Fight The Power

This is revolution shit

Uh, yeah, c'mon and get down

Uh, yeah, c'mon and get down

Uh, yeah, hey

The year is 2020, the number

A little somethin' to get down

Sound of the funky drummer

Music hitting' the heart 'cause I know you got soul

Brothers and sisters

The Information Age

Got 'em seein' what's really wrong with these racist days

I honor the strong and pity the weak

Your thoughts run your life, be careful what you think

Haiti beat France, a century, seventeen

Salute Toussaint and Dessalines

And I do love France, know what I mean?

It's the system I'm talkin', nobody's agreein'

They say, "Suicide," when dead bodies are swingin'

Cowards are huntin' black men, that's what I'm seein'

How many Tulsas have been burnt down?

And once Central Park was a thrivin' black town

Yo, Chuck, I'm fightin' the power right now

Thank you, Flav and P-E, puttin' it down

Puttin' your life on the line so I could rap now

The next generation still singin', "Fight the Power"

Fight the power (fight the power)

Fight the power (fight the power)

Fight the power (fight the power)

Fight the power (we got to fight the powers that be)

Police think they reign 6ix9ine over the law (yeah)

When they give us short sticks but we really need a long

To the boys in the hood, duckin' bullets and batons

From boys in the hood, triple Ks on they arm

Four fingers on my palm screamin', "Fight"

Change the policy, before I buy back our property

You love Black Panther but not Fred Hampton

Word to the Howards and the Aggies and the Hamptons

They book us, won't book us, I'm Booker

T. Washington, George killed, for twenty

Think about it (think), that's two thousand pennies

The value of black life the cost of goin' to Wendy's

For a four-quarter burger, ended in murder

Fight for Breonna and the pain of her mother, gotta

Fight the power (fight the power)

Fight the power (fight the power)

Fight the power (fight the power)

Fight the power (we got to fight the powers that be)

Yeah, generations just how long we been at war

The revolution on all platforms

You break a man's mind in his back

Yo, solidarity is what I'm wearin' all black for

For comrades who done fought without me

It's not to try and change y'all thoughts about me

Or to redirect your reports about me

Dear white people, you should take a course about me

'Cause, is it the law, ding a ling four-finger ring?

The sciences and the arts, the songs we can sing?

I really wanna know why y'all so scared

Prolly 'cause the promised land, we almost there

But look, I think of images that fuel my youth

Been infused by Craig Hodges and Abdul-Rauf

Examples like Olympic, Black Power salutes

To Panther troops, I saw as I pursued my truth

If racism is the cancer, black thought's the answer

Gotta get up off the back porch, emancipate your minds

Get your bodies back from ransom (c'mon)

And all black hands up for the anthem

Fight the power (Fight the power)

Yo, yo, check this out, man

Bring that beat back, man (bring that beat back)

In two, three, four, hit it

People, people, stronger than this evil

Smashin' your power structure, melanin royal, regal

System designed to kill and not protect

Worldwide, hit the streets just to get some respect

Our fight and our rights for freedom will never waver

Justice Breonna Taylor, salute Chuck and Flava

Feel the same anger since Radio Raheem died

Black power to the people, push forward, pride

Fight the power like it's the opp, though

Born to fight, I made it off the block though

Thought he had a gun and he was black, that's the combo

The police killed George havin' a convo (George)

They killed Malcolm X, they killed Doctor King (Doctor King)

They gave us guns and dope, they wanna stop our kings

They tryna erase our history, stop and think

History class ain't tell us 'bout Juneteenth

Cops don't give a damn about a negro

Pull the trigger, kill a negro, he's a hero

Fuck livin' life on welfare, the last one who cared was Obamacare

Round twelve, nose kinda bloody, gotta keep fightin'

Trump flew to North Korea, they respect violence

If you ain't tryna have your city on fire

Put some respect on our name, we come from gold and diamonds

Fight the power (fight the power)

Fight the power (we got to fight the powers that be)

Elvis was a hero to most

But he never meant shit to me you see

Straight up racist that sucker was

Simple and plain

Motherfuck him and John Wayne

'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud

I'm ready, I'm hyped plus I'm amped

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

Sample a look back you look and find

Nothing but rednecks for four hundred years if you check

"Don't Worry, Be Happy" was a number one jam

Damn if I say it you can slap me right here

(Get it) let's get this party started right

Right on, c'mon

What we got to say

Power to the people no delay

Make everybody see

In order to fight the powers that be