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Yo, you believe they say we ain't shit, we can't grow? All we are is dealers and gangstas and hoes? And you believe they be tellin' you lie, all on the media? They the world look crazy to keep you inside?
Why you when the teachers at school? Know you a young single parent out strugglin', they you a fool Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in classes Killin' shorty future, I how do we last it
Underground in they Ancestors turnin' I'm learnin' somethin' every day, there is no like God is Greek or Latin So, if you study Egypt, see the truth written by the masters
My niggaz is chillin', high, relaxin' Envisionin', ownin' shit, yo, it can What do we Not enough land, not enough homes Not enough banks, to a brother a loan
What do we The skin on our backs, we run and we ask For reparations, they hit us with tax And if we live to be old, what about now? So, stop controlled, we black zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just copy cat, the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', dead, though we think we're livin (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, followin' the (Black zombies)
Aiyo, we trapped in our own brain, fuck behind already gone insane They've gave up, cut our own heads offs Stab our own and dream too much
fulfillin' reality, too greedy and Can't one or two chains, we need three of dem Can't one or two guns without squeezin' 'em On our own people and black leaders
whites ain't got none leadin' them, the rhythm is cosmic Nas is divinity, the deity's All get and get up Victims walkin' with down's syndrome, all stuck
Faintin', shoutin', catchin' Holy Ghost in Scared to do it for ourselves 'less we see somebody it first We begged, we prayed, and demonstrated Just to make another generation, zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, the system (Black zombies)
You scared to be yourself 'cause you in a Feel free, the music and dance If you cared what they think, why what they wear, just for you Dumb with long beards like they Arabs or Jews
Or from Israel, Bismi-Allah Al-rahman Islam's a thing And Christian and Rastafari, us to bring Peace against the darkness, which is
So, the black man's true religion, who should we follow? Use own intuition, you are tomorrow That's the sound of the beast, I'm a Columbia slave, so get paid Control your own destiny, you are a Don't let it happen to you it did to me, I was a black zombie
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we we're livin' (Black zombies) We copy cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, followin' the (Black zombies)
Wake up, black in a spell for more than fo'-hundred years Ghetto niggaz won't it no mo', can I get a witness? Why listen to else tell you how to do it? When you can do it It's all in you, do it, do it Do it