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Face It Lyrics by J. Rawls

The Hip-Hop Affect

2011

[Intro: Sadat X (J. Rawls)]
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

[Verse 1: Sadat X]
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

[Break: J. Rawls]
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

[Verse 2: Wise Intelligent]
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

[Break: J. Rawls]
[?]

[Verse 3: Sadat X]
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

[Outro: J. Rawls]
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..
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"Face It" appears on "The Hip-Hop Affect" in 2011.

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