Chuck D .freedBLACK (7" Edit) / Blacknificent (Remixx).

Now the way it was Ain't the way it is Culture stole the future And robbed these kids At the age I am now if I can't teach I shouldn't even Open my mouth to speak Why at my age Would I be afraid? To rhyme like a preacher To get y'all straight ? Segregation, integration, aggravation I got a obligation Teaching determination There's a reason consciousness Is out of season They created a climate Where the young is dragged behind it You can make it if you try Asking questions why It's your world coming Time passes us by But eye to eye advice money can't buy New world order Is a place to be undenied My lanes the same damn near 60 What else can i be against rachetivity ? If I don't make sense I should STFU Saying GTFOH and get far away from you No way it ain't what I'm gonna do I'm gonna praise and salute Enough to raise the youth Be about something Be about something Our significance is infinite (4x) Our significance tremendous Every way in broad day Salute the Ryan Coogler & Ava Duvernay By the way Salutes and shouts to those that don’t get headlines But wake up every day doing work on the frontlines The media blind to the facts Of our courageous acts Our fingerprint on everything Word to Henrietta Lacks It's in our DNA We can move the world with the words that we say So what you sayin What you doing What community you improving Our ancestors before us give us Strength to keep moving Keep on moving don’t stop no Don’t ever underestimate The power of our people no Rhyming with my hero They say my skin tone is illegal But I feel regal Black man fly like an eagle Walking to the beat of my drum Hip hop Pete Escoveto playa World changers yeah I see you Love powerful force in the universe A smile can inspire While the news making it worse Do good be good block to block hood to hood Unity is key in the brother and sisterhood Be about something Be about something Our significance is infinite (4x) Stand up get up Be about something Get stand up Be about something Out significance is infinite (4x) Did anybody tell you that you are magnificent ? So important to our significance Nothing to do with bought extravagance Zero to do with the money you spent (2x)

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from Celebration of Ignorance, released November 16, 2018 Produced, Mixed & Arranged by C-Doc for DefBeat Posse Productions, ID! Written by C. Ridenhour, T. Jahi, DC Snyder Vocals by Chuck D & Jahi of PE2.0 Cuts by C-Doc Recorded by JP Hesser at Castaway 7 Studios- Ventura, CA Published by Bring The Noise, Administered by Reach Global (BMI) / KHMUNY Publishing (BMI) / Rebel Bass MHI (BMI)