Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Pride , by - Chuck D. Song from the album Autobiography Of Mistachuck, in the genre R&BRelease date: 31.12.1995
Record label: The Island Def Jam
Song language: English
The Pride |
| Yeah, reminiscent of another time |
| And another state of mind |
| I used to flow |
| They used to call me a rhyme animal |
| Some of them don’t call me rio mo so |
| I try a new style refuse to get wild |
| On the B side because I still got my pride |
| The pride comes from another time |
| My father and mother plus God |
| Blessed the rhyme |
| Born in 1960 seventy suckers quizzing |
| Me what was it like before everybody |
| Tried to be like Mike |
| Back in the day when our peeps had to fight for our rights |
| To make the day fell aaight |
| But there is no is without a was |
| No about to be buts or because. |
| I got the |
| Pride |
| Reminiscent of another time |
| Dashikis, bells, to straight legs |
| Platforms &picks |
| See it wasn? |
| t just about the fro |
| It was what was underneath that fro |
| Black power for the powerless |
| Deuce and quarters, caddies 442? |
| s Yeah pride |
| Say, say it loud |
| James singin black and I? |
| m proud |
| I was in third grad when Dr. King got slain |
| And if I had to read a book about |
| The facts, the fact is that the black |
| Would be overlooked look |
| 1967 I was seven livin proof of what I had learned in my youth |
| what a difference a score and a decade makes mistakes and super bad |
| breaks wait |
| I ate the food in the lunch programs |
| And now I see the young strung out on Grams so I work on a go on And so on and soon communicate to Get the young straight |
| Cause I got the pride |
| Flamboyant names |
| Free Huey, Eldridge, Bobby, Angela |
| Woodstock to Kent State |
| Music of the time for the mind |
| 45? |
| s, Aretha, Four Tops |
| Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes |
| Assassinations Presidents |
| Sixties Soul |
| Now in order for us to know |
| Who we are we got to know |
| Who we was and once we know |
| Who we was then we know who |
| Were gonna be Pride |
| The panther party before lad-i-da-di |
| Put pride inside plus taught karate |
| Fed heads in many ways many days |
| Were served locked down protectin the |
| Black and the brown |
| Now today the old must spread it I said it If they don? |
| t communicate then the |
| You can? |
| t get it Problems have to be solved they |
| Won? |
| t go away so man what |
| You say and don? |
| t sway |
| Gotta get that pride |
| King, Malcolm, Medgar, H&ton |
| Ritos and rebellions |
| Newark, Watts, Uptown |
| Harlem that is black gold |
| Ghetto stell |
| I reserve the right to be nothing |
| But a man |
| We reserve the right to be nothing |
| But men and women |