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Yeah, reminiscent of another time |
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And another state of mind |
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[Verse 1] |
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I used to flow |
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They used to call me a rhyme animal |
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Some of them don't call me no mo' |
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So, I try a new style refuse to get wild |
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On the B side because I still got my pride |
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The pride comes from another time |
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My father and mother plus God blessed the rhyme |
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Born in 1960, '70 suckers quizzing me |
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"What was it like before everybody tried to be like Mike?" |
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Back in the day when our peeps had to fight for our rights |
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To make the day feel aight |
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But there is no is without a was |
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No about to be, buts, or because |
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I got the pride |
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[Hook] |
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[Break] |
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Reminiscent of another time |
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Dashikis, bells, to straight legs |
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Platforms and picks |
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See it wasn't just about the fro |
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It was what was underneath that fro |
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Black power for the powerless |
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Deuce and quarters, caddies 442's |
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Yeah, pride |
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[Verse 2] |
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Say it loud |
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James singing, "Black and I'm Proud" |
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I was in third grad when Dr. King got slain |
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And if I had to read a book about |
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The facts, the fact is that the black |
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Would be overlooked look |
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1967 I was seven, living proof |
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Of what I had learned in my youth |
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What a difference a score and a decade makes |
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Mistakes and super bad breaks, wait |
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I ate the food in the lunch programs |
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And now I see the young strung out on grams |
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So I work on a go on and so on and soon communicate |
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To tet the young straight |
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Cause I got the pride |
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[Hook] |
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[Break] |
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Flamboyant names |
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Free Huey, Eldridge, Bobby, Angela |
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Woodstock to Kent State |
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The music of the time for the mind |
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45's, Aretha, Four Tops |
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Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes |
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Assassinations Presidents |
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Nothing but 60's soul |
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[Interlude] |
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Now in order for us to know who we are |
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We got to know who we was |
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And once we know who we was |
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Then we know who we're gonna be |
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Pride |
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[Verse 3] |
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The panther party before lad-i-da-di |
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Put pride inside plus taught karate |
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Fed heads in many ways, many days |
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We're served locked down protecting the Black and the Brown |
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Now today the old must spread it, I said it |
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If they don't communicate, then you can't get it |
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Problems have to be solved they won't go away so man what |
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You say and don't sway |
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Gotta get that pride |
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[Hook] |
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[Outro] |
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Dr. King, Malcolm, Medgar, Hampton |
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Ritos and rebellions |
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Newark, Watts, Uptown |
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Harlem that is, black gold |
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Ghetto stell |
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I reserve the right to be nothing |
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But a man |
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We reserve the right to be nothing |
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But men and women |
