[Intro:]
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Free all political prisoners
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Even though a lot of y'all are lucky to be prisoners
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Because you know what happens to most people that step up?
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They get blown awayyyyyyy - damn right (bang)
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Martin Luther King had more than a dream
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He was out for social change and that sort of a thing
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Tried to lead us to freedom but before it would ring
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He got blown awayyyyyyy (got blown away)
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He seen a problem and thought that he had the answer probably
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And that's the reason that Huey started the Panther Party
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Wasn't for Hoover he'd be alive today (but bang)
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He got blown awayyyyyyy (blown away)
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That man Clarence Smith was like a father to many
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Was for the love cause the brother wasn't offered a penny
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He said the black man was God and it costed him plenty
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Was at the time it wasn't no police officers friendly
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He birthed the Five-Percent Nation, called 'em the True and Livin'
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And just for that you know they whupped him and threw him in prison
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Wasn't for them then he'd be with us today (but bang)
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He got blown awayyyyyyy
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Marvin Gaye wrote a song called "What's Goin' On?"
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The label said no but he convinced them to go along
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He spoke of Vietnam and the shit that was goin wrong
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Tryin to convince people that they need to keep holdin on
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He sang "Mercy Mercy Me" it felt like he was cryin
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He wanted to save the hood, they understood why he was tryin
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He took a stand and said what he had to say (bang)
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He got blown awayyyyyyy
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Tupac Shakur was more than a rapper
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More than an actor, it was more than awards he was after
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He tried to teach young black people a better way (bang)
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He got blown awayyyyyyy - ay
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You gotta give it to him, Abraham Lincoln was honest
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He was a racist but he did what he said when he promised
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He freed slaves, of course he was gon' pay
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He got blown awayyyyyyy
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John F. Kennedy fought for the people
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A white president that wanted to see all of us equal
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At least that's what he said when runnin for office to beat dude
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But then he run, and he start doin more for the people
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Assassin hit him with a bullet that tore his cerebral
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I know a lot of y'all are thinkin we wanna believe you
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Black people pray for J.F.K. (but bang!)
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He got blown awayyyyyyy - same way
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Gosh, I can't forget Peter Tosh
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If Bob Marley was Jigga then Tosh'll be Nas
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Peter was Bob's right hand man, one hand washed
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the other, these brothers wanted more than to just be large
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Killer on the guitar, but better up on the mic
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Y'all remember that revolutionary shit he would write
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Like, "Get Up, Stand Up" - stand up for your right
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But bang, he got blown awayyyyyyy - you're damn right
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Martin Luther King had more than a dream
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He was out for social change and that sort of a thing
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Tried to lead us to freedom but before it would ring
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He got blown awayyyyyyy (he got blown away)
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Tupac Shakur was more than a rapper
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More than an actor, it was more than awards he was after
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Tried to teach young black people a better way
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He got blown awayyyyyyy
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Then there was Saigon, I brought you "The Greatest Story"
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I know they watchin me and I know that they waitin for me
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I just pray that y'all heed what I had to say
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before I get blown awayyyyyyy
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Blown Away
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| Saigon |
