| Keep moving forward, don’t let nobody bring you down
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| It’s up to you what happens here on out (here on out)
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| You are keen intellect creative being
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| Tell me that you know, that you know, that you know that you’re more than this
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| Keep moving
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| We more than image is often depicted
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| Jealous of business trying to employ our children
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| And destroy our mental everyday we more conditioned
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| To conform to ignorance and ignore wisdom
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| A darker pigment gets you 50 shots and cops acquitted
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| While Mumia dreams of freedom from a cot in prison
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| Knowledge of self helped me understand my origin
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| From Africans to broken families and cotton pickers
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| We all witness pictures of starving children
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| In the mother land, stripped of all its riches
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| It’s a dirty game for brothers, the odds against us
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| Beneath the sheets of the clan or politicians
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| Don’t care about us or our condition
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| During Katrina Bush was giving us the middle finger
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| While we prayed for Haiti others preyed on Haiti
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| Like beasts, stealing bodies, organ donations and babies
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| Keep moving forward, don’t let nobody bring you down
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| It’s up to you what happens here on out (here on out)
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| You are keen intellect creative being
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| Tell me that you know, that you know, that you know that you’re more than this
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| Keep moving
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| We more than pant saggin ignorance
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| In fact, spell saggin backwards it’s niggas
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| Pick your pants up enhance your appearance it traps us
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| And stereotypes embedded in slaves by masters
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| Didn’t want slaves to read, education enhances
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| If the mind is free there’s a chain reaction
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| Let’s compare slaves to rappers
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| They censor freedom of speech and very few leave with masters
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| He who has nothing is intrigued with status, is a lie
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| I can’t believe these rappers
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| A label makes 10 million when your CD’s platinum
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| What did you bring home? |
| Did you recoup?
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| Are you mad I understand I’m speaking the truth
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| Stop hurting our women and deceiving the youth
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| You’re bringing us down worse than the media do
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| But we expect that from them, we down need it from you
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| Keep moving forward, don’t let nobody bring you down
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| It’s up to you what happens here on out (here on out)
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| You are keen intellect creative being
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| Tell me that you know, that you know, that you know that you’re more than this
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| Keep moving
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| I’m un-apologetically the color god intended
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| Indeed, I’m unique melanin underneath ebony
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| Is a blessing ya my disparity is feared by people who lack clarity
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| To understand and weep
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| Brilliant resilience spiritual beautiful people
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| The original buildings and teachers of Kemet in Egypt
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| Hieroglyphics depicted us who lighten the features
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| Why do images of Jesus rival biblical teachings
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| And gentrify like the city limits, unclearly different from the Uptown of Big L
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| or Bed-Stuy Biggie lived in
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| Barley existences it’s modern segregation displacement of color faces whose
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| rent has risen
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| They say that eyes don’t lie, I bear witness
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| It’s time to respect our elders and care for our children-
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| Deserve better than we had and a clearer understanding of knowledge of self
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| I’m here to help prepare you
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| Keep moving forward, don’t let nobody bring you down
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| It’s up to you what happens here on out (here on out)
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| You are keen intellect creative being
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| Tell me that you know, that you know, that you know that you’re more than this
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| Keep moving |