Big Daddy Kane - Word To The Mother (Land) Lyrics
Grab a hold of yourself, open your eyesGet wise to the exerciseBeing taught by the teacher thats most dominantYou need knowledge?Well Im dropping itListen to the rap allow it to trapYour body and soul so that you can adaptTo the man on display as I take you awaySo may i?<yes you may!>Proud to be a black manComing exact andGiving up to brothers five on the back handPray for lease and peace upon each otherWith my sisters and brothers<marley marl: yo, word to the mother!>I say the mother, as in the motherlandBut on the other hand, another manTackled and shackled our ancestorsBut we beat him with freedom, so lets bless theCountry that we all came fromBecause the moral of it all is we shall overcomeThe cream will keep risingWe be sizingUp, the asiatic one is enterprisingBuilding and building to carry onAll the way from malcolm x to farrakhanMartin luther was a tutor, many were pupilsThose who fell victim were those without scruplesHowever, to sever, we could neverSo hold up the peace sign and stand togetherTake heed to the words that I manifestAnd when Im through speaking, marley marlll do the rest<break><james brown getting cut up:People, peopleWe gotta get over, before we go under (x2)Lets get together> (x2)<marley marl? :Yo big daddy, what you gonna say now? >Take a stand the fight for powerCause weve been here before the mayflowerLiving superior abiding by natureThe history of the asiatic one paid thePrice to be paid in slaveryLike the name of antonio was gave to meBut knowledge of self broke every shackle and chainNow I declare myself as the big daddy kaneThe teacher, teaching a lesson to be heardThats word, to the mother my brotherSo discover the truth of one anotherCause heres the real deal upon our skin colorLay down white, yellow, red or pinkBut the color of black is most dominantThe rising and sizing can never cease<marley marl: what you going say now? >Peace!<farrakhan: ...the mother of all living things and the black manIs the original man, we just cant escape our destiny><word to the mother!> (x2)<farrakhan: I thank allah for allowing me to teach this subject todayCrowd: yeah, thats right...>
