Black To The Future-Def Jef

[ti:] [ar:Def Jef] [al:Just a Poet With Soul (Deluxe Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.32]Black To The Future - Def Jef [00:01.68]Written by：Jeffrey Andrew Fortson [00:03.05] [00:34.35]22 million black victims of Americanism are waking up [00:38.45] [00:39.32]As-salaam-alaikum blackman [00:40.75]Time to make a stand [00:41.71]Time to wake up and [00:42.61]Time to make a plan and band [00:44.02]Together like China [00:45.21]We need to find a [00:46.31]Better form of unity [00:47.86]Then we'll be [00:48.59]In the right path on the right track [00:50.38]Dark or light black [00:51.32]Don't let 'em tell you it's wrong to fight back [00:53.49]Come on [00:53.97]But the enemy is not your brother [00:56.22] [00:56.89]It's that other muthaf**ka [00:58.51]The one that baited robbed and degraded you [01:01.20]And he don't like to see you've made it through [01:03.28]The b******t that came with being a brotherman [01:05.80]Stolen from the motherland [01:07.07]Placed in another land [01:08.64]400 and some odd years ago [01:10.97]Till about the time we wore afros [01:12.96]We've come so far so fast [01:14.84]From what they call the past [01:16.69]But that just passed [01:17.56]And we're the last in line for justice what's this [01:20.18]Naw man that ain't gon' work yo bust this [01:22.63]Black to the future back to the past [01:25.01]History is a mystery cause it has [01:27.72]All the info [01:29.12]You need to know [01:29.84]Where you're from why'd you come [01:31.13]And that'll tell you where you're going [01:33.04]We gotta unite [01:33.85] [01:34.37]We gotta work together in unity and harmony [01:36.79]Black to the future [01:38.29] [01:39.74]Come on [01:40.19] [01:41.88]Come on [01:42.63] [01:44.56]Come on [01:45.01] [01:46.58]Black to the future [01:47.85] [01:49.35]Come on [01:50.23] [01:53.41]Into the future [01:56.96]Black to the future what a funky concept [01:59.06]A poet with soul brothers and sisters let's step [02:01.52]Together in sync just think about the outcome [02:03.89]We know where we're goin' [02:04.92]Because we know where we came from [02:06.36]A united state of mind [02:07.90]But not the kind [02:08.65]That the United States government fakes [02:11.02]Nope they don't practise what they preach [02:13.50]Maybe they don't believe in those false beliefs [02:15.69]Themselves and I can tell cause they look scared [02:18.13]To see us comin' up because they're not prepared [02:20.70]For a new breed of leaders [02:22.13]Eager and fired up [02:23.16]And tired of [02:23.79]The lies that you feed us [02:25.06]So we just [02:25.72]What [02:26.10]Got together like one nation under a groove [02:28.57]Gettin' down and the funk of it can move [02:30.82]And start a movement of self-improvement [02:33.00]And before you know it you went [02:34.94]Black to the future [02:36.22]F-u-t- [02:37.24]U-r-e [02:38.09]Black to the [02:38.93]F-u-t- [02:39.66]U-r-e [02:40.54]Black to the [02:41.25]F-u-t- [02:41.95]U-r-e [02:42.83]Black to the [02:43.66]F-u-t- [02:44.39]U-r-e [02:44.60]Black to the future [02:45.90]F-u-t- [02:46.83]U-r-e [02:47.78]Black to the [02:48.53]F-u-t- [02:49.21]U-r-e [02:50.19]Black to the [02:50.94]F-u-t- [02:51.62]U-r-e [02:52.69]Black to the [02:53.41]F-u-t- [02:54.06]U-r-e [02:55.21] [02:58.54]Get on up [02:59.21] [02:59.74]Come on [03:00.14] [03:01.49]Get on up brotherman [03:02.60] [03:08.24]Get on up [03:09.37]Come on [03:09.86] [03:11.22]I want you to get on up [03:13.94]I grab the mic with a kung-fu grip [03:16.32]So it don't slip and come out on a positive black tip [03:19.17]Hip all my brothers and sisters to the real deal [03:21.52] [03:22.08]With unity and knowledge I feel we'll [03:23.92]Uprise who knows what lies [03:25.69]Ahead but you can't see if you're livin' with shut eyes [03:28.83]So realize united we stand divided we fall [03:31.82]Provided we all heed the call [03:33.65]Comin' from the M****m or the rasta man [03:36.40]Two forms of a positive blackman [03:38.65]WEB Du Bois and Booker T [03:41.27]King and X Farrakhan and Jesse [03:43.47]Men with means that differ [03:44.99]But their goals were equal [03:46.37]To uplift African people [03:48.12]Through violence or non-violence I don't care [03:50.63]As long as we get there where [03:52.44]Black to the future [03:53.96] [03:57.53]Black to the future [03:58.79] [04:02.34]Black to the future [04:03.56] [04:07.19]Black to the future [04:08.56] [04:09.22]Into the future [04:10.94] [04:11.46]What a funky concept [04:12.60] [04:13.56]Hey brother [04:14.29]Excuse me man [04:15.29]I don't mean to bother you man [04:16.62]But I [04:17.76]Brother you think I can get a little bit change from you [04:20.73]Some change man [04:21.67]Yeah man I just need a little bit change man [04:23.89]You give me some change [04:25.03]That's all I'm askin' [04:25.91] [04:26.57]Aight man I'm gon' give you this change man [04:28.56]But I want you to listen to me for a second alright [04:30.51]Alright man whatcha got to say [04:32.31]Brothers always talkin' about change [04:34.67]Brothers'll change their clothes [04:36.00]To go out on the street and make some quick change [04:37.57] [04:38.21]A brother might even kill another brother over the wrong change [04:41.27]Brothers change from men to women [04:43.05]Brothers change their hair from natural to that damn jherri curl [04:45.81] [04:46.32]Brothers even change their eyes man [04:48.33]Brothers always talkin' 'bout change [04:50.44]Goin' through changes [04:51.62]Changes changes changes [04:52.94]But when it come time for a real change [04:55.25]Brothers change their mind man [04:57.21]Aw man I I hear you man [04:59.26]Hey man you gave me more change than I asked for [05:02.31]You must be one of them revolutionaries man [05:05.02]