Race Riot

Lyrics

[Intro: Edo G] Special Teamz We here now [Verse 1: Edo G] In Boston, it's two heads we facing Growing up with school segregation, it's cool, this is the spot I was placed in I got bust to white fools Picketing outside of Boston public High Schools Yeah, so I would crush a white dude If he talked shit, I had to duck when them rocks hit 'Til then, it was a mystery It's part of my history, looked at people differently Went heavy on the black boy mentally, that's how it's meant to be Now I know who's my enemy, no white boy befriended me It's crazy, son, 'til '81 I met H-I-P H-O-P, the change begun Roxbury, chances are I might face prison Breakdancing, I was rocking against racism It's the beat, one rhythm Give the kids something to take with 'em We got stake in 'em [Bridge: Slaine] So now we came here to save you from the snake's venom Exposing the real and taking all the fake with 'em [Hook] This is Hip-Hop music that we blasting, right? This is one world spinning, and we black and white This is our world now when we pass the mic This is our race riot we don't have to fight Put your fist in the air if you down with us Put your fist in the air and surround the bus 'Cause look around, this musta been what he seen When Martin Luther King had a dream [Verse 2: Slaine] I grew up in a black and white world in a segregated city With a shitty history, this is a pity With the legacy of vicious and petty people in every corner Tensions thick in the air and weighing heavy on ya Blacks referred usually n-word When they talk hoops, [?] Racism been learned in a home, not a mom But the nan's polluting the school kid's rotten mind Say gook, spook, whitey, cracker, hater, chink Man, I'm telling you I heard it all from A to zinc It's like the ignorant are teaching us the way to think But personally me, man, I'm moving onto greater things My son will not say "Edo's someone I hate" White, they will be much bigger They will stand behind tolerance and not behind a trigger The math makes too much sense, add up the figure [Hook] This is Hip-Hop music that we blasting, right? This is one world spinning, and we black and white This is our world now when we pass the mic This is our race riot we don't have to fight Put your fist in the air if you down with us Put your fist in the air and surround the bus 'Cause look around, this musta been what he seen When Martin Luther King had a dream [Verse 3: Jaysaun] No matter if you're Catholic, Hindu, or Christian The race mixed and its taboo causing friction Since before G. Gordon Liddy and Nixon got caught trying to escape from Watergate, holding their dicks If you Melatto, they consider you half jig-a-boo A nigga who had the evil negro traits They're hitting to a point where visible And life walking a tight rope between both sides is miserable He looks Hispanic, his lips gigantic And is stressed to infest the mind's Titanic Niggas don't really accept you Except who watch you arm wrestle with the fact that you're special White people look amazed and astounded Invite the coon over, show the kids that we're rounded You're multi-ethnic, interracial Don't nobody knows which category to place you [Outro: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr] There will be neither rest nor tranquillity in America Until the bright day of Justice emerges We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water I have a dream that one day this Nation will rise up We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal