Boogie Down Productions - Blackman In Effect lyrics

Wake up! Take the pillow from your head and put a book in it. It's time for the ma**ive bdp crew at the top of the pile. Yo. in the morning i'm yawning, at noon is when i wake up Make up my bed break up the bread and said Scratching my head, why am i so damn intimidating? Is it because of laws designed to keep us waiting and waiting Thus hating all forms of a setback Get back, if you can't understand a rap act. This is the language of the people ready to hear the crew I've got no juice, 'cause i'm not getting juiced To have juice means you kiss and lick a lot of booty To have respect means you simply new or newly Heard what i had to say and felt as though you'd say that too I'm not down with a juice-crew But anyway i say today the message i create is great I don't preach hate, i simply get the record straight It's not the fault of the black race that we are misplaced We're robbin' and k**in', your own medicine you taste You built up a race on the concept of violence Now in '90 you want silence Well, i want science, not silence but science Scientific fact about black The board of education acts as if it's only reality Is talking 'bout a tom, dick and harry So now you learn your black history is questions and answers Every question but the black panthers Timbuctoo existed when the caveman existed Why then isn't this listed Is this because the blackman is the original man Or does it mean humanity is african I don't know, but these sciences are hidden For some strange reason it's forbidden To talk about, or converse on a political outburst I don't believe that i'm the first Or should i say the first one, or the first one that's done Music like i'm still number one Music like that or this is the incredible uplift Those that oppose get dissed But who will oppose the teacher when society's a wreck So check the blackman's in effect Near the tigris and euphrates valleys in asia Lies the garden of eden Where adam became a father to humanity Now don't get mad at me But according to facts, this seems just fantasy Because man, the most ancient man Was found thousands of years before adam began And where he was found, again they can't laugh at ya It's right, dead, smack in africa But due to religious and political power We must be denied the facts every hour We run to school, tryin' to get straight a's Let's take a trip way back in the days To the first civilization on earth, the egyptians Giving birth to science, mathematics and music Religion, the list goes on, you choose it Egypt was the land of spiritual blessing Egypt was the land of facts, not guessing People from all over the world had come To learn from egypt, egypt number one So people that believe in greek philosophy Know your facts, egypt was the monopoly Greeks had learned from egyptian masters You might say "prove it", well here's the answers 640 to 322 b.c. originates greek philosophy But in that era greece was at war With themselves and persia, what's more Any philosopher at that time was a criminal He'd be k**ed very simple This indicates that greece had no respect For science or intellect So how the hell you created philosophy When you k** philosophers constantly The point is that we descend from kings Science, art and beautiful things African history is the worlds history This is the missing link and mystery Once we realise they all are african White will sit down with black and laugh again So judge not least ye might be judged By the judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged Matthew seven, first verse doesn't budge No man should walk the earth and sludgez If you don't believe, you can go and check To see how and where the blackman's in effect