Know Your Enemy Lyrics - Dead Prez

Uh, know what I mean? 

I can't believe these niggas 

Gon' flip they scurve, these niggas, what? 

Mo'fuckin' star spangled banner shit 

Yeah, I can't even yo, fuck that 

I'm not fuckin' with this shit 

I'm not fuckin' with none of these niggas 

Red, white and blue thugs, now 

Uh 

That's how it's goin' down niggas 

Straight R.B.G.'s, for life, for life 

(R.B.G.'s) 

Y'all talk bout the rocks on your watch 

Know that 

Y'all niggas don't even know what time it is 

Yeah, uh, you betta 

Know your enemy, know yourself that's the politic 

George Bush is way worse than bin laden is 

Know your enemy, know yourself that's the politic 

F.B.I., C.I.A., the real terrorists 

Know your enemy, know yourself that's the politic 

George Bush is way worse than bin laden is 

Know your enemy, know yourself that's the politic 

C.I.A., F.B.I. the real terrorists 

You got to watch what you say in these days and times 

It's a touchy situation, lotta fear and emotion 

September 11th, televised world-wide 

Suicide planes fallin' like bombs from out the sky 

They wasn't aimin' at us not at my house 

They hit The World Trade, The Pentagon 

And almost got The White House 

Now everybody walkin' 'round patriotic 

How we gon' fight to keep freedom when we ain't got it? 

You wanna stop terrorists? 

Start with the U.S. imperialists 

Ain't no track record like America's, see 

Bin Laden was trained by the C.I.A 

But I guess if you a terrorist for the U.S 

Then it's okay, uh, uh 

They try to make us think we crazy 

But I know what they doin', they tryna put us back in slavery 

Check it, to get on welfare you gotta get your fingerprints 

Soon ya gotta do eye scans to get your benefits 

Now they got them cards to swipe, ain't no more food stamps 

Should a seen it comin', now it's too late to get amped 

And everything got a bar code 

So they know what you got, when you got it and what you still owe 

You seen them projects, lately you better watch it 

Why they got us surrounded if money is the object? 

Why they use satellites to keep track of the criminals? 

Why they puttin' jails in schools, is it subliminal? 

Cameras everywhere to protect us from one another 

Or is it the undercover, disguised as big brother 

And even freedom of speech is limited 

Mad leaders done spoke up and look at what these cracks did 

Know your enemy, know yourself that's the politic 

George Bush is way worse than bin laden is 

Know your enemy, know yourself that's the politic 

F.B.I., C.I.A., the real terrorists 

Know your enemy, know yourself that's the politic 

George Bush is way worse than bin laden is 

Know your enemy, know yourself that's the politic 

C.I.A., F.B.I. the real terrorists 

And you ain't got to believe me go 'head and listen to Bush 

The dope pusher on the TV what you think the war is for? 

'Cause the greedy wantin' more and more 

We be hustlin' the corridor 

I would never join the military 

One soldier to another, nigga holla if ya hear me 

Goin' out to the best sons and daughters 

Don't be a lamb gettin' led to the slaughter 

I'ma keep ridin' when my momma released 

Cause ain't no stoppin' us now, dawg 

Freedom before peace, uh 

They got a plan for us? 

We got a plan for them and this time we gon' win 

Who in, you out, you in? No doubt, we men 

Ain't no ridin' the fence it's called self-defense 

It makes sense 

When they tell us we gotta shackles on our brains 

(Say what?) 

I'll be damned if I sit here and let them put us back in chains 

At the bonfires of the city 

I've seen blood 

(A what?) 

Blood 

(A what?) 

Blood 

(A what?)