Get Up 4 The Get Down

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Times are changin' The young are getting tough They taste the knowledge and now they just can't get enough The trends intelligence And rhymes irrelevance If you're coming irrelevant Ya never do well against The poet with inner sight You give off a dimmer light Somebody get him a light Cause money ain't too bright Or maybe he's too white-collar conservative In a corporate position but the action was affirmative You're falling out of touch And running out of time You're chasing a dime But you're wasting your mind Get encased in the rhyme And the bass and the line I give off so much light That the blind see it shine I flip styles like styles are going out of style I give you a head start Here, here's about a mile But I breeze past speed fast With the quickness With the power of God And force of habit, I kick this Verse with backbone The beat is the background The lyrics are prone To make you get up for the get down Although I don't preach I'm never a political Cause I'm too spiritual And times are too critical [Chorus] My only weapon is my pen When I shoot my lyrics You're gonna wanna hear it again (Get up 4 the get down) My only weapon is my pen I'm a soul writer (There's only one answer) [Verse 2] We need power Now or never Together forever and never sever Make an endeavor to enlighten your brethren I recommend we extend a hand Expand and then With strength defend Black women and men from the white power structure That sucked ya in, stole ya culture, and fucked ya And you gave birth to a nation Your free labor laid America's economic foundation Blood sweat and tears and fears for years But now here's what appears to be the shift in the gears The turning of tables Knowledge enables Us to escape from stereotypical labels And here's a clash from fables, fictions, fallacies, forces, and fabrication Facades Even fronts Star spangled stories, stigmas, and stunts Once and for all It's time to put an end to The evil that men do The stroke continues When the weight gets too heavy to carry it I'm a chariot Swinging low so you can grab the lariat Take your mind to a new height Shed true light All these religions but only one god C'mon let's unite Like a fist Cause I'm tired of gettin' dissed Having my government name come up last on the list Mr. President I get pissed–a resident In this country And I get no response from the letter I sent That's why I'm militant Rhymes raise our consciousness Cause I'm armed and intellectually dangerous [Chorus] My only weapon is my pen When I shoot my lyrics You're gonna wanna hear it again (Get up for the get down) My only weapon is my pen I'm a soul writer (Get up for the get down) My only weapon My only weapon My only weapon Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo My only weapon is my pen I'm a soul writer My only weapon is my pen When I shoot my lyrics You're gonna wanna hear it again [Outro] My only weapon is my pen And and and I'm a soul writer