Black To The Future (Extended Mix)-Def Jef

[ti:Black To The Future] [ar:Def Jef] [al:Just a Poet With Soul (Deluxe Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Black To The Future (Extended Mix) - Def Jef [00:39.15]As-salaam-alaikum blackman [00:40.19]Time to make a stand [00:41.32]Time to wake up and [00:42.18]Time to make a plan and band [00:43.35]Together like China [00:44.31] [00:45.05]We need to find a [00:46.01]Better form of unity [00:46.72] [00:47.57]Then we'll be [00:48.50]In the right path on the right track [00:50.26]Dark or light black [00:51.03]Don't let em tell you it's wrong to fight back [00:52.71](Come on) [00:53.95]But the enemy is not your brother [00:55.12] [00:56.82]It's that other muthaf**ka [00:57.49] [00:58.29]The one that baited robbed and degraded you [01:01.00]And he don't like to see you've made it through [01:02.95]The b******t that came with bein a brotherman [01:05.01] [01:05.52]Stolen from the motherland [01:06.26] [01:06.81]Placed in another land [01:08.09]400 and some odd years ago [01:10.78]Till about the time we wore afros [01:12.83]We've come so far so fast [01:14.30]From what they call the past [01:16.49]But that just passed [01:17.42]And we're the last in line for justice what's this [01:19.82]Naw man that ain't gon' work yo bust this [01:22.30]Black to the future back to the past [01:24.62]History is a mystery cause it has [01:27.52]All the info [01:28.88]You need to know [01:29.80]Where you're from why'd you come [01:30.81]And that'll tell you where you're going [01:32.70]We gotta unite [01:34.26]We gotta work together in unity and harmony [01:35.70] [01:36.46]Black to the future [01:39.07] [01:56.61]Black to the future what a funky concept [01:58.57]A poet with soul brothers and sisters let's step [02:00.78]Together in sync just think about the outcome [02:03.40]We know where we're going [02:04.66]Because we know where we came from [02:05.91]A united state of mind [02:07.64]But not the kind [02:08.44]That the United States government fakes [02:10.74]No They don't practise what they preach [02:13.17]Maybe they don't believe in those false beliefs [02:15.37]Themselves and I can tell cause they look scared [02:17.87]To see us coming up [02:19.15]Because they're not prepared [02:20.26]For a new breed of leaders [02:21.68]Eager and fired up [02:22.78]And tired of [02:23.57]The lies you feed us [02:24.90]So we just [02:25.59](What ) [02:26.27]Got together like one nation under a groove [02:28.45]Getting down and the funk of it can move [02:30.57]And start a movement of self-improvement [02:31.81] [02:32.75]And before you know it you went [02:34.56]Black to the future [02:37.07] [02:37.93]Black to the [02:38.65]F-u-t- [02:38.94]U-r-e [02:41.47] [02:42.74]Black to the [02:43.23]F-u-t- [02:43.62]U-r-e [02:43.84] [02:44.38]Black to the future [02:47.52]Black to the [02:48.09]F-u-t- [02:48.63]U-r-e [02:52.42]Black to the [02:53.50]F-u-t- [02:53.80]U-r-e [02:55.41] [02:58.14](Get on up) [02:59.30](Come on) [02:59.78] [03:00.45](Get on up brotherman) [03:02.19](Get on up) [03:08.97](Come on) [03:10.81](I want you to get on up) [03:13.42]I grab the mic with a kung-fu grip [03:16.04]So it don't slip and come out on a positive black tip [03:18.73]Hip all my brothers and sisters to the real deal [03:21.80]With unity and knowledge I feel we'll [03:23.59]Uprise who knows what lies [03:25.39]Ahead but you can't see [03:27.11]If you're living with shut eyes [03:28.60]So realize united we stand divided we fall [03:31.50]Provided we all heed the call [03:33.40]Coming from the M****m or the rasta man [03:36.14]Two forms of a positive blackman [03:38.29]W E B Du Bois and Booker T [03:40.97]King and X Farrakhan and Jesse [03:42.84]Men with means that differ [03:44.63]But their goals were equal [03:46.01]To uplift African people [03:47.29]Through violence or non-violence I don't care [03:50.21]As long as we get there (Where ) [03:51.75]Black to the future [03:57.02]Black to the future [04:01.88]Black to the future [04:06.64]Black to the future [04:09.50] [04:10.97]What a funky concept