Word to the Mother (Land)

                                  Grab a hold of yourself, open your eyes 



Get wise to the exercise 



Being taught by the teacher that's most dominant 



You need knowledge? 



Well I'm dropping it 



Listen to the rap allow it to trap 



Your body and soul so that you can adapt 



To the man on display as I take you away 



So may I? 



 



Proud to be a Black man 



Coming exact and 



Giving up to brothers five on the back hand 



Pray for lease and peace upon each other 



With my sisters and brothers 



 



I say the mother, as in the motherland 



But on the other hand, another man 



Tackled and shackled our ancestors 



But we beat him with freedom, so let's bless the 



Country that we all came from 



Because the moral of it all is we shall overcome 



The cream will keep rising 



We be sizing 



Up, the Asiatic one is enterprising 



Building and building to carry on 



All the way from Malcolm X to Farrakhan 



Martin Luther was a tutor, many were pupils 



Those who fell victim were those without scruples 



However, to sever, we could never 



So hold up the peace sign and stand together 



Take heed to the words that I manifest 



And when I'm through speaking, Marley Marl'll do the rest 







 






People, people 



We gotta get over, before we go under (x2) 



Let's get together> (x2) 






Yo Big Daddy, what you gonna say now?> 







Take a stand the fight for power 



Cause we've been here before the Mayflower 



Living superior abiding by nature 



The history of the Asiatic one paid the 



Price to be paid in slavery 



Like the name of Antonio was gave to me 



But knowledge of self broke every shackle and chain 



Now I declare myself as the Big Daddy Kane 



The teacher, teaching a lesson to be heard 



That's word, to the mother my brother 



So discover the truth of one another 



Cause here's the real deal upon our skin color 



Lay down white, yellow, red or pink 



But the color of black is most dominant 



The rising and sizing can never cease 



 



Peace! 










is the original man, we just can't escape our destiny> 







 (x2) 










Crowd: yeah, that's right...>