Wake Up Now!

you'll be staring down the barrel of a gun

my mind is a fully loaded banana clip and I'm a empty it

spittin direct hits in every direction for the revolution

I'm out to kill all the confusion, and...murder the illusion that we are all free

hell, instead of picking cotton, they got us stocking, the shelves at Wal-Mart, or flipping burgers at Mickey D's

nigga please, the land of the free isn't free, and it can't be bought with the

nickel and dime wages that they be paying us

blacks, browns and poor whites are all destined for fu@#ing cages

I hope as I say this... it ignites a fire under your ass and it rages

cause they ain't fooling me with a Latina Supreme court Justice or no black mayors

no I ain't no naysayer playa, and I ain't no playa hater

but if you thought we would see change cause we got a black president, then they fu@#ing played ya

see a politician is a fu@#ing politician

reciting speeches that have been pre-written

on toilet paper cause all them mutha fu@#as be bull s#!tting

who they think they kidding?

if we really want change, we need to break a dollar

we need the revolution to start today not yesterday or tomorrow

we need to stop imprisoning our children and raise them up to be scholars

like Nathan McCall, the injustice just makes me wanna holla

San Quentin, Trenton State all the way to Valhalla

this is the big pay back mutha fu@#ers

nah I ain't one of the last poets, but I have to ask this question

why are niggas scared of the revolution? when it's our only solution

I'm not talking about bombing and shooting

rioting or looting, I'm talking about change

We need to break the chains that they've

wrapped around our brains

stop them from pumping poison into our peoples veins

yea we need to

break the shackles

and we need to

break the hand cuffs, because enough is enough

we need to wake the fu@# up, word up, so set your alarms

raise your arms, and get ready to do something...

you gotta...you gotta

wake up now!...and fu@#ing stop hitting the snooze button.

Written and performed by Capital-"X" 4 IGWT305375

©30-1-2010