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African's Point of View
- Let's us go way back
- Into the Revolutionary act
- Now let’s get it all in perspective
- Shift the objective, you’ve been misdirected
- What’s the purpose of another song to step to
- If you stepping in the wrong direction
- Thug introspection
- Mindframe in the fast lane
- Through with cocaine
- Time’s up, time to maintain
- Before a nigga gets drafted
- Cause you the number one pick, corn bread, cotton crafted
- Them people’s army shot another brown kid today
- And all you strapped little boys let ‘em get away
- So what you packin’ for
- You packin’ for the war?
- They gonna ship you out and put you and your mans on tour
- Yeah, your Hummer came in handy
- Son, your Air Force ones are sandy
- You’d better peep the plan, B
- Before you call yourself a soldier
- Get caught up on the wrong side and your little party’s over
- Put your blunt down, no time to front now,
- Put your drink down, time to think now
- We on the brink now
- Where my peeps at, where the streets at?
- Same cats that stole you is using you to steal Iraq
- We was the first type of oil that they ever stole
- Nah, screw the oil metaphor son, we was gold
- But let the truth be told, we was platinum
- Now they want a deal and asking us to back them
- War, don’t start none, won’t be none
- We fighting for freedom
- Yeah they say they is but son I don’t believe them
- Cos when there’s violence in the hood you never see them
- Unless they starting it
- They got their heart in it
- Now they got you thinking money is power
- You’re counting dead pres by the hour
- And the one that’s living, the Bible thumping Christian
- Like y’all niggas trying to cross out the mission
- Listen, power is vision
- You’re keeping it real in a neighborhood that’s government sealed
- Yo, let the truth be revealed
- Before your freedom has failed and the innocent killed
- Yo, I say let ‘em shoot
- My tongue is my gun aiming for the truth
- They got a silencer and aimin’ straight at the youth
- And all their talk of terrorism’s nothing but a spoof
- I’m hip to your games
- Hip to the science of war
- Propaganda make me fight but what am I fighting for?
- My way of life, means and rights, give or take less or more
- See through the eyes of the poor, plus I’m black to the core
- Ignorance is on tour, booking stadiums and more
- The days of Hitler painted pictures patriotic with gore
- You raise a flag on a land, snatch a bald eagle’s claw
- And send a symbol on your currency to finance your war
- I’m saying no
- Not in my name, not in my life
- Not by my hands, that ain’t my fight
- Not in my name
- You wage a war against terrorists and violence
- And try to wave your guns and fear us all into silence
- No. Not in my name, not in my life
- Not by my hands, that ain’t my fight
- Not in my name
- You built your empire with natives and slaves
- Like the truth on resurrect waging war from its grave
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