Black To The Future (Extended Mix)

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E
Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E
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"22 Million black victims of Americanism are waking up"

As-salamu alaykum, black man, time to make a stand
Time to wake up and time to make a plan
And band together like China
We need to find a better form of unity
And we'll be in the right path, on the right track
Draw the light black, don't let 'em tell you it's wrong to fight back

But the enemy is not your brother

It's that other motherfucker
The one that raped, robbed and degraded you
And he don't like to see you made it
Through the bullshit that came with being a brother man
Stolen from the motherland, placed in another land
Four hundred and some odd years ago

'Til about the time we were afro
We've come so far, so fast from what they call the past
But that just passed
And with a lasting line for justice, what's this?
Nah, man, that ain't gon' work, yo, bust this
Black to the future, back to the past
History is a mystery 'cause it has

All the info you need to know
Where you're from, why'd you come
And that'll tell you where you go

"We gotta unite. We gotta work together in unity and harmony"

Black to the future
Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E
Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E
Black to the future
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Black to the future, what a funky concept
A poet with soul brothers and sisters
Let's step together in sync, just think about the outcome
We know where we're going because we know where we came from
A united state of mind, but not the kind
That the United States government fakes (Nope)

They don't practice what they preach
Maybe they don't believe in those false beliefs themselves
And I can tell 'cause they look scared to see us coming up

Because they're not prepared
For a new breed of leaders
Eager and fired up and tired of the lies that you feed us
So we just (What?)
Got together like one nation under a groove
Getting down and the funk of it can move
And start a movement of self-improvement

And before you know it, you've went

Black to the future
Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E
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Black to the future
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"Get on up"
"Come on"
"Get on up, brother man"
"Get on up"
"Come on"
"I want you to get on up"

I grab the mic with a comfortable grip to it
Don't slip, and coming on a positive black tip
Hip all my brothers and sisters to the real deal

With unity and knowledge, I feel we'll uprise
Who knows what lies ahead
But you can't see if you're living with shut eyes
So realize united we stand, divided we fall
Provided with all heed the call

Coming from the Muslim or the Rasta man
Two forms of a positive black man
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T

King and X, Farrakhan and Jesse
Men with means that differ, but their goals were equal
To uplift African people
Through violence or non-violence, I don't care
As long as we get there

Black to the future
Black to the future
Black to the future
Black to the future
What a funky concept