Verse One
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The day begins, with a grin
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And a prayer to excuse my sins
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I can walk anywhere I choose
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Cause everybody listens to the B.D.P. crew
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We're not here for glamour or fashion
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But here's the question I'm askin
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Why is it young black kids taught {flashin?}
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They're only taught how to read, write, and act
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It's like teachin a dog to be a cat
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You don't teach white kids to be black
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Why is that? Is it because we're the minority?
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Well black kids follow me
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Genesis chapter eleven verse ten
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Explains the geneology of Chem
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Chem was a black man, in Africa
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If you repeat this fact they can't laugh at ya
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Genesis fourteen verse thirteen
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Abraham steps on the scene
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Being a descendent of Chem which is a fact
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Means, Abraham too was black
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Abraham born in the city of a black man
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Called Nimrod grandson of Kam
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Kam had four sons, one was named Canaan
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Here, let me do some explaining
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Abraham was the father of Isaac
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Isaac was the father of Jacob
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Jacob had twelve sons, for real
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And these, were the children of Isreal
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According to Genesis chapter ten
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Egyptains descended from {Hahm,Kam}
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Six hundred years later, my brother, read up
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Moses was born in Egypt
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In this era black Egyptians weren't right
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They enslaved black Isrealites
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Moses had to be of the black race
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Because he spent fourty years in Pharoah's place
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He passed as the Pharoah's grandson
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So he had to look just like him
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Yes my brothers and sisters take this here song
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Yo, correct the wrong
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The information we get today is just wack
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But ask yourself, why is that?
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Verse Two
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The age of the ignorant rapper is done
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Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone
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The stereotype must be lost
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That love and peace and knowledge is soft
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Do away with that and understand one fact
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For love, peace must attack
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And attack real strong, stronger than war
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To conquer it and its law
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Mental pictures, stereotypes and fake history
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Reinforces mystery
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And when mystery is reinforced
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That only means that knowledge has been lost
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When you know who you really are
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Peace and knowledge shines like a star
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I'm only showin you a simple fact
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It Takes A Nation of MILLIONS to Hold Us people Back
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Which is wack, but we can correct that
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Teach and learn what it is to be black
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Cause they're teachin birds to be a cat
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But ask yourself homeboy, why is that?
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Why is That?
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