Start a war on the poor gettin' mad donations. Takin' cheese out of poor nations. Got Haitians still on sugar plantations. Wiped 'em out called it exotic vacations.
Crosstown traffic black to black you shoulda seen her. Long and winding road to the arena. Crystal ball I prophesized what was on the horizon. And forewarned y'all is it any wonder.
[Chuck D (Flavor Flav)]. I came from a place I forgot. I woke up in the parking lot, far from a meal and a cot. On the corner where all the streets got the same name.
Public Enemy, ah, in their music, ah, kinda rabble rousing. They, ah, talk about, ah, well things like. You know the white media has been very upset about.
Shocklee - sadler - ridenhour. Dj: public enemy - ah, in their music ah, kinda rabble rousing. they, ah, talk about, ah, well things like - you know the white media has been very upset abou.
If you want it to be good girl. Get yourself a bad boy. . Yeah, I like this. Yeah, oh, yes. Come on. I like this. . If you want it to be wild. Gotta know just who to dial, baby.
I see I'm peeking out ready to rumble. So now I'm speaking out. Against those that flip the way the story goes. One never knows. . Who be flippin' the script whatever the traitors name.
(First Verse). Say What You Oughta. World Outta Order. Paid The Cost Father Time Aint Never Lost. The Boss. Yall Aint Heard It. I Work It. The Senior Circuit.
Yo! ho! yo nigga! yo nigga! no nigga! yo my nigga! no nigga! no nigga! no nigga!. Check it out. How can you say to me, "Yo my nigga!". Cursin' up a storm with your finger on a trigger.
Let me hear you say. . I ain't mad at all. Bought a fat jam to make you flip the script. Don't want to sleep and misbehave. Understand what I'm saying.
I came from a place I forgot. I woke up in a parking lot. Far from a meal and a cot. On the corner. . Where all the streets got the same name. Maybe my brains on the brink of insane.
[verse 1]. Banned from our damn so called country. No claim yall know the name. Some got the rest of the planet. To feel us damn it. Substance over style.
Pusher of the button talkin' loud ain't sayin' nuttin'. The mack of the format gettin' fat ain't funny. 'Cause my neighborhood is flowin' money. Thank God for the boulevard they keep the motor runnin'.
Look around. What do you see. Can you see what I can see. Hard to live without we. Catchin hell without he. Phenomenons, phenoms and prodigys - huh. 20,000 maniacs just gotta be.
May I rise, may I rise to speak to this game. Ashamed that I invited this devil. To rise to a living level, speakin' to the kind of. Refined knowledge to define evil.
500 years ago one man claimed. To have discovered a new world. Five centuries later we the people. Are forced to celebrate a black Holocaust. How can you call a take over a discovery.
I remember when us blacks were on our backs. Across tracks where we live, now we packin' in Cadillacs. Or Pontiac if you know what I'm sayin'. Po' old nigg thinks it's a Caddy and now he's playin' mack daddy.
Here I go, I don't give a damn if you wit me. Stupidity, shit, I'm the reverse of Ziggy. All that prettiness running on empty. Only wusses need pity no, I ain't from the city.
People are dying.. They don't have homes.. They don't have jobs.. The city of New Orleans will never be the same. Now let's get off your asses and let's do something.
[Chuck D: storm raging in the background]. Does it gotta come down to this.... In order to see things for what they are and what it is.... We still might not be free up in this piece.