Wake up!

I wanna say what’s on my motherfuckin’ conscious / The whole world right now is fucking bonkers / The Internet is the brand new conqueror / So watch out for the motherfuckin’ monsters (yikes) / The trolls are the taunters, whoever controls the data got the answers / They the ones that got the code to the launcher / And they be having dinner with the Pope and the mobsters

They know the cure for the cancer / Cure for the Aids and they prolly killed the Panthers / Put us in a cage got us living like hamsters / Put us in the dark but I got me a lantern / Open up my third eye, then I illuminate / Willy got a bird eye view when I elevate / No Illuminati, baby, I’m god body / The rapture like Blondie wakin’ up zombies / Wake up!

Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Revolution time has come / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Tell the people here come the storm / Wake up! / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Revolution time has come / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Ring the alarm, ring the alarm… / Wake up!

A wise man said knowledge is king / Know thyself and you can do anything / Know thyself and you could shine like bling / Know thyself and you’re the king of the ring, ha / But they don’t teach kids nothing / All they know is iPad, sugar in their muffin / They don’t know division, don’t add to nothing / Send them off to prison when you know they did nothing

He in the streets cause he always cuttin’ / The teacher ain’t teaching him nothin’ / All they do was stuffin’ ’em and stuffin’ ’em…

Stuffin’ ’em with stuff he can’t use / So he sell crack, that’s what he know to do / His daddy was a hustler, so he hustle too / And that’s why you see the lil’ killer in the news / It’s kinda like they got us in a trap / It’s kinda like they knowin’ how we act / I’ll be like “fuck your fuckin’ laboratory, I am not a rat” / I am light, I am God body, wise to the fact / Wake up!

Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Revolution time has come / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Tell the people here come the storm / Wake up! / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Revolution time has come / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Ring the alarm, ring the alarm… / Wake up!…

Eyes open, who’s watching the watchers? / Clock ticking like we’re running out of options / Villains in the White House, heroes in their coffins / Leaders double cross while we kneeling to our crosses / Whose policing the police, why they stalking? / All lives matter ’till your color is the target / Fox running up the sheep for the slaughter / Money over people while they reaching for that dollar

All I see’s lies on the screen / Land of the free, but what the fuck’s free? / What does it cost to let a nigga breathe? / King had a dream but we all still asleep, huh / They robbed you blind and knowledge is a crime / The shit’s designed to keep you on a grind / Rise and shine, cause now it’s the time / We all God body if you open up your mind / Wake up!

Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Revolution time has come / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Tell the people here come the storm / Wake up! / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Revolution time has come / Wake up, wake up, sound the alarm / Ring the alarm, ring the alarm / Wake up…

Ain’t nothing impossible, I tell myself / That I am possible / I know that devil is out there and plotting those plans / To stop me and put me in hospital bed / I said “Yo, I would not be toppled, I’m down with Jesus and I roll with apostles” / We got that big love, that love that’s colossal / We meditate ain’t no need to get hostile / You cannot penetrate me with the hate / We got that good vibration on vibrate / Stay on that way up cause we elevate / We got that big love, the love heavyweight

Wait, wait, that’s the gospel / That’s the motherfucking gospel / Ha, that’s the gospel / That’s the motherfucking gospel / I tell them, yo / The movement’s unstoppable / Pausing the flow, that is not optional / I let ’em know, everything’s solvable / When you know science, everything is plausible / I am defiant, I’m also logical / Politicians be tripping, they comical / So I sit back and listen to audio / Spiritual hip-hop, I call that hypnoticals / We Budda-Boy, B-Boy phenomenals / We Zulu-kill zombies in chronicles / We ain’t falling cause we ain’t dominoes

That revolution is on go / Go, go, that’s the gospel / That’s the motherfucking gospel / Yup, that’s the gospel / That’s the motherfucking gospel / Uh

[By William Adams – Rita Ekwere – George Gershwin – DuBose Heyward – Jaime Luis Gómez – Jean Baptiste Kouame – Dorothy Kuhns – Lee Morgan – Allan Pineda Lindo – Monroe Walker © Interscope Records, 2018]