Song Description

A Response to Post-Sept. 11th Propaganda

Lyrics

V1: (Smokey Gripp)

The fuck is going on, mad shit is going wrong
Instead of supporting the cause, you make the enemy strong?
September 11th make you forget who you are?
Now you step and fetch for sergeants like some fucking Uncle Tom?
How long until we realize enough is enough
Just cause they hate someone else, dont mean they like us
Police is still beatin, racism runnin rampant
One fucking thing happened and now we can stand it?
I'll never understand it, why we wave the same flag
that put our people in chains and tried to keep our mouths gagged
Acres and a mule? we never getting that
when we went for reparations all they fuckin did was laugh
You mask your skin to fit in with the captains and lieutenants
You'll fight for uncle sam, but revolution? forget it
I bet it feel good to be on the porch with massa
Soldier to your face, behind your back its black bastard
You dont wanna hear that, but inside you know its true
They call Iraqis towelheads, what you think they call you?
Salutin and steppin, you left,right,leftin
But are you completely at ease near rednecks with weapons?
You question how I know all this shit to be true
Look here, black man, I was just like you
I was military too, check my fucking record
Heres another simple question doubters may have neglected
You respected? you honored? you think you got it all?
But I bet your black ass still gets followed in the mall

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Im sick of the lies your propaganda devised
Look me in my eyes and ill read between the lines
Politics and bullshit, two names for the same
People bear the weight, politicians pass the blame

V2: (Ill Poet)

Since back in the day, somewhere around first grade
I was programmed to say I love the USA
but hey, look at it this way, lemme put it this way
this great country IS great, but not so great as we told
We got freedom, but the freedom's controlled
You see you walk around the block and see a cop on patrol
And you aint done shit, but your instinct twitches
Cause cops will pull you over just for looking suspicious
For everything theres a limit, a standard a gimmick
So many laws and every law's got a law in it
And every law's got at least a couple flaws in it
To me it sounds just a little odd, isnt it?

(Smokey Gripp)

Fightin overseas, black oppression in US
World trade collapse by being hit with two jets
they expect you to forget all the bullshit they did
Them Army ads on TV got yawl running like Kids
to the recruiter's station and they fakin, build you up with lies
Say what you wanna hear til you sign on the line
Are you blind or a fool? You think you doing right?
400 years of shit disappears overnight?
You wanna fight terrorism while you livin in chains?
You been washed in your brains by the government games
same lies as before got yawl goin to war
and if you really stop and think, who's responsible for
The shit goin on in the world today
Its a fucking reaction to the hate that we made
Slave master of the world with the nukes as a whip
The military's overseer and I dont know when to quit
Then oh shit, somebody hit back, they panties in a knot
every cat's got a flag, but you can bet im not
I aint forgot about the Panthers, I aint forgot about Mumia
and the racist ass system that refused to free him
Your pentagon's a Mausoleum? Too bad, tough shit
find a new place to plot your government hits
Quit hearing, start thinking cause this shit must end
Cause when this fucking war is over, they'll be hatin us again

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