James Crow - Jafrican War Cry Lyrics

In the spirit of Malcolm
With the rifle in the palm
I pen freedom songs
Too Black and too strong
Leroi Jones with a pen and a bomb
My word plus my work is my bond
Funny how they unite on Bin Laden
Turn around and war over Common
Neva focus on the problem
Went from overcomin singin black and proud
Hold the crowd attention
Got nothing to say now
Silent noise gets played loud
Keep the masses rage down
Cop hot beats but beat cops
Leavin you face down
Going HAM in the booth
While the pigs still shoot
It's agents to recruit
So rappers paid to dilute
Paralyze the youth
Push poison in the ears
My peeps planning moves
Trying to prosper for years
Objects always closer than they appear
Believe some of what you see
And none of what you hear

It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
We on attack y'all

It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
We on attack y'all

Get up

See I ain't askin nor beggin
What you offer out my spectrum
This is black man perspective
Ain't gotta love or respect it
Ain't looking for your assessment or blessing
Check it
The boom bap the common dialect
In this speech
We engage with the streets
Motherland still at reach
If that money don't build past a ride and a feast
Or new sneaks
Then ya speech obsolete
Peep
Peace ain't a option when freedom still at stake
Prophets burn at the stake
Or sell their soul for a plate
Till I'm walking through the gates and see His face
I stay wake I won't break
Liberation or the wake
Aye
The rap is just a hammer for the nation that we build
Spite the prisons that we fill
Or the fallen in the field
They cannot break my will
If it's in my blood to spill
I won't chill
Freedom 'fore a record deal
Yeah

North side
South side
Presidential Hills
Alta Woods
Oak Creek
The sub
We all Jafricans baby
We all Jafricans

It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
We on attack y'all

It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
Fight back y'all
It's like that y'all
We on attack y'all

Get up