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         (x2)         Take a stand the fight for power   Cause we’ve been here before the Mayflower   Living superior abiding by nature   The history of the Asiatic one paid the   Price to be paid in slavery   Like the name of Antonio was gave to me   But knowledge of self broke every shackle and chain   Now I declare myself as the Big Daddy Kane   The teacher, teaching a lesson to be heard   That’s word, to the mother my brother   So discover the truth of one another   Cause here’s the real deal upon our skin color   Lay down white, yellow, red or pink   But the color of black is most dominant   The rising and sizing can never cease      Peace!            (x2)