[Spoken:]
Crank the music up.
Bring that shit in!
Yeah, the movement's in motion
with massive militant poetry.
Now check this out.
In the right light,
Study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and write
So-called facts are fraud
They want us to allege
And pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back
Bam, here's the plan:
Mother fuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on
We gotta take the power back
The present curriculum
I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture, I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
Holes in our spirits
Causing tears and fears
One-sided stories
For years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior
Of the system who cares about only one culture
And that
Is why we gotta take the power back
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Hey, yo, check
We're gonna have to break it, break it, break it down
Aw, shit
Like this
Come on
Yeah
Bring it back the other way
The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouncing off of every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit
And listen to that bullshit that he learned in school
Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin' Weathermen
To expose and close
the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
Because the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on
Yeah, we gotta take the power back
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
Yeah
Take it back, y'all
Take it back and take it back and take it back, y'all
Come on
Take it back, y'all
Take it back and take it back and take it back, y'all
Come on
Yeah