Wake Up (Reprise in the Sunshine)

Peace to the Gods, Peace Allah A-yo, there go that brother Grand Puba I heard that brother got knowledge of self Yo, true indeed brother Yo, let's have that brother come over and add on to the cipher Hook Sunshine, everybody looks for sunshine Folks, get down in the sunshine My life, my life, my life, my life Verse 1: Grand Puba A-yo, knowledge this The attribute Hagi helper to another God In need, He Allah God Islam As I proceed to civilize the uncivilized Word of wisdom to the groove from the wise speak on it, God I guess I'm like the Verbalizer for the fact I'm moving Blackwards This Asiatic black man is a dog spelled backwards The maker, the owner, the cream of the planet Earth Father of civilization, God of the universe Manifesting thoughts with my infinite styles Making sure this travels twenty-three million miles The other six I set the crucifix Because the heart of the problem is this Speak on it, God Preacher got my Old Earth putting money in the pan For the rest of the week, now I'm eating out a soup can He has a home, drives a Caddy through town Has my Old Earth believing that he's coming from the ground Jesus Slain are those who fought for what was right Slayed are those who fell victim to the pipe A drug controlled substance, contained in a vial Set up by the devil as he looks and he smiles Good at the game of tricknology But I have knowledge of myself, you're not fooling me You see, the answer to me is black unity, unification To help our bad situation I wrote this on a day of Wisdom, Power All being born to myself God I won't diss the next brother to be paid, that's not my trade It's just the plan that is designed by the colored man Now our babies are born to think this is the way of us The way of us That's the way the devil wants it so it is no fuss It is no fuss It's just that sad old song, Self Destruction To stop our reproduction Refrain They put our Wisdom before us murderer That makes it Wisdom, Knowledge murderer But we need Knowledge, Wisdom to bring forth the Understanding murderer Culture, Freedom murderer Power, Refinement murderer Equality, God, Build, Destroy, Borns our Cipher murderer Pre-Hook: Grand Pupa & Sincere Can a devil fool a Muslim No, not nowadays bro Do you mean to say the devil fooled us four hundred years ago Why Equal Self, a trader made an interpretation Saying that we'd receive more gold for our labor in his nation Did we receive more gold God, Now Cipher It's time to drop the bomb and make the devil pay the piper True indeed, God, true indeed, God Why Equal Self True indeed, God, true indeed, God Why Equal Self True indeed, God, true indeed, God Why Equal Self True indeed God, true indeed Why Equal Self Hook Sunshine, everybody looks for sunshine Folks, get down in the sunshine My life, my life, my life, my life Verse 2: Grand Puba The solution: knowledge of self to better ourself 'Cause I know myself, that we can live much better than this Nothing's changed, it's just another sequel The devil's still causing trouble amongst the righteous people Drugs in our community That ain't right Can't even get a job That ain't right Poisoning our babies That ain't right Lying who is God That ain't right Well, here's some food for thought, many fought for the sport And the black man still comes up short It's time to motivate, build and elevate Blind, deaf, and dumb, we've gotta change their mind state So I dip dip diver, civilize a 85'er Gotta let him know the devil's a conniver This is the plan from the brother man From the motherland, now it's time to take a stand I keep striving to do my duty to awake 'em To the universal family, I say As-salamu Alaykum Outro Yeah, now I'mma do like this Nuff respects to the brother Jazzy Jay, nuff respect Nuff respects, to my Brand Nubian brothers Bust it, Lord Jamar, God Allah Derek X is on the flex Alamo is good to go Sincere, the God is in here So move on black man, move on We gotta move on black man, move on Move on black man, move on We gotta move on black man, move on Now before I motivate I'mma just say like this Please, educate Allah's children, with equality Move on black man, move on You gotta move on black man, move on