Grab a hold of yourself, open your eyes   Get wise to the exercise   Being taught by the teacher that's most dominant   You need knowledge?    Well I'm dropping it   Listen to the rap allow it to trap   Your body and soul so that you can adapt   To the man on display as I take you away   So may i?       Proud to be a black man   Coming exact and   Giving up to brothers five on the back hand   Pray for lease and peace upon each other   With my sisters and brothers      I say the mother, as in the motherland   But on the other hand, another man   Tackled and shackled our ancestors   But we beat him with freedom, so let's bless the   Country that we all came from   Because the moral of it all is we shall overcome   The cream will keep rising   We be sizing   Up, the asiatic one is enterprising   Building and building to carry on   All the way from malcolm x to farrakhan   Martin luther was a tutor, many were pupils   Those who fell victim were those without scruples   However, to sever, we could never   So hold up the peace sign and stand together   Take heed to the words that I manifest   And when I'm through speaking, marley marl'll do the rest