Black To the Future

22 Million black victims of Americanism are waking up

Asalaam alaikum, black man, time to make a stand

Time to wake up and time to make a plan and band

Together like China, we need to find

A better form of unity, then we'll be

In the right path, on the right track

Dark or light, black, don't let 'em tell you it's wrong to fight back

But the enemy is not your brother

It's that other motherfucker

The one that baited, robbed and degraded you

And he don't like to see you've made it through

The bullshit that came with being a brother man

Stolen from the motherland, placed in another land

Four hundred and some odd years ago

'Til about the time we wore afros

We've come so far so fast from what they call the past

But that just passed, and with the last in line

For justice, what's this? Nah, man

That ain't gon' work, yo, bust this, black

To the future, back to the past

History is a mystery 'cause it has

All the info, you need to know

Where you're from, why'd you come

And that'll tell you where you go

We gotta unite, we gotta work together in unity and harmony

Black to the future

Come on, come on, come on

Black to the future

Come on, come on

Into the future

Black to the future, what a funky concept

A poet with soul brothers and sisters, let's step

Together in sync, just think about the outcome

We know where we're going because we know where we came from

A united state of mind, but not the kind

That the United States government fakes (Nope)

They don't practice what they preach

Maybe they don't believe in those false beliefs themselves

And I can tell 'cause they look scared

To see us coming up because they're not prepared

For a new breed of leaders, eager and fired up

And tired of the lies that you feed us, so we just (What?)

Got together like one nation under a groove

Getting down in the funk of it and move

And start a movement of self-improvement

And before you know it, you've went black to the future

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E (Black to the future)

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E

Black to the F-U-T-U-R-E

Into the future

Get on up, come on

Get on up, brother man

Get on up, come on

I want you to get on up

I grab the mic with a kung fu grip so it don't slip

And comin' on a positive black tip

Hip all my brothers and sisters to the real deal

With unity and knowledge, I feel we'll uprise

Who knows what lies ahead?

But you can't see if you're living with shut eyes

So realize united we stand, divided we fall

Provided we all heed the call

Coming from the Muslim or the Rasta man

Two forms of a positive black man

W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T

King and X, Farrakhan and Jesse

Men with means that differ, but their goals were equal

To uplift African people

Through violence or non-violence, I don't care

As long as we get there

Where? Black to the future

Black to the future

Black to the future

Black to the future

Into the future

What up, homie?

Hey, brother, excuse me, man, I don't mean to bother you, man, but I

Just, brother, you think I can get a little bit of change from you?

You want some change, man?

Yeah, man, I just need a little bit of change, man, to get

Me something to drink, man, that's all I'm wanting, man

Alright, man, I'ma give you this change, man, but

I want you to listen to me for a second, alright?

Alright, man, tell me what you got to say

Brothers always talking about change

Brothers'll change their clothes to go out

In the street and make some quick change

A brother might even kill another brother over the wrong change

Brothers change from men to women

Brothers change their hair from natural to that damn Jheri curl

Brothers even change their eyes, man

Brothers always talking about change, going through changes

Changes, changes, changes

When it come time for a real change, brothers change they mind, man

Oh, man, oh, I hear you, man

Hey, man, give me more change than I asked for, homie

You must be one of them revolutionaries, man

Thanks, brother, alright, so thanks for

The change, homie, I'ma go on with my day

Get me something to drink, man, that's all