Blue Scholars - Fire for the People lyrics

More fire for the people
More fire for the people
More fire for the people

Now what I spit, it's medicine for the sick
An attempt to get a grip before
It all starts to slip
It be the call and response
From the bottomless pit
I remain nonchalant when the drama get thick
The last call, ballin up my palm in a fist
The most common misperception is this
Drop a tape, rock a show, sign a line
Hit the road, hit some hoes, videos
Next you know you'll be ballin' and shit
But, you'll be callin' it quit's
When all the cards start to fall in a ditch
Cuz temptation is so hard to resist
Know there's no such thing
As an unjustified existence
Except perhaps a few thousand


Rappers in this business
Finish what I start, scientifically
Strategically
Specifically addressing the oblivion
We livin in
My brethren and sisteren, I'm speaking
Are you listening?
Freedom been imprisoned by
The television image if you let it instead
Get affected by your habitat
Ask a few questions, quit a few bad habit's
And after that handle this
Similar to how Xavier McDaniel did in '86
We're talking just a little less shit
And lately been mindful of the babies I admit
But at nighttime I sit
Serenaded by the blues of the skyline hue
Reminded me of the time when the old was new
And I

Spark a fire for the cold in the dark
Peace and war, both pumpin' soul in my heart
And no they can't keep what
They stole from the art
And they love to see beef
Cuz it throws us apart
More fire for the people
(more fire for the people)
Say more jobs for the people
(more jobs for the people)
And more books for the people
(more books for the people)
And more music for the people
(more music for the people)

As the world hurls toward
Seven billion more listeners
Seven hundred plus either killed
Or held prisoners
Seven thousand one hundred islands
I been missin cuz I grind from seven to five
I don't write the scriptures
As hot as the block
Gets it's cold contradiction
Pen drips with honesty, I don't offer fiction
Throw competition the bone that they
Try to pick with me
And learn the moral lesson and
Marchin' forward to victory
No flag wavin' celebratin' your invasion
You call it thanksgiving
We call it things taken
Everyone lookin for the ladder
Not the answer to the question
Waitin' til the cancers in regression
Fresh from the northwest
The hottest thing lately
Like white celebrities buying black
And brown babies
Got the town crazy over beats rhymes and life
Peace with Adobo grease, eggs, and brown rice
And I

Spark a fire for the cold in the dark
Peace and war, both pumpin' soul in my heart
And no they can't keep what
They stole from the art
And they love to see beef
Cuz it throws us apart
More fire for the people
(more fire for the people)
Say more jobs for the people
(more jobs for the people)
And more books for the people
(more books for the people)
More clothes for the people
(more clothes for the people)
More schools for the people
(more schools for the people)
More land for the people
(more land for the people)
More life for the people
(and more life for the people)

Yo i've seen souls get sold so coldly
Seen what a dollar can do
To the tired and true
I speak boldly, composed of a melody told
Whenever we hold the memory close
No tellin' when the reaper finna post
And snatch a fan
Something that you can't capture
With a camera lens
Amalgamation of the bolo and
The hammer and pen the truth hurts
No wonder the people rather pretend
I annihilate a fake persona for spare change
Everybody self included is fair game
Inherited the trait to make both ends meet
Often make a brother feel
Like he gotta compete
But with each release I reach for peace
Others quick to reach for the piece
From here to beacon to beach you see
Freedom of speech don't apply
If you're silent i shout like I'm trying to
Get heard on the Island, i

Spark a fire for the cold in the dark
Peace and war, both pumpin' soul in my heart
And no they can't keep what
They stole from the art
And they love to see beef
Cuz it throws us apart
More fire for the people
(more fire for the people)
More peace for the people
(more peace for the people)
More life for the people
(more life for the people)
More love for the people
(more love for the people)
More love for the people
(more love for the people)
More love for the people
(more love for the people)
More love for the people
(more love for the people)