Aiyyo, put one in the air for the ancestors, 'Cause without them there'd be no us, real something on my mind, everyday, all the time It's the legacy, Generations of black people Now bust
Aiyyo, I think about government, three strikes capital punishment my peoples for four hundred, yeah, plus some Often dream of goin' back in and givin' slaves guns So they can watch the run
Watch them devil try to get away then his back with the shotgun I got one, cut his head off Let's it to Harriet Tubman, show her that we ready to set it off She get Nat Turner, Nat go get
Sojourner a messenger for Touissant L'Ouverture Through the railroad we go Through the dark to the of forest to meet with Denmark Vessel, you know he got ready
Ready to kill like lions, in the So like a stampede we the plantation Settin' fire to everything, burn them down like No hesitation, up the black nation
them devils, take his ships and head back for the mainland The game plan, yet and still it's just a I forget, in my mind it never leave, aiyyo
I never forget, in my it never leave These dreams filled with of slavery Never forget, in my mind it never These filled with days of slavery
I forget, in my mind it never leave These dreams filled with days of Never forget, in my mind it leave These filled with days of slavery
Yo, aiyyo, Jamie was a Every baby she'd the master would take away She never seen one long to give a name Every the master would rape, Jamie'd feel ashamed
She was fourteen Violated, and abused, far from a queen I met in a dream I her a brand new M-16 with two magazines
I told her next he come around Act like you want him, get him to lay Make sure that he take off his After that I want you to fill him up, full of bullet
Release the whole clip, set trip on that him that's for disrespecting you and your mother Your grandmother, your Your brother your father, in the they call the mother
Next you do is round up all the rest together and shoot your way to freedom, God bless, aiyyo
I forget, in my mind it never leave dreams filled with days of slavery Never forget, in my mind it never dreams filled with days of slavery
I forget, in my mind it never leave These dreams filled with of slavery
Aiyyo, I got DJ Babu in the From the famous, Beat Junkies Aiyyo, yo, Babs how you feel about And this out to all the ancestors
to my grandmother [unverified] The foundation, rest in peace, love you,