Rise 'n' Shine Lyrics - Kool Moe Dee

And yes y'all, the sounds that you hear 

Is gonna be so rare, you have no fear 

'Cause three live brothers are here 

We got KRS one from Boogie Down Productions 

Special shout to Melodie 

We got my man Chuck D in the house from Public Enemy 

And I am Kool Moe Dee, so are you ready? 

Are you ready, to elevate 

As I rhyme on time you'll illuminate 

Hard as diamond, knowledge shinin' 

It's that time and it's all in the timin' 

400 years blood, sweat and tears 

The rain is over, and the sun is here 

Yeah, bright and clear, countdown to the year 

No fear 'cause I'm in there 

Holdin' my mic like the staff of Ra 

Bringin' true light after dark 

Brothers are live, but still unborn 

It's almost morn and it's time to mourn 

See the light like a crack of dawn 

The comatosed and the cracked are reborn 

Reurgitatin' the garbage we're fed 

'Cause this time dawn is dawn of the dead 

Ain't that funky? 

(Yeah, that's funky) 

Ain't that funky? 

(Yeah, that's funky) 

Ain't that funky? 

(Yeah, that's funky) 

Rise and shine 

Ain't that funky? 

(Yeah, that's funky) 

Ain't that funky? 

(Yeah, that's funky) 

Ain't that funky? 

(Yeah, that's funky) 

Get up 

I rise and shine like the sun on the one 

We dance together, we overcome 

A wake up call to wake up all 

Stand up tall, get up and get up, y'all 

Clap your hands in jubilation, meditation 

Recreation, procreation of the mind 

If you seek, we'll find 

Born two times, but still one of a kind 

Learn your past, find your path 

The truth is infinite, like math 

Countdown to the year 2000 

The thought alone is arousin' 

When we see our way with the third eye 

Rise with the sun and think with a bird's eye 

View, as I watch our Exodus 

When the higher conscious connect it's just 

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The microphone is my funky scepter 

When I speak on beat I'm tryin' to connect us 

To what's left us messed up 

Egos dressed up, got us reffed up 

You see onto instead of into 

You see what you want to, instead of what you been through 

You can take the rhyme I say 

Read it, hand it, see em three ways 

Combine the rhyme to anyone of nine 

For some still the light won't shine 

You can take a shot in the dark, but keep missin' 

You aim with one eye, you just don't listen 

'Cause see, in the dark you need all three 

Your eyes are ears when you hear what you see 

The five senses are all correlated 

The sixth and seventh is how you elevate it 

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Ring ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding 

This a KRS with a different something 

What, come in a dance and we come down for sing 

This a KRS me say come 

'Nuff slave ships come from Africa 

Full of Africans, sold in America 

Now you want me to call myself American 

Even though America kill di African 

Check it, white man is European 

And black man is African 

White man never say Euro-American 

So why should the black man say Afro-American? 

If the black man is American with a afro 

Then the white man is American with a long nose 

It should be long nose American for the white man 

Jump around and move your bottom, what 

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Make no mistake, we don't shake or stutter 

So heed the word of the brothers 

Who makes a boy into a man 

It's the job of another man 

Who knows his role as a father 

He bothers to give his son his soul 

And pass it on, to never front 

Cause papa don't raise no punks 

Got to make it know and to pass it down 

Yeah, sounds like a job for the brother man now 

Got to help a mother for me 

Each one teach one, if you can't find one 

Talk to the little ones 

And you'll see they'll listen 

To few while missin' 

Peace, to rise and shine