[Intro Kool Moe Dee] And yes yall, the sounds that you hear is gonna be so real Youll have no fear cause three live brothers are here We got KRSOne from Boogie Down Productionsn, special shout to Melodie We got my man Chuck D in the house from Public Enemy And I am Kool Moe Dee So are you ready? [Verse 1 Kool Moe Dee ] Are you ready, to elevate As I rhyme on time youll illuminate Hard as diamond, knowledge shinin Its that time and its all in the timin Four hundred years, blood, sweat and tears The rain is over, and the sun is here Yeah, bright and clear, countdown to the year No fear, cause Im in there Holding my mic like the staff of Ra Bringing true light after dark Brothers are live, but still unborn Its almost morn and its time to mourn See the light like a crack of dawn The comatose and the cracked are reborn Regurgitating the garbage were fed Cause this time dawn is dawn of the dead [Hook] Aint that funky? Yeah, thats funky Aint that funky? Yeah, thats funky Aint that funky? Yeah, thats funky Rise and shine Aint that funky? Yeah, thats funky Aint that funky? Yeah, thats funky Aint that funky? Yeah, thats funky Get up [Verse 2 Kool Moe Dee] I rise and shine like the sun on the one We dance together, we overcome A wakeup call to wake up all Stand up tall, get up and get up, yall Clap your hands in jubilation, meditation Recreation, procreation of the mind If you seek, well find Born two times, but still one of a kind Learn your past, find your path The truth is infinite, like math Countdown to the year two thousand The thought alone is arousin When we sing Ill wake with the third eye Rise with the sun and think with a birdseye View, as I watch our exodus When the higher conscience connects its just [Hook] [Verse 3 Kool Moe Dee] The microphone is my funk receptor When I speak on beat Im trying to connect us To whats left us messed up Egos dressed up, got us effed up You see onto instead of into You see what you want to, instead of what you been through You can take the rhyme I say Read it, hear them, see them three ways Combine the rhyme to any one of nine For some still the light wont shine You can take a shot in the dark, but keep missin You aim with one eye, you just dont listen Cause see, in the dark you need all three Your eyes are ears when you hear what you see The five senses are all correlated The sixth and seventh is how you elevate it [Hook] [Verse 4 KRSOne] Ringdingdingdingdingdingding This a KRS with a different something What, come in a dance and we come down for sing This a KRS me say, go! Nuff slaveships come from Africa Full of Africans, sold in America Now you want me to call myself American Even though America kill the African Check it, white man is European And black man is African White man never say EuroAmerican So why should the black man say AfroAmerican? If the black man is American with a afro Then the white man is American with a long nose It should be LongNoseAmerican for the white man, and Jump around and move your bottom, what [Hook] [Verse 5 Chuck D] Make no mistake, we dont shake or stutter So heed the word of the brothers Who makes a boy into a man Its the job of another man Who knows his role as a father He bothers to give his son his soul And pass it on, to never flunk Cause papa dont raise no punks Got to make it known and to pass it down Yeah, sounds like a job for the brother man now Got to help a mother for me, uh Each one teach one, if you cant find one Talk to the little ones And youll see theyll listen To fill the missin Peace, to rise and shine
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