P.O.W.E.R. by Jasiri X Lyrics
[Intro: Trent Dilfer]
The big thing that hit me through all this was this is a backup quarterback whose job is to be quiet and sit in the shadows and get the starter ready to play Week 1
[Intro: Colin Kaepernick]
I think that is one of the most ridiculous comments I’ve heard. The fact that you say, you know, you're a backup quarterback, stay in your place. That’s the issue. To me you’re telling me that my position as a backup quarterback and being quiet is more important than peoples’ lives.”
[Verse 1: Sa-Roc]
I’ve been silent for too long now, the script is burning inside me
When it blows it probably plop and make your brain pop
The same hands that raised me Virginia sharecrop
Made me into a Malcolm X surrender when my [burl cop]
See every bar is harder with poverty part of me if it bothers me
Harder if it [xxxx] to make it [xxxxxx]
Nigga, if you push this any further, I’m grabbing these [xxxx] Turners
And turning gods into armies, packing mental PCs
And pieces of gold, but we out supposed to rule us
So we’re supposed [xxxx] to the coldest war
Exposed to the coldest future
Composing [xxxxxx] on 1600 Wayne up in me
In the 100,000 coming for ante up
I L-O-P my enemies with a cache of M-16s
My enemy is renegade with a passion to keep my [team]
Channeling cimarrones with every word that I speak
The tables are finally turning, we’ve finished talking, let’s eat
[Hook: Blak Rapp Madusa]
People Oppressed Will Eventually Rise
Judgment day is coming, better open up your eyes [x4]
[Verse 2: Quadir Lateef]
I keep a four five because I’m three-fifths of a person
Four nines and a thirty six in the open
Four times, not a [forty Kyle] left smoking
I ain’t playing, I ain’t laughing, more fire less choking
Pistol-grip grippin’ my son, I spit [xxxxx]
Take the air right out of Malcolm X’s lungs, my beat hits you
When [Harriet] came from the slums to free people
Now mothers tortured to follow their sons so lethal
While are niggas trying to force my hand
Like Europeans tried to force my land
Ignore Chicago, attack Iran
Police shot when the black guy ran
We overseas but Detroit is a black guys’ who [xxx]
Full of black guy [wack,] you want black guy facts
80% of the population in the jails are black
1% of the males teaching in the schools are black
So fight back, because the system’s trying to break our backs
[Hook]
[Verse 3: Jasiri X]
Hostile with Edward Snowden in a airport in Moscow
Bought 2 tickets to the Ukraine Feds watching us like 2 Chainz
I built the Underground Railroad for new slaves
Ghost of Harriet Tubman
Got my Shotgun on the whole industry like whose coming
See Trump then gun but him now he's really deaf
That light skinned rapper blacker than Biggie's neck
Militant hardcore like them boys in Quantico
With Assata in the chopper coming to close Guantanamo
Bombers go Geronimo llamas blow this that drama flow
Accurate on any kind of throw
Kaepernick of this rappin shit
Lazarus out the casket quick with a banana clip blamming it
Leave these fake ass analysts wrapped in bandages
Vandalist evangelist damages turn ya skin amethyst
Damn it gets deeper grim reaper the sons of anarchists
Fuck the establishment we bucking at upper management
Kneeling for that anthem shit right in front of your camera lens
[Hook]
The big thing that hit me through all this was this is a backup quarterback whose job is to be quiet and sit in the shadows and get the starter ready to play Week 1
[Intro: Colin Kaepernick]
I think that is one of the most ridiculous comments I’ve heard. The fact that you say, you know, you're a backup quarterback, stay in your place. That’s the issue. To me you’re telling me that my position as a backup quarterback and being quiet is more important than peoples’ lives.”
[Verse 1: Sa-Roc]
I’ve been silent for too long now, the script is burning inside me
When it blows it probably plop and make your brain pop
The same hands that raised me Virginia sharecrop
Made me into a Malcolm X surrender when my [burl cop]
See every bar is harder with poverty part of me if it bothers me
Harder if it [xxxx] to make it [xxxxxx]
Nigga, if you push this any further, I’m grabbing these [xxxx] Turners
And turning gods into armies, packing mental PCs
And pieces of gold, but we out supposed to rule us
So we’re supposed [xxxx] to the coldest war
Exposed to the coldest future
Composing [xxxxxx] on 1600 Wayne up in me
In the 100,000 coming for ante up
I L-O-P my enemies with a cache of M-16s
My enemy is renegade with a passion to keep my [team]
Channeling cimarrones with every word that I speak
The tables are finally turning, we’ve finished talking, let’s eat
[Hook: Blak Rapp Madusa]
People Oppressed Will Eventually Rise
Judgment day is coming, better open up your eyes [x4]
[Verse 2: Quadir Lateef]
I keep a four five because I’m three-fifths of a person
Four nines and a thirty six in the open
Four times, not a [forty Kyle] left smoking
I ain’t playing, I ain’t laughing, more fire less choking
Pistol-grip grippin’ my son, I spit [xxxxx]
Take the air right out of Malcolm X’s lungs, my beat hits you
When [Harriet] came from the slums to free people
Now mothers tortured to follow their sons so lethal
While are niggas trying to force my hand
Like Europeans tried to force my land
Ignore Chicago, attack Iran
Police shot when the black guy ran
We overseas but Detroit is a black guys’ who [xxx]
Full of black guy [wack,] you want black guy facts
80% of the population in the jails are black
1% of the males teaching in the schools are black
So fight back, because the system’s trying to break our backs
[Hook]
[Verse 3: Jasiri X]
Hostile with Edward Snowden in a airport in Moscow
Bought 2 tickets to the Ukraine Feds watching us like 2 Chainz
I built the Underground Railroad for new slaves
Ghost of Harriet Tubman
Got my Shotgun on the whole industry like whose coming
See Trump then gun but him now he's really deaf
That light skinned rapper blacker than Biggie's neck
Militant hardcore like them boys in Quantico
With Assata in the chopper coming to close Guantanamo
Bombers go Geronimo llamas blow this that drama flow
Accurate on any kind of throw
Kaepernick of this rappin shit
Lazarus out the casket quick with a banana clip blamming it
Leave these fake ass analysts wrapped in bandages
Vandalist evangelist damages turn ya skin amethyst
Damn it gets deeper grim reaper the sons of anarchists
Fuck the establishment we bucking at upper management
Kneeling for that anthem shit right in front of your camera lens
[Hook]