Cookin Up Your Brain

Movin' forward
Move ahead, head

I rock fatigues, but I don't glorify warfare
I need comfortabilities, survival wear
I see everyday struggle, word to Xzibit
Lift build muscle, I hustle and broaden my horizon
Stay focused to the point of the chin like Tyson
Get live like a dunk on a big man by Allen Iverson
Hold up, wait a minute, pause, check the stat

Word to James Brown, I say it loud, I'm proud to be Black
Whoever said that knowledge on wax is played out

Played themselves, they're soon to fade out

Way out, out into oblivion
They come a dime a dozen, artificial like silicon
While I'm low like James Bond and a bitch on the lawn
Readin' books like Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, uh
So if you live a lie, may the truth set you free
'Cause soon a day will come when we rise, it's all prophecy

Without knowledge of self you got no clue so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Cookin' up your brain, you remain blind to what's brand new so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Yeah, without knowledge of self you got no clue so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Cookin' up your brain, you remain blind to what's brand new so I must
(Run through, hard for you)

See, too many brothers I meet wanna be buddies
Get drunk and burn skunk, but they don't wanna study
Instead when they talk they think they're heavy like lead
But in reality, kids' knowledge base be like a thread

Minimal, with no foundation in the spiritual
Destroyin' they physical becomes a lifelong ritual

Now don't get me wrong, ain't nothin' wrong with a drink
But what's wrong is when a nigga just drink and don't think
About the chains, raped of language and names
Master Johnson's is the plantation where I must've slaved
In the former life, 'cause that's my last name
I love my pops, but still bare a tag of shame
Maybe you can't understand the strength of the motherland
'Cause you've been tricked with the teachings

Developed by the other man, brother man
It's never too late to set your mind state straight
Knowledge is key, we struggle then there's victory

Without knowledge of self you got no clue so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Cookin' up your brain, you remain blind to what's brand new so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Yeah, without knowledge of self you got no clue so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Cookin' up your brain, you remain blind to what's brand new so I must
(Run through, hard for you)

Niggas rhyme about guns and cheese, tons and ki's
They self-incriminate on tapes, wax, and CDs
No need for video surveillance

'Cause all one-time gotta do is buy your tape and start playin' it
Unless it's all made up type fiction
Have you forgotten that young minds listen and duplicate?
Oh you that brother likes to glorify jail time
Instead of droppin' gems to uplift the Black youths' mind
Now who's to blame when the Devil controls the game
That the Black people play for this entertainment fame?
No one to blame but ourselves
Instead of books, now we love to be crooks and glorify hell

Don't try to sell me that bullshit
'Cause with knowledge I come equipped
Too much pain in the past to forget
About the lynchings, the ships, the leather whips
Niggas lie for loochie nowadays and still get pimped

Without knowledge of self you got no clue so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Cookin' up your brain, you remain blind to what's brand new so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Yeah, without knowledge of self you got no clue so I must
(Run through, hard for you)

Cookin' up your brain, you remain blind to what's brand new so I must
(Run through, hard for you)

Without knowledge of self you got no clue so I must
(Run through, hard for you)
Cookin' up your brain, you remain blind to what's brand new so I must
(Run through, hard for you)

Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm lookin' on your brain
I'm, I'm, I'm lookin' on your, your brain
I'm lookin' on your brain
I'm, I'm lookin' on your brain
I'm lookin' on your brain
I'm lookin' on your brain