Mind Power

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You know We're dealing with A very critical and crucial time The most Crucial and critical time that I've ever witnessed Being as young as I am You know We all don't want to say nothing else, so we say "as young as we are." Now I want to talk about The pronunciation And the realization Now the educators They call it E.S.P., Positive thinking, right? Some of the people across the other side of the pond call it Vibe Vibrations Astrology and all those different things you understand But I call it "what it is, is what it is" What it is, is what it is Look here Now you see A brother You see, in the ghetto you find a whole lot of crime I can understand Hey I know what it means Being nine years old before I got my first pair of underwear out of a store You know Putting on a half A half pressed suit From the pawn shop With tennis shoes Trying to be hip See I know where its coming from Like the fellow sang, "having catfish head stew" Its just like the catfish went in there with his head and came out very quick and didn't leave nothing else! Now, there's one thing that the educators and the politicians and the establishment Got to remember Now, brothers need jobs If you don't work You can't eat If you don't work You can't eat Get hip to yourself, good god, my brother, and get it from the street If you don't work You can't eat Sis If you don't work, lord You can't eat So you've got to have Mind Power to deal with starvation And that's what we're dealing with You see we can't Go back to the biblical stories "2 loaves of bread" Er, "2 little fishes, 5 loaves of bread." "2 little fishes", yeah "5 loaves of bread." Now look here There's too many brothers going by that Now I want you brothers to dig where we coming from Set your mind Right here Dig the JBE experience I dug this from a young man out of New York He said the GBE The GBE Now we want to take it to the JBE The JB Experience Mind Power Mind Power Mind Mind Power What it is, is what it is What it is, is what it is It is What it is It is what it is It is what it is That's what it is It is What it is That's what it is You know Dealing with Harlem South Side of Chicago The Bay area Watts Five Points, Buttermilk Bottom in Atlanta Ninth Street in Augusta West Broad in Savannah U Street in Washington Going on over to Baltimore South Street in Philly Boston I know Somebody needs to help us Give us Just give us a chance Somebody Brothers across the nation You got to get yourself together Unified We need information Brothers across the nation Pass on that right-on Information Brothers across the nation Alright Hah, alright Huh, ain't it funky now That's love power, funky robot That's mind power The JB, JB Experience The JBE Now back And meanwhile, back to the ranch Let's talk about that thing we We're dealing with, each and every day Now horns Now horns Let's tell everybody What it is, is what it is What it is, is what it is What it is, is what it is What it is, is what it is (What it is, is what it is) You can't change it (What it is, is what it is) Don't try to change it (What it is, is what it is) Deal with it (What it is, is what it is) Don't fool yourself (What it is, is what it is) Look in the mirror (What it is, is what it is) You'll find (What it is, is what it is) You can't fool yourself (What it is, is what it is) You gotta deal with it (What it is, is what it is) What it is (What it is, is what it is) What it is (What it is, is what it is) Tell me (What it is, is what it is) Deal with it (What it is, is what it is) What (What it is, is what it is) Wait a minute Now look here I believe we should go back to the top I wanna go back to the beginning So I can hear ol' Morgan play them funky sticks over there Now we've been over a little bit, let me tell 'em What it is, is what it is (What it is, is what it is) What it is, is what it is (What it is, is what it is) Gimme some horns What it is, is what it is What it is, is what it is Come on, now What it is Gimme a taste, Jimmy, gimme a taste Hit me I wanna go way back there, to the top Way back there, right now Fred Fred Still dealing with mind power And I mean we're really dealing it Can you deal a little bit right here Deal, deal Deal Deal Deal Deal Deal Deal Deal What it is, is what it is What it is, is what it is (What it is, is what it is) (What it is, is what it is) (What it is, is what it is) (What it is, is what it is) (What it is, is what it is) (What it is, is what it is...)