(1st Verse)
We the people who nurtured nations
Have been enslaved and impoverished for generations
Street and book taught educations
Cause us to be ministers of misinformation
So we look to each other for knowledge
An unaccredited college
Funded by illegal activity
What's quite evidentiary
Quite elementary
Is free enterprise never goes without penalty
The goal is to raise seeds that don't catch cases
But carry brief ones
Caused by separations of fathers and sons
Dads trapped in the prisons of their minds
Are freed by the sons on the cellblock supplyin' the dimes
(Chorus Repeat x2)
Beware, oh Brother beware, don't you listen to the words
Cause things ain't what they seem
Keep your eyes on the prize
Forget American dreams
(2nd Verse)
Matriarchal communities | equal faces drained of beauty
Holdin' households together with duct tape and plastic covers
Over-seasoned food contributing to ulcers
It's the soul we seek
Yet it's ill we speak
Can't turn the other cheek
Cause switchin' is for faggots
Homophobes claim their straight
But wear rainbow-colored jackets
Self-hatred displayed in many forms
Black relations dictated by social norms
Whose agenda you fittin' into?
Create your own constitution
Rock the foundation of this grand 'ole institution
How to solve the problem has become quite confusin'
Forget the equation, work toward a solution
(Chorus Repeat x2)
(3rd Verse)
We are united negroes without college funds
Frat boys pay dues
To paddle asses of their dunns
Color-struck brothers are fading from black
Stuck on lighter pigments
Pink toes and flatbacks
Stuffed into Levi's 501's | blues | yeah i got em
The priority for minorities is to get on the come up
Not how our hair, cars, and crossed over n*ggas get done up
Ain't no one ups
No extra lives in this creation
This operation | must push | for a coalition with more ambition
To uplift us all
Know the consequences | heed the final call
Or divided we stand
United we fall
(Chorus Repeat x4)
Beware, oh Brother beware, don't you listen to the words
Cause things ain't what they seem
Keep your eyes on the prize
Forget American dreams
(2nd Verse)
Matriarchal communities | equal faces drained of beauty
Holdin' households together with duct tape and plastic covers
Over-seasoned food contributing to ulcers
It's the soul we seek
Yet it's ill we speak
Can't turn the other cheek
Cause switchin' is for faggots
Homophobes claim their straight
But wear rainbow-colored jackets
Self-hatred displayed in many forms
Black relations dictated by social norms
Whose agenda you fittin' into?
Create your own constitution
Rock the foundation of this grand 'ole institution
How to solve the problem has become quite confusin'
Forget the equation, work toward a solution
(Chorus Repeat x2)
(3rd Verse)
We are united negroes without college funds
Frat boys pay dues
To paddle asses of their dunns
Color-struck brothers are fading from black
Stuck on lighter pigments
Pink toes and flatbacks
Stuffed into Levi's 501's | blues | yeah i got em
The priority for minorities is to get on the come up
Not how our hair, cars, and crossed over n*ggas get done up
Ain't no one ups
No extra lives in this creation
This operation | must push | for a coalition with more ambition
To uplift us all
Know the consequences | heed the final call
Or divided we stand
United we fall
(Chorus Repeat x4)
AbsoluteVenus
A.K.A.
Hale's Angel
© 1997
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