[Chuck D]
|
I occupy this state of mind
|
Like I'm born a second time
|
The masses ask the question why
|
Them asses spend a life behind
|
On the mic the pic
|
Against this prison industry
|
Where most of them look just like me
|
Mf'-k the tea party
|
Made you pay for education
|
Got no money got you waitin
|
Tricks to keep the people fooled
|
Something in the food my dude
|
About your future where you rank
|
Who you think and who you thank
|
Behind the banks and all them tanks
|
New whirl odor on the brink
|
Revolution stop the feds
|
Count the homeless under fed
|
Sue the pharmaceutical off the meds
|
Leavin people left for dead
|
Look back 80 years instead
|
Simply blamed it on the reds
|
Pay close attention to what is said
|
But while you listen watch your heads.
|
You chase the money you chase the fame
|
The human race is what they're playing
|
A game of life is what I'm sayin
|
Split em up call them names
|
At the age I am if I can't teach
|
I shouldn't open my mouth to speak
|
Talking loud and sayin nothing
|
And frontin like they doin something
|
Feel the people
|
Heal the people
|
Power goes out
|
To the people
|
18-35 is grown
|
Cant afford to leave the home
|
Can't afford to buy a home
|
Can't afford to keep a home
|
Boarded up foreclosed cribs
|
Based on whatcha bank did
|
Yet see these guys advertise to the poor for clothes
|
The doors are closed
|
They slam the doors on your nose
|
Who the hell is telling you
|
What the hell they selling you
|
Why the hell do you believe
|
Where we headed when we leave
|
|
WTF?
|
WTF?
|
WTF?
|
|
[Flavor Flav]
|
From barack obama to flavor flav
|
We both be a first till we get to our grave
|
I'm the first hype man in music
|
He's the first black president
|
He's the first black resident
|
To be ever come president
|
Free your mind your ass will follow
|
Flavor flav all the way to the apollo
|
Freeport li to la
|
Throw a frito olay off the dock of the bay
|
You wanna know why a kid goes to school?
|
And in his book-bag he carries a tool
|
Because hes trying to be like his idols in the streets
|
Gang warfare to the raw fare
|
Don't even try to go up there
|
Penalties that you cant bear
|
You lose your sight your ass cant hear
|
It weighs so much it'll crush your life
|
Don't play with god he gave you live
|
The last man standing he hopes to behold
|
His weight in stature his weight in gold
|
What goes in your wash comes out in your rinse
|
Back down so tight that you call it condensed
|
Cant stand the pressure, cant stand the pain
|
My life is so dry I wish it would rain
|
Just like the temptations not just the singing group
|
I'm here to tell you now so don't ignore the scoop
|
I been in this rap game for 25 years
|
If we made the rock and roll hall of fame
|
We deserve our chairs
|
To what we fought the power to who stole the soul
|
Brothers gonna work it out
|
From the ground we hold
|
God says to man ima let you live
|
God says to man ima let you live
|
God says to man ima give you power
|
Not for the intent to misuse your power
|
If you wanna dance you got to play the bands
|
People die by other hands
|
The innocent, the ku klux klan
|
Iraq and iran an afhganistan
|
They go to war they don't come back
|
The note comes home killed in attack
|
All the medals from fort bragg
|
Collected by a widow along with the flag
|
41 gun salute 4 jets in the air
|
Now thats going out of style the
|
Contribution was fear
|
What you reap is what you sow
|
A man got killed for what he know
|
If you wanna be a -- and get a good wife
|
Stay the fuck offa skype and don't believe the hype
|
|
WTF?
|
WTF?
|
WTF?
|
|
-----------------
|
WTF?
|
| Public Enemy |
