Spoken: Crank the music up
Bring that shit in! Uggh!
Yeahthe movement s in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out...uggh!
In the right lightstudy 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 culturethe culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yowe gotta take the power back!
Bam! Here s the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step backI know who I am
Raise up your earI 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
Yeahwe gotta take the power back
Come oncome 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 redwhite 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
Cause holes in our spirit causin tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I m inferior? Who s inferior?
Yeawe need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back
Yeahwe gotta take the power back
Come oncome on!
We gotta take the power back
Hey yo checkwe re gonna have to break itbreak itbreak it down
Awww shit!
Uggh!
And like this...uggh!
Come onyeah! 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
Bouning off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of 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 itgotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin weathermen
To expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back
Yeahwe gotta take the power back
Come oncome on!
We gotta take the power back
No more lies (8 timesbuilding to a crescendo)
Uggh!
Yeah!
Take it back y all
Take it backa-take it back
A-take it back y allcome on!
Take it back y all
Take it backa-take it back
A-take it back y allcome on!
Uggh!
Yeah!

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