Lyrics Either You Get It By Now Or You Don't - Public Enemy

We got to build so much strength in building our community
That if they come to get one person, they gonna have to mess with us all, that's what we gotta do...
Black people themselves will be their own salvations, they cannot rely on the white race...
I mean 'cause it's the system that taught us to be complacent, taught us to have less much respect for ourselves
They made us feel inferior, they made us feel inadequate
What you see y'all is, in the last few years, issues that have made people anxious
The truth is like rain, you know when you go outside the rain doesn't exclude certain people, the truth will fall on everybody...
You got public enemies...
Public enemy
It's the talent...
It's meaningful...
In order to get our culture to our people, it takes a strategy...
Aw s-
Black people, up and down
Organize a faction, where we have maximum retaliation against all forms of racism, for we to carry out an attack...
We got caught up into that image of me and it was very very hard to get out of that because the press always played up the whole idea about the guns and us being thugs...
That's why our point of view sometimes might get too black and strong because it does a bit with nigg- mechanism now...