[Verse 1: Mach-Hommy]
Does a hurricane have a eye?
Does a llama have a shell?
Does a comet have a tail?
Is this country apple pie?
So why you try to avoid the question?
Like a n*gga skin-color ain’t the reason why there’s more detention?
School of hard-knocks
Got the out of state corrections
I’m just saying what I’m saying
That’s why
We f*ck up all the blessings
We don’t appreciate sh*t
Cause every time we get one foot out the green? They try to pull us in
They shot Pac
They shot Martin
They shot Malcolm
They shot Huey and Fred, f*ck it I stop counting
Captain Ahab pursued a white whale
When Emmett Till whistled at a white girl they slew him like quail
Black boy you ain’t no human being
You better curb your ambitions
Slide right up in that kitchen and do your thing
Make your momma proud, buck
Run fast, jump high, go to class, get a job, get a miles up
Poor? Then maybe you could get you some
Or at least a pretty light skin broad if you admit you dumb
See I be speaking too plain for n*ggas
Slap a n*gga out his drug induced daze
You a slave my n*gga
(Please wake up)
[Outro 1: H. Rap Brown - F.Y.I (2013 version)]
I think it'll, look In terms of struggle then who will comprise the revolutionary uh..the front
Of that struggle,it will be oppressed people
You see black people are in the vanguard position of the struggle because we’ve been the most dispossessed
However there are other oppressed people in this country;
New-Mexican Americans
Spanish American communities, the Puerto Ricans
American Indians
Japanese Americans
And even poor whites
But racism
I don’t believe that racism will allow for whites to form alliances with a revolutionary group, groups in this country
[Outro 2: H. Rap Brown - F.Y.I (2016 Remastered version)]
Malcolm X would be a good example
More negros feared Malcolm, Malcolm X than white people
Cause news media told black people that Malcolm was bad
Muhammad Ali-
The reason Muhammad Ali could be given the maximum sentence and the maximum fine and the black community did not revolt
Was because Muhammad Ali had been made an enemy of black people