Face It - J. Rawls, Sadat X, Wise Intelligent

Yeah, you got your man here Dat X, worldwide, J Rawls (peace

Tell 'em 'bout whenever you came up)

Yeah I came up in ah, in that time, when rappers first generated

Came up in a strong household, two-parent household

All the black men didn’t run away

Learned who I was from some good brothers

Original men, there’s always gonna be nice

I was destined student enrolled me — and shaped my frame

The god slow a grown man I became

I was self thought but from others I caught

Mic styling and groundbrakers

Broke rules and took chances

Start it like out of few glances

Further engrossed me

Watched all — followed nothing closely

Looked into my self and became a man

Got with the brothers grand

Seen the land, build with my fathering skill

In this gene, supreme being

The all eye seeing that’s why i survive

I’m not saying' that I’m the best to lie

I say that i believe that I’m one of the top

I’m not going to sell myself short

See that’s the life you bought

I knowledge wisdom

I’m understanding

That the world is demanding

Yes, yes, yes

Peace God yeah that’s what I’m talking about, yo

We’ve gotta let the young people know what it is

What hip-hop is

See this new hip hop it don’t cost you no though

It don’t spread no knowledge it don’t give them nothing, man

But it’s up to us to give them that knowledge

That wisdom, that understanding

My man Wise Intel drop a jewel on 'em

Why do we try to believe

Crackers ruling public schooling doesn’t impede the seeds

Wasn’t it these that gave us 3/5th MC’s

The recipes to manufacture dumbed-down rappers

This is why I keep my hip-hop tip-top shape

My shake I speak awake, asleep

I hate to see ya lacking

Like my fish black and girls blacker

Poor, black and hated

But I’m proud to be that

Marcus Garvey, Bobby Marley make me proud to be black

Some prospectors have suggested my commercially defective

Black aesthetics needs an edit just so white folks cans get it

twice as hood as little weezy

I just rather drop a jewel or watch a womb to plant my seed in

Soon to pamphlet all my teachings

While I cough at all of yours

Each and all poor righteous teachers

Had to learn before they taught

It’s like the seeds if you’ll agree

They had to crawl before they walk

Sadat X and J Rawls, and how ever that falls

Let freedom, justice, equality be taught in the halls

Preached in the pool-halls where the black men frequent

I’m tired of seeing my brothers in the precinct

I’m just saying

We got history god

There is no mystery god

The true or living

A civilized mans ghost teach wise living

For the babies I’m giving

They’re the best part

Black man and a woman that’s how the families start

Please educate Allah’s children everywhere

I’ma say peace and leave that in the air

Walkin 25.000 and be back on my square

I pollenate the seeds when Im there

I’ll die for mine

Freedom mentally and don’t never eat swine

Cause that’s foul

Brand Nubian

Public Enemy

X-clan

KRS

Poor Righteous Teachers

Rakim

And they thought me things about people like:

Marcus Garvey

Nat Turner

Eldridge Cleever

Bobby seal

Malcolm X

Young people pick up the books.

We got to give the youth what they need.