[Flavor Flav]
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Yeah that's right Chuck man, that's what you gotta do
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You got to tell 'em JUST LIKE THAT, you know what I'm sayin?
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Cause yo, man let me tell you a little somethin man
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All these brothers around here fiendin for that crack-a-lack-a-lack
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You dig what I'm sayin? Yo man, all they wanna do is get what you got
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But when you ain't got nuttin, then they wanna cut you off
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So what you gotta do, you gotta play 'em long distance
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You know what I'm sayin? I mean long distance
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They think we takin shorts, show 'em this is Cold Medina man
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C'mon, kick it!
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[Chuck D]
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Back one more time, here to put the message in a rough rhyme
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It's important that you knowin the time
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Cause I'm seein the program, know what I know and
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until we get together we will never be up for sure
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So I wreck like I'm posessed by Malcolm X
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See the feds want us dead, we too complex
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I always speak the truth, comin from me to you
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We movin as a unit so you KNOW we refuse to lose
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I got my eyes on the lies from Washington
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I'm a survivor, I know how the West was won
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See a show and tell, the way the CoIntel
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undermind the REAL hip-hop so the cops can trail
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But know bad boys move in silence
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Save us all from the pain of a life of violence
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They tappin my phone, full grown and knowin
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And still prone to refute the lies, won't stop until we rise
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[Chorus: Chuck D + various samples]
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Rise up! "C'mon, ah-c'mon"
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Rise... rise up! "One more time"
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We rise... rise up! "C'mon, ah-c'mon"
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Rise... rise up! "To the beat y'all"
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[Chuck D]
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I'm a hard truth soldier to the bone for change
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Demonstrate and seperate the fact from strange
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Blame companies killin our children
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When the villain's on the record never think for a second that's the way we live
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Wanna squeeze on the fleas at MTV
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We quiz knots for the cops at BET
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Seize the time, always rhymin combinin the antidote
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for dope Interscope and fake gangster quotes
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Cause I can recollect times when records set
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Collect a dead brother you mind if you silence it yet
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Rest the program, defeat the beastie
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Cause on the street they do as we influenced by what we see
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And yes it "Weighs a Ton" I say it once again
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That's why the Enemy is down with Paris and KAM
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It's all fam, we collide we live
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Better decide on which side you ride, won't stop until we rise
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[Chorus]
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[Flavor Flav]
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Y'all don't know, y'all don't know uhh [x4]
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[Chuck D]
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I know the power of fame, ain't never playin no games
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Never croonin is provin, that we ready for change
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Never simpin but they pimpin my people, for the dollars
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So I holla back it keep us from EVIL 'til them devils are collared
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And like I said it's on, I say it once again
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Better know the plan to keep us ignorant
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Brother to brother, ain't no other can smother
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Or erase my case, we marry words with BASS
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Just another wicked rhyme that I'm rappin on
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S1's got my back if the clappin come
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Pass on the work, makin sure the words are known
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Keep 'em nervous, make 'em understand we servin foes
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Keep it goin strong, nevertheless, know the enemy
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And never back down, you can take it to press
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'Less the mic like the art dart told you before
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We for the prize emphasis the fight, now c'mon and rise
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[Chorus]
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[ad libs of Chorus to fade]
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Rise
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Public Enemy |