Crank the music up   Bring that shit in, uhh      Yeah, the movement's in motion   With massive militant poetry   Now check this out, uhh      In the right light, study becomes insight   But the system that dissed us   Teaches us to read and right      So called facts are fraud   They want us to allege and pledge   And bow down to their God      Lost the culture, the culture lost   Spun our minds and through time   Ignorance has taken over   Yo, we gotta take the power back      Bam, here's the plan, motherfuck Uncle Sam   Step back, I know who I am   Raise [Incomprehensible] your ear, I'll drop the style and clear   It's the beats and the lyrics they fear      The rage is relentless   We need a movement with a quickness   You are the witness of change   And to counteract we gotta take the power back      Yeah, we gotta take the power back   Come on, come on   We gotta take the power back      The present curriculum, I put my fist in 'em   Eurocentric, every last one of 'em   See right through the red, white and blue disguise   With lecture I puncture the structure of lies      Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back   We've got to take it back   Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears   One sided stories for years and years and years      I'm inferior? Who's inferior?   Yeah, we need to check the interior of the system   Who cares about only one culture   And that is why we gotta take the power back      Yeah, we gotta take the power back   Come on, come on   We gotta take the power back      Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it   Break it, break it down, aww shit      Uhh, and like this, uhh   Come on, yeah, put it back the other way, ugh      The teacher stands in front of the class   But the lesson plan he can't recall   The student's eyes don't perceive the lies   Bouncing off every fucking wall      His composure is well kept   I guess he fears playing the fool   Complacent students sit and listen to that   Bullshit that he'd learned in school      Europe ain't my rope to swing on   Can't learn a thing from it yet we hang from it   Gotta get it, gotta get it together then   Like the motherfuckin' weathermen      To expose and close the doors on those who try   To strangle and mangle the truth   'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react   We gotta take the power back      Yeah, we gotta take the power back   Come on, come on   Yeah, we gotta take the power back      No more lies, no more lies   No more lies, no more lies   No more lies, no more lies   No more lies, no more lies, uhh      Yeah, take it back y'all, take it back   Uh, take it back, uh, take it back y'all, come on   Take it back y'all, take it back, uh, take it back   Uh, take it back y'all, come on, uhh, yeah