Revolutionary Generation Lyrics - Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

I get down to what it is and if it ain't funky 

(See ya) 

People askin' me what's goin' on with my mind 

(Huh) 

Wait a minute 

It's just a matter of race 'cause a black male's in their face 

Step back for the new jack swing on the platter scatter, huh 

We got our own thing, just jam to let the rhythm run 

Day to day, America eats it's young and defeats our women 

There is a gap so wide we all can swim in drown in an' get it 

(Uh, get down) 

Got it goin' on wit it, sister, soul sister, we goin' be all right 

(Hey) 

It takes a man to take a stand, understand it takes 

A woman to make a stronger man 

(As we both get strong) 

They'll call me a crazy Asiatic while I'm singin' a song 

Oh, my God, oh, my Lord, I can't hold back 

But I get exact on a track, it's an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth 

Forget about me, just set my sister free 

R E S P E C T my sisters, not my enemy 

('Cause we'll be stronger together) 

And make the suckers say, this generation 

(Damn) 

They don't know what we got goin' is, to turn it all around 

(Sound) 

To my sisters I communicate with the bass and tone 

Through speakers and the microphone 

'Cause I'm tired of America dissin' my sisters 

(For example, like they dissed Tawana) 

And they try to say she's a liar, my people don't believe it 

But even now they're getting higher of the feeling inspiration 

We must know that in this nation, every single generation 

(They teach us how to dis our sisters) 

Strange as you say, I say revolution 

Need for change brings on revolution 

The great book just look see solution 

God chooses who and what for the bruisin' 

There's been no justice for none of my sisters 

Just us been the ones that's been missin' her 

Now we got to protect, we get together and damn this generation 

I said so, to what it is, where it is? She needs a lil' respect 

There it is, I say she needs a lotta 

Brother from a mother like me has gotta 

Give it up, give it now and pass it all around to my soul 

(Sister) 

They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt 

America took her, reshaped her, raped her 

Nope, it never made the paper, beat us, mated us 

Made us attack our woman in black 

So, I said sophisticated B, don't be one 

Not to head the warning crack of dawn 

Or is it the dawn of crack? Stop the talk they say 

But we talk and say whats right or wrong 

Some say we wasting time singin' a song 

But why is it that we're many different shades? 

Black woman's privacy invaded years and years 

You cannot count my mama's tears 

It's not the past but the future's, what she fears 

Strong we be strong, the next generation 

It's what not who we are facin' 

The fingers pointed to us in our direction 

The blind state of mind needs correction 

Word to the mother we tighten connection 

To be a man you need no election 

This generation generates a new attitude 

Sister to you we should not be rude 

So, we come together and make 'em all say 

Damn this generation