Huey P. Newton - ProIntelPro lyrics

[Intro: Malcolm X] And when I speak I don't speak as a democrat or a republican Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy You and I have never seen democracy, all we've seen is hypocrisy [Reporter] Is the Black Panther Party a military organization? [Huey P. Newton] Is America a military state? [Verse 1] From 1956 to 71 the devil Begun, In the form of Edgar Hoover to run Covert operations of the FBI Code named CoIntelPro, I'll tell you why The aim was to help blow communism out or So they said, but really the agenda was to Go instead, squash all the dissidents Peace activist and progressive resistance This is for instance what led to the d**hs of Martin Luther and Malcolm X Fred Hampton, and many other heavy brothers Black Panthers and Native American strugglers What's worse is the underhanded ways in which The government's so heinous And if you think it is all done your wrong History is cyclical and it's still going on [Chorus] This Party ain't the same, it's a party for your brain Party until Babylon burn in the flame This Party ain't the same, it's a party for your brain Party until Babylon burn in the flame This is the ProIntelPro the pro-intelligence program Promote intelligence, global developments Local street elements feed the currents Counter the lies of the secret service [Verse 2] Counterintelligence never really stopped Or flopped, they just have covered it up and bumped it up A notch, they love to watch and continue tactics Of disseminating lies turning you backwards But propaganda that works both ways and Just like in those days we've got our own ways While they spread lies we gotta spread truth They got a hold on the old but we represent youth Well they divide and conquer, we must unite it stronger They break the real links we gotta make the people think Used to use communism as a guise now the style is To call you a terrorist if you're not down with America's arrogance but any real patriot Knows to oppose this is appropriate To the puppet they confide to the public they have lied You know, I'm kinda glad Reagan died! [Chorus] This Party ain't the same, it's a party for your brain Party until Babylon burn in the flame This Party ain't the same, it's a party for your brain Party until Babylon burn in the flame This is the ProIntelPro the pro-intelligence program Promote intelligence, global developments Local street elements feed the currents Counter the lies of the secret service [Verse 3] See counterintelligence means anti intelligence In other words they promote stupidity We are the epitome of rapping relevance ProIntellPro we promote intelligence This is what real hip hop is meant for doing This is the evolution of revolution They know this so they corrupt it an infiltrate And that's how rap dropped from it's pinnacle state In lyrical weight because they win if you think It's fly to be a gangsta, pimp sell your soul to Bank a bit sell some d** and help in Self-destruction into the matrix plugged in That's not real hip hop, it's dangerous traitorous And we are coming back to shame these b**h Ass MCs back to the program And promote intelligence with the flows 'dem [Chorus] This Party ain't the same, it's a party for your brain Party until Babylon burn in the flame This Party ain't the same, it's a party for your brain Party until Babylon burn in the flame This is the ProIntelPro the pro-intelligence program Promote intelligence, global developments Local street elements feed the currents Counter the lies of the secret service [Outro: Malcolm X] The government has failed us, you can't deny that Anytime you're living in the twentieth century and you're walking around here singin' “we shall overcome,” the government has failed you This is a new generation! If they're gonna draft these young Black men, and send them over to Korea or South Vietnam to face eight-hundred million Chinese: If you're not afraid of those odds you shouldn't be afraid of these odds If you're Black you were born in jail, in the north as well as the south. Stop talkin' about the south. Long as you south of the--long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south! (Audience laughter)