Fight the Power (Soul Power - Who Stole This Soul) [Live]

[00:26.81] 1989 the number another summer, get down
[00:30.76] Sound of the funky drummer
[00:31.98] Music hittin? your heart, 'cause I know you got soul
[00:34.52] Brothers and sisters
[00:36.09] Listen if you? re missin? y? all
[00:37.46] Swingin? while I? m singin?
[00:39.42] Givin? whatcha gettin?
[00:40.63] Knowin? what I know and
[00:42.52] While the black bands sweatin?
[00:43.97] And the rhythm rhymes rollin?
[00:44.99] Got to give us what we want
[00:46.49] Gotta give us what we need
[00:49.39] Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
[00:51.52] We've got to fight the powers that be
[00:53.73] Lemme hear you say
[00:54.78] Fight the power
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[01:07.10] We've got to fight the powers that be
[01:13.58] As the rhythm designed to bounce
[01:14.45] What counts is that the rhymes designed to fill your mind
[01:16.64] Now that you? ve realized the prides arrived
[01:18.12] We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
[01:20.75] From the heart, it? s a start, a work of art
[01:22.50] To revolutionize, make a change, nothin? s strange
[01:25.58] People, people, we are the same
[01:27.56] No, we? re not the same, 'cause we don? t know the game
[01:30.18] What we need is awareness, we can? t get careless
[01:32.75] You say what is this?
[01:34.79] My beloved, let's get down to business
[01:37.13] Mental self defensive fitness
[01:39.06] Yo, bum rush the show
[01:40.96] You gotta go for what you know
[01:43.22] To make everybody see
[01:45.66] In order to fight the powers that be
[01:47.85] Lemme hear you say
[01:48.73] Fight the power
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[02:01.75] Lemme hear you say
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[02:04.07] We've got to fight the powers that be
[02:23.73] Lemme hear you say
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[02:37.83] Lemme hear you say
[02:38.83] Fight the power
[02:39.99] We've got to fight the powers that be
[05:11.75] Elvis was a hero to most
[05:13.89] But he never meant shit to me you see
[05:15.55] Straight up racist that sucker was
[05:17.09] Simple and plain
[05:18.28] Mother fuck him and John Wayne
[05:19.68] 'Cause I? m black and I? m proud
[05:20.99] I? m ready and hyped plus I? m amped
[05:22.41] Most of my heroes don? t appear on no stamps
[05:24.54] Sample a look back you look and find
[05:26.67] Nothing but rednecks for four hundred years if you check
[05:28.76] Don? t worry be happy was a number one jam
[05:31.07] Damn, if I say it you can slap me right here
[05:33.31] Let's get this party started right
[05:36.84] Right on, c? mon, what we got to say
[05:39.32] Power to the people, no delay
[05:42.07] Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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