Wake Up

The black man in America is blind Don't know who he is and he don't know the time He's in the dope game with the caine and the crack, got a gat 20 sack, Benz and a Cadillac like a mack Uhh, like a mack, uhh, like a mack We're steady bein' pimped like a trick by the devil And doin' it 'cause he think he can't escape from the ghetto But if he only knew that he was a pawn in the game Bein' use to killers, people puttin that evil in they veins He's makin' them some money but it ain't funny, is it? I wonder if he knows he's slangin' that cocaine for the Grand Wizard Of the Ku Klux Klan, 'cause like we told you And add it up, Uncle Sam don't give a damn Sellin' you the powder, now can you tell me how tha Hell you expect to excel By killin' the black for the green, got the white man havin fun Givin up the machine guns Watchin us kill each other Fightin' over 'Parkay', they're scared of the real butter So don't shoot another brother today but Point that AK at the wicked wicked USA 'Cause they the ones who put me through slavery And now them Gz want to give them D's what they gave to me So can you see where we're comin' from? It's just another way to try to keep, us, blind deaf and dumb [Chorus] Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up to the Eastside Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up to the Westside Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up to the Northside Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up to the Southside X-N, once again, has the flow, tellin' Pharaoh To let the so-called negro G-O 'Cause yo, we believe the way they treated us was evil And they never should've messed with the chosen people Now this is the time in history for the separation Between the two nations And they can't fade me 'cause God made me To be a X-N-I-double G-A-Z Lazy and crazy was the way they gave thee Raise black babies ever since the day we Was bought here in chains, over nine thousand miles Our bodies stacked and packed in big black piles They broke us down in the Caribbean We knew sometin' wasn't right about that pale-faced European Livin' anyway in sophisticated bondage Dyin' everyday over nothin' but nonsense It's gettin' worse and I don't know if it'll ever stop Mo' brothers gettin' peeled, mo' brothers gettin' popped It ain't hard to tell, yeah That a white man's heaven is a black man's hell So can you see where we're comin' from It's just another way to keep us all, blind, deaf and dumb [Chorus] Now to the blind brothers without the power of sight The rhyme shines bright in your mind with divine light Deaf are the rhymes, can't hear because they fear The sound of two X, records in they ears And they lack the power of speech And each time they greet or teach, they words can't reach The gang bangers, or the drug dealers So we grill the real deal wit skill until they feel us Droppin' this line, like bombs From Elijah, Mohammed and Farrakhan The enemies want to flex but can't win They scared of the skin of a million black, men In black suits and bow ties Boots gotta spit shine, on the front line and organized Next to us, a million black women Soldiers, the battle ain't over, it's just beginning No time for laughter in the last chapter Just told of disaster of the slave master And now we have to pay For the masquerade, and the track we lay For every slave, back in the days, his wicked ways Kept us in a mental grave and in amazement But now it's a brand new day and time And black people gotta brand new frame of mind So can you see where we're comin' from? It's just another way to try to keep us all, blind deaf and dumb [Chorus]