Killing us one by one in one way or another   American will find a way to eliminate the problem one by one   The problem is the troubles in the black youth of the ghettos   And one by one we are being wiped off the face of this earth   At an extremely alarming rate   And even more alarming is the fact that we are not fighting back      Brothers, sistas, niggas   When I say niggas it is not the nigga we are grown to fear   It is not the nigga we say as if it has no meaning   But to me it means, never ignorant, getting goals, accomplishes, nigga   Niggas what are we going to do, walk blind into a line or fight   Fight and die if we must like niggas      This is for the masses the lower classes   The ones you left out, jobs were givin', better livin'   But we were kept out, made to feel inferior, but we're the superior   Break the chains in out brains that made us fear, yah   Pledge a legiance to a flag that neglects us   Honor a man that who refuses to respect us   Emancipation, proclamation, please   Nigga just said that to save the nation      These are lies that we all accepted   Say no to drugs but the governments keep it   Running through our community, killing the unity   The war on drugs is a war on you and me   And yet they say this is the home of the free   But if you ask me it's all about hypocracy   The constitution, yo, it don't apply to me      Lady Liberty still the bitch lied to me   Steady strong, nobody's gonna like what I pumpin'   But it's wrong to keeping someone from learning something   So get up, it's time to start nation building   I'm fed up, we gotta start teaching children   That they can be all that they wanna to be   There's much more to life than just poverty      This is defiantly, ahh, words of wisdom   America, America, America   I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault   For suppressing and punishing my people   I charge you with robbery for robbing me of my history   I charge you with false imprisonment for keeping me   Trapped in the projects and the jury finds you guilty on all accounts   And you are to serve the consequences of your evil schemes   Prosecutor, do you have any more evidence?      Words of wisdom   They shine upon the strength of an nation   Conquer the enemy on with education   Protect thy self, reach with what you wanna do   Know thy self, teach what we been through   On with the knowledge of the place, then   No one will ever oppress this race again   No Malcolm X in my history text, why is that?      'Cuss he tried to educate and liberate all blacks   Why is Martin Luther King in my book each week?   He told blacks, if they get smacked, turn the other cheek   I don't get it, so many questions went through my mind   I get sweated, they act as if asking questions is a crime   But forget it, one day I'm gonna prove them wrong   Now every brother had to smother on the welfare line   The American dream, though it seems it attainable      They're pulling your sleeve, don't believe 'cuz it will strangle, yah   Pulling the life of your brain, I can't explain   Beg as you can obtain from which you came   Swear that your mother is living in equality   Forgetting your brother that's living her apology   Thought they had us beat when they took our kids   But the battle ain't over till the black man sings words of wisdom   But the battle ain't over till the black man sings words of wisdom      Nightmare, that's what I am, America's nightmare   I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me   I shine of a reminder of what you have done to my people   For four hundred plus years   You should be scared, you should be running   You should be trying to silence me, ha ha   But you cannot escape fate, well, it is my turn to come   Just as you rose you shall fall by my hands      America, you reap what you sow   2pacalypse America's nightmare   Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob America's nightmare   Above the Law America's nightmare, Paris America's nightmare   Public Enemy America's nightmare, Krs-One America's nightmare   Mutulu Shakur America's nightmare   Geronimo Pratt America's nightmare   Assada Shakur America's nightmare