[Malcolm X]
Who are you?
You don't know?
Don't tell me 'Negro'
That's nothing
What were you before the white man named you a 'Negro'?
What was your name?
It couldn't have been 'Smith' or 'Jones' or 'Bush' or 'Powell'
That wasn't your name
They don't have those kind of names where you and I came from
No what was your name?
And why don't you now know what your name was then?
Where was your history?
How did a man wipe out your history?
How did the man, what did the man do to make you as dumb, as you are right now?
[k**er Mike]
Motherf**as I just bought some new chuckas
The old ones bloodied up from stomping out mo' s**as
Big bad k**a
Big black gorilla
King Kong on you monkey a** n***as
Step and fetch funky a**, flunky a** n***as
Dick in the booty for your Ma**a' a** n***as
I don't fear no man
Not Bush not Clinton not Osama
Ask your Uncle Thomas how he choose Ma**a' over Obama
You could have a million dollars and a white collar
Liberation costs more then a damn dollar
It costs what Christ gave
King gave
X gave
A billion dollars don't make you an ex-slave
n***a With an Attitude since fifth grade
I never behave
Rather be a dead man than a live slave
[Hook:]
We can say what we like
Put the pressure on 'em
Ice Cube and k**er Mike
Put the pressure on 'em
I can do what I want
Put the pressure on 'em
But god dammit I'm gonna
Put the pressure on 'em
Put the pressure on 'em
Homie put the pressure on 'em
Put the pressure on 'em
Homie put the pressure on 'em
Put the pressure on 'em
Homie put the pressure on 'em
Cause pressure bust pipes
Pressure bust pipes
[Ice Cube:]
I'm here to deprogram you
Don't forget what they made your great grandmama do
What they made your great granddaddy do
Without a dollar or a penny or a thank you
The same motherf**ers wanna gank you
Cause they hate you and the p**y that you came through
Can anybody tell me that it ain't true?
That these motherf**ers ain't out to hurt you
They'll lock you up, beat you up and work you
Put your life on a thirty year curfew
Little cell little window for you to look through
Even gotta a little chair where he can cook you
n***a please I'mma be in the breeze
Beat 'em up with my plan like the Japanese
Now I'm overseas
And I'm trapping these
Thank God I didn't have to co*k and squeeze
[Hook]
[k**er Mike]
Black politicians stop bullsh**ting
And you funky black preachers with your pulpit
Our kings had dreams and a big vision
All you give us is government and religion
Is you a freedom fighter or a stool pigeon
Is you down for your people in the big mission
Or you a dirty n***a working for a f**ing Clinton
Or you dirty n***a working for a f**ing Bush
Another message for the politicians:
Better get the police off our a** quickly
If another old lady die in this city
Swear to god we will burn down the f**ing city
Big schemes
Big dreams
Yeah I'm with it folk
But twenty years of selling dope just a f**ing joke
And so what, you the man with that white man?
Probation got your answering to a white man
[Hook]
[k**er Mike]
God dammit the Red Dogs and Ramparts running rampant
These pigs going ham sammich
In New York k**ed a young brother
In Atlanta k**ed a grandmother
And politicians say 'save the planet'
f** that, save us dammit!
From the black pigs helped 'em k** Sean Bell
I hope it's five degrees hotter for your a** in hell
Race traitin' ba*tard, you less than trash
I hope when Jesus come back he murder your a**
So you burn in hell 'til you turn white ash
To the one that say 'sorry' tell' em 'kiss our a**'
We don't need em motherf**er you can keep it for yourself
I wish you nothing but pain and bad health
I hope luck run away from you and wealth
No honor in life no honor in d**h
You a Judas to us, n***a k** yourself
[Hook]
[Malcolm X]
No Negro leaders have fought for civil rights
They have begged for civil rights
They have begged the white man for civil rights
They have begged the white man for freedom
And anytime you beg another man to set you free
You will never be free
Freedom is something you have to do for yourselves
And until the American Negro lets the white man know
That we are really really ready and willing to pay the price that is necessary for freedom
Our people will always be walking around and second cla** citizens or what you call twentieth century slaves
(What price are you talking about sir?)
The price of freedom is d**h