Black To The Future - Def Jef.mp3

[00:34.53](22 million black victims of Americanism are waking up)
[00:39.12]As-salaam-alaikum, blackman
[00:40.62]Time to make a stand
[00:41.58]Time to wake up, and
[00:42.45]Time to make a plan and band
[00:43.86]Together like China
[00:45.09]We need to find a
[00:46.08]Better form of unity
[00:47.76]Then we'll be
[00:48.48]In the right path, on the right track
[00:50.37]Dark or light black
[00:51.27]Don't let em tell you it's wrong to fight back
[00:53.34](Come on)
[00:53.88]But the enemy is not your brother
[00:56.85]It's that other mother****er
[00:58.38]The one that baited, robbed and degraded you
[01:01.08]And he don't like to see you've made it through
[01:03.06]The bullshit that came with bein a brotherman
[01:05.64]Stolen from the motherland
[01:07.02]Placed in another land?
[01:09.15]400 and some odd years ago
[01:10.86]Till about the time we wore afros
[01:12.90]We've come so far so fast
[01:14.76]From what they call the past
[01:16.56]But that just passed
[01:17.55]And we're the last in line for justice, what's this?
[01:20.16]Naw man, that ain't gon' work, yo, bust this
[01:22.56]Black to the future, back to the past
[01:24.81]History is a mystery, cause it has
[01:27.51]All the info
[01:28.92]You need to know
[01:29.67]Where you're from, why'd you come
[01:30.87]And that'll tell you where you're going
[01:32.73](We gotta unite
[01:34.23]We gotta work together in unity and harmony)
[01:36.51]Black to the future
[01:46.26](Come on) [x3]
[01:46.53](Into the future)
[01:56.70]Black to the future, what a funky concept
[01:58.98]A poet with soul, brothers and sisters, let's step
[02:01.38]Together in sync, just think about the outcome
[02:03.81]We know where we're goin, because we know where we came from
[02:06.18]A united state of mind
[02:07.77]But not the kind
[02:08.55]That the United States government fakes
[02:10.92](Nope) They don't practise what they preach
[02:13.26]Maybe they don't believe in those false beliefs
[02:15.63]Themselves, and I can tell, cause they look scared
[02:18.09]To see us comin up, because they're not prepared
[02:20.55]For a new breed of leaders
[02:22.02]Eager and fired up
[02:23.10]And tired of
[02:23.67]The lies you feed us
[02:24.84]So we just
[02:25.65](What?)
[02:25.98]Got together like one nation under a groove
[02:28.44]Gettin down, and the funk of it can move
[02:30.78]And start a movement of self-improvement
[02:32.94]And before you know it, you went
[02:34.71]Black to the future
[02:42.75]Black to the
[02:43.35]F-u-t-
[02:53.91]U-r-e
[03:01.68](Get on up)
[03:10.32](Come on)
[03:10.47](Get on up, brotherman)
[03:10.95](I want you to get on up)
[03:13.62]I grab the mic with a kung-fu grip
[03:16.26]So it don't slip, and come out on a positive black tip
[03:19.02]Hip all my brothers and sisters to the real deal
[03:21.84]With unity and knowledge I feel we'll
[03:23.82]Uprise, who knows what lies
[03:25.65]Ahead, but you can't see if you're livin with shut eyes
[03:28.62]So realize, united we stand, divided we fall
[03:31.65]Provided we all heed the call
[03:33.51]Comin from the muslim, or the rasta man
[03:36.30]Two forms of a positive blackman
[03:38.49]W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T
[03:40.92]King and X, Farrakhan and Jesse
[03:43.26]Men with means that differ
[03:44.88]But their goals were equal
[03:46.17]To uplift African people
[03:47.91]Through violence or non-violence, I don't care
[03:50.46]As long as we get there (Where?)
[03:52.14]Black to the future
[04:07.14](Into the future)
[04:11.10]What a funky concept
[04:11.76][Man]
[04:13.32]Hey brother
[04:14.16]Excuse me, man
[04:15.24]I don't mean to bother you, man
[04:16.44]But I -
[04:16.80]Brother, you think I can get a little bit change from you?
[04:19.77][Jef] Some change, man?
[04:21.06][Man]
[04:21.57]Yeah man, I just need a little bit change, man
[04:23.85]You give me some change
[04:25.08]That's all I'm askin
[04:25.80][Jef]
[04:25.95]Aight man, I'm gon' give you this change, man
[04:28.26]But I want you to listen to me for a second, alright?
[04:30.12][Man] Alright man, whatcha got to say?
[04:32.13][Jef]
[04:32.28]Brothers always talkin about change
[04:34.44]Brothers'll change their clothes
[04:35.79]To go out on the street and make some quick change
[04:38.04]A brother might even kill another brother over the wrong change
[04:41.22]Brothers change from men to women
[04:42.78]Brothers change their hair from natural to that damn jherri curl
[04:46.11]Brothers even change their eyes, man
[04:48.21]Brothers always talkin bout change
[04:50.25]Goin through changes
[04:51.33]Changes, changes, changes
[04:52.95]But when it come time for a real change
[04:55.17]Brothers change their mind, man
[04:56.34][Man]
[04:57.27]Aw man, I - I hear you, man
[04:59.10]Hey man, you gave me more change than I asked for
[05:01.59]You must be one of them revolutionaries, man...