[Verse One] [yU]:

We were born in warm water

Started when pops filled up slot with four quarters

Push forward, you're born in

Long live the ones who never fall in the trends

We're revolving again, spin cycle

Seen so many others just like you and I

That got bleached but my roots run deeper than that

We interact minglin' dark and light colors

Brothers and sisters gotta rinse the system

Yo

Cause our soul is a heavy load

They make it seem like you got a fold

Neatly, but I was told, years ago

That if you don't ask you never know

It's kinda like the wet clothes left out, begin to mold

Ghetto's gettin' bleached now that's serious

Movin' us out like we some kind of blackteria

And most areas our peoples are lost

We write songs just to even the odds

Brainwash

[Man talking]:

Who are we? Where are we? And are we all where we ought to be? We have to ask those critical questions. Are you following me? So it's putting those things under the microscope. We have to understand, the basic, fundamental definition or we're bout to lose

[Verse Two] [Grap Luva]:

Rappers

Are now being watched like Black Panthers

So many dead artists and so little answers

They not watchin' the elephants, they watchin' the ants

When you tell 'em to solve the murder of 'Pac they say they can't

Deep lies, deception in the bowels of fame

Sex, lies and murder is all a part of the game

High stakes

Especially when big papers involved

Money movements will always get the problem solved

Expunge the gun charges, leave jail, live large then repeat the crime

Till somebody drops dime

When they bag you, they did what you like, you street trash

But if you got cash then of course your name gets splashed to the media

For the blood, the vamps get greedier

We recognize you've just be victimized by the brainwash

Should've known the game's watched with deception

But don't let it change your perception

[Man talking]:

There was a brother that came off and said that all the negro spirituals that they used to sing in church, were constructed and put together with the black keys on the piano only. Fela Kuti says "Music is a weapon." How are we gon' use this thing to do that? As a weapon? When our open enemy already knows that and he's using the music to work against us

[Verse Three] [Finale]:

They watchin' your pocket watch rock back and forth

A group of suit and tie guys go behind closed doors

Go to war when they devise new ways they can divide you

Disguise truth and distract the poor

Eyes and ears follow propaganda, fantasy fake

A synthetic world we waste in it's early stages

They figure we ain't got it so we gon' want it

And when we get it we gon' flaunt it

Oh it just do what it do

In order to get through it and do it again

I refuse to lose into an illusion reduced by those who infused

The delusion of grandeur in this for they amusement

Confusion from a brand an image a fan can mimic

Hard to find any sense in it

Part time hypnotist

Twistin' it, the kids have a hard time gettin' it

I know I am

????? tell the younger ones under

Yeah, the fence ain't as high as it used to be

Malevolent, swingin' one another like a Bruce Lee movie

Can't move me from the front line, ain't say "trust"

I'm the cold water tossed on your face, wake up

[Man talking]:

So if hip hop is something that you are and rap is something that you do, then that needs to be defined. So, if you go to any church, any Sunday, sit quiet and listen to the rhythm of the hand claps and the sisters tappin' they feet. You can go to any village in Africa and hear the same patterns and the same rhythms. Am I right or am I wrong? (Right)