| Lyrics: | This voice shatters the calm of the day like an alarm,
So wake up bright anew and take up
arms,
'Cause more is necessary than vocabulary war,
'Cause the toxic rock (crack) import's
hitting on your door.
CIA, I'll see you later 'cause your time is coming soon.
I flip this
shit like Pacino and it's your dog day afternoon.
Attica, Attica, drug agents you bring your
static-a.
My alphabet will slash and then can flip you automatic-a,
Dramatic like
Ali-Shaheed Mohammed* brought the vibes.
I bring the sun at red dawn upon the thoughts of Franz
Fanon.
So stand at attention devil ???,
You'll never survive choosing sides against the
Wretched of the Earth (Fanon's book).
The infiltrator,
??? intoxicator,
People
incarcerator,
Liberation movement annihilator.
We got you clocked pushing rocks and it
fell.
We got brothers trooping subways like the Ho Chi Minh trail.
We got the truth
addict, Last Emperor, KRS and history manifested.
Tomorrow tha next lesson.
You
claim I'm selling' crack but you be doing' that.
You know the cops, they got a network for the
toxic rock.
You claim I'm selling' crack but you be doing' that .
So get that flashlight
outta my face.
You claim I'm selling' crack but you be doing' that.
The Last Emperor,
KRS-One & Big Zack.
As free-market capitalism and technology expands,
The third
world's fertile soil becomes a desert wasteland.
So it takes ??? to demand the government
provide answers,
When Lady Liberty has me bewitched like Samantha,
And poverty is one of
the most malignant forms of cancer.
To all my black magik romancers and acid rain
dancers,
Develop close ties like Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza.
We fear no man and
throw jams that attack counter-intelligence programs.
Exciting like the epic adventures of
Conan,
I colonize minds like Zaire by the Belgians.
Now what hell is the problem with this
system and what it sells us?
I bring ancient relics like Wyclef did to zealots.
I saw an
iron curtain called hip-hop and got it open like Boris Yeltsen.
Whirlwind tornadoes in the rain
forest if you say so.
KRS and the Last Emperor war like the Green Hornet and Kato.
Zack de
la Rocha brings the enraged flow.
But all three drop science and become the most powerful
alliance since NATO.
Need I say the CIA be criminals in action,
Cocaine
crack-unpacking, high surveillance-tracking.
Prominent blacks and whites giving orders for mass
slaughters.
I want all my daughters to be like Maxine Waters.
When they flooded the
streets with crack cocaine I was like Noah,
Now they ???? 'cause the whole Cold War is
over.
Communism fell to the dollars you were grabbing.
All the assault and battering in
the name of intelligence-gathering
Now it's karma you're battling--a losing fight.
I
choose the mic to recite, ignite light in the night, aight.
We should beat em, President
Clinton should delete 'em.
It's not hard, the CIA simply has no more job.
Oh my goddess,
mother, you can fix this.
We rock over mixes, not 666s.
Yo, this is the message to all
that can hear it.
If you got secret information now's the time to share it.
Call your
congresswoman, your senator, your Mayor.
It's time for all the scholars to unite with all the
playas.
Rearrange and see, times is definitely changing, G.
They used to tap the phone now
they tapping while you paging me
It's crazy B. yet it's plain to see who's the enemy. Who's
left?
The NRA, the ATF, the AMA? OK, OK, it's all irrelevant
'Cause in the new millennium
there'll be no central intelligence.
*Ali Shaheed Mohammed is the DJ for A Tribe Called
Quest |
