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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

by Public Enemy

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Overall Rating: 3.5857 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is ranked overall as 3.5857 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.7000 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back has an avg. critic score of 3.7000 out of 4 stars
 
  • Bass! How low can you go?
  • Death row. What a brother knows.
  • Once again, back is the incredible
  • the thyme animal
  • the incredible D, Public Enemy Number One
  • Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  • But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun
  • Now they got me in a cell 'cause my records, they sell
  • 'Cause a brother like me said, "Well...
  • ...Frarrakhan's a prophet and I think you ought to listen to
  • what he can say to you, what you ought to do."
  • Follow for now, power of the people, say,
  • Black is back, all in, we're gonna win
  • Check it out, yeah y'all, here we go again
  • [Chorus:]Turn it up! Bring the noise!
  • Never badder than bad 'cause the brother is madder than mad
  • At the fact that's corrupt as a senator
  • Soul on roll, but you treat it like soap on a rope
  • 'Cause the beats in the lines are so dope
  • Listen for lessons I'm saying inside music that the critics are blasting
  • me for
  • They'll never care for the brothers and sisters
  • now across the country has us up for the war
  • We got to demonstrate, come on now, they're gonna have to wait
  • Till we get it right
  • Radio stations I question their blackness
  • They call themselves black, but we'll see if they'll play this
  • [Chorus:]Turn it up! Bring the noise!
  • Get from in front of me, the crowd runs to me
  • My deejay is warm, he's X, I call him Norm, ya know
  • He can cut a record from side to side
  • So what, the ride, the glide should be much safer than a suicide
  • Soul control, beat is the father of your rock'n'roll
  • Music for whatcha, for whichin', you call a band, man
  • Makin' a music, abuse it, but you can't do it, ya know
  • You call 'em demos, but we ride limos, too
  • Whatcha gonna do? Rap is not afraid of you
  • Beat is for Sonny Bono, beat is for Yoko Ono
  • Run-DMC first said a deejay could be a band
  • Stand on its feet, get you out your seat
  • Beat is for Eric B. and LL, as well, hell
  • Wax is for Anthrax, still it can rock bells
  • Ever forever, universal, it will sell
  • Time for me to exit, Terminator X-it
  • [Chorus...]
  • From coast to coast, so you stop being like a comatose
  • Rock with some pizzazz, it will last. Why you ask?
  • Roll with the rock stars, still never get accepted as
  • We got to plead the Fifth, we can investigate
  • Don't need to wait, get the record straight
  • Hey, posse's in effect, got the Flavor Terminator
  • X to sign checks, play to get paid
  • We got to check it out down on the avenue
  • A magazine or two is dissing me and dissing you
  • Yeah, I'm telling you...
 
  • [Ridenhour, Shocklee, Sadler]
  • Back
  • Caught you lookin' for the same thing
  • It's a new thing - check out this I bring
  • Uh Oh the roll below the level
  • 'Cause I'm livin' low next to the bass, C'mon
  • Turn up the radio
  • They claim that I'm a criminal
  • By now I wonder how
  • Some people never know
  • The enemy could be their friend, guardian
  • I'm not a hooligan
  • I rock the party and
  • Clear all the madness, I'm not a racist
  • Preach to teach to all
  • 'Cause some they never had this
  • Number one, not born to run
  • About the gun...
  • I wasn't licensed to have one
  • The minute they see me, fear me
  • I'm the epitome - a public enemy
  • Used, abused without clues
  • I refused to blow a fuse
  • They even had it on the news
  • Don't believe the hype...
  • Yes
  • Was the start of my last jam
  • So here it is again, another def jam
  • But since I gave you all a little something
  • That we knew you lacked
  • They still consider me a new jack
  • All the critics you can hang'em
  • I'll hold the rope
  • But they hope to the pope
  • And pray it ain't dope
  • The follower of Farrakhan
  • Don't tell me that you understand
  • Until you hear the man
  • The book of the new school rap game
  • Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane
  • Yes to them, but to me I'm a different kind
  • We're brothers of the same mind, unblind
  • Caught in the middle and
  • Not surrenderin'
  • I don't rhyme for the sake of of riddlin'
  • Some claim that I'm a smuggler
  • Some say I never heard of 'ya
  • A rap burgler, false media
  • We don't need it do we?
  • It's fake that's what it be to 'ya, dig me?
  • Don't believe the hype...
  • Don't believe the hype - its a sequel
  • As an equal, can I get this through to you
  • My 98's boomin' with a trunk of funk
  • All the jealous punks can't stop the dunk
  • Comin' from the school of hard knocks
  • Some perpetrate, they drink Clorox
  • Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
  • The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox
  • Leader of the new school, uncool
  • Never played the fool, just made the rules
  • Remember there's a need to get alarmed
  • Again I said I was a timebomb
  • In the daytime the radio's scared of me
  • 'Cause I'm mad, plus I'm the enemy
  • They can't c'mon and play with me in primetime
  • 'Cause I know the time, plus I'm gettin' mine
  • I get on the mix late in the night
  • They know I'm livin' right, so here go the mike, sike
  • Before I let it go, don't rush my show
  • You try to reach and grab and get elbowed
  • Word to herb, yo if you can't swing this
  • Just a little bit of the taste of the bass for you
  • As you get up and dance at the LQ
  • When some deny it, defy if I swing bolos
  • Then they clear the lane I go solo
  • The meaning of all of that
  • Some media is the whack
  • You believe it's true, it blows me through the roof
  • Suckers, liars get me a shovel
  • Some writers I know are damn devils
  • For them I say don't believe the hype
  • Yo Chuck, they must be on a pipe, right?
  • Their pens and pads I'll snatch
  • 'Cause I've had it
  • I'm not an addict fiendin' for static
  • I'll see their tape recoreder and grab it
  • No, you can't have it back silly rabbit
  • I'm going' to my media assassin
  • Harry Allen, I gotta ask him
  • Yo Harry, you're a writer, are we that type?
  • Don't believe the hype
  • I got flavor and all those things you know
  • Yeah boy, part two bum rush and show
  • Yo Griff, get the green black red and
  • Gold down countdown to Armageddon
  • -88 you wait the S1Ws will
  • Rock the hard jams - treat it like a seminar
  • Teach the bourgeoise, and rock the boulevard
  • Some sau I'm negative
  • But they're not positive
  • But what I got to give...
  • The media says this
 
  • [Drayton, Shocklee, Sadler]
  • Um lampin, um lampin, um cole cole lampin
  • I got loowies boy, um not trampin
  • I just came from Da-crib ya know
  • Um on da go-throw ya tank into metro
  • Live lyrics from the bank of reality
  • I kick da flyest dope maneuver technicality
  • To a dope track, you wanna hike git out ya backpack
  • Um in my Flav-mobile cole lampin
  • I took dis g upstate cole lampin
  • Ta da poke-a-nose, we call da hide-a-ways
  • A pack of franks and a big bag of frito lays
  • Flavor-Flav on a hype tip
  • Um ya hype drink, come take a big sip
  • Um in position, you can't play me out da pocket
  • I'll take da dopest beat yougot and I'll rock-it
  • Like chocolate, even vanilla - chocolate, strawberry, saperella
  • Flavors are electric - try me - get a shock-a
  • Didn't I tell you to leave Flavor Flav alone knock-a
  • A clock on my chest proves I don't fess
  • I'm a clock-a, rock-a rockin' wit-da-rest
  • Flavor in da house by Chuck-D's side
  • Chuck got da Flavor-Flav don't hide
  • P.E. crazy, Crazy P.E. - makin' crazy loowies for the shoppin spree
  • Ya eatin death cause ya like gittin dirt from da graveyard - ya put
  • gravy on it
  • Den ya pick ya teeth with tomb stone chips
  • And casket cover clips - dead women hips ya do da bump with - bones
  • Nutin but love bones
  • Lifestyles of the Live-en-dead
  • First ya live den ya dead - died trying ta clock what I said
  • Now I got a murder rap cause I bust ya cap with Flavor - pure
  • Flavor
  • We got Magnum Brown, Shoothki - Valoothki
  • Super-calafraga-hestik-alagoothki
  • You could put dat in ya don't know what I said book
  • Took-look-yuk-duk-wuk
  • Shinavative ill factors by da Flavor Flav
  • Come an ride da Flavor wave
  • In any year on any givin day
  • What a brova know - what do Flavor say
  • Why do dis record play dat way
  • Prime time merrily in da day
  • Right now dis radio station is busy - brainknowledgeably wizzy
  • Honey drippers, you say you got it
  • You ain't got no flavor and I can prove it
  • Flavor Flav the flav all of flavors
  • Onion an garlic french fried potatas
  • Make ya breath stink, breath fire
  • Makes any onion da best crier
  • I know it sounds crazy but it fits perfect
  • Peter perfect pimped a perfect Peter
  • Honey dripper - sucker sipper - big dipper - sucker dipper
  • Drippin suckers like its goin out-a-style
  • Creatin flavors for da Flavor Flav pile
  • Lampin booyee madina style
  • Kickin da flavor gittin busy
  • Ya goin ouut, I think ya dizzy
  • I think ya hungry, cause ya starvin fa Flavor
  • Flavor most, put it on toast
  • Eat it-en taste it en swallow it down
  • Imperial Flavor gives you da crown
  • Of the king called Flavor, da king of all flavors
  • Rolls an rolls an rolls life savers
  • Flavor Flav is in everything ya eat cause everything ya eat got
  • flavor
  • Flavor Flav is da first taste ya git in da mornin - ya breakfast is
  • da flavor
  • In between dat ta lunch - in between dat dinner - in between dat ta
  • midnight flavor
  • Yeah, das right I got somethin fa all da fandangoes of damangoes of
  • da fandangoes of da mangoes
 
  • Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go
  • Take A look at his style
  • Take A check of the sound
  • Off the record people keep him down
  • Trick a chick in Miami
  • Terminator X packs the jams
  • Whow gives a fuck about a Goddamn Grammy
  • Anyway and I say the D's defending the mike
  • Yeah, who gives a fuck about what they like
  • Right the power is bold, the rhymes politically cold
  • No judge can ever budge or ever handle his load
  • Yes the coming is near and he's about to become
  • The one and only missionary lord son of a gun
  • Going on and on back trackin' the whack
  • Explain the knack y'all for the actual fact, c'mon
  • Terminator X Go off[x4]
  • Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go
  • He goes on and on 'till he reaches the coast
  • Tired, wired of his own race playing him close
  • Understand his type of music kills the
  • Plan of the klan
  • You know the pack attack the man
  • With the palm of his hands
  • Police, wild beasts, dogs on a leash
  • No peace to reach - thats why he's packin' his black piece
  • Terminator X yellin' with his hands
  • Damn almighty rulin ready to jam
  • But his cuts drive against the belt
  • Sheet...he's bad by his damn self
  • Yeah, his one job cold threatens the crowd
  • The loud sound pound to make brothers proud
  • Terminator X Go off[x4]
  • Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go
  • Gettin' small makin' room for it all
  • Flavors on the phone so he can...
  • Make the call
  • I know you're clockin' the enemy
  • You should be clockin' the time
  • Checkin' records I'm wreckin' you
  • For defecting my rhyme
  • No provokin', no jokin', you know the stage is set
  • If you're thinkin' I'm breakin'
  • He ain't rocked it yet
  • My education is takin' you for a long ride
  • I'll have you brain slip and do the slide
  • Glide into infinity, it's infinite
  • With your hands in your pockets
  • I know your money is spent
  • Like this, like that, butter for the fat
  • If you kill my dog, I'ma slay your cat
  • It's like that y'all, can you handle it son
  • I'm public enemy number one
  • Terminator X Go off[x4]
  • Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go
 
  • This style seems wild
  • Wait before you treat me like a stepchild
  • Let me tell you why they got me on file
  • 'Cause I give you what you lack
  • Come right and exact
  • Our status is the saddest
  • So I care where you at, black
  • And at home I got a call from Tony Rome
  • The FBI was tappin' my telephone
  • I never live alone
  • I never walk alone
  • My posses always ready, and they're waitin' in my zone
  • Although I live the life that of a resident
  • But I be knowin' the scheme that of the president
  • Tappin' my phone whose crews abused
  • I stand accused of doing harm
  • 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb
  • C'mon C'mon louder etc...
  • I am the rock hard trooper
  • To the bone, the bone, the bone
  • Full grown - consider me - stone
  • Once again and
  • I say it for you to know
  • The troop is always ready, I yell `geronimo'
  • Your CIA, you see I ain't kiddin'
  • Both King and X they got ridda' both
  • A story untold, true, but unknown
  • Professor Griff knows...
  • And not the braggin' or boastin' and plus
  • It ain't no secret why they're tappin' my phone, although
  • I can't keep it a secret
  • So I decided to kick it, yo
  • And yes it weighs a ton
  • I say it once again
  • I'm called the enemy - I'll never be a friend
  • Of those with closed minds, don't know I'm rapid
  • The way that I rap it
  • Is makin' 'em tap it, yeah
  • Never servin 'em well, 'cause I'm an un-Tom
  • It's no secret at all
  • Cause I'm louder than a bomb
  • Cold holdin' the load
  • The burden breakin' the mold
  • I ain't lyin' denyin', 'cause they're checkin' my code
  • Am I buggin' 'cause they're buggin' my phone - for information
  • No tellin' who's sellin' out - power buildin' the nation so...
  • Joinin' the set, the point blank target
  • Every brothers inside - so least not, you forget, no
  • Takin' the blame is not a waste, here taste
  • A bit of the song so you can never be wrong
  • Just a bit of advice, 'cause we be payin' the price
  • 'Cause every brother mans life
  • Is like swingin' the dice, right?
  • Here it is, once again this is
  • The brother to brother
  • The Terminator, the cutter
  • Goin' on an' on - leave alone the grown
  • Get it straight in '88, an' I'll troop it to demonstrate
  • The posse always ready - 98 at 98
  • My posse come quick, because my posse got velocity
  • Tappin' my phone, they never leave me alone
  • I'm even lethal when I'm unarmed
  • 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb
  • 'Cause the D is for dangerous
  • You can come and get some of this
  • I teach and speak
  • So when its spoke, it's no joke
  • The voice of choice
  • The place shakes with bass
  • Called one for the treble
  • The rhythm is the rebel
  • Here's a funky rhyme that they're tappin' on
  • Just thinkin' I'm breakin' the beats I'm rappin' on
  • CIA FBI
  • All they tell us is lies
  • And when I say it they get alarmed
  • 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb
 
  • Caught, now in court 'cause I stole a beat
  • This is a sampling sport
  • But I'm giving it a new name
  • What you hear is mine
  • P.E. you know the time
  • Now, what in the heaven does a jury know about hell
  • If I took it, but but they just look at me
  • Like, Hey I'm on a mission
  • I'm talkin' 'bout conditions
  • Ain't right sittin' like dynamite
  • Gonna blow you up and it just might
  • Blow up the bench and
  • Judge, the courtroom plus I gotta mention
  • This court is dismissed when I grab the mike
  • Yo Flave...What is this?
  • Get hyped, c'mon we gotta
  • Gather around - gotcha
  • Mail from the courts and jail
  • Claims I stole the beats that I rail
  • Look at how I'm livin' like
  • And they're gonna check the mike, right? - Sike
  • Look at how I'm livin' now, lower than low
  • What a sucker know
  • I found this mineral that I call a beat
  • I paid zero
  • I packed my load 'cause it's better than gold
  • People don't ask the price, but its sold
  • They say that I sample, but they should
  • Sample this my bit bull
  • We ain't goin' for this
  • They say that I stole this
  • Can I get a witness?
  • Understand where we're goin
  • Then listen to this, plus my Roland
  • Comin' from way down below
  • Rebound c'mon boost up the stereo
  • Snakes in the morning
  • Wake up, scared afraid of my warning
  • They claim that I'm violent
  • Now I choose to be silent
  • Can I get a witness?
  • C'mon get wit' it
  • Something ain't right, I got to admit it
  • Made me mad when I was on tour
  • That I declared war on black radio
  • They say that I planned this
  • On the radio most of you will demand this
  • Won't be on a playlist
  • Bust the way that I say this: No Sell Out
  • You singers are spineless
  • As you sing your senseless songs to the mindless
  • Your general subject love is minimal
  • Its sex for profit
  • Scream that I sample
  • For example, Tom you ran to the federal
  • Court in U.S. it don't mean you
  • Yeah, 'cause they fronted on you
  • The posses ready, Terminator X yes he's ready
  • The S1Ws, Griff are you ready?
  • They say that I stole this
  • I rebel with a raised fist, can we get a witness?
 
  • [Flavor Flav:]You're blind, baby, you're blind from the facts on who you are
  • 'cause you're watchin' that garbage.
  • The woman makes the men all pause
  • And if you got a woman
  • She might make you forget yours
  • There's a 5 letter word
  • To describe her character
  • But her brains being washed by an actor
  • And every real man that tries to approach
  • Come the closer he comes
  • He gets dissed like a roach
  • [REFRAIN:]
  • I don't think I can handle
  • She goes channel to channel
  • Cold lookin' for that hero
  • She watch channel zero
  • [CHORUS:]
  • She watch, She watch[x4]
  • [Flavor Flav:]Yo baby, you got to cut that garbage off. Yo! I wanna watch
  • the game. {Where's your doin'} Hey yo, lemme tell you a little som'in: I'm
  • 'a take all your soaps, an' then I'm gonna hang 'em on a rope. You know what
  • I'm sayin'? 'Cause that garbage your watchin' don't make no sense. Hey yo,
  • lemme tell you a little som'in baby: I'm 'a take your set an' I'm 'a throw it
  • out the window. G's.
  • 2, 7, 5, 4, 8 she watched she said
  • All added up to zero
  • And nothing in her head
  • She turns and turns
  • And she hopes the soaps
  • Are for real - she learns
  • That it ain't true, nope
  • But she won't survive
  • And rather die in a lie
  • Falls a fool - for some dude - on a tube
  • [REFRAIN, CHORUS]
  • [Flavor Flav:]Yo baby, you think I'm jokin'? Do it look like I'm jokin'? I
  • ain't jokin', word up, baby. Yo, cut that garbage off now. Yo, I got the
  • Tyson fight on, you know what I'm sayin'? Yo, so you can't be comin' in here
  • stackin' {aid} like that, you know what I'm sayin'? Yo, we gettin' ready to
  • watch the Super Bowl, we got a black quarterback so step back.
  • Trouble vision for a sister
  • 'Cause I know she don't know, I quote
  • Her brains retrained
  • By a 24 inch remote
  • Revolution a solution
  • For all of our children
  • But her children
  • Don't mean as much as the show, I mean
  • Watch her worship the screen, and fiend
  • For a TV ad
  • And it just makes me mad
  • [REFRAIN, CHORUS]
  • [Flavor Flav:]Yo baby, can't you that's nonsense you watchin'? Look, don't
  • nobody look like that, nobody even live that, you know what I'm sayin'? You
  • watchin' garbage, not'in' but garbage. Straight up garbage. Yo, why don't
  • you just back up from the TV, read a book or som'in. Read about yourself,
  • learn your culture, you know what I'm sayin'?
 
  • Here it is
  • BAMMM
  • And you say, Goddamn
  • This is the dope jam
  • But lets define the term called dope
  • And you think it mean funky now, no
  • Here is a true tale
  • Of the ones that deal
  • Are the ones that fail
  • Yeah
  • You can move if you wanna move
  • What it prove
  • It's here like the groove
  • The problem is this - we gotta' fix it
  • Check out the justice - and how they run it
  • Sellin', smellin'
  • Sniffin', riffin'
  • And brothers try to get swift an'
  • Sell to their own, rob a home
  • While some shrivel to bone
  • Like comatose walkin' around
  • Please don't confuse this with the sound
  • I'm talking about...BASS
  • I put this together to...
  • Rock the bells of those that
  • Boost the dose
  • Of lack a lack
  • And those that sell to Black
  • Shame on a brother when he dealin'
  • The same block where my 98 be wheelin'
  • And everybody know
  • Another kilo
  • From a corner from a brother to keep another -
  • Below
  • Stop illin' and killin'
  • Stop grillin'
  • Yo, black, yo (we are willin')
  • 4, 5 o'clock in the mornin'
  • Wait a minute y'all
  • The fiends are fiendin'
  • Day to day they say no other way
  • This stuff...
  • Is really bad
  • I'm talkin' 'bout...BASS
  • Yo, listen
  • I see it on their faces
  • (First come first serve basis)
  • Standin' in line
  • Checkin' the time
  • Homeboys playin' the curb
  • The same ones that used to do herb
  • Now they're gone
  • Passin' it on
  • Poison attack - the Black word bond
  • Daddy-O
  • Once said to me
  • He knew a brother who stayed all day in his jeep
  • And at night he went to sleep
  • And in the mornin' all he had was
  • The sneakers on his feet
  • The culprit used to jam and rock the mike, yo
  • He stripped the jeep to fill his pipe
  • And wander around to find a place
  • Where they rocked to a different kind of...BASS
 
  • I got a letter from the government
  • The other day
  • I opened and read it
  • It said they were suckers
  • They wanted me for their army or whatever
  • Picture me given' a damn - I said never
  • Here is a land that never gave a damn
  • About a brother like me and myself
  • Because they never did
  • I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute...
  • It occured to me
  • The suckers had authority
  • Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell
  • How long has it been?
  • They got me sittin' in the state pen
  • I gotta get out - but that thought was thought before
  • I contemplated a plan on the cell floor
  • I'm not a fugitive on the run
  • But a brother like me begun - to be another one
  • Public enemy servin' time - they drew the line y'all
  • To criticize me some crime - never the less
  • They could not understand that I'm a Black man
  • And I could never be a veteran
  • On the strength, the situation's unreal
  • I got a raw deal, so I'm goin' for the steel
  • They got me rottin' in the time that I'm servin'
  • Tellin' you what happened the same time they're throwin'
  • 4 of us packed in a cell like slaves - oh well
  • The same motherfucker got us livin' is his hell
  • You have to realize - what its a form of slavery
  • Organized under a swarm of devils
  • Straight up - word'em up on the level
  • The reasons are several, most of them federal
  • Here is my plan anyway and I say
  • I got gusto, but only some I can trust - yo
  • Some do a bid from 1 to 10
  • And I never did, and plus I never been
  • I'm on a tier where no tears should ever fall
  • Cell block and locked - I never clock it y'all
  • 'Cause time and time again time
  • They got me servin' to those and to them
  • I'm not a citizen
  • But ever when I catch a C-O
  • Sleepin' on the job - my plan is on go-ahead
  • On the strength, I'ma tell you the deal
  • I got nothin' to lose
  • 'Cause I'm goin' for the steel
  • You know I caught a C-O
  • Fallin' asleep on death row
  • I grabbed his gun - then he did what I said so
  • And everyman's got served
  • Along with the time they served
  • Decency was deserved
  • To understand my demands
  • I gave a warnin' - I wanted the governor, y'all
  • And plus the warden to know
  • That I was innocent -
  • Because I'm militant
  • Posing a threat, you bet it's fuckin' up the government
  • My plan said I had to get out and break north
  • Just like with Oliver's neck
  • I had to get off - my boys had the feds in check
  • They couldn't do nuthin'
  • We had a force to instigate a prison riot
  • This is what it takes for peace
  • So I just took the piece
  • Black for Black inside time to cut the leash
  • Freedom to get out - to the ghetto - no sell out
  • 6 C-Os we got we ought to put their head out
  • But I'll give 'em a chance, cause I'm civilized
  • As for the rest of the world, they can't realize
  • A cell is hell - I'm a rebel so I rebel
  • Between bars, got me thinkin' like an animal
  • Got a woman C-O to call me a copter
  • She tried to get away, and I popped her
  • Twice, right
  • Now who wanna get nice?
  • I had 6 C-Os, now it's 5 to go
  • And I'm serious - call me delirious
  • But I'm still a captive
  • I gotta rap this
  • Time to break as time grows intense
  • I got the steel in my right hand
  • Now I'm lookin' for the fence
  • I ventured into the courtyard
  • Followed by 52 brothers
  • Bruised, battered, and scarred but hard
  • Goin' out with a bang
  • Ready to bang out
  • But power from the sky
  • And from the tower shots rang out
  • A high number of dose - yes
  • And some came close
  • Figure I trigger my steel
  • Stand and hold my post
  • This is what I mean - an anti-nigger machine
  • If I come out alive and then they won't - come clean
  • And then I threw up my steel bullets - flew up
  • Blew up, who shot...
  • What, who, the bazooka was who
  • And to my rescue, it was the S1Ws
  • Secured my getaway, so I just gotaway
  • The joint broke, from the black smoke
  • Then they saw it was rougher thatn the average bluffer
  • 'Cause the steel was black, the attitude exact
  • Now the chase is on tellin' you to c'mon
  • 53 brothers on the run, and we are gone
 
  • Yes - the rhythm, the rebel
  • Without a pause - I'm lowering my level
  • The hard rhymer - where you never been I'm in
  • You want stylin' - you know it's time again
  • D the enemy - tellin you to hear it
  • They praised the music - this time they play the lyrics
  • Some say no to the album, the show
  • Bum rush the sound I made a year ago
  • I guess you know - you guess I'm just a radical
  • Not a sabbatical - yes to make it critical
  • The only part your body should be parting to
  • Panther power on the hour from the rebel to you
  • Radio - suckers never play me
  • On the mix - just O.K. me
  • Now known and grown when they're clocking my zone it's known
  • Snakin' and takin' everything that a brother owns
  • Hard - my calling card
  • Recorded and orderd - supporter of Chesimard
  • Loud and proud kickin' live next poet supreme
  • Loop a troop, bazooka, the scheme
  • Flavor - a rebel in his own mind
  • Supporter of my rhyme
  • Designed to scatter a line of suckers who claim I do crime
  • Terminator X
  • From a rebel it's final on black vinyl
  • Soul, rock and roll comin' like a rhino
  • Tables turn - suckers burn to learn
  • They can't dis-able the power of my label
  • Def Jam - tells you who I am
  • The enemy's public - they really give a damn
  • Strong Island - where I got 'em wild and
  • That's the reason they're claimin' that I'm violent
  • Never silent - no dope gettin' dumb nope
  • Claimin' where we get our rhythm from
  • Number one - we hit ya and we give ya some
  • No gun - and still never on the run
  • You wanna be an S.1 - Griff will tell you when
  • And then you'll come - you'll know what time it is
  • Impeach the president - pullin' out the ray-gun
  • Zap the next one - I could be you're Sho-gun
  • Suckers - don't last a minute
  • Soft and smooth - I ain't with it
  • Hardcore - rawbone like a razor
  • I'm like a lazer - I just won't graze ya
  • Old enough to raise ya - so this will faze ya
  • Get it right boy and maybe I will praise ya
  • Playin' the role I got soul too
  • Voice my opinion with volume
  • Smooth - no what I am
  • Rough - cause I'm the man
  • No matter what the name - we're all the same
  • Pieces in one big chess game
  • Yeah - the voice of power
  • Is in the house - go take a shower boy
  • P.E. a group, a crew - not singular
  • We were black Wranglers
  • We're rap stranglers
  • You can't angle us - I know you're listenin'
  • I caught you pissin' in you're pants
  • You're scared of us dissin' us
  • The crowd is missin' us
  • We're on a mission boy
  • Terminator X
  • Attitude - when I'm on fire
  • Juice on the loose - electric wire
  • Simple and plain - give me the lane
  • I'll throw it down your throat like Barkley
  • See the car keys - you'll never get these
  • They belong to the 98 posse
  • You want some more son - you wanna get some
  • Rush the door on a store - pick up the album
  • You know the rhythm, the rhyme plus the beat is designed
  • So I can enter your mind - Boys
  • Bring the noise - my time
  • Step aside for the flex - Terminator X
 
  • With vice I hold the mike device
  • With force I keep it away of course
  • And I'm keepin' you from sleepin'
  • And on stage I rage
  • And I'm rollin'
  • To the poor I pour in on in metaphors
  • Not bluffin', it's nothin'
  • That we ain't did before
  • We played you stayed
  • The points made
  • You consider it done
  • By the prophets of rage
  • (Power of the people say)
  • I roll with the punches so I survive
  • Try to rock 'cause it keeps the crowd alive
  • I'm not ballin', I'm just callin'
  • But I'm past the days of yes y'allin'
  • Wa wiggle round and round
  • I pump, you jump up
  • Hear my words my verbs
  • And get juiced up
  • I been around a while
  • You can descibe my sound
  • Clear the way
  • For the prophets of rage
  • (Power of the people say)
  • I rang ya bell
  • Can you tell I got feelin'
  • Just peace at least
  • Cause I want it
  • Want it so bad
  • That I'm starvin'
  • I'm like Garvey
  • So you can see B
  • It's like that, I'm like Nat
  • Leave me the hell alone
  • If you don't think I'm a brother
  • Then check the chromosomes
  • Then check the stage
  • I declare it a new age
  • Get down for the prophets of rage
  • Keep you from gettin' like this
  • You back the track
  • You find we're the quotable
  • You emulate
  • Brothers, sisters thats beautiful
  • Follow a path
  • Of positivity you go
  • Some sing it or rap it
  • Or harmonize it through Go-Go
  • Little you know but very
  • Seldom I do party jams
  • About a plan
  • I'm considered the man
  • I'm the recordable
  • But God made it affordable
  • I say it, you play it
  • Back in your car or even portable
  • Stereo
  • Describes my scenario
  • Left or right, Black or White
  • They tell lies in the books
  • That you're readin'
  • It's knowledge of yourself
  • That you're needin'
  • Like Vescey or Prosser
  • We have a reason why
  • To debate the hate
  • That's why we're born to die
  • Mandela, cell dweller, Thatcher
  • You can tell her clear the way for the prophets of rage
  • (Power of the people you say)
  • It's raw and keepin' you on the floor
  • Its soul and keepin' you in control
  • It's pt. 2 cause I'm
  • Pumpin' what you're used to
  • Until the whole juice crew
  • Gets me in my goose down
  • I do the rebel yell
  • And I'm the duracell
  • Call it plain insane
  • Brothers causein' me pain
  • When a brothers a victim
  • And the sellers a dweller in a cage
  • Yo, run the accapella
  • (Power of the people say)
 
  • Power, equality
  • And we're out to get it
  • I know some of you ain't wid it
  • This party started right in 66
  • With a pro-Black radical mix
  • Then at the hour of twelve
  • Some force cut the power
  • And emerged from hell
  • It was your so called government
  • That made this occur
  • Like the grafted devils they were
  • J. Edgar Hoover, and he coulda proved to you
  • He had King and X set up
  • Also the party with Newton, Cleaver and Seale
  • He ended, so get up
  • Time to get em back
  • ( You got it )
  • Get back on the track
  • ( You got it )
  • Word from the honorable Elijah Muhammed
  • Know who you are to be Black
  • To those that disagree it causes static
  • For the original Black Asiatic man
  • Cream of the earth
  • And was here first
  • And some devils prevent this from being known
  • But you check out the books they own
  • Even masons they know it
  • But refuse to show it, yo
  • But it's proven and fact
  • And it takes a nation of millions to hold us back

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