Yes, indedy sho-nuff needy I got the feeling to stretch on out my children are cryin' my elders are dying. & me I'm relying on a check for rent if I gotta be broke then ain't no joke I'm moving to the country and buying some land And I'll be alright if I can rest at night knowing my children got land to stand on. Ache'n 4 acres plenty of acres money spent in rent ain't earning me cent. Ain't gettin no caddy, no Benz, no jeep. until I got some $ for some land to keep no more children crying instead they'll be running running free and wild in the heat of the sun. 'cause once I'm gone I wanna feel strong that my children will go on, family land and all sayin'
I got some land to stand on no more ache'n 4 acres no beggin for leftovers got some space of my own I got grounds to raise on no more ache'n 4 acres no more giving to takers got some land to leave on!
No more elders passin' without my kids askin' papa who's tombstones are those in the yard Family gotta stay close all of us gotta stay close Ache'n 4 acres 4 buildin' a nation. Ain't about depending on government spendin' especially when the government's got a plan of their own separate from me-separate from U separate from most-in sync with a few. Ache'n 4 acres plenty of acres my grandpappa had em all but he lost em & he sold em the cities were a growin' and grandpa's getting older little did he know that his land was valuable Got land to stand on then U can stand up! stand up for your rights as a woman, as a man man O' man my choices expand Ain't got me no money but I got me some land
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 !
*[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...
*Repeat (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
(Speech) Aww yeah... What I like the brothers and sisters In the audience to do right about now Including y'all in the back I want you to snap your fingers like this...C'mon...C'mon... Aww, c'mon, I know y'all got rhythm Everybody snap your fingers like this, every single soul, c'mon... Aww, what's going on right about here is center staggge It's about a brotha...it's what a brotha does when he's gettin' ready for a date, ha ha, yeah My mom likes to call it "The Gettin'" She calls it "The Gettin'" because the brotha's gettin' SLICK Gettin' ready, gettin' snazzy Gettin' prepared for a dinner, and gettin' prepared for an even mo' betta dessert You understand what I'm talking about? I think this sista and brotha know what I'm talking about, check this out
(Singers sing in background) Gettin' jazzy, Gettin' snazzy But you probally ain't gettin' it on
(Speech overlaps while singers sing) Aw yeah, Brotha Man, Brotha Man, Brotha Man thinks he's gonna knock boots tonight You know what I'm talkin' about? I think Brotha Man think he's gonna do "The Nasty" tonight, alright? I think Brotha Man is gonna umm....hit the skins tonight, if you know what I'm talking about "I said, yo baby, yo baby, yo baby, YO! UH!" Yeah.. Ah, but the sistas ain't down with that type of stuff no mo', you see? They decided, "Yo! We ain't gotta have materialism type of stuff We want somethin' mo' than that" AM I RIGHT SISTAS? (*women cheers*) Ahh yeah! So you know um...Brotha Man is wearing the most expensive clothes and those expensive watch and the most expensive Calvin Klein jeans and all those type of thang But the sistas don't give a dang because a sista's got her own thang goin' on She wants a real man, know what I'm talkin' about, yeah! Well, I tried to tell the brotha I said, "Brotha Man, sistas don't want that type of thang in the Black community anymore We lookin' for somethin' a little bit deeper..
(Speech joins singers) Gettin' jazzy, Gettin' snazzy But you probally ain't gettin' it on
(cheers) And all the brotha had to really do was to be upset...
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
*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
*Repeat
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
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 life [Thanks for my rain] my Lord: Thanks for life [Thanks for my rain]
*It's raining revolution It's raining solutions
It's raining revolution (7x)
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
*Repeat
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
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
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
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
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
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
(Speech) Aww yeah... What I like the brothers and sisters In the audience to do right about now Including y'all in the back I want you to snap your fingers like this...C'mon...C'mon... Aww, c'mon, I know y'all got rhythm Everybody snap your fingers like this, every single soul, c'mon... Aww, what's going on right about here is center staggge It's about a brotha...it's what a brotha does when he's gettin' ready for a date, ha ha, yeah My mom likes to call it "The Gettin'" She calls it "The Gettin'" because the brotha's gettin' SLICK Gettin' ready, gettin' snazzy Gettin' prepared for a dinner, and gettin' prepared for an even mo' betta dessert You understand what I'm talking about? I think this sista and brotha know what I'm talking about, check this out
(Singers sing in background) Gettin' jazzy, Gettin' snazzy But you probally ain't gettin' it on
(Speech overlaps while singers sing) Aw yeah, Brotha Man, Brotha Man, Brotha Man thinks he's gonna knock boots tonight You know what I'm talkin' about? I think Brotha Man think he's gonna do "The Nasty" tonight, alright? I think Brotha Man is gonna umm....hit the skins tonight, if you know what I'm talking about "I said, yo baby, yo baby, yo baby, YO! UH!" Yeah.. Ah, but the sistas ain't down with that type of stuff no mo', you see? They decided, "Yo! We ain't gotta have materialism type of stuff We want somethin' mo' than that" AM I RIGHT SISTAS? (*women cheers*) Ahh yeah! So you know um...Brotha Man is wearing the most expensive clothes and those expensive watch and the most expensive Calvin Klein jeans and all those type of thang But the sistas don't give a dang because a sista's got her own thang goin' on She wants a real man, know what I'm talkin' about, yeah! Well, I tried to tell the brotha I said, "Brotha Man, sistas don't want that type of thang in the Black community anymore We lookin' for somethin' a little bit deeper..
(Speech joins singers) Gettin' jazzy, Gettin' snazzy But you probally ain't gettin' it on
(cheers) And all the brotha had to really do was to be upset...
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
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
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
It's been two years since we rock stages together We covered bases together and whether we all agreed or not 20/20 vision is hindsight and now we got that so we done got back
Some of our soldiers have fallen, so many years of toiling Touring, tears falling, naw pouring jaded from the industries Jabs a lil' slower like Muhammad Ali but still we able to last
So we go in the studio, it felt new but yet in a good way It felt old routines, we did came back so lucid, we was boosted We juiced it and came up with some tracks that's stupid
And people responded to 'em, heads on the blocks With locks and baggie jeans, the whole scene was fond to 'em And how we got the labels kissing our hind parts We desired art and never sold out for the high chart positions
I have been a thousand places Seen a million faces since the last time (Since the last time)
I have been a thousand places Seen a million faces since the last time (Since the last time)
Many rap groups attempt to latch to the popular cultures statutes And thus they detach their roots from the soil that kept them loose And made what they delivered so true
There's a desert waste land of past artists that's so cruel Feeling thrown out like woody in toy story two And yo we felt that but let me tell you Satan, he dealt that I think it's time to give him his deck back, c'mon now
I have been a thousand places Seen a million faces since the last time (Since the last time)
I have been a thousand places Seen a million faces since the last time (Since the last time)
I’ve been lost in my own ways and I’m getting weary (How far is heaven) And I know that I need to change my ways of living (How far is heaven)
From church to Liquor store we search for healing Big crowded world filled with lonely humans I’m a M.C. battling with melody envy Cuz melodies the only thing that seems to sooth me So we rock organs adjust the B-3’s Have the folks clap to the rap taking it Back to the color - purple - church Where ladies shouting’ joy in the midst of hurt! Revolutionaries have a curled fist at first Then years pass and it turns to a clasp They ask in the midst of all God show me ways to resist the fall! Yes yes yawl
Pressure pressure the whole under Can't stop the crime can't stop the killing Watch dem life dem ah keep going under Somebody lend ah hand we hafta save dem Roots and culture We have to teach dem Cause it ah the root of dem life Bigger bigger blessings they hope they receive them Pray for them every night I gotta change my ways I need you every day Don't wanna make no excuses My life is so confusing Way down deep inside I wanna tell ya what's on my mind so sick of tryin I'm dyin My heart hurts so I can't keep from cryin
Yo What can happen on an average beautiful day? You never know. Summer brings seasonal changes; it gets hot for a brother. On a beautiful sun- shiny day, I felt real free check out what happened to me. A nice breeze going through my hair, I’m loving how it feels right now! Beautiful people around: man, women, child. Kids with the Hula hoops hips going round. Mothers breast-feeding, kids lips pressing down. Beautiful-ist women: white, yellow, red, black, brown and dreads. Melting pot going down! Definitely an aphrodisiac crowd. And it’s time for me to go on stage right now! I take command of the mic like POW! Six o’clock white woman in the 6th aisle. She and her friend be smiling at me so wild, and I must admit she has a beautiful smile!
I’m loving the sunshine, can’t help the way I feel, in the sunshine
Folks to the right won’t ya raise ya hands and the folks to ya left won’t ya raise ya hands. From the front to the back won’t ya raise ya hands everybody in the joint won’t ya raise ya hands. After the show there was an autograph signing and she squeezed back stage and got in line and…I was wrapped up with the fans Sharpie in my hand, there she goes again, beautiful smile long hair, brushed across my hand like silk I swear, no lie. This is not me trying to deny who I am nor my race, I know my black sisters are constantly debased, and the truth is black berries are my taste but I’m high off possibilities of this thing blossoming so I just give it a try. As she handed her num… I felt a little numb inside of my mind feeling like I just betrayed all of my kind. But without no delay, without more to say, without no consideration for my race she said,”yo why don’t you come to my place”. I said, “right away”
I’m loving the sunshine, can’t help the way I feel, in the sunshine.
Many would have me say that this girl was evil. We both human beings and I know we equal, but we hung out and talked and we walked and things. And some brothers gave me stares I said that ain’t fair we two humans beings here. And I ain’t confused, I know my history’s clear, the sunshine’s beaming on both kinds of hair. Wisdom speaking loud, some folks don’t want to hear.There’s nothing new under the sun, many things that was had to succumb to the rhythm of the drum cuz we’re children of the son. And only he’s seen what has been seen since the beginning of day one. And the truth is this story is more of a lesson. I’m actually married to a sister that’s a black one. But under the sun what ever color your attracting, just remember loves and action word and character is more so what we should prefer.
I’m loving the sunshine, can’t help the way I feel, in the sunshine
I stand for children innocence in they eyes playing under blue skies trying out fake cries to see dey mamma sympathize wanting dey new toys thinking it a bring em joy thinking mom and dad are wack but later on they realize Children playing in the dirt getting wet in the rain, falling till they learn that part of life is pain crawling till they learn that walking is another thing and running can come only when walking is no type of strain
I stand for beauty earth sky woman man or other worldly things like birth strife and death again and things that we cant touch like love faith and sacrifice things that we like much like good food and moon light cloud formations clear blue skies four season leaves and the colors that stop by great songs great art great books and stories unrecognized underdogs that later gain glory
The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am
I stand for truth political or spiritual and I know the truth can hurt but I’d rather hear it though whether truth about the past present future or all I know the man who hates truth is the man who will fall, I know that every single issue boils down to sin and the only way to kill sin is from within and the man who points his finger at everyone else has got 4 other finger pointed back to himself and that people don’t change cuz of words alone yet a nation can moved by one person whose strong and truth can be buried for moments of time but like the last day buried things are bound to rise…
The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am
As I stand, so I rise Lift my tears up to the sky
I stand for something or everything I fall for even when I’m wrong yo you know my views we choose most of our paths and that’s just the truth even if most of our ways lead to further blues and sometimes I stand for nothing I just sit and listen cuz no matter how much I got there’s things I’m missing so when its all done and said I stand for this, when its all done and said I stand for this, when its all done and said I stand for this Children beauty truth and something that stirs my insides inspires my very life cuz bottom line for everyone is you stand or sit, you stand or sit, you stand or sit, you stand or sit
As I stand, so I rise Lift my tears up to the sky
The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am The things that I stand for tell who I am
Arrested Development coming Alright Pulling might from the inner cities Always gritty The people requesting us We had enough of resting up The best amongst us is refreshing us Stand up my inner cities Down trodden, brethren, we kin, we lend our love to ya Mathematics, musical path, a musical wrath 19-member staff family Ramming the inner city down the throats of the bourgeoisie Did anyone tell you whose I be? I be the cat that way back in 92 Reminded you that there’s more to do in the inner cities!
A.D. in this thang, man we go against the grain It's a shame how the lame, done infiltrated the game I'm for real, we got our own slang in the field To identify the Jake from the fake and the real For ever I love Atlanta, it's hotter than country grammar Got old folks wearing white T's and bandannas So if our style jumps off the track Pick it up, Pick it up, Pick it up Back on the scene, the projects apartment 74 First door on the left, man second floor See, I never had a crib just a dresser drawer Never stressing Big O she let her little professor grow Hear the sounds from the corner like a serenade Where the girls ball hogging like Dewayne Wade So I moved to Westwood, man the best hood Learned the game how not to be lame and how to dress good You can find nines, dimes and stallions Club full of freaks in Jesus piece medallions I got the key to the city like I'm P. Diddy Inner City, my city we keep it real gritty Like throw backs, fitted hats, gold chain, gold teeth Drug dealers and killers, they all about the rap beef No curfew, these young boys will hurt you It's very obvious that there's more to do in the Inner City
