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 extremly alarming rate   And even more alarming is the fact    that we are not fighting back   Brothers, sistas, ni**as   When I say ni**as it is not the ni**a we are grown to fear   It is not the ni**a we say as if it has no meaning   But to me   It means Never Ignorant Getting Goals Acomplishes, ni**a   ni**as what are we going to do   Walk blind into a line or fight    Fight and die if we must like ni**as      This is for the ma*ses the lower cla*ses   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   Honour a man that who refuses to respect us   Emmancipation, proclamation, Please!   ni**a 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 its all about hyprocracy   The constitution, Yo, it don't apply to me   Lady Liberty still the bi**h lied to me   Steady strong nobody's gonna like what I pumpin'   But its wrong to keeping someone from learning something   So get up, its time to start nation building   I'm fed up, we gotta start teaching childern   That they can be all that they wanna to be   There's much more to life than just poverty      This is defaintly ahhh words of wisdom   AMERIKA, AMERIKA, AMERIKKKA    I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and a*sault   For suppressing and punishing my people    I charge you with robery 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 evidience      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?   Cause 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 sleave, don't believe    Cause 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   Forgeting 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 thats 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 can not escape fate   Well it is my turn to come   Just as you rose you shall fall   By my hands   Amerika, 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   a*sada Shakur America's Nightmare