K-Rino - Listen Up lyrics
[K-Rino - Listen Up lyrics]
So you want me to tell you
About the place called America, right?
It’s a very very evil place
So many atrocities have been
Committed by this nation
And the poor people suffer because
Of the evil evil dragon let me tell you
Ha ha ha, oh you don’t believe me?
It’s a population divided
Over multiple topics
We go through the process
Hoping that voting can stop it
Systemic poverty
Economics holding us hostage
The rich controlling and watching while
They choke us for profit's
Deflection is the tool they use
To alter the movement
False conclusions like racism is
Just an illusion
The American flag blacks don’t
Believe in that hype
‘Cause we see stars every time we
Get beat with them stripes
You plotting like hell every time
We try to prevail
Now you scared ‘cause people waking
Up out of the spell
They tell the black man forget
What was done to him
They say that just to hide the fact that what
Was done to blacks was done up under them
See we been picked to be the victims
So begging the system to treat us
Equal with them is a contradiction
Go and listen to John Ehrlichman
Who worked for Nixon
Said the war on drugs was meant to
Lock blacks up and restrict them
Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep? Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep?
"Let’s Make America Great Again"
A coded phrase by racist
Hateful men who blame
The poor citizens for the state it’s in
But we on top of that
Got ‘em covered like calamine
Holding up a power fist yelling
"Free Palestine"
We focus on shining and chase showbiz
We know every rapper and actor but
Don’t know what Jim Crow is
And black people
Why you praising the Clintons
When they responsible for jailing you
And raising your sentence?
But, you sellin’ ya little dope ‘cause
You live in the slums
But even in the drug industry
They give you the crumbs
The government decided it then
They created this environment supplying it
Then punish you for selling it or buying it
And I admit that we don’t help our situation
When we contribute knowingly
Through voluntary participation
Some of us still chase integration but
That’s what caused the evisceration
You racist but say you a Christian nation
Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep? Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep?
You lost and you don’t see that
What you backing is false
How many blacks been bumped off under
The flag and the cross?
For years we’ve been advised about
The prison business enterprise
In Michigan they lied ‘bout the water
Committed Flinticide
We fight the beast and the ratchet police
From slavery up to now we
Get attacked in the streets
You can’t compare the Holocaust to
The blacks you mistreat because in no time
The Jews was right back on their feet
But see in our case
Justice wasn’t properly handled
Opportunities blocked even when we
Go through the channels
Got some rotten politicians who
Pretended to help
40 million blacks owning 1% of the wealth
You made ‘em rich and as
Long as they above you, you trapped
You think they love you ‘cause you can
Dunk or ‘cause you can rap?
So we stay connected to those
Who deceived and betrayed us
I wish we loved us the way we
Love the people who hate us
Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep? Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep?
About the place called America, right?
It’s a very very evil place
So many atrocities have been
Committed by this nation
And the poor people suffer because
Of the evil evil dragon let me tell you
Ha ha ha, oh you don’t believe me?
It’s a population divided
Over multiple topics
We go through the process
Hoping that voting can stop it
Systemic poverty
Economics holding us hostage
The rich controlling and watching while
They choke us for profit's
Deflection is the tool they use
To alter the movement
False conclusions like racism is
Just an illusion
The American flag blacks don’t
Believe in that hype
‘Cause we see stars every time we
Get beat with them stripes
You plotting like hell every time
We try to prevail
Now you scared ‘cause people waking
Up out of the spell
They tell the black man forget
What was done to him
They say that just to hide the fact that what
Was done to blacks was done up under them
See we been picked to be the victims
So begging the system to treat us
Equal with them is a contradiction
Go and listen to John Ehrlichman
Who worked for Nixon
Said the war on drugs was meant to
Lock blacks up and restrict them
Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep? Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep?
"Let’s Make America Great Again"
A coded phrase by racist
Hateful men who blame
The poor citizens for the state it’s in
But we on top of that
Got ‘em covered like calamine
Holding up a power fist yelling
"Free Palestine"
We focus on shining and chase showbiz
We know every rapper and actor but
Don’t know what Jim Crow is
And black people
Why you praising the Clintons
When they responsible for jailing you
And raising your sentence?
But, you sellin’ ya little dope ‘cause
You live in the slums
But even in the drug industry
They give you the crumbs
The government decided it then
They created this environment supplying it
Then punish you for selling it or buying it
And I admit that we don’t help our situation
When we contribute knowingly
Through voluntary participation
Some of us still chase integration but
That’s what caused the evisceration
You racist but say you a Christian nation
Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep? Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep?
You lost and you don’t see that
What you backing is false
How many blacks been bumped off under
The flag and the cross?
For years we’ve been advised about
The prison business enterprise
In Michigan they lied ‘bout the water
Committed Flinticide
We fight the beast and the ratchet police
From slavery up to now we
Get attacked in the streets
You can’t compare the Holocaust to
The blacks you mistreat because in no time
The Jews was right back on their feet
But see in our case
Justice wasn’t properly handled
Opportunities blocked even when we
Go through the channels
Got some rotten politicians who
Pretended to help
40 million blacks owning 1% of the wealth
You made ‘em rich and as
Long as they above you, you trapped
You think they love you ‘cause you can
Dunk or ‘cause you can rap?
So we stay connected to those
Who deceived and betrayed us
I wish we loved us the way we
Love the people who hate us
Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep? Listen up
I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya
Slap ya with the raw truth
Even if it scare ya
We gotta soldier up and go through the heat
How can you wake up when you
Don’t even know that ya sleep?
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