[Verse 1: Nas]
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From Willie Lynch to Willie Hutch, right on, we Superfly
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Made Gucci the shit, Louie too, suits and ties
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Player trophies, pray to Goldie
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Picture wax museums full of Black Panths and triple OGs
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Aunt Jemina hoes, historic horse shit
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Girls from long time ago, stagecoach with the horse, kid
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Witchdoctors, good ol pickpockets
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Sip moonshine, so-called coons, shines, and darkies
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I love yall, pyramids to cotton fields
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To Wrigley Fields, forgotten men who did get killed
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Crispus Attucks, the first blasted
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Peace to the rich lady purse snatcher shot in the back
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I know your hunger kid, I know they hung your dad
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Burnt ya mama crib, I know that hurt you bad
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Minstrel shows, from gold to shackles and back to gold
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We act like we home, matter of fact, we are home
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Bad attitudes, octoroon skin tones
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Slave food turned to soul food, collards to neck bones
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Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag
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Bet she had a nigga with her to help her old ass!
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[Interlude: Eban Thomas]
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As James Baldwin says:
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“You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are
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What the white world considers – a nigga”
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[Chorus: The Last Poets]
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Ohh, no matter how hard you try
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You cant stop us now (oh, no matter)
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No matter how, hard you try
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You cant stop us now (no)
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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Cant be stopped
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Yo, on Dateline, the other night they showed hate crimes
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Gave a blood time cause he fought with his canine
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Beastiality, humane society
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Go to China, see how they dine, see what they eat
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Better yet, ask PETA, whoever, which animal makes suede?
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If not for suede, would you have survived the Dark Ages?
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Cannibal ways of the ancient Caucasians
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Stare you like youre steak tartar, pinot noir
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David Star on the chain of Sammy Davis
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He helped pave the way for Southern crankers and them Harlem shakers
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Now we gettin our papers, they try to censor the words
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And stop our money comin but you cant escape us – haters
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[Chorus: The Last Poets]
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Ohh, no matter how hard you try
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You cant stop us now (oh, no matter)
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No matter how hard you try
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You cant stop us now (no)
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You cant stop us now
