Ras Kass - MLK Day lyrics

Its all for the culture, that's what you see
And I’mma rep it 'til i can't no more
No matter where going ya
Best believe you gotta
Feel it in your soul for sure

I wonder what cats was thinking April 3rd
1968 day before King’s murder occurred
Probably optimistic
Thinking 'bout driving down to Memphis
Now they name a street after
Him in low-income districts
Not being negative, I'm realistic
Speaking logistics in the process of
Keeping my wrist lit
The Modern Urban Philosopher
Rappers either make-believe kingpins
Or they gossipers
The dеvil traded Polo shirts for swastikas
Co-opted the cops, adoptеd the moniker of
'Evangelical Christians'
Same Christians, 1960s
Bombed churches and did the lynching
Guess religion contradicting heaven
'Cause terrorism's homegrown
And these radical got a reverend
What is Black Steel? It's that black
Mother with her back peeled
From whips cracking her flesh on a vast field
Picking cotton, yeah, that yield
Just so she could survive
To protect her babies it’s that real
Black Steel: the murder weapon in the
Hood where blacks kill one another
See every brother ain’t a brother
Am I supposed to bleach my skin
Buy blue contacts like Sammy Sosa
Sisters strip in Racist Chat Rooms
That Cat is Doja
Told ya, self hate is that ill
But you can't change your genetics, family
You Black still

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MLK Day mLK Day

I don’t know, what you been told
But we been down for the fight my friend
Marching roads, stay on your toes
'Cause we gon' celebrate this day on in
It's all for the culture, that’s what you see
And I'mma rep it 'til i can't no more
No matter where going ya
Best believe you gotta
Feel it in your soul for sure

I'm on my way, can you hold my place?
I wanna do it for the King, you dig?
I wanna celebrate
Ignore your hate, better fix your face
It don't change anything he did
I wanna celebrate
Keep your take if it ain't your taste
'Cause we gon' run it 'til the day's away
I wanna celebrate
Its what you make, better know your place
Or we gon' check you on whatever you say
I wanna celebrate
But until, just fake it motherfucker
Every 3rd Monday of January
Just fake it motherfucker

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MLK Day mLK Day

Good evening
The Reverend Dr martin Luther King
Thirty-nine years old and a
Nobel Peace Prize winner
And the leader of the non-violent
Civil Rights Movement in
The United States was assassinated
In Memphis tonight
The sniper's bullet cut down Dr king as he
Stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis