Revolutionary Generation

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