Just Reality

Now, unto the babe and the suckling
Or even the ugly duckling, keep listening
Rankin is talkin', get dat?
Kinda spin
Hear me now!

It's just reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, some of dem have eyes and still acting blind
You nuh hear me?
Reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, black people must of live like swine

But what a moody have that has never been told
It has weh bit up inna next man soul
The white man come in and take full control
What dem do?
Rob all the silver and all of the gold
It's like black man from gone, dem a get a skull
Dem act so big, mighty, strong, and bold

It's just reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, some of dem have eyes and still acting blind
You nuh hear me?
Reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, some of dem have eyes and still acting blind

Watch this!
Woman, weh you get me from, dem cyan tan me
Gwan like say me don't know mi reality
Come now!
Woman, weh you get me from, dem cyan tan me
Gwan like me nuh know fi mi reality
Malcolm X is making black people history
Doctor Martin Luther King and Marcus can't be
So, all dem a gwan, me know my reality
And me know mi roots, culture, and reality
I and I man check it out deep in black history
Me want everybody fi come listen to me

It's just reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, some of dem have eyes and still acting blind
You nuh hear me?
Reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, some of dem have eyes and still acting blind

Black people, stop gwan like nippy cross the line
We know we rich and we know we divine
Everlasting love, you seek that and you will find
Stop acting like you're deaf and blind

It's just reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, some of dem have eyes and still acting blind
You nuh hear me?
Reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, some of dem have eyes and still acting blind

Honorable Robert Nesta Marley
Inna roots rock reggae him preach pure reality
What him a preach is the black people to be free
And all dem a gwan, dem have you inna lock and key
Africa is the land of my foremummy
If it was not for Africa, you wouldn't hear 'bout me

It's just reality
And Shabba Rankin mind
Reality, some of dem have eyes and still acting blind

Watch this!
From a weh you get me from, dem cyan tan me
From a weh you get me from, me know reality
Come now!
From a weh you get me from, dem cyan tan me
From a weh you get me from, me know black history
All the talk dem a talk say that me slacking tidy
Me know me roots, culture, and reality
Me is a man weh dig it out inna black history

Watch this
Apartheid keep we wide and
Apartheid keep we divide
We gwan some reality, youth, and work side by side
One thing weh di black nation dem love to connive
Watch this
Mandela fi free and Botha fi hide
Out of Africa, come make we drive circle