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To all my people, lift your fist Seem it ain't no peace, no justice How you want it, the bullet or the way you got to lift your fist
We get it like this To all my people, ball up your Seem like it no peace, no justice How you want it, the or the microchip? Either way you got to your fist
Yo, We livin' life close to the edge, push But this ain't and it's not the cold crush It's on the street strapped, huffin' that kush They eyein' the next cat, livin' all
I guess frustration make a brother do he must What's the combination can make a human erupt Team leaders gettin' mutinied up, who couldn't The signs, the day and times is [Incomprehensible]
Indeed, we blast, refuse to ass Quick fast, ready to mash cause of a bugged out Swallow the pain, follow the terrain It takes a hell of a man, to maintain
bloodstained, face bruised and battered Our eyes the agony, of dreams that were shattered And love it, when we wild out and kill our own But the greater responsibility, yes, is our own
To all my people, lift your fist Seem like it no peace, no justice How you it, the bullet or the microchip? Either way you got to lift fist
We get it down like To all my people, up your first Seem like it ain't no peace, no How you want it, the or the microchip? Either way you got to lift your
Uhh, famine, ghetto people demand That somebody do somethin' soon, and let's The facts, behind the attacks Behind the daily gun the cocaine and the crack
Thug season what's the for the treason? Everybody's gotta eat, gotta resort to thievin' Take money, money, money, money, money
To all my people, lift your fist Seem like it ain't no peace, no How you want it, the bullet or the way you got to lift your fist
We get it down this To all my people, ball up first Seem like it ain't no peace, no How you want it, the bullet or the Either way you got to your fist
Yo, from the time they eyes open 'til the clock death Brothers is stressed, walkin' 'round holdin' they got the government surveyin' they steps and can't breathe They dynamitin' them projects to
Money comin' but them days too few and far You to taste just what the world's offering, ya'mean? I seen enough to make a man scream Brothers thirsty and hungry to get that
Too tears of pain, too many years of struggle Too many drops of blood, too problems to juggle Too few jobs available, too few equipped Too few role models, gangsters and pimps
Will you succumb, will your heart numb Or will you save the world, and use mind like a gun? I'm the one I a stick-up kid to a soldier Me and The Roots, word up, we over
To all my people, just lift your like it ain't no peace, no justice How you it, the bullet or the microchip? Either way you got to your fist
We get it like this To all my people, ball up first up it ain't no peace, no justice How you want it, the bullet or the
To all my people, just your fist How you want it no peace, no justice From the bullet or form the microchip? Either way you got to lift fist
We get it down like [Incomprehensible] lift fist Come on my people yo it no justice Dig it, uh, uh