[ti:Black To The Future]
[ar:Def Jef]
[al:Just a Poet With Soul (Deluxe Version)]
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[00:00.00]Black To The Future - Def Jef
[00:17.17]Written by：Jeffrey Andrew Fortson
[00:34.35]22 million black victims of Americanism are waking up
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[00:39.32]As-salaam-alaikum blackman
[00:40.75]Time to make a stand
[00:41.71]Time to wake up and
[00:42.61]Time to make a plan and band
[00:44.02]Together like China
[00:45.21]We need to find a
[00:46.31]Better form of unity
[00:47.86]Then we'll be
[00:48.59]In the right path on the right track
[00:50.38]Dark or light black
[00:51.32]Don't let 'em tell you it's wrong to fight back
[00:53.49]Come on
[00:53.97]But the enemy is not your brother
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[00:56.89]It's that other muthaf**ka
[00:58.51]The one that baited robbed and degraded you
[01:01.20]And he don't like to see you've made it through
[01:03.28]The b******t that came with being a brotherman
[01:05.80]Stolen from the motherland
[01:07.07]Placed in another land
[01:08.64]400 and some odd years ago
[01:10.97]Till about the time we wore afros
[01:12.96]We've come so far so fast
[01:14.84]From what they call the past
[01:16.70]But that just passed
[01:17.56]And we're the last in line for justice what's this
[01:20.18]Naw man that ain't gon' work yo bust this
[01:22.64]Black to the future back to the past
[01:25.01]History is a mystery cause it has
[01:27.72]All the info
[01:29.12]You need to know
[01:29.84]Where you're from why'd you come
[01:31.13]And that'll tell you where you're going
[01:33.04]We gotta unite
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[01:34.37]We gotta work together in unity and harmony
[01:36.79]Black to the future
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[01:39.74]Come on
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[01:41.89]Come on
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[01:44.56]Come on
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[01:46.58]Black to the future
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[01:49.35]Come on
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[01:53.42]Into the future
[01:56.96]Black to the future what a funky concept
[01:59.06]A poet with soul brothers and sisters let's step
[02:01.52]Together in sync just think about the outcome
[02:03.89]We know where we're goin'
[02:04.92]Because we know where we came from
[02:06.36]A united state of mind
[02:07.90]But not the kind
[02:08.65]That the United States government fakes
[02:11.02]Nope they don't practise what they preach
[02:13.50]Maybe they don't believe in those false beliefs
[02:15.70]Themselves and I can tell cause they look scared
[02:18.13]To see us comin' up because they're not prepared
[02:20.70]For a new breed of leaders
[02:22.13]Eager and fired up
[02:23.16]And tired of
[02:23.79]The lies that you feed us
[02:25.06]So we just
[02:25.72]What
[02:26.10]Got together like one nation under a groove
[02:28.57]Gettin' down and the funk of it can move
[02:30.82]And start a movement of self-improvement
[02:33.00]And before you know it you went
[02:34.94]Black to the future
[02:36.22]F-u-t-
[02:37.24]U-r-e
[02:38.09]Black to the
[02:38.93]F-u-t-
[02:39.66]U-r-e
[02:40.54]Black to the
[02:41.25]F-u-t-
[02:41.95]U-r-e
[02:42.84]Black to the
[02:43.66]F-u-t-
[02:44.39]U-r-e
[02:44.60]Black to the future
[02:45.90]F-u-t-
[02:46.83]U-r-e
[02:47.78]Black to the
[02:48.53]F-u-t-
[02:49.21]U-r-e
[02:50.19]Black to the
[02:50.94]F-u-t-
[02:51.62]U-r-e
[02:52.69]Black to the
[02:53.41]F-u-t-
[02:54.06]U-r-e
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[02:58.54]Get on up
[02:59.21]
[02:59.74]Come on
[03:00.14]
[03:01.49]Get on up brotherman
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[03:08.24]Get on up
[03:09.37]Come on
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[03:11.22]I want you to get on up
[03:13.94]I grab the mic with a kung-fu grip
[03:16.32]So it don't slip and come out on a positive black tip
[03:19.17]Hip all my brothers and sisters to the real deal
[03:21.52]
[03:22.08]With unity and knowledge I feel we'll
[03:23.92]Uprise who knows what lies
[03:25.69]Ahead but you can't see if you're livin' with shut eyes
[03:28.83]So realize united we stand divided we fall
[03:31.82]Provided we all heed the call
[03:33.65]Comin' from the M****m or the rasta man
[03:36.40]Two forms of a positive blackman
[03:38.65]WEB Du Bois and Booker T
[03:41.27]King and X Farrakhan and Jesse
[03:43.47]Men with means that differ
[03:44.99]But their goals were equal
[03:46.37]To uplift African people
[03:48.12]Through violence or non-violence I don't care
[03:50.63]As long as we get there where
[03:52.44]Black to the future
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[03:57.53]Black to the future
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[04:02.34]Black to the future
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[04:07.19]Black to the future
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[04:09.22]Into the future
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[04:11.46]What a funky concept
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[04:13.56]Hey brother
[04:14.29]Excuse me man
[04:15.29]I don't mean to bother you man
[04:16.62]But I
[04:17.76]Brother you think I can get a little bit change from you
[04:20.73]Some change man
[04:21.67]Yeah man I just need a little bit change man
[04:23.89]You give me some change
[04:25.03]That's all I'm askin'
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[04:26.57]Aight man I'm gon' give you this change man
[04:28.56]But I want you to listen to me for a second alright
[04:30.51]Alright man whatcha got to say
[04:32.31]Brothers always talkin' about change
[04:34.67]Brothers'll change their clothes
[04:36.00]To go out on the street and make some quick change
[04:37.57]
[04:38.21]A brother might even kill another brother over the wrong change
[04:41.27]Brothers change from men to women
[04:43.05]Brothers change their hair from natural to that damn jherri curl
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[04:46.32]Brothers even change their eyes man
[04:48.33]Brothers always talkin' 'bout change
[04:50.44]Goin' through changes
[04:51.62]Changes changes changes
[04:52.94]But when it come time for a real change
[04:55.25]Brothers change their mind man
[04:57.21]Aw man I I hear you man
[04:59.26]Hey man you gave me more change than I asked for
[05:02.31]You must be one of them revolutionaries man