Dig It

Presto, read The Communist Manifesto

Guerillas in the midst, a Guevara named Ernesto, so

(What a brother with an afro know?)

Yell, "Go" and flow for the mack, and we're the ho

So grow, 'cause the lynching brothers might get hung

Rhetoric flowing from the tip of my Mao Tse-Tung

Deficit (Money spent), catch the glint

(Of my 9 as they cut welfare 25%)

And I dissent, as I clench and raise my fist

(We did away with that)

So you could get with this

Here's a twist, 'cause we'll overthrow like Kwame Nkrumah

Spread around the wealth as if it were a vicious rumor

Pam cuts a record like a surgeon cuts a tumor from a brain

(We're all cooped up, so feel the pain)

From four hundred years of exploitation

Anesthesia provided by your local TV station

Patience is not a virtue (I ain't waitin')

Turn this shit over like Bush did a boatload of Haitians

Dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig, dig it

Dig it, dig it

Dig, dig, dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it, dig

Dig it, dig, dig, dig, dig it

How now, brown cow, I'm down with the Mau Mau

Clown downtown tried to put us in the dog pound

Like H. Rap Brown with the situation

(Won't get no callouses) 'Cause I'm spitting dialectical analysis

So how is this, we never had no funk

Until you found out that our joints are revolutionary, huh?

Bump you over like dominoes, rat

(So free Geronimo Gi Jaga Pratt)

Lyrics, hear it, fear it, can't get near it, got a sample, didn't clear it

Point blank says, "Fuck 5-0", that's the spirit

Cheer it, spat out the fat that I consumed

Knew that I was doomed since my date of birth

To be the wretched of the earth

Never had a dream that was American

(There go that 'lectric chair again) Despair again

(But that ain't nothing new)

Told the streets were paved with gold

Whoever paved that shit got minimum wage too

Dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it, dig, dig

Dig it

Dig, dig, dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it

Dig it

Dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it

(Do you understand the metaphoric phrase?

Do you understand the metaphoric phrase?

Do you understand the metaphoric phrase?

Do you understand?

Do you understand?)

(Gunned us, stunned us) Exploited, and they hung us

I'd like to take a moment to say, "Fuck Columbus"

(Millions off my back) The black on black crisis is a myth

The crack that did the damage (Was the one from the whip)

The record skip, the record skip, the record skip

The record skips, 'cause my voice is kinda scratchy

From yelling, "Don't shoot" when 5-0 comes to harass me

They never pass me, no one to go and tell, bro

(Trying to kill the movement with the new COINTELPRO)

Leaders they killed, if I said it, it would threaten 'em

They only see my back because I'm three steps ahead of 'em

We're not falling in the slot you slated

(We realize that our power's nickel-plated)

Masses move as well as asses do, class is through

Our time is over, past it's due

(And you still wanna know)

The origin of the flow

Oakland, California, 94610

Dig it, dig it

(Yeah, The Coup comin' at you in '93)

Dig it, dig it, dig

Yeah, and we out, y'all

Dig it

Dig, dig, dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it, dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it, dig it, dig it

Dig it, dig it

Dig it

(Do you understand the metaphoric phrase?

Do you understand the metaphoric phrase?

Do you understand the metaphoric phrase?

Do you understand?

Do you understand?)