Blown Away, Pt. 2-Saigon

[ti:Blown Away, Pt. 2] [ar:Saigon] [al:The Greatest Story Never Told – Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blown Away, Pt. 2 - Saigon [00:12.25]I pour some water on the ground [00:13.53]For the soldiers that's fallen [00:14.53]Those who paid the ultimate price [00:15.78]When they answer they callin [00:16.89]To all the martyrs that we lost as [00:18.81]A people in common [00:20.55]You got blown away but you [00:21.80]Didn't go in vain [00:23.07]True examples of change on the [00:24.97]Frontline of the battle [00:26.30]Brothers like Bunchy Carter suit [00:27.49]Up and rolled when it mattered [00:29.61]Wasn't a hidden agenda [00:30.76]Wasn't Maulana Karenga [00:31.47]He got blown away still unknown today [00:34.29]John Lennon and Gandhi [00:36.01]Both were proponents of peace [00:37.38]Spiritual message they taught [00:38.47]Millions of people they reached [00:40.07]Suited devils amongst [00:40.91]Plotted the dark and the light [00:42.31]Both got blown away so [00:43.33]Bearin this Glock is my right [00:44.39]Is there a message encoded [00:45.30]Deep in the violent display [00:46.39]Renderin people afraid keepin [00:47.51]The movement at bay [00:48.59]Go intel pro is a lie still to [00:50.34]Discourage the rise [00:50.96]Leaders get blown away [00:51.73]The media covers our eyes [00:52.59]Modern-day genocide what [00:53.13] [00:54.59]Hope is there for tomorrow [00:57.99]Whether it's vertical or the [01:01.22]Violence is horizontal [01:02.10]I lost too many cousins [01:03.44]But was it the bullets that took you [01:05.47]Or was it the situations society put you [01:08.00]Though I rally for peace [01:09.52]Still I carry my piece [01:10.76]I keep it free of debris [01:13.01]I keep it oiled and greased [01:15.19]They say it's freedom of [01:16.53]Speech but just watch what you say [01:18.17]Before your face on a shirt [01:20.06]Like "He got blown away" (uh) [01:21.84]I knew a rapper that just rhymed [01:23.36]Of his d**e and his grind [01:24.64]But heard a dead prez record [01:26.20]That opened his mind [01:27.13]You know what happened the [01:28.27]Second he pressed play (what ) [01:29.88]He got blown awayyyyyyy (yeah) [01:33.20]This other kid had never [01:34.22]Listened to S to the A (nah) [01:36.16]So yesterday I gave him a [01:37.51]Couple records to play (yeah) [01:38.95]He heard "Clap" and the sh*t that I did with Trey [01:41.41]He got blown awayyyyyyy [01:43.84] [01:44.85](Go 'head) I pour some [01:46.10]Henny on the floor for every young boy [01:48.03]Murdered in Baltimore [01:48.74]Watts to Little Rock Arkansas [01:50.11]Philadelphia D C to Chi-Town (Chi-Town) [01:51.95]And every other ghetto [01:54.06]Where niggaz get shot down [01:56.10]The drama's pitiful little [01:56.95]Niggaz is homicidical [01:57.60]We ignore the fact that [01:59.17]All the crime is political [02:00.79]When somebody's blown away [02:02.40]Somebody's gone away [02:03.38]Prison population inflatin [02:04.89]The sh*t grow e'ry day [02:06.53]It's usually us that's [02:08.33]Occupyin the Riker's bus [02:09.36]It's more than us fightin just [02:11.15]This sh*t is a crisis cuz [02:12.82]350 million guns in United States [02:14.48]Y'all callin my music conscious [02:15.63]I'm callin it wide awake [02:16.93]The ghettos that I escape [02:18.16]A lot of others succumb [02:19.46]It's hard when your pops a crackhead [02:21.19]And your mother's a bum [02:22.75]And you discovered the slums is [02:24.55]Not a place you should stay [02:25.95]But the only way to leave there is [02:27.78]For you to get blown away [02:29.59] [02:31.11]I knew a rapper that just rhymed [02:32.41]Of his d**e and his grind [02:33.68]But heard a dead prez record that [02:35.26]Opened his mind [02:35.83]You know what happened the [02:37.32]Second he pressed play (what ) [02:38.96]He got blown away (yeah) [02:42.25]This other kid had never [02:43.48]Listened to S to the A (nah) [02:45.45]So yesterday I gave him a [02:46.89]Couple records to play (yeah) [02:48.38]He heard "Clap" and the [02:49.53]Sh*t that I did with Trey [02:51.07]He got blown away