Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Pride, artist - Chuck D. Album song Autobiography Of Mistachuck, in the genre R&B
Date of issue: 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 |