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Fear of a Black Planet
by Public Enemy
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3.5773
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3.7333
Fear of a Black Planet Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- [Shocklee, Sadler, Ridenhour]
- Uh, your bad self
- Help me break this down from off the shelf
- Here's a music servin' you so use it
- Papa's got a brand new funk
- Get down (party for your right)
- Huh, let's get it on
- Like we said before
- They say the brothers causin' trouble
- Hate to bust their bubble
- 'Cause we rumble
- From our lower level
- To condition your condition
- (We're gonna do a song)
- That you never heard before
- Make you all jump along to the education
- Brothers gonna work it out
- And stop chasin'
- Brothers, brothers gonna work it out
- [Chorus]
- You got it...what it takes
- Go get it...where you want it?
- Come get it...get involved
- 'Cause the brothers in the street are willing to work it out
- So many of us in limbo
- How to get it on, it's quite simple
- 3 stones from the sun
- We need a piece of this rock
- Our goal indestructible soul
- Answers to this quizzin'
- To the Brothers in the streetSchools and the prisons
- History shouldn't be a mystery
- Our stories real history
- Not his story
- We gonna work it one day
- Till we all get paid
- The right way in full, no bull
- Talkin', no walkin', drivin', arrivin' in style
- Soon you'll see what I'm talkin' 'bout
- 'Cause one day
- The brothers gonna work it out
- Brothers, brothers gonna work it out
- [Chorus]
- You got it ... what it takes
- Go get it... where you want it?
- Come get it...get involved
- 'Cause the brothers in the street
- Are willing to work it out
- Let's get it on... we are willin'
- Let's get it on, let's get it on ... we are willin'
- Let's get it on, let's get it on, let's get it on ... we are willin'
- Now we are ready if you are ready
- In 1995, you'll twist to this
- As you raise your fist to the music
- United we stand, yes divided we fall
- Together we can stand tall
- Brothers that try to work it out
- They get mad, revolt, revise, realize
- They're super bad
- Small chance a smart brother's
- Gonna be a victim of his own circumstance
- Sabotaged, Shellshocked, rocked and ruled
- Day in the life of a fool
- Like I said before to live it low
- Life take you time, time yo go slow
- Look here, not a thing to fear
- Brother to brother not another as sincere
- Teach a man how to be father
- To never tell a woman he can't bother
- You can't say you don't know
- What I'm talkin' 'bout
- But one day ... brothers gonna work it out
- You got it ... what it takes
- Go get it ... where you want it?
- Come get it ... get involved
- 'Cause the brothers in the street
- Are willing to work it out
- Let's get it on... we are willin'
- Let's get it on, let's get it on ... we are willin'
- Let's get it on, let's get it on, let's get it on ... we are willin'
- Now we are ready if you are ready
- [Drayton, Shocklee, Sadler]
- Hit me
- Going, going, gone
- Now I dialed 911 a long time ago
- Don't you see how late they're reactin'
- They only come and they come when they wanna
- So get the morgue embalm the goner
- They don't care 'cause they stay paid anyway
- They teach ya like an ace they can't be betrayed
- I know you stumble with no use people
- If your life is on the line they you're dead today
- Late comings with the late comin' stretcher
- That's a body bag in disguise y'all betcha
- I call 'em body snatchers quick they come to fetch ya?
- With an autopsy ambulance just to dissect ya
- They are the kings 'cause they swing amputation
- Lose your arms, your legs to them it's compilation
- I can prove it to you watch the rotation
- It all adds up to a funky situation
- So get up get, get get down
- 911 is a joke in yo town
- Get up, get, get, get down
- Late 911 wears the late crown
- 911 is a joke
- Everyday they don't never come correct
- You can ask my man right here with the broken neck
- He's a witness to the job never bein' done
- He would've been in full in 8 9-11
- Was a joke 'cause they always jokin'
- They the token to your life when it's croakin'
- They need to be in a pawn shop on a
- 911 is a joke we don't want 'em
- I call a cab 'cause a cab will come quicker
- The doctors huddle up and call a flea flicker
- The reason that I say that 'cause they
- Flick you off like fleas
- They be laughin' at ya while you're crawlin' on your knees
- And to the strength so go the length
- Thinkin' you are first when you really are tenth
- You better wake up and smell the real flavor
- Cause 911 is a fake life saver
- So get up, get, get get down
- 911 is a joke in yo town
- Get up, get, get, get down
- Late 911 wears the late crown
- Ow, ow 911 is a joke
- [Shocklee, Sadler, Ridenhour]
- I got so much trouble on my mind
- I refuse to lose
- Here's your ticket
- Hear the drummer get wicked
- The crew to you to push the back to Black
- Attack so I sat and japped
- Then slapped the Mac(Intosh)
- Now I'm ready to mike it
- (You know I like it) huh
- Hear my favoritism roll "Oh"
- Never be a brother like to go solo
- Lazer, anastasia, maze ya
- Ways to blaze your brain and train ya
- The way I'm livin', forgiven'
- What I'm givin' up
- X on the flex hit me now
- I don't know about later
- As for now I know how to avoid the paranoid
- Man I've had it up to here
- Gear I wear got 'em goin' in fear
- Rhetoric said
- Read just a bit ago
- Not quittin' though
- Signed the hard rhymer
- Work to keep from gettin' jerked
- Changin' some ways
- To way back in the better days
- Raw metaphysically bold
- Never followed a code
- Still dropped a load
- Never question what I am God knows
- Cause it's comin' from the heart
- What I got better get some
- (Get on up) hustler of culture
- Snakebitten
- Been spit in the face
- But the rhymes keep fittin'
- Respects been givin' how's ya livin'
- Now I can't protect a pad off defect
- Check the record
- An reckon an intentional wreck
- Played off as some intellect
- Made the call, took the fall
- Broke the laws
- Not my fault they're fallin' off
- Known as fair square
- Throughout my years
- So I growl at the livin' foul
- Black to the bone my home is your home
- So welcome to the Terrordome
- Subordinate terror
- Kickin' off an era
- Cold deliverin' pain
- My 98 was 87 on a record yo
- So now I go Bronco
- Crucifixion ain't no fiction
- So called chosen frozen
- Apology made to who ever pleases
- Still they got me like Jesus
- I rather sing, bring, think reminisce
- 'Bout a brother while I'm in sync
- Every brother ain't a brother cause a color
- Just as well could be undercover
- Backstabbed, grabbed a flag
- From the back of the lab
- Told a Rab get off the rag
- Sad to say I got sold down the river
- Still some quiver when I deliver
- Never to say I never know or had a clue
- Word was heard, plus hard on the boulevard
- Lies, scandalizin', basin'
- Traits of hate who's celebratin' wit satan?
- I rope a dope the evil with righteous
- Bobbin' and weavin' and let the good get even
- C'mon down
- And welcome to the Terrordome.
- Caught in the race against time
- The pit and the pendulum
- Check the rhythm and rhymes
- While I'm bendin' 'em
- Snakes blowin' up the lines of design
- Tryin' to blind the science I'm snedin' 'em
- How to fight the power
- Cannot run and hide
- But it shouldn't be suicide
- In a game a fool without the rules
- Got a hell of a nerve to just criticize
- Every brother ain't a brother
- Cause a Black hand
- Squeezed on Malcom X the man
- The shootin' of Huey Newton
- From a hand of a Nigger who pulled the trigger
- It's weak to speak and blame somebody else
- When you destroy yourself
- First nothing's worse than a mother's pain
- Of a son slain in Bensonhurst
- Can't wait for the state to decide the fate
- So this jam I dedicate
- Places with racist faces
- Just an example of one of many cases
- The Greek weekend speech I speak
- From a lesson learned in Virginia (Beach)
- I don't smile in the line of fire
- I go wildin'
- But it's on bass and drums even violins
- Watcha do gitcha head ready
- Instead of gettin' physically sweaty
- When I get mad
- I put it down on a pad
- Give ya somethin' that cha never had controllin'
- Fear of high rollin'
- God bless your soul and keep livin'
- Never allowed, kickin' it loud
- Droppin' a bomb
- Brain game intellectual Vietnam
- Move as a team
- Never move alone
- But
- Welcome to the Terrordome
- [Shocklee, Sadler, Ridenhour]
- Man to man
- I don't know if they can
- From what I know
- The parts don't fit
- (Ahh shit)
- How he's sharin' a needle
- With a drug addict
- He don't believe he has it
- (Either)
- But now he does, he doesn't know cause he
- Goes straight to a ho
- Tell you what who was next on the but
- Wild thinin' on a germ
- Runnin' wild
- Yo stop
- But the bag popped
- When I'm talkin' rhyme time
- To blow your mind time some say
- It's nothing worse than a verse
- To hear some nigger curse
- They call me rude some dudes fiery attitude
- Claimin' I boast and smoke
- And sometimes sing the blues
- I twang metal and settle
- Try to never back pedal
- From the power some got
- To get a nigger shot
- The null and void I avoid
- I test the paranoid
- Never had to be bad
- My mama raised me mad
- So what I got is hot
- I love my life a lot
- I'm never sad just glad
- That's why I thank my dad
- Once they never gave a fuck about
- What I said
- Now they listen and they want my head
- Instead of peace the police
- Just wanna wreck and flex
- On the kid
- What I did was try to be the best
- So they fingered the trigger
- Figured I was a bigger nigger
- And started to search
- An so I headed west
- Went to cally a rally
- Was for a brothers death
- It was the fuzz who shot him
- An not da blood or cuzz
- I wondered why it was like
- So I just held my mike
- But in my mind I was blind
- So I just tried to find
- A reason we was quick
- Just the way that we was
- So I just stayed in the crib
- Until I got a buzz...
- (feat. Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane)
- [CHUCK D:]
- Burn Hollywood burn I smell a riot
- Goin' on first htey're guilty now they're gone
- Yeah I'll check out a movie
- But it'll take a Black one to move me
- Get me the hell away from this TV
- All this news and views are beneath me
- Cause all I hear about is shots ringin' out
- So I rather kick some slang out
- All right fellas let's go hand out
- Hollywood or would they not
- Make us all look bad like I know they had
- But some things I'll never forget yeah
- So step and fetch this shit
- For all the years we looked like clowns
- The joke is over smell the smoke from all around
- Burn Hollywood burn
- [ICE CUBE:]
- Ice Cube is down with the PE
- Now every single bitch wanna see me
- Big Daddy is smooth word to muther
- Let's check out a flick that exploits the color
- Roamin' thru Hollywood late at night
- Red and blue lights what a common sight
- Pulled to the curb gettin' played like a sucker
- Don't fight the power ... the mother fucker
- [BIG DADDY KANE:]
- As I walk the streets of Hollywood Boulevard
- Thinin' how hard it was to those that starred
- In the movies portrayin' the roles
- Of butlers and maids slaves and hoes
- Many intelligent Black men seemed to look uncivilized
- When on the screen
- Like a guess I figure you to play some jigaboo
- On the plantation, what else can a nigger do
- And Black women in this profession
- As for playin' a lawyer, out of the question
- For what they play Aunt Jemima is the perfect term
- Even if now she got a perm
- So let's make our own movies like Spike Lee
- Cause the roles being offered don't strike me
- There's nothing that the Black man could use to earn
- Burn Hollywood burn
- And you thought the beat slowed down
- Power to the people
- Get on up, get into it, get involved
- Feel the bass as the cut revolves
- To the brothers wit the 808
- Like I said before PE got a brand new funk
- Turn it up, boom the trunk, yeah
- Internationally known on the microphone
- Makin' sure the brothers will never leave you alone
- To my sisters
- Sisters yes we missed ya
- Let's get it together make a nation
- You can bet on it, don't sleep on it
- 'Cause the troops cold jeepin' it pumpin
- (Power to the people)
- Turn us loose we shall overcome
- They say where you get that bass from
- Hey ohh people, people as we continue on
- Come along, sings this song, are you ready for '91
- Rhythm nation pump that bass an
- We like to know from Chicago, New York and LA
- Are y'all ready, cause the plans in the jam
- And we're ready to roll yo y'all got to tell me
- Are y'all read read to go c'mon
- (Power to the people)
- Had to kick it like that as we roll as one
- One under the sun, to all the cities and the side
- Stateside and the whole wide
- There it is
- P-e-a-c-e 1991
- Man you ain't gotta
- Worry 'bout a thing
- 'Bout your daughter
- Nah she ain't my type
- (But supposin' she said she loved me)
- Are you afraid of the mix of Black and White
- We're livin' in a land where
- The law say the mixing of race
- Makes the blood impure
- She's a woman I'm a man
- But by the look on your face
- See ya can't stand it
- Man calm your ass down, don't get mad
- I don't your sistah
- (But supposin' she said she loved me)
- Would you still love her
- Or would you dismiss her
- What is pure? Who is pure?
- Is it European state of being, I'm not sure
- If the whole world was to come
- Thru peace and love
- Then what would we made of?
- Excuse us for the news
- You might not be amused
- But did you know white comes from Black
- No need to be confused
- Excuse us for the news
- I question those accused
- Why is this fear of Black from White
- Influence who you choose?
- Man c'mon now, I don't want your wife
- Stop screamin' it's not the end of your life
- (But supposin' she said she loved me)
- What's wrong with some color in your family tree
- I don't know
- I'm just a rhyme sayer
- Skins protected 'gainst the ozone layers
- Breakdown 2001
- Might be best to be Black
- Or just Brown countdown
- I've been wonderin' why
- People livin' in fear
- Of my shade
- (Or my hi top fade)
- I'm not the one that's runnin'
- But they got me one the run
- Treat me like I have a gun
- All I got is genes and chromosomes
- Consider me Black to the bone
- All I want is peace and love
- On this planet
- (Ain't that how God planned it?)
- Excuse us for the news
- You might not be amused
- But did you know White comes from Black
- No need to be confused
- Excuse us for the news
- I question those accused
- Why is this fear of Black from White
- Influence who you choose?
- [Shocklee, Sadler, Ridenhour]
- I get down to what it is
- And if it ain't funky (see ya)
- People askin' me what's goin' on
- With my mind
- (Huh) wait a minute
- It's just a matter of race
- Cause a black male's in their face
- Step back for the new jack swing
- On the platter scatter huh
- We got our own thing
- Just jam to let the rhyth run
- Day to day, America eats it's young
- And defeats our women
- There is a gap so wide we all can swim in
- Drown in (uh get down) an get it
- Got it goin' on wit it
- Sister (hey) soul sister
- We goin' be all right
- It takes a man to take a stand
- Understand it takes a
- Woman to make a stronger man
- (As we both get strong)
- They'll call me a crazy Asiatic
- While I'm singin' a song
- Oh my god, oh my lord
- I can't hold back
- But I get exact on a track
- It's an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
- Forget about me
- Just set my sister free
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t my siters, not my enemy
- (Cause we'll be stronger together)
- And make the suckers say
- (Damn) this generation
- They don't know what we got goin' is (sound)
- To turn it all around
- To my sisters I communicate
- With the bass and tone
- Thru speakers and the microphone
- Cause I'm tired of America dissin' my sisters
- (For example, like they dissed Tawana)
- And they try to say she's a liar
- My people don't believe it
- But even now they're getting higher
- Of the feeling inspiration
- We must know that in this nation
- Every single generation
- (They teach us how to dis our sisters)
- Stange as you say, I say revolution
- Need for change brings on revolution
- The great book just look see solution
- God chooses who and what for the bruisin'
- There's been no justice for none
- Of my sisters
- Just us been the ones that's been missin' her
- Now we got to protect
- We get together and damn this generation
- I said so to what it is
- Where it is
- She needs a li'l respect
- There it is
- I say she needs a lotta
- Brother from a mother like me has gotta
- Give it up
- Give it now
- And pass it all around
- To my soul (sister)
- They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt
- America took her, reshaped her, raped her
- Nope, it never made the paper
- Beat us, mated us
- Made us attack our woman in black
- So I said sophisticated B, don't be one
- Not to head the warning crack of dawn
- Or is it the dawn of crack?
- Stop the talk they say, but
- We talk and say whats right or wrong
- Some say we wasting time singin' a song
- But why is it that we're many different shades
- Black woman's privacy invaded years and years
- You cannot count my mama's tears
- It's not the past but the future's
- What she fears
- Strong we be strong
- The next generation
- It's what not who we are facin'
- The fingers pointed to us in our direction
- The blind state of mind needs correction
- Word to the mother we tighten connection
- To be a man you need no election
- This generation generates a new attitude
- Sister to you we should not be rude
- So we come together
- And make 'em all say
- Damn this generation
- [Shocklee, Sadler, Ridenhour]
- Runnin' for your life, by the knife
- Runnin' from your wife ... yipes
- You should've stuck with home
- Your mind to blow your dome
- It was you that chose your due
- You built a maze you can't get through
- I tried to help you all I can
- Now I can't do nuttin' for you man
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- You got all these people on your back now
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- Flavor flav got problems of his own
- I can't do nuttin' for you man
- Go lean on shells answer man
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- You jumped out of the jelly into a jam
- Make ya love the wrong instead of right
- Not a thief cat burglar through the night
- cop told your girl her name was Shirl
- About a rooftop crime to steal her pearls
- Oozy down the bullets in the gun
- Just microwave themselves a ton
- The you tried to help them all they can
- But they couldn't do nuttin' for ya man
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- They couldn't do nuttin' for ya man
- Flavor Flav is the sun
- Public Enemy number one
- Gotcha runnin' from the gun (pow)
- Of a brain that weighs a ton
- Can't face my facts that's on the shelf
- Cause you want a hand out for your wealth
- Eatin' welfare turkey out of the can
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- You want six dollars for what?
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- You better man kiss my but
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- I'm busy tryin' to do for me
- I can't do nuttin' for ya man
- That's the way the ball bounces gee
- Bass for your face, kick that shit
- [Shocklee, Sadler, Ridenhour]
- I never tried to pretend to have an
- Accent that I never had
- So why don't you stay away awhile
- Come hear the freestyle
- The quicker the sticks
- With the guitar licks
- Complete the beat for your feet
- Check out the drum kick
- I'm here to live for the love of my people
- Kickin' it all about rebuildin' so all the children
- Avoid the self destruction
- So long I'm gonna do y'all a favor
- Cause I got the flavor yea
- Get low not high you can't deny
- Homeboys and girls you'll testify
- The p-e-f-u-n and the K will stay
- And make your body sway cause we got
- The funky beat on the street on your feet
- Can you feel the heat in your mind all the time
- You don't have to find the effect of the
- Rhythm an the funky rhyme on your body
- On your gear so have no fear in your hair
- Everywhere if you dare take this never
- Miss that funky list of super rockin' cuts
- That you can't resist on the move make ya
- Groove prove that we choose our cuts
- Make you strut and shake your but
- Bend your back get the knack of the
- Funk attack
- Yes, yes y'all take that
- [Shocklee, Sadler, Ridenhour]
- War at 33 1/3
- Haven't you heard
- I got quick and clever
- At the level of a scientist
- With this list my fist pumps chumps
- And don't miss
- Sorry majority grudgin' against the enemy
- And any other nigger wit an attitude see
- And any other rapper whose a brother
- Who try to speak to one another
- Gets smothered by the other kind
- No so divine so I heard it thru the grapevine
- Sent the feds out to get mine
- Time yo-yo to go Bronco in 90-91
- Laughin' while they're searchin' for my 98
- Accelerate the race from the chase
- Looka my face
- It ain't hate but they don't want a debate
- To take great
- Can I live my life without 'em treatin'
- Every brother like me like we're holdin'
- A knife alright time to smack Uncle Sam
- Don't give a damn, look at the flag
- My bloods a flood
- Without credit
- Black and close to the edit
- I fed it, you read it, just remember who said it
- War at 33 1/3 not really live
- I rather do it at 45
- Went west in the quest for my intelligence
- Climbed a fence took a teacher on
- Ain't seen him since, hence he winced
- And convinced that the Black
- Was back revolving to a renaissance
- Bronze to gold I told felt bold
- Taught a so called teacher our role
- In civilizin' the whole globe
- Banned unplanned as I said
- I don't break down religion why?
- There ain't a smidgen for a pigeon
- Nature for bird, dog, worm or lion
- So my question to man is
- So why the lyin'
- God's law I saw is natural factual
- Only man creates a waste
- Defiance in his haste
- Based on scheme a scam
- From some mastermind damn if we read it
- And we see it and still be blind
- No need to search a fake church
- Evangelical, huster
- Anglo taxin' to muscle ya
- Check I wreck you guess yes
- All the bullshit now that's progress
- [Shocklee, Sadler, Ridenhour]
- 1989 the number another summer (get down)
- Sound of the funky drummer
- Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got sould
- (Brothers and sisters, hey)
- Listen if you're missin' y'all
- Swingin' while I'm singin'
- Givin' whatcha gettin'
- Knowin' what I know
- While the Black bands sweatin'
- And the rhythm rhymes rollin'
- Got to give us what we want
- Gotta give us what we need
- Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
- We got to fight the powers that be
- Lemme hear you say
- Fight the power
- [Chorus]
- As the rhythm designed to bounce
- What counts is that the rhymes
- Designed to fill your mind
- Now that you've realized the prides arrived
- We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
- from the heart
- It's a start, a work of art
- To revolutionize make a change nothin's strange
- People, people we are the same
- No we're not the same
- Cause we don't know the game
- What we need is awareness, we can't get careless
- You say what is this?
- My beloved lets get down to business
- Mental self defensive fitness
- (Yo) bum rush the show
- You gotta go for what you know
- Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
- Lemme hear you say...
- Fight the Power
- [Chorus]
- Elvis was a hero to most
- But he never meant - to me you see
- Straight up racist that sucker was
- Simple and plain
- Mother- him and John Wayne
- Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
- I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
- Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
- Sample a look back you look and find
- Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
- Don't worry be happy
- Was a number one jam
- Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
- (Get it) lets get this party started right
- Right on, c'mon
- What we got to say
- Power to the people no delay
- To make everybody see
- In order to fight the powers that be
- (Fight the Power)
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