Word to the Mother (Land) (45 Version)-Big Daddy Kane

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[00:00.00]Word to the Mother (Land) (45 Version) - Big Daddy Kane
[00:01.19]Grab a hold of yourself
[00:03.07]Open your eyes
[00:04.20]Get wise to the exercise
[00:06.59]Being taught by the teacher
[00:08.15]That's most dominant
[00:09.39]You need knowledge
[00:10.46]Well I'm dropping it
[00:11.79]Listen to the rap allow it to trap
[00:13.95]Your body and soul so that you can adapt
[00:16.24]To the man on display as I take you away
[00:18.72]So may I
[00:21.64]Proud to be a black man
[00:23.12]Coming exact and
[00:23.92]Giving up to brothers five
[00:25.32]On the back hand
[00:26.47]Pray for lease and peace upon each other
[00:28.48]With my sisters and brothers
[00:31.32]I say the mother
[00:32.59]As in the motherland
[00:34.00]But on the other hand
[00:35.39]Another man
[00:36.28]Tackled and shackled our ancestors
[00:38.32]But we beat him with freedom
[00:40.30]So let's bless the
[00:41.29]Country that we all came from
[00:43.29]Because the moral of it all
[00:44.75]Is we shall overcome
[00:46.04]The cream will keep rising
[00:47.74]We be sizing
[00:48.85]Up the asiatic one is enterprising
[00:51.39]Building and building to carry on
[00:53.56]All the way from malcolm
[00:54.65]X to farrakhan
[00:55.89]Martin luther was a tutor
[00:57.37]Many were pupils
[00:58.46]Those who fell victim were
[00:59.78]Those without scruples
[01:01.06]However to sever
[01:02.35]We could never
[01:03.29]So hold up the peace sign
[01:04.84]And stand together
[01:05.70]Take heed to the words that I man ifest
[01:07.94]And when I'm through speaking
[01:09.30]Marley marl'll do the rest
[01:46.18]Yo big daddy what you gonna say now please