Edutainment-Boogie Down Productions

[ti:Edutainment] [ar:Boogie Down Productions] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.34]Give it to 'em [00:06.26] [00:18.12]Nuff respect and praise to the Creator [00:20.58]Over the years it seems that I became a landmark [00:23.53]In the Hip-Hop field of art [00:25.10]I shed light yet my skin is dark [00:26.89]I'm not concerned with climbin' the chart [00:29.21]'Cause why should you pay [00:30.25]When it comes from the heart [00:31.26]I'll start 'cause only Jah will create it [00:33.74]I'll just name it edutainment [00:35.82]People sit and they look at my album [00:37.79]Like a problem they try to solve 'em [00:40.30]They don't know it only leads the way [00:42.23]To a bright more positive day [00:44.40]By itself it's not the bright day [00:46.52]Sit up straight and hear what I say [00:48.78]Fear and ignorance I'm down for stoppin' this [00:51.29]But the bright day is your consciousness [00:52.85]I am poet my words will heal you [00:55.47]I'm not a phony I'll really feel you [00:57.49]That's why I walk and talk to my nation [00:59.74]Wherever they are in any situation [01:01.92]They usually ask for an autograph [01:03.95]And I'll whip out the pen and just write [01:05.91]Blast-Master K R S O N E BDP [01:09.30]Peace and unity [01:10.55]But do not concentrate on the paper [01:12.72]Concentrate on the laws of the Creator [01:14.96]'Cause when the paper's gone it will deceive you [01:17.24]But Allah will never leave you [01:20.51] [01:28.24]Nothing I say now is hypothetical [01:29.49]These are the facts a little metaphysical [01:32.50]We are one every heart every lung [01:34.49]So why then was the black man hung [01:36.68]He was hung by the so-called Christians [01:39.01]That went to church and did not listen [01:41.13]See Jesus couldn't stand politics [01:43.24]So they nailed him to a crucifix [01:45.41]Then it was that way today it's a trigger [01:47.66]So why is the Pope such a political figure [01:49.47]I don't know but it's really beyond me [01:52.10]But through knowledge they'll never con me [01:54.34]'Cause from Jesus Christ to right now [01:56.40]Every time a black man speaks up ka-pow [01:58.59]See people concentrate on the leader [02:00.67]And not the message comin' through the speaker [02:02.99]If the Christians really heard Christ [02:05.08]The black man never would've lived this life [02:07.30]My point is that do not concentrate [02:09.31]On what I state create or debate [02:11.47]I might be great and you might admire [02:13.65]But what I say is to take you much higher [02:16.15]More higher than the physical plane [02:18.17]To the plane of forces in the astral plane [02:20.35]The mental plane and the final three [02:22.33]They're all around you yet you can't see [02:24.73]So grab the sphere of life and aim it [02:26.88]And you'll be guided by edutainment