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Ishues
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(Movie Sample)
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Think about it... Think about it, and understand it. Do understand it
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(Chorus 2x)
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Read between the lines, everything seems fine
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But our rapid decline is a sign of the times
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Most of us is scared of revolution
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that's why we strap up the glock, go on the block and we don't care who we be shooting
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(Verse 1)
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The world is a ghetto
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Politicians pull strings like Geppetto
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Cops kill, but still the court case gets settled
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Little kids peddle dope on the streets, like its a hobby
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Cause Moms lives in the building with fiends all in the lobby
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Somebody called the preacher, and asked him for his blessings
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It probably cost you some cash, when they passed the plate for collections
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Only lessons teachers taught me in school was propaganda
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And the picture of Jesus nailed on the cross, of course its slander
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This land was built on corruption, murder and lies
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that's why every president had some sort of murderous ties
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So I despise what you teach me, despise you completely
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You can always see defeat in the eyes of the weakling
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Over half the population of blacks today are Christian
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And Christianity was the product of constant whipping
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Cause they said that we were savages, so our values they took em
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The majority of the slaves that they traded here was Muslim
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So do they hide the truth from us, or are we just too scared to look
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They say the truth is safe from niggaz in books
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Because we don't read, so we don't really know our history
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Yeah that's the type of shit that gets to me
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(Chorus 2x)
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(Verse 2)
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I listen to Immortal Technique, when he speak he make a lot of sense
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The record business is just as crooked as any politics
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that's why you hear a lot of rap niggaz talking that nonsense
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Its the grand plan to keep our people stuck in bondage
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Slaves to the rings, slaves to the chains, slaves to the reins
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Most of these rappers is slaves to the game
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Getting sodomized, just to wear some platinum and be idolized
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When they whole entire life is itemized
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The revolution won't be televised
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Cause the television's only use is just for telling lies, to keep us confused
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Cause confusion's easy to rule, so they use TVs as tools
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To warp the minds of the youth so they grow up as fools
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Over eighty percent of African Americans don't even know they heritage
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And they don't think this knowledge is imperative
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that's why you see more babies and less marriages
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No change, because the arrogance has been inherited right from our parents
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And its carried over into our seeds, so when they sprout up as trees
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They don't know who to believe, its a disease
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And its called ignorance, and its highly contagious
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And it gets worse over the ages
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(Chorus 2x)
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(Verse 3)
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I write the songs that you don't want to hear
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The songs that DJ's don't be playing on the air
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The songs that's gonna make my people want to care
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The songs that real heads bang in their Discman's and stereos
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The songs that fortify you with nutritious values like Cheerios
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The songs that's underground, like seismic prints that make the thunder sound
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And shake the ground for miles around and cause buildings to crumble down
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That jungle sound, that ruggedness, that niggaz nod their heads to
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The type of music that'll make the police try and dead you
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Son, I wouldn't kid you, I'm a hip-hop fanatic
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I ?? up on music like Edutainment and Illmatic
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So that wack shit you can have it, radio-friendly garbage
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You caught picking off somebody and callin yourself an artist?
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I be starving, for a sellout just to keep up with the ??
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Everybody is biting, nobody knows when it started
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50 different songs about the same thing on the radio
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What happened to the basic concept of being original?
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Its pitiful, because hip-hop has influenced our culture
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These little kids look at the videos and hang the posters
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Our time is getting short, our final days are coming closer
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Its time to bring this age of ignorance to a closure
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(Chorus 2x)
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(Ishues interview -- beat fades to end)
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