Proper Propaganda Lyrics - Dilated Peoples

We're coming to you live from the Scottish Right Temple 

Near the intersection of Crenshaw and Wiltshire 

Where, as you can see in the background 

Military personnel are mobilized and waiting orders 

Despite the quiet and the deceptive calm, tension is still 

thick in the air after last night's concert and rebellion 

The incident was allegedly sparked by police officers trying 

To shut down a reportedly peaceful concert by hip hop artists 

Dilated People's 

We'll keep you updated with any new developments. For Triclops 

Media Watch, this is Harry Allen, hip hop activist and media assassin 

And now, Proper Propaganda.. 

[Begin Song] 

Watch it. Yes. [Indistinct shout-outs] 

Hey yo we handle it, these brothers are fabulous 

Dilated showing you what rhyme travel is 

Words spitoon from sunlight to moon 

Bustin' on stage like gunfight saloons 

Click clack, my mic back, you like that? 

Journalists? We're journalists too, we could strike back 

Hardcore reporters with orders from headquarters 

Behind enemy lines, sidestepping the borders 

With press passes, we bring it to you as it happens 

The streets love my crew for music and rappin 

Street commander slash beat expander 

Here to fight the slander with the proper propaganda 

What's happenin'? You got a question? Then ask it 

The news is just a TV show, get past it 

And this, from a quiet wartime journalist 

Headlines, wake up, refuse and resist 

Resist, like this, like this, like 

Like thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-this, why'all 

[Chorus] 

We kick finance action, and scores of sports 

Politics, new fashion and war reports 

Entertainment, when we come to perform watch 

And the illest weatherman in the biz, I'm storm watch 

Triclops Media, record, tape and TV, Net radio, CD or DVD 

Iriscience (write rhymes on paper time) 

This is why Baboo is scratching and keeping time 

[Scratching] I make the people listen boogy down and move 

Glory, The pen is mighter than the sword 

'Cause the pen gives the word sending swords to war 

They twisted it when they quoted Mao Tse-tung 

They said political power comes from the barrel of a gun 

The officer meets his fate, by .44 .38 

It was a dirty deed, but that don't mean a dirty case 

Witnesses against the state are shushed 

Facts overlooked so the judge can throw the book 

Perhaps for politicians with something to prove 

In the city where they blew the roof off and move 

Yo, questions when answered leads to more questions 

Why'd it take months to remember a confession? 

The principles are the same even without the name 

But I still say M-you-M-I-A 

I have to fight, it could easily be me 

But just being the thinker than speakin it freely 

Although I use my brain before using a fist 

Don't push it, wake up, refuse and resist 

[Scratching] 

[Chorus]