness
You f, get up, come on, get down with the sickness
Madness is the gift that has been given to me
Oh, wah-ah-ah-ah!
Oh, wah-ah-ah-ah!
Oh, wah-ah-ah-ah! |
Killing in the name of
Kill, killing in the name of
You will not be able to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip out for beer during commercials, because
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will be live
Uh!
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
And now you do what they told ya
Come on!
Tryna rain, tryna rain on the thunder
Tell the storm Im new
Ima walk, Ima march on the regular
Painting white flags blue
Lord, forgive me, Ive been running
Running blind in truth
Ima rain, Ima rain on this bitter love
Tell the sweet Im new
Freedom
Breathe in
Freedom
Breathe in
Hold on to me
Dont let me go
Who cares what they see?
Who cares what they know?
Your first name is Free
Last name is Dom
Cause you still believe
In where we’re from
Freedom! Freedom! I cant move
Freedom, cut me loose! Yeah
Freedom! Freedom! Where are you?
Cause I need freedom, too!
I break chains all by myself
Wont let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! Ima keep running
Cause a winner dont quit on themselves
Uh!
Killing in the name of
Kill, killing in the name of
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses!
Freedom
Breathe in
Freedom
Breathe in
Hold on to me
Dont let me go
The cheetahs need to eat
Run, antelope
Your first name is King
Last name is Dom
Cause you still believe
In everyone
Freedom! Freedom! I cant move
Freedom, cut me loose! Yeah
Freedom! Freedom! Where are you?
Cause I need freedom, too!
I break chains all by myself
Wont let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! Ima keep running
Cause a winner dont quit on themselves
Come on!
Yeah!
Hey! Ima keep running
Cause a winner dont quit on themselves
Uh!
Atoms in the air
Organisms in the sea
The sun and yes, man
Are made of the same things
Freedom!
Come on!
Freedom!
Come on!
Freedom!
Come on!
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom |