How can a non-musician discuss the future of music   From anything other than a consumer point of view?   These people make decisions for the bulk of us   Without consulting any of us      Sales and distributions of our futures   If this world were fair and right   They'd give up the car keys this very night   Damn, hit it      2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7   Flash forward, 2045   What did you stand for in the life of your prime   When faced with the final judgment of today   Who profited from the game   That you and your niggas play      Radical man, save a life   Come on, take a stand, give that money back   Let's make a plan, the brand new currency   Taking care of one another you and me      Radical, radical      Flash backward, 1999   In a world shockful of viruses   How'd y'all stay alive?   Depending on this so-called man   For everything you got comes from his hand      Food, water, the clothes you wear   How many of y'all niggas really care?   We don't care      Let's define this word, nigga   Someone who stays high   Watching their life go by   Someone content with riding it behind, nigga      They come in all colors, white, black, Puerto Rican   But the main niggas we speakin' 'bout   Wear suits and buy and sell corporations      With only one thing in mind   Break it up   That is the destruction of the   So-called radical man by 2045      Let's get radical   Let's get radical      Watch me now   Schooled in the art of digital games   When the war broke out they called your name   Everyone of color put on the front line   Holocaust Avenue, 2009      Get an education, good job, who says?   Fool with the gold fronts drinkin' Alize   They don't play by the rules makin' no sense today   Gotcha on line so you think it's okay      Better built cell block, mos def say   That's where you gonna stay, nigga   Where you gonna stay, nigga?   Oh my God, it's the Green Mile      Radical, radical man   Radical, radical man   Radical, radical man   Radical man      What's up, y'all? What y'all wanna do?   Ain't nobody up in that crew know   How to really run that computer   And make it flow      If you ain't born with it   You know, talkin' about the to and fro, hit me   Come on, you know way down   What George say, fall around, alright      We claim Miles Davis, not Michaelangelo   We playin' D-flat in the funk   You better act like you know      We don't care what Albert Einstein did   I'd rather know, rather know   How they built the pyramid, hey      James Brown, Chuck D. and Jimi   Turn me up louder now   And I don't think y'all hear me      2045, we will stay alive   2045, God is on our side      The whole pop scenario is just nothin'   But a dream   The day you wake up is the day   You get the real cream, nigga      Radical man   Who got the plan, who got the plan?   Radical man   Who got the plan, who got the plan?      This is the funk the industry most fears   All of us getting together   In a locked board of directors   I don't think so      Ain't nobody runnin' this   It's all about DNA, the radical man      Where will you be in 2045?   30 million people right now   Are being wiped off the face of the planet   By a disease they claim has no cure      In the matter of a blinking eye   All of us right now can testify   Take a stand, radical man, oh