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I am everyday people I am everyday people See I was resting at the park minding my own business as I kick up the treble tone on my radio tape player box right just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype see Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating investigation maybe she was demonstrating But nevertheless I was pleased My day was going great and my soul was at ease until a group of brothers started bugging out drinking the 40 oz going the nigga route Disrespecting my black queen holding their crotches and being obscene At first I ignored them cause see I know their type They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight and they see a young couple having a time that's good and their egos wanna test a brother's manhood So they came to test Speech cause of my hair do and the loud bright colors that I wear Boo I was a target cause I'm a fashion misfit and the outfit that I'm wearing brothers dissing it Well I stay calm and pray the niggaz leave me be but they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy Why Lord do brothers have to drill me Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me I am everyday people I am everyday people I told the niggaz please let us pass friend I said pleas cause I don't like killing Africans but he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube but I had to take the brother out for being rude and like I said before I was mad by then It took three or four cops to pull me off of him But that's the story y'all of a black man get stomped by an African I am everyday people I am everyday people I am everyday people I am everyday people I am everyday people |
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| 2. |
| 4:07 |
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Here, have a dollar, in fact no brotherman here, have two Two dollars means a snack for me, but it means a big deal to you Be strong, serve God only, know that if you do, beautiful heaven awaits That's the poem I wrote for the first time I saw a man with no clothes, no money, no plate Mr.Wendal, that's his name, no one ever knew his name cause he's a no-one Never thought twice about spending on a ol' bum, until I had the chance to really get to know one Now that I know him, to give him money isn't charity He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some shoes And to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges, still most of y'all come out confused [CHORUS:] Go ahead, Mr.Wendal (2x) Mr.Wendal has freedom, a free that you and I think is dumb Free to be without the worries of a quick to diss society for Mr.Wendal's a bum His only worries are sickness and an occasional harassment by the police and their chase Uncivilized we call him, but I just saw him eat off the food we waste Civilization, are we really civilized, yes or no ? Who are we to judge ? When thousands of innocent men could be brutally enslaved and killed over a racist grudge Mr.Wendal has tried to warn us about our ways but we don't hear him talk Is it his fault when we've gone too far, and we got too far, cause on him we walk Mr.Wendal, a man, a human in flesh, but not by law I feed you dignity to stand with pride, realize that all in all you stand tall [CHORUS] Mr.Wendal, Lord, Mr.Wendal |
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| 3. |
| 4:33 |
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Verse One: Speech Lord I've really been real stressed Down and out, losin ground Although I am black and proud Problems got me pessimistic Brothers and sisters keep messin up Why does it have to be so dman tuff? I don't know where I can go To let these ghosts out of my skull My grandmas past, my brothers gone I never at once felt so alone I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel Not just my spare tire (home) But lord I ask you (home) To be my guiding force and truth (home) For some strange reason it had to be (home) He guided me to Tennessee (home) Chorus Take me to another place Take me to another land Make me forget all that hurts me Let me understand your plan (2x) Verse Two Lord it's obvious we got a relationship Talkin to each other every night and day Although you're superior over me We talk to each other in a friendship way Then outta nowhere you tell me to break Outta the country and into more country Past Dyesburg into Ripley Where the ghost of childhood haunts me Wlak the roads my forefathers walked Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from Ask those trees for all their wisdom They tell me my ears are so young (home) Go back to from whence you came (home) My family tree my family name (home) For some strange reason it ahd to be (home) He guided me to Tennessee (home) Chorus Verse Three Now I see the importance of history Why people be in the mess that they be Many journeys to freedom made in vain By brothers on the corner playin ghetto games I ask you lord why you enlightened me Without the enlightment of all my folks He said cuz I set myself on a quest for truth And he was there to quench my thirst But I am still thirsty... The lord allowed me to drink some more He said what I am searchin for are The answers to all which are in front of me The ultimate truth started to get blurry For some strange reason it had to be It was all a dream about Tennessee Chorus |
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| 4. |
| 4:40 |
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The great depression everyone is in depression
No one knows exactly what's their role totally confused, depressed cuz of the news Watch TV, more bad is what U see Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us Right now it's so easy to be deceived I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels Reach the mountain top so I can better see step back and see the whole mighty picture Gain control of my destiny I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution cuz once I picture this it can be I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty I call on the red, & the black and green, & the black and the green! United we stand United we fall United we plan as a United front. I walk the streets and try to pass energy Put the gun down black man give me apound Save those rounds for a real confrontation undersstand who U R as a man Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us Right now it's so easy to be deceived I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels Reach the mountain top so I can better see step back and see the whole mighty picture Gain control of my destiny I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution cuz once I picture this it can be I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty I call on the red, & the black and green, & the black and the green! |
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| 5. |
| 4:46 |
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This is Headliner from Arrested Development, and I come here tonight
To give thanks to ithe rain, so brothers and sisters please put down your Umbrellas, you won't be needing those today Look to the clouds with the most rain coming from it, for without the Rain there's no me and there's no you I said a drip-drop, a drip-drop, drip-drop Viva bum bum bum drip-drop Let it rain, let it rain, let God's water feed me The water of life, mentally rinsing me, physically drenching me Most are frowning upon your arrival But I need you for survival And when you fall on my community I run outside to properly Greet you Let it rain, take my pain, I'm glad to meet you Fill my eyes with a colorful rainbow Every drop hits me, fills me With an unmeasurable amount of security Knowing my God acknowledges me As if each drop of rain is aimed toward me My Lord Thanks for lifeThanks for my rain My Lord Thanks for lifeThanks for my rain It's raining revolution It's raining solutions It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution I struttle strut thru the ghetto The rain this time I feel is mental The goal of this rain I feel is spiritual Saw thru the eyes of the inflicted people Their eyes are hard as a million thombstones Marked with the names of the millions of kin thrown To the dust that gave them their colored skin Fade to black is the scene they're embalmed in The rain many nights have witnessed her Receiving the sperm of a brother into a sister And blessed that life to guaranteed existence A conscious baby for a black resistance I feel the rain enhances the revolution And reminds us of a spiritual solution And reminds us of an unnatural supernatural solu-lu-lu-lution It's raining revolution It's raining solutions It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution It's raining revolution Lost between reality and psychology. 1990's mentality is described By the honorable thruth message which is 'True Knowledge Is So Priceless' Which is so true Rain, rain, stay here ! Wow Love that power Brothers and sisters -haha- Raise your hands up high and let me see the colors of your beautiful skin Now the ceremony begins Lord, let thet heavenly rains cleanse Run into your nearest rainbow To grab, hold, to ride on Each color, learn it ! The importance of each color oh yeah Let it rain (repeats till end) Haha Yes Oh yeah |
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| 4:19 |
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Choice...You know I'm saying...Can this last with 2 beautiful women ...but at the same time, you know, every man has this ideal image of loving just 1 I'm checking you out, you're all alone No one is clocking you, but I'm scoping you Staring right thru you, staring into you Your beauty is endless and I'm hoping to explore Brothers may say you're ugly but I disagree But in a way that's fine with me 'cause I want to travel with you Travel in your mind 'cause you seem like a virgin Free as the wind blows, tall as a tree grows Wild like nature, yet calm as a field Hair is natural, lips are natural Face wins first place, you appeal to me, girl Let me ask you for some time for you to unwind together et cetera I have nothing but pure intentions Everything we'll be will be natural [CHORUS:] Natural (2x) I'd like to hold your waist as we chase The wind down the shores of a southern ocean Rub my fingers thru your hair Slowly rub and caress your forehead and bare our problems, as we lay on the bed called Earth Holding hands 'till we touch each and every finger as the ocean water wets us both in the center of the crossroads Spiritual bonds are connected...what...an erection Well...Let's drive to the city and walk among the lights of the city streets You're making me weak and it's scary 'cause you've played no games All you've been is very natural That's why I'm scared to fall in love with you [CHORUS] I wanna be natural (2x) I wanna be sleeping in you I wanna be inside you I wanna be sleeping deep in you (2x) I wanna be in you (2x) Natural (2x) Love your lips Love the way you do the things you say Natural Your lips |
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| 3:32 | 
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| 3:21 |
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Taking a bath within the sun rays Letting the aura of life soak me living in the country chickens, cows, all around me I'me bored I'll take a drive into the city limits yo life is just a secret recipe & I'm all up in it. Being the grand papa that I am one can forget it today I figure I deserve to swerve from my normal nerdy status that engulfs my time & that is just what I need so here it goes I suppose that it's on shake out my dreads with Aloe Vera it's rare a brother like me will agree with Taree, Kwesi, and go party with Baba But Yo I gotta be hip & dip within the Fountain of youth! the fountain of youth Once I learned to dip and got drenched I got drenched without the fear of drowning my ears can hear the sound and... my eyes are wide open O P E N and consciously aware of my surroundings. Wally I'm getting energy -golly gee as if I'm solar powered it seems like every now & then I skim on the edge of nuttiness letting the wind push and shove in my dreads as if it's an argument But really they're just snuggling for affection hair needs loving too, speaking of love the western civilization is on another tip to tell you the truth they need to dip into the fountain of youth! the fontain of youth Bopping my head is more that bopping it's a spiritual thing rhythms and lines space and time relative? yes I pump my sound loud so my people can hear it I hope the music soothes our spirits cuz it soothes me my foundation is strong but I allow some things to move me and that is energy from the fountain of youth. |
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| 4:18 |
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| 3:11 |
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Universal as I stroll down the street Africas's a bolling over flowing inside of me I used to sport a curl made by Jerry A Jerry curl but as time passed it didn't last after my curl I never combed my doo I used to sport a cap but the naps kept shining through Shining My sista got a brand new perm my boys says she looks pretty fine body real firm folds at her job loves her new touch up I can tell her white boss gets a kick when she's all done up My sista loves her blackness but the US says that her perm is her attractiveness But Africa keeps coming stronger we found out it ain't a perm it's a temporary Don't heve sash to go to the music school no money for the guitar or the violin or the tuba my moms had a record player and the 45's I put the needle on the record and I kicked it crazy live scratching it up catching the breaks spirits within me had me do what it takes Grammy's I win & one again like my Egyptian kin it's Africa within makin' something outta nothing Africa's inside me taking back her child she's giving me my pride and setting me free Africa's inside me taking back her child she's giving me my pride and setting me free What's that land across those waters what's that spirit makin' love to my daughter telling her not to eat he mama's ham hocks allowing her the choice to twist her hair & make it lock yo I don't like it I just don't like it Papa may say buy my soul is a boilin' and sooner or later Africa's glory and toil will teach an old dog new tricks Why and the world can't everybody recognize that Africa's in everybody we all ask why can't we be sista's and brothers but first we gotta accept who is our mother Rather embracer of the jungle or ghetto melanin dwells but could stop growth and developments Arrested for nothing Gumbo's within' soulful H20 men be droppin' Happenin's like Homosapians Hustlins within' to exist as afro USA men residing in Fulani was once Christian Start fishin' like FOS and found origin Africa's inside me taking back her child she's giving me my pride and setting me free Africa's inside me taking back her child she's giving me my pride and setting me free |
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| 3:26 |
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Just a shell until U decide to rebel (4x)
Just a shell, just a shell, just a shell until u decide to rebel whether you're white or black your soul does not dwell inside your shell until you decide to rebel worldly worldy people people allow your innersides to intervene and circulate open your eyes and open your ears wouldn't it be great. So what am I doin? Am I really rebellin? or am I just dwelling in the sin in the sin in the sin? I've made up my mind I've seen the design of individualism and I don't want to be in it The me generations a dis-ease! |
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| 4:23 |
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Lately I've been in a life like limbo Looking out of a smudged up window We're not sure where our lives are going Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in Don't know where our next dollar's coming from Living the life of a poor musician Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5 Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive If it wasn't for the rhythm I think we would have given up by now This system has gotten the best of me Now I pray for God to invest in me My dignity, invest his glory Give me the strength so I can finnish the story Keep on searching for the right way to go out coz going out is what it's all about huh! You can't be passive, gotta be active Can't go with what looks attractive Gotta learn all I can while I'm able Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables When we get our chance to make a good living of the music we program We don't sell out just to be sold out Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about ? Coz if they take away our contract we still got talent and we still got contacts Coz we're worked real hard to get this far We're catching the bus before we bought the car Ya see ! [CHORUS:] [Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever] (2x) Got to get political Political I gotta get Grown but can't hold my own So this government needs to be overthrown Brothers with the AKs and the 9 MMs need to learn how to correctly shoot'em Save those rounds for a revolution Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system But I tell you: Ain't no room for gangstaz Coz ganstaz do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers so you you want out of the ghetto First the political prisoners must be let go And you must let go of your power master You'll never get out without much discipline Raise your fist but also raise your children So when you die the movement moves on Coz with revolution, ain't no future in front o' y'all haha! Direct your anger, love Nothing's ever built on hate, instead love Love your life, tackle the government The spooks that break down the door are heaven sent and my phrase went... [CHORUS] (2x) Alright ! Rhythm makes you move your body, rhythm makes you move your mind Rhythm makes your elbows groove, rhythm makes that behind move Rhythm makes the people move, rhythm makes you want to move Rhythm makes your mind soothe, next stop is Jerusalem |
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| 4:10 |
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| 3:26 |
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Brand new mama, I understand It's hard as hell being a young mother and you need support your conscious told you not to abort so to your child you're a hero of some sort But, hey, the worst is over You're ready to do this I got faith and your baby renewed this faith that everything will be fine Now an adult, no more youth time [Anytime you need help sister] We'll be there just give us a ring We will help you raise that king Word to the mother cause it's a black thing I respect you in a strong way Super late nights cause your baby slept all day but mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page [Chorus:] Mama's always on stage (4x) Hey, let me guess, you're bored Wanna get loose, attack the dance floor Cool, I'll hold her, you have a good time I'll keep your baby awake so baby sleeps after nine This is reality, we need to turn our minds Brothers talking revolution but leave their babies behind Well sister, he's a sucker, just leave'em be The revolution is now up to brothers like me to step in cause your man stepped out [The goal:] To raise the children, no doubt so let's go to it and possibly bring a generation of nat's in the future, see I respect you in a strong way Super late nights cause your baby slept all day But mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page Mama's always on stage Keep up your strength now cause we must grow somehow [Chorus:] Mama's always on stage (4x) Can't be a revolution without women Can't be a revolution without children I improved throughout my life all of this just to soothe a wife brothers wear your black clothes talk your 5% talk Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom That's exactly how you must walk Life's too short, your mission's too dire Nurture another mind before yours expires Pass it on, push it along Like the brother said it in that one song We respect you all the way Late, late nights cause your baby slept all day but mama's got to stay strong, carry it on Hey, mama's on stage [Chorus:] Mama's always on stage |
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| 3:44 |
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| 4:12 |
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I need some time to ease my mind Thrusted in a world that I don't know from my mamas lips between my mamas hips I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands it's that bond that keeps the movement movin' on. Life is surrounded with so many insecurities back stabbin' is like breathing when in poverty. I try to make my sanity, with the insane God is secondary to most, when they scrap for money. But, then again money can cause even more death. when a African becomes a nigger step n fetch n all. I dare say when price is right U can buy us all. well not me, cuz I don't truly give a care about you. I'll move in poverty, in wealth but I'll surely move! Ain't syncopated with your beats or your wack grooves my break beat is to break away from yo thang All these things you put on me makes this brother sing... Chorus: I need some time to ease my mind. Mind & soul is even more important then body money can put my body in all exotic spaces meanwhile my mind & soul remotely dwells within that fine spot between all messed up & hell. And so I move on with confidence of harmony And do my thang to resist this wack society Cuz if you don't resist, & I mean consciously you'll fool your sub-conscious into accepting it. I ain't acceptin' it - I keep my focus I keep my focus - I ain't acceptin'it. Give me a face pencil to draw a smile on me. Answer my prayer to give my Earthly body inner peace Answer my prayer to give my Earthly body inner inner peace. Until that day upon which my souls released! Chorus need some time need some time when the sista's say it then you know it's gotta be real! Thrusted in a world that I don't know from my mommas lips between my mamas hips I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on. And so I GOTTA BE READY TO RELINQUISH gotta be ready to relinquish, my breath of life for struggle. That is why I tell you... I need some time to ease my mind. |
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| 4:57 |
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Choice...
You know I'm saying... Can this last with two beautiful women... but at the same time, you know, every man has this ideal image of loving just one I'm checking you out, you're all alone No one is clocking you, but I'm scoping you Staring right thru you, staring into you Your beauty is endless and I'm hoping to explore Brothers may say you're ugly but I disagree But in a way that's fine with me 'Cause I want to travel with you Travel in your mind 'cause you seem like a virgin Free as the wind blows, tall as a tree grows Wild like nature, yet calm as a field Hair is natural, lips are natural Face wins first place, you appeal to me, girl Let me ask you for some time For us to unwind together et cetera I have nothing but pure intentions Everything we'll be will be natural Natural Natural I'd like to hold your waist as we chase The wind down the shores of a southern ocean Rub my fingers through your hair Slowly rub and caress your forehead and bare our problems, as we lay on the bed called Earth Holding hands 'till we touch each and every finger As the ocean water wets us both In the center of the crossroads Spiritual bonds are connected...what...an erection Well...Let's drive to the city And walk among the lights of the city streets You're making me weak and it's scary 'Cause you've played no games All you've been is very natural That's why I'm scared to fall in love with you 'Cause girl you so natural Natural Natural Oh yeah I wanna be natural I wanna be natural I wanna be sleeping in you I wanna be inside you I wanna be sleeping deep in you I wanna be sleeping deep in you I wanna be in you I wanna be in you Natural Natural Love your lips Love the way you do the things you do Natural Your lips |
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| 6:54 |
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See I was resting at the park minding my own business as I kick up the treble tone on my radio tape player box, right just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see ? Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating investigation maybe she was demonstrating But nevertheless I was pleased My day was going great and my soul was at ease until a group of brothers started bugging out drinking the 40 oz, going the nigga route Disrespecting my black queen holding their crotches and being obscene At first I ignored them cause see I know their type They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight and they see a young couple having a time that's good and their egos wanna test a brother's manhood So they came to test Speech cause of my hair-do and the loud bright colors that I wear Boo ! I was a target cause I'm a fashion misfit and the outfit that I'm wearing brothers dissing it Well I stay calm and pray the niggaz leave me be but they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me ? Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me I am everyday people (2x) I told the niggaz please let us pass, friend I said please cause I don't like killing Africans but he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube but I had to take the brother out for being rude and like I said before I was mad by then It took three or four cops to pull me off of him But that's the story y'all of a black man acting like a nigga and get stomped by an African |
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