Krs-one - Wachanoabout lyrics

[KRS-One:] We gonna take it to the back of your brain (tell 'em!) We put it on the side of a train (tell 'em!) We gonna make it so simple and plain Revolutionary people, yo this ain't a game! (tell 'em!) How many y'all really ready for change? (tell 'em!) Or do you really want to keep it the same? (tell 'em!) Edutainment - this the reason I came If you down for the struggle, yo remember these names Kwame Toure (Whachanoabout) Martin Luther King (Whachanoabout) Malcolm X (Whachanoabout) Medgar Evers (Whachanoabout) If you really want to change the game Take a little time and study these names Frederick Dougla** (Whachanoabout) Booker T. Washington (Whachanoabout) If you want injustice to end Take a little time and study these men Marcus Garvey (Whachanoabout) Nat Turner (Whachanoabout) Let me tell you about the struggle my friend (tell 'em!) We want freedom, I'm a say it again (tell 'em!) We want freedom, not more money to spend (tell 'em!) You got to listen to this message I send, come on! Let me talk to you a little bit more Our ancestors, tell me, what you dissin' 'em for? Break the cylce of first I like, then I don't like You raise and praise me up to tear me down like Michael? KRS loves his people I walk with my people, not above my people Teach my people, I try to reach my people With real truth, evidence and real proof Thurgood Marshall (Whachanoabout) W.E.B. DuBois (Whachanoabout) Carter G. Woodson (Whachanoabout) Nelson Mandela (Whachanoabout) If you really want to change the game Take a little time and study these names Elijah Muhammad (Whachanoabout) Noble Drew Ali (Whachanoabout) If you want injustice to end Take a little time, man, study these men Kwame Nkrumah (Whachanoabout) Sékou Touré (Whachanoabout) We gonna take it to the back of your brain (tell 'em!) We put it on the side of a train (tell 'em!) We gonna make it so simple and plain Revolutionary people, yo this ain't a game! (tell 'em!) How many y'all really ready for change? (tell 'em!) Or do you really want to keep it the same? (tell 'em!) Edutainment - this the reason I came If you down for the struggle, just remember these names Remember these names, remember these names, remember these names! Rock! "Africans in America burned down over 290 cities in the '60's to get 289 powerless mayors in the '80's" What you really want to debate me for? What you hate me for? What you take me for? Always sayin' "Amen" and "As-Salamu 'Alaykum" for If I can't speak my mind, even if it may be raw New ideas is what they pay me for, but here's an old one The Feds[? ] are gonna save us, sure Since '89 I be coming again, with peace, love, and unity Remember these men Kwame Toure (Whachanoabout) Martin Luther King (Whachanoabout) Malcolm X (Whachanoabout) Medgar Evers (Whachanoabout) Frederick Dougla** (Whachanoabout) Booker T. Washington (Whachanoabout) Marcus Garvey (Whachanoabout) Nat Turner (Whachanoabout) If you really want to change the game Take a little time and study these names If you want injustice to end Take a little time and study these men