Change Gonna Come Lyrics - Singles - Grand Puba

Intro: 

Yeah positivity over comes negativity check it. 

A gat don't make you a man cause a man made the gat 

So stop with the black on black (x2) 

Verse 1: 

We got black on black 

Black on crack 

Knowledge of self is what the black people lack 

Grew up in the projects with the welfare and the food stamps 

Modern day concentration camps 

Where we lost all our unity 

Because the negativity pulls us down like gravity 

Black people on eath others back 

Little shortie sedated thinkin' the way out is by selling cracks 

I seen black borthers cry like day by day the number multiply 

And the devil don't give a damn long as a black man kills another black man 

It makes his job more eaiser 

As the tick goes with the tock he's just gettin' sleezier and sleezier 

Here's a good example of yourself 

Talkin' about a devil on a record they put you on the shelf 

As long as you talk about "yo I bust this nigga and I bust that nigga" 

You grow bigger as a rap figure 

But that's still black on black welcome back 

It's time to graduate from that 

Hook: 

Change gon come change gon come time to free the dumb time to free the dumb 

(x3) 

Change gon come say what say what so get up out the slum 

Verse 2: 

Now let's deal on the real don't you set sick of this? 

The way we hate eachother the shit's rediculous 

It's time to move on to the next phase 

Cause there's too many shorties gettin' boxed in the grave 

Some think respect is an uzi or a tech 

But when he steals your intellect it's like a rope around your neck 

That's the 2000 tricknowledge 

That's the shit you won't learn in college brother 

You get to be strong you got to hold on 

You got to know the ledge before you hit the edge 

Time to get wise and civilize 

Open up your eyes all three eyes and recognzie 

What your doing all that bullshit you pursueing 

Put your whole life on ruin 

Let's kill the black on black vigga 

Cause it only gets us locked up or in the box quicker 

And that's ain't how you get the cheese 

Cause now ya locked up or gunned down by your enemy 

But I'm a deader that gat 

Remember a gat don't make you a man cause a man made the gat 

Word is born 

Keep it true God keep it true (x8) 

Puba talking: 

Knowhati'msayin'? time to civilize you know get wise. think. stop and think 

Youknowhati'msayin'? no doubt. check it so just... 

Stop think, listen to the God hear what he's sayin'. (x2) 

Hook 

Outro: 

No doubt I'd like to send this one out to all the people still striving and 

Stugglin'to keep it real youknowhati'msayin'? not actin' like we keepin' it 

Real no doubt. peace and love. that's d on the hook off.