Shock-G - Words of Wisdom lyrics

[Intro] k**ing us one by one In one way or another America will find a way to eliminate the problem One by one The problem is the troublesome black youth of the ghetto's And one by one We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremly alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back Brothers, sisters, n***as When I say "n***a" it is not the n***a we have grown to fear It is not the n***a we say as if it has no meaning But to me it means Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished, n***a n***as, what are we going to do? Walk blind into a line or fight Fight and die if we must die, like n***as [Verse 1] This is for the ma**es, the lower cla**es The ones you left out, jobs were giving, better living But we were kept out Made to feel inferior, but we're superior Break the chains in our brains that made us fear ya Pledge allegiance to a flag that neglects us Honour a man that that refuses to respect us Emancipation Proclamation? Please! Lincoln just said that to save the nation These are lies that we all accepted Say no to d** but the governments' kept it Running through our community, k**ing the unity The war on d** is a war on you and me And yet, they say this is the Home of The Free But if you ask me, it's all about hypocrisy The constitution, yo, it don't apply to me And Lady Liberty? Stupid b**h lied to me This made me strong, and no one's gonna like what I'm pumpin' But its wrong to keep someone from learning something So get up, its time to start nation building I'm fed up, we gotta start teach the children That they can be all that they wanna to be There's much more to life than just poverty [Interlude] This is definitely uh... words of wisdom AMERICA! AMERICA! AMERIK-K-KA I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and a**ault For suppressing and punishing my people I charge you with robbery for robbing me of my history I charge you with false imprisonment for keeping me Trapped in the projects And the jury finds you guilty on all accounts And you are to serve the consequences of your evil schemes Prosecutor, do you have any more evidence? [Verse 2] Words of Wisdom Based upon the strength of a nation Conquer the enemy armed with education Protect yourself, reach for what you want to do Know thyself, teach by what we've been through Armed with the knowledge of the place we've been No one will ever oppress this race again No Malcolm X in my history text, why's that? 'Cause he tried to educate and liberate all blacks Why is Martin Luther King in my book each week? He told blacks, if they get smacked, turn the other cheek I don't get it, so many questions went through my mind I get sweated, they act like asking questions is a crime But forget it, cause one day I'm gonna prove them wrong Not every brother had his mother on the welfare line The American Dream, though it seems like it's attainable They're pulling your sleeve, don't believe 'Cause it will strangle ya Pulling the life of your brain, I can't explain Beg as you can obtain from which you came Swear that your mother is living in equality Forgetting your brother that's living in poverty Thought they had us beaten when they took out King But the battle ain't over till the black man sings Words of Wisdom The battle ain't over 'till the black man sings Words of Wisdom [Outro] NIGHTMARE! That's what I am America's Nightmare I am what you made me The hate and the evil that you gave me I shine as a reminder of what you've done to my people For four hundred plus years You should be scared You should be running You should be trying to silence me Ha, but you can not escape fate For it is my turn to come Just as you rose you will fall By my hands America, you reap what you sow 2Pacalypse, America's Nightmare Ice Cube and Da Lynch Mob, America's Nightmare Above The Law, America's Nightmare Paris, America's Nightmare Public Enemy, America's Nightmare KRS-One, America's Nightmare Mutulu Shakur, America's Nightmare Geronimo Pratt, America's Nightmare Assata Shakur, America's Nightmare