2045: Radical Man

How can a non-musician discuss the future of music

From anything other than a consumer point of view?

These people make decisions 4 the bulk of us

Without consulting any of us

Sales and distributions of our futures, hah!

If this world were fair and right

They'd give up the car keys this very night

Damn!

(Hit it!)

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Flash 4ward, 2045

What did U stand 4 in the life of your prime

When faced with the final judgment of 2day

Who profited from the game (The game)

That U and your niggas play

Radical man - (Yeah, yeah) save a life

Come on take a stand

Give that money back

Let's make a plan

The brand new currency

Taking care of one another

U and me (Oh)

(Radical, radical)

Flash backward, 1999 (backward, 1999)

In a world shockful of viruses (Tell me)

How'd y'all stay alive? (Everyone of y'all)

Depending on this so-called man

4 everything U got comes from his hand (From his hand)

Food, water, the clothes you wear

How many of y'all niggas really care?

We don't care (We don't care)

Let's define this word: nigga (Define, define)

Someone who stays high (high)

Watching their life go by (bye bye)

Someone content with riding it behind (ride that)

Nigga

They come in all colors

White, Black, Puerto Rican

But the main niggas we speakin' 'bout

Wear suits (Say what?) and buy and sell corporations

With only one thing in mind

(Only one thing in mind)(Break it up!)

That is the destruction of the so-called radical man by 2045

(Let's get radical) {x2}

Watch me now!

Schooled in the art of digital games

When the war broke out they called your name (What's your name?)

Everyone of color put on the front line

Holocaust Avenue, 2009

Get an education, good job, who say? (Who say?)

Fool with the gold fronts drinkin' Alize (Not 2day)

They don't play by the rules makin' no sense 2day

Gotcha online, so you think it's OK (It's not OK)

(Like U're grown)

Better built cellblock, (What?) Mos Def say

"That's where you gonna stay, nigga"

(Where U gonna stay, nigga)

(Oh my God, it's the Green Mile!)

(I wonder who's the man?)(Radical man) {repeated}

What's up y'all?

What y'all wanna do? (Talkin' about a radical man)

Ain't nobody up in that crew know

How 2 really run that computer

And make it flow (Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa)

If U ain't born with it (Radical man)

U know, talkin' about the 2 and 4, hit me!

(Oh)Come on

U know way down, huh

What George say? "Fall around"

All right

We claim Miles Davis, not Michaelangelo

We playin' D-flat in the funk

U better act like U know

We don't care, what Albert Einstein did

I'd rather know, rather know (What?)

How they built the pyramid, hey!

James Brown, Chuck D. and Jimi

Turn me up louder now

I don't think y'all hear me (They don't hear ya)

2045 - We will stay alive

2045 (20.... 45) - God is on our side

The whole pop scenario is just nothin' but a dream (Nothin' but a dream)

The day U wake up is the day U get the real cream, nigga

Radical man (Radical man)

Who got the plan, who got the plan?

Radical man (Radical man)

Who got the plan, who got the plan?

This is the funk the industry most fears

All of us getting 2gether (Oh yeah)

In a locked board of directors

I don't think so

Ain't nobody runnin' this

It's all about DNA, nigga

Radical man

Where will U be in 2045?

30 million people right now are being wiped off the face of the planet

By a disease they claim has no cure

In the matter of a blinking eye, all of us right now can testify

Take a stand, radical man

Oh!