| Listen if you’re missin’y’all
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| Swingin’while I’m singin'
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| Givin’whatcha gettin'
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| Knowin’what I know
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| While the Black bands sweatin'
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| And the rhythm rhymes rollin'
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| Got to give us what we want
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| Gotta give us what we need
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| Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
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| We got to fight the powers that be Lemme hear you say
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| Fight the power
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| As the rhythm designed to bounce
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| What counts is that the rhymes
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| Designed to fill your mind
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| Now that you’ve realized the prides arrived
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| We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
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| from the heart
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| It’s a start, a work of art
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| To revolutionize make a change nothin’s strange
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| People, people we are the same
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| No we’re not the same
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| Cause we don’t know the game
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| What we need is awareness, we can’t get careless
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| You say what is this?
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| My beloved lets get down to business
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| Mental self defensive fitness
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| (Yo) bum rush the show
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| You gotta go for what you know
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| Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be Lemme hear you say…
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| Fight the Power
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| Elvis was a hero to most
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| But he never meant ---- to me you see
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| Straight up racist that sucker was
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| Simple and plain
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| Mother---- him and John Wayne
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| Cause I’m Black and I’m proud
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| I’m ready and hyped plus I’m amped
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| Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps
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| Sample a look back you look and find
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| Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
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| Don’t worry be happy
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| Was a number one jam
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| Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
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| (Get it) lets get this party started right
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| Right on, c’mon
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| What we got to say
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| Power to the people no delay
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| To make everybody see
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| In order to fight the powers that be
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| (Fight the Power) |