Ultimate Force - Revolution of the Mind lyrics

(Now brothers and sisters) (The revolution will not be televised) (Let us have something black Let us have something black we like Let us have some black merchants Let us have some black stores Let us have something black in a black community) [ VERSE 1: Master Rob ] A revolution of the mind is at hand These are trying times for the blackman Reaganomics, economics didn't benefit me Federal funds are cut so minorities suffer So wake up cause things could get rougher See, we the people have enough of The stereotypes, media hypes Pieces and bits (Yeah Rob, I'm hip) Police brutality brings another casualty Thought the kid had a gun so he bust one What a way to die Reachin for an ID, the cop said, "Try me" Age 12 in the Amsterdam Filmed at 11, but who gives a damn Now there's a riot, officers deny it And they wish it was quiet But it's not, when will the bloodshed stop? A cop gets shot, now everyone's in shock Tension's on the rise Do the Right Thing was no surprise to me Thank God for a brother like Spike Lee Who tells the truth just like me (People, people) Don't you know it's time? (What time is it?) For a revolution of the mind (Now brothers and sisters) (The revolution will not be televised) (Oh mercy, mercy me) (Oh mercy, mercy me) [ VERSE 2: Master Rob ] Some brothers don't wanna go to school If you cut it's cool, an unwritten rule Among your peers, rippin up a quart of beer Smoke vapes in a Phillie, then you're straight Won't stay in your school pa**ed homeroom (Brothers and sisters) It's your own doom Get your diploma and one day you'll own a Mansion or a yacht, so please don't mock My words, I'll never steer you wrong Master Rob (Too black, too strong) Take a look at the fold School text books are forty years old Or the fed bureaucracy Straighten up so I can see Black, white, Puerto-Rican, Dominican Our schools are diminishin' Gang violence on the rise, 25 to life Shanked with a knife, takes a brother's life Just because he's not from the block Now you wanna be a hard rock People press charges and now you're in a fix So take a trip to see 76 Neighborhood thug with a picture of your mug You almost caught a slug cause you wanted to bug Respect your own kind But it's gonna take a revolution of the mind (Brothers and sisters In the name of Allah the all-wise true and living God The one to whom all praise is due We thank you together in unity and harmony) [ VERSE 3: Master Rob ] Mr David Dinkins made a speech Still I'll never buy a slice in Howard Beach And if I get rolled up the brother won't fold up I reach for the steel and say, "Hold up" Seen a lotta things in my days And that's why I'm set in my ways Won't turn the other cheek, to me that's weak Whatever's on my mind I'll speak 400 years over here Made more contributions than Shakespeare Still genocide is the scheme Martin Luther King had a dream Things ain't always what they seem That's why Malcolm X was more extreme Both were k**ed durin' the fight Because the man doesn't want us to unite Floods our community with crack Shatter your dreams, front and back Steal money from your moms, take gold from a baby Yo my brother, that's crazy Revolutionize your priorities And you'll see the joy that life brings Reach for the sky, hold your head high and sing (Don't you worry 'bout a thing) (Don't you worry 'bout a thing) (And ( ? ) has a thick accent That when he said, "Please don't beat me" Do you think that they said, "Oh gee, he's not a black American We won't beat him They kept kicking his bu*t Those people have to remember that they are still black people On a dark street in a white neighborhood you are still black It's a shame that black folks are still rewarded for betraying their own community And we're the only group of people that is rewarded for that White people do not respect other white people who turn on their community They may say they do because it's the right thing to do and all But in the back of their minds they do not respect it)