Where Ya At? (Extended Version)

By Mobb Deep

On One Million Strong

Released on November 7, 1995

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[Intro]

"This is a mission, not a small time thing"


[Prodigy of Mobb Deep]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, word up son, check it out though

YaknowhatI'msayin? Word up son

Listen up son, youknowI'msayin?

(Watch out for them man) Listen up son, check it out though, yo


[Verse 1: Prodigy]

Open your eyes get wise and look alive focus your attention

Windows 95 updated high tech lynchin'

Crosses of the colored man who claims he hold the keys to the safe

Secrets of the world, blow him in his face

Who's the master of the universe, galaxy and planets

Babylonians ecstatic moon the sinkin of Atlantis


[Havoc of Mobb Deep]

Be the one soul original black filled with melanin

Goin out like represent Kuwait in 2000)


[Merchant]

Never too complex to where it fly

Over the heads of 85, I strive

To stay real and keep hip-hop alive

Revive thoughts collide, you better slide I advise

You keep the eyes on the prize, my metal rips

Militant minded like the prejudice, devils I shatter

This march was meant to spark a million diligent hearts

Or e'rylife, we even see alike so play your part


[Lord Jamar]

Knowledge equality, born gods can follow me

As we swarm the yard like bees out in D.C

The TV'll televise the revolution for sellin lies

Within the constitution, realise the former solution

October 16th, a million black minds comin intertwined

On the fact find

Lord Jamal, black Jesus and I stack rhymes

But the black-on-black crime that attack mine


[Chorus]

So where you at y'all?

Right here, hanging with my brothers and we showing no fear

So where you at y'all?

Right here, if you representing then throw your hands in the air


[Verse 2: Erule]

Hear my synopsis, I drop this

Generates thoughts of born-awareness of the here-and-now

Buildin a poem with many spearin out

Society inflaws unjust laws remain the voided common cause

Equality rules you to love that equality, many's law to trust this

Act of the devil possess the sword of justice

Take the devil's head thru levels nad

Bad truth can spread to mental dead


[RZA]

Imagine us travellin back to Nazareth, most fabulous

To raise up the black dead slaves like Lazarus


[Killah Priest]

When I catch rays thru the blaze holy essays

No more death days and vexed slaves possessed in caves


[RZA]

Yo it's the last days and times we gots to raise your mind

Brothers walk around dumb different and blind

Pregnant Earths always carry eggs

I pledge to never fall of the ledge

And blacks remain family like Sister Sledge


[Sunz Of Man]

As we struggle in the jungle of sin, my thoughts are militant

Destroyin the ignorance, buildin the innocent

Teachin infants infinite knowledge

That wasn't taught in high schools or college

My representation is with the 30 million man destination

Washington, D.C., war with the masons

The only celebration is Satan's elimination

The past education at the present is relevations

The future's our creation, elevation of the nation


[Chorus]

So where you at y'all?

Right here, hanging with my brothers and we showing no fear

So where you at y'all?

Right here, if you representing then throw your hands in the air


[Brooklyn Zoo]

Yo around Red (16) October

BROOKLYN ZOO attack like cobra

Killin warrior soldiers in D.C., you face Jehovah all over

The darkside, I ride tracks to provide

Elementive intelligence while you fake MC's hide

(Left, right!) as I command all my sons cos I'm grand

(Pull his head, snatch land) See if I slide thru the sand

Snakin those who choose to fake moves on Zoo, ya get bruised

(Bring ya crew) Opposin the chosen son of God, you get scarred hard


[Chuck D]

Now, to all my brothers we be rhymin like this

Yeah I can handle, but they can't kill it mill or dismantle it

And we can leave the component alone

Show all my brothers a brother instead of negro

Crackers in the back obscene nahmean?

But I've been knockin em out the box like saltines

So on the single we be flowin at the lingo

Comin together, not solo like Mandingo


[DA Smart]

Somebody stole me, you took me from Kunta to Toby

And mould me, in a way that you freed me but still hold me

What you tryin to pull? Eatin us like cannibals

Whatever happened to that forty acres and that animal

Now you tryin to use intergration just to fool us

Like Malcolm said we been hoodwinked and bamboozled

Mama cryin, and I ain't lyin

I'm going to Washington for justice, I'mma get it or die tryin

Don't hesitate, he's at the gate

And that's a million black men in one place to set it straight

So black women applaud the black God

I'm DA Smart with the million man march


[Chorus]

So where you at y'all?

Right here, hanging with my brothers and we showing no fear

So where you at y'all?

Right here, if you representing then throw your hands in the air