Big Daddy Kane - Word to The Mother lyrics

Grab a hold of yourself, open your eyes Get wise to the exercise Being taught by the teacher that's most dominant You need knowledge? Well I'm dropping it Listen to the rap allow it to trap Your body and soul so that you can adapt To the man on display as I take you away So may I? Proud to be a black man Coming exact and Giving up to brothers five on the back hand Pray for lease and peace upon each other With my sisters and brothers I say the mother, as in the motherland But on the other hand, another man Tackled and shackled our ancestors But we beat him with freedom, so let's bless the Country that we all came from Because the moral of it all is we shall overcome The cream will keep rising We be sizing Up, the asiatic one is enterprising Building and building to carry on All the way from Malcolm x to Farrakhan Martin Luther was a tutor, many were pupils Those who fell victim were those without scruples However, to sever, we could never So hold up the peace sign and stand together Take heed to the words that I manifest And when I'm through speaking, Marley Marl'll do the rest People, people We gotta get over, before we go under Let's get together Marley marl Yo big daddy, what you gonna say now?