Proper Propaganda (Edited)-Dilated Peoples

[ti:Proper Propaganda] [ar:Dilated Peoples] [al:Expansion Team] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.19]We're coming to you live from the Scottish Right Temple [00:03.88]Near the intersection of Crenshaw and Wiltshire [00:06.44]Where as you can see in the background [00:08.64]Military personnel are mobilized and waiting orders [00:12.44]Despite the quiet and the deceptive calm tension is still [00:15.81]Thick in the air after last night's concert and rebellion [00:19.62]The incident was allegedly sparked by police officers trying [00:23.11]To shut down a reportedly peaceful concert by hip hop artists [00:27.28]Dilated People's [00:28.78]We'll keep you updated with any new developments For Triclops [00:31.83]Media Watch this is Harry Allen hip hop activist and media assassin [00:36.14]And now Proper Propaganda [00:38.38] [00:39.45]Watch it Yes Yo we handle it these brothers are fabulous [01:03.82]Dilated's showing you what rhyme travel is [01:06.25]Words spitoon from sunlight to moon [01:08.87]Bustin' on stage like gunfights in saloons [01:11.49]Bring my mic back you like that [01:14.25]Journalists We're journalists too we could strike back [01:16.93]Hardcore reporters with orders from headquarters [01:19.55]Behind enemy lines sidestepping the borders [01:22.23]Press passes we bring it to you as it happens [01:24.86]The streets love my crew from music to rappin [01:27.42]Street commander slash beat expander [01:30.10]Yeah they fight the slander with the proper propaganda [01:32.91]What's happenin' You got a question Then ask it [01:35.53]The news is just a TV show get past it [01:38.15]And this from a quiet wartime journalist [01:40.71]Headlines wake up refuse and resist [01:43.64]Resist like this like this [01:46.39]Like thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-this y'all [01:48.32][Chorus] [01:48.57]We kick finance action and scores of sports [01:51.38]Politics new fashion and war reports [01:54.00]Entertainment when we come to perform [01:56.43]Watch the illest weatherman in the biz with the storm watch [01:59.61]Triclops Media record tape and TV Net radio CD or DVD [02:04.87]Our sights (like rhymes on paper time) [02:07.31]This is why Baboo is scratching and keeping time [02:09.12] [02:26.39]Glory the pen is mighter than the sword [02:28.95]Cause the pen gives the word sending swords to war [02:31.45]They twisted it when he pulled Mao Tse-tung [02:33.82]They said political power comes from the barrel of a gun [02:36.56]The officer meets his fate 44 by 38 [02:39.24]It was a dirty deed but that don't mean a dirty case [02:42.32]Witnesses against the state are shushed [02:44.75]Facts overlooked so the judge can throw the book [02:47.43]Perhaps for politicians with something to prove [02:49.87]In the city where they blew the roof off and move [02:52.61]Yo questions when answered leads to more questions [02:55.36]Why it takes months to deliver a confession [02:57.98]The principles are the same even without the name [03:00.48]But I still say M-U-M-I-A [03:03.24]I have to fight it could easily be me [03:05.86]But just being the thinker than speakin it freely [03:08.48]Although I use my brain before using a fist [03:11.17]Don't push it wake up refuse and resist