Grab a hold of yourself, open your eyes
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Get wise to the exercise
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Being taught by the teacher that? most dominant
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You need knowledge?
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Well I? dropping it
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Listen to the rap allow it to trap
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Your body and soul so that you can adapt
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To the man on display as I take you away
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So may I?
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<Yes you may!>
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Proud to be a Black man
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Coming exact and
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Giving up to brothers five on the back hand
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Pray for lease and peace upon each other
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With my sisters and brothers
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<Marley Marl: yo, word to the mother!>
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I say the mother, as in the motherland
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But on the other hand, another man
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Tackled and shackled our ancestors
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But we beat him with freedom, so let? bless the
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Country that we all came from
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Because the moral of it all is we shall overcome
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The cream will keep rising
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We be sizing
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Up, the Asiatic one is enterprising
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Building and building to carry on
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All the way from Malcolm X to Farrakhan
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Martin Luther was a tutor, many were pupils
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Those who fell victim were those without scruples
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However, to sever, we could never
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So hold up the peace sign and stand together
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Take heed to the words that I manifest
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And when I? through speaking, Marley Marl?l do the rest
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<Break>
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<James Brown getting cut up:
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People, people
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We gotta get over, before we go under (x2)
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Let? get together> (x2)
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<Marley Marl?:
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Yo Big Daddy, what you gonna say now?>
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Take a stand the fight for power
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Cause we?e been here before the Mayflower
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Living superior abiding by nature
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The history of the Asiatic one paid the
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Price to be paid in slavery
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Like the name of Antonio was gave to me
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But knowledge of self broke every shackle and chain
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Now I declare myself as the Big Daddy Kane
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The teacher, teaching a lesson to be heard
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That? word, to the mother my brother
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So discover the truth of one another
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Cause here? the real deal upon our skin color
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Lay down white, yellow, red or pink
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But the color of black is most dominant
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The rising and sizing can never cease
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<Marley Marl: what you going say now?>
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Peace!
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<Farrakhan: ...the mother of all living things and the Black man
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is the original man, we just can? escape our destiny>
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<Word to the mother!> (x2)
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<Farrakhan: I thank Allah for allowing me to teach this subject today
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Crowd: yeah, that? right...>
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Word to the Mother (Land)
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Big Daddy Kane |