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So out of the mercy of Allah and the law written
in our nature 

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we call an individual into existence

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and when that individual comes,

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I make no apologies for what I'm about to say

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Rough, rugged and real, you're on standstill
To obey, okay so let the man build

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Words of rapture that you have to capture
And I just slapped ya

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With the hand full of literature

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That's dope, def, fresh, hype, choice, smooth and raw

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Rappers I replace, rub out, and erase

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Competition you must be on freebase
Smokin' or chokin', bound to be broken

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Man, get your damn hands off the mic that
I'm chokin!

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‘Cause I got a stranglehold
You're still cold off the road for the role you stole

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Rhymes that you yell out, but you did sell out

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Crossed-over, lost over here, now get the hell out

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I'm not a pop star, rock and roller,

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I'm a rebel, blessed able to hold a

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Mic like a hammer, and drop grammar

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Treat a rapper like a wrestler, and body slam
him

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Those who dispute get treated just like a
prostitute

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They get the boot and played like a flute
So just play mute, don't even whisper

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Open your mouth to speak and I'ma diss ya
Ragtag and dog, put you in the morgue

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Because you're petty, confetti and not ready
to rock steady

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In other words, you're half-steppin'
Tiptoe and get goin', because my weapon

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Is not a nine, an Uzi or a shotgun
But when it come to hype rhymes I got one

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Just like the album is still the same:
"Long Live the Kane" ain't a damn thing changed

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I still get ill and kill at will and build the skill 
To fill your grill so don't tell me you're real

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We sample beats, you sue and try to fight us

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Man, you still be home with arthritis!

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If we didn't revive and bring back alive
Old beats that we appreciated, you wouldn't survive

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You'd be another memory to us

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Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

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So understand, the way that I live

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That's positive, and the message I got to
give

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It's a benefit for you and me
I'm talkin' bout P-E-A-C-E

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The chosen one that has turned a new leaf
I got gold teeth, and they don't chew beef

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No pork on my fork, strictly fish on my dish

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The Kane fallin' victim? Sucker, you wish

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I flow like water, slaughter
Put you out of order, floored ya!

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Rappers are raggin' and taggin' and snaggin'
and braggin'

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To be on the bandwagon, but I'm the Last
Dragon

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With the knack to attract the pack
So just get back, I'm young, gifted and Black!

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Young

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Gifted and Black

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Oh,

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what

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a lovely,

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precious

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thing

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Oh, when you're,

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yes, yes, when you're

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When you're

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Young,

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Yeah, thank you, Jesus

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Gifted and Black

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Open

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your heart,

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is all

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I need

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In this whole world, you know

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There are millions of boys and girls

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Who are young, gifted and Black

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With their souls intact, and that's a fact

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You are young, gifted and Black

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We must begin to tell our young

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There's a world waiting for you

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You!

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Yours is the quest that's just begun

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When you feelin' real low 

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(The instrumental entitled "92 Interlude" plays)

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And if we feed, on the wisdom of God

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We can come, into a light, and a power that will
absolutely make us, masters over what

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the Originator
Originated that is called creation

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And that is all that Jesus, was beckoning
the world to

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To come up, out of where you are
And to stop thinkin', that you got to exist

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On the low plane that you exist
As Jesus ascended, you can ascend

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Then you, as a human being, can be, like him
And therefore he said...

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I have the mind that was designed for crime
Now I'm two seconds away from the big time

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In the fast lane your life goes fast
It's time to take a journey into Tragedy's past

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When I was one adopted by Michael Chapman

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This was years before I started rappin'

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My father held a scholarship for a year

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But then he died and so did his career

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He left his son and soon to be wife,

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He died and that was the end of his life

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It's just not fair that he couldn't live through
But as I grew, I fell into the same trap, too

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But I lived the life that he couldn't see

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He died at 18 and that's the age of me

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I escaped the cage where your brother is your enemy

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And cops turn misdemeanors into felonies

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Playin' the game the stakes are a lot
Either you're strung out on drugs, in jail or get shot

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So I take the pain and put it in a song

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‘Cause some of my brothers didn't last
this long

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Life to them just didn't seem important
As I watched their bodies get stiffer in the coffin

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A young Black target for someone to shoot ya

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Hoodlum's the past, Intelligent is the future

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I seek a life more promising than a waiter
The mass educator puttin' pain on paper

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Life is a battle and strength is survival
Some search for better but most won't even try to

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‘Cause every day a young dream is shatterin'

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Pressure is painful, the burden is batterin'

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I'm a reborn rebel and my intellect leaks

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The Intelligent Hoodlum relates to the streets

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‘Cause the past stays on my back to remind me
Intelligence is what you gain when you find me

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Heed the message I inject in your eardrum

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I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum

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I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum

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I'm the Intelligent Hood-

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Emit light rap, or Emmett Till
I drew a line without showing my body, that's a skill

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Bad to the bone and the grill

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You'd be dead wrong if looks kill
I'm still on my spiel, in the spirit of L Hill

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Eye on the sparrow

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Nose like a pharaoh's
Our blood line trill

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For the young and all the Lil's
We all gon' get mills

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Talk a lotta game
But we get paid too, like Jemele

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Was raised upon a hill, the valley's a sunken
place

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I'm just tryna build like I came with some
ghetto weight

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Know I'm a God MC, ‘cause n!@@^, I made
the devil wait

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Boy I brought hell, you ain't gotta tell me
I'm hella great

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I don't speak on it nowadays, I just meditate
Y'all can have the bars n!@@^, I spit hard metal gates

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Henry Louis Gates when I cop me some new estate

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Make room for myself, I'm in a way different mental place

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I keep it real, all y'all look anime

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I'm fine like Anna Mae
Black don't crack like Angela

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Black and brave like in the A
It don't come with apologies

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‘Less it's Tip and some Andre
When you greet me it's "Namaste"

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Spread love the Brooklyn way or like Marmalade
No matter if you street-street, or more like the promenade

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We gotta come together like the corn and the dookie braids

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For the present and future days, I say what I gotta say

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I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of

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Got my middle finger up like ‘Pac after attempted murder

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Failed to kill me, it's still me

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Woke up singing Shirley Murdock
As we lay these edges down,

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Brown women, we so perfect

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Went from field n!@@^ to still n!@@^

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Being cropped out the picture
But we all know who got the juice,

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my sisters

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Imitating us in all the Hollywood pictures
And still, they'll never be us, n!@@^, n!@@^

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I'm from the back woods where n!@@^s would
Sing about the life we should

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Lead, a new dawn, another deed, I try to do
some good

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I felt more damned than Mississippi was

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They denied Nina in Philadelphia, and still we persevered,

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Like all the 400 years of our own blood, Africa,

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Old panthers lookin' back like who gon' come up after us?

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Outside the movies, I make sure before it
move you

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It moved me, now bow down to a queen, please

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Survival…

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Blue Interlude

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(a spoken word piece is recited)

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Yo, check it

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Yo, I'm the first man standing upright,

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holding a stone in my hand
After beating an ape, claiming the land

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Taking the stand and feeding my fam
Back when man ate they children

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I'm killing other animals just to nurture
them

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I journey further from mine, my people, into
another culture

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Not knowin' my brothers ‘bout to come
and take over

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We made it all the way to Asia
and to Australia

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Then made the passage to the Americas after
all behavior

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Came home and they started makin' homes
outta stone

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Showin' tribes around ‘em how much they've
grown

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Yo, I'm Norma at the end of the of start
of civilization

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I'm shuttin' it down, I'm settin'
out to build a nation

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I'm the son of Ra, the son of Ka

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Father of Africa
King Khafre and King Khufu, blood of the Zulu

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Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anbuis, the Royal family
Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and all the Ramesses

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Amam and Hotep, Mentuhotep, Thutmosis
Ahmosis, Kamose—etymology of Moses

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I'm the kings of Egypt, kings of Nubia,
Mesopotamia

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Mediterranean, Babylon, Saudi Arabia
I'm Muhammad comin' outta the Middle East

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after the Romans
Reclaiming their gold, homin' their throne

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‘cause they own it
I'm on the first boats to reach America

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We all African, we sold you to America, we
not coming back

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(the spoken word piece continues)

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Ayo, I'm Adam, the Original Man banned from
the Garden

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I'm Noah, pardon the flood, after the revolution
started

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I'm Japheth, I'm Shem, and I'm Ham
I'm Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Motherland

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I'm Moses posin' against the king, freein'
his people

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I'm Babylon, tryna reach God by buildin'
a steeple

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I'm the strongest man, Samson
I'm the first king, Samuel

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The prestigious king, Saul
Son of King David, I'm Solomon

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I'm preachin' to the choir like Elijah,
Isaiah, Jeremiah and

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Not a king higher than King Hezekiah
I'm on fire like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

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I'm Jonah and the whale

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Daniel in the lion's den
And I'm Job with just a little hope

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I'm John The Baptist, the Messiah's comin'
God's son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth

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Thank Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the
narrative

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And Paul for all the passages
Apostolic Episcopal before Constantine

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Constant persecution, first century
Eventually, revolution

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Islam
Sixth century and

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On and on
Slavery, where you takin' me to, huh?

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America?

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(the spoken word piece continues)

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Yo
I'm Kunta Kinte ‘fore he was enslaved

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by America
Picture the freedom before the terror

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Who had to carry the black burners to Nat
Turner

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During a slave revolt,
we came before Columbus dumped us

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Off the slavery boat,
the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman

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Yeah, we probably would still be slaves if
it wasn't for Frederick Douglass

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I'm up in his government before all them
like Booker Washington

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With all his boys like W. E. B. Du Bois
and Noble Drew Ali and Marcus Garvey

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Takin' us to Africa like Chancellor Williams,
Chandler Owens

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and Asa Randolph
Master Fard Muhammad, The Honorable Elijah Muhammed

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Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, and Thurgood Marshall

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Richard Wright, Rosa Parks and Gordon Parks

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Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson and John Henrik
Clarke

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Alex Haley, James Baldwin
Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr., Clarence

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13X
Maya Angelou, Ray Charles, Minister Farrakhan

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Ivan Sertima, John Cochran, Stokely Carmichael

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Emmett Till, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton,

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Muhammad Ali and even Gil Scott-Heron

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Al Sharpton, Fred Hampton, Oprah Winfrey

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Barack Obama, Assata Shakur, 2Pac Shakur,

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Biggie

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And everyone else creating Black history

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That lives with me every day, until I'm
gone

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until I'm gone...until I'm gone...until I'm gone...
until I'm gone...until I'm gone...

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...til I'm gone...