Blown Away

Free all political prisoners

Even though a lot of y'all are lucky to be prisoners

Because you know what happens to most people that step up?

They get blown awayyyyyyy - damn right (bang)

Martin Luther King had more than a dream

He was out for social change and that sort of a thing

Tried to lead us to freedom but before it would ring

He got blown awayyyyyyy (got blown away)

He seen a problem and thought that he had the answer probably

And that's the reason that Huey started the Panther Party

Wasn't for Hoover he'd be alive today (but bang)

He got blown awayyyyyyy (blown away)

That man Clarence Smith was like a father to many

Was for the love cause the brother wasn't offered a penny

He said the black man was God and it costed him plenty

Was at the time it wasn't no police officers friendly

He birthed the Five-Percent Nation, called 'em the True and Livin'

And just for that you know they whupped him and threw him in prison

Wasn't for them then he'd be with us today (but bang)

He got blown awayyyyyyy

Marvin Gaye wrote a song called "What's Goin' On?"

The label said no but he convinced them to go along

He spoke of Vietnam and the shit that was goin wrong

Tryin to convince people that they need to keep holdin on

He sang "Mercy Mercy Me" it felt like he was cryin

He wanted to save the hood, they understood why he was tryin

He took a stand and said what he had to say (bang)

He got blown awayyyyyyy

Tupac Shakur was more than a rapper

More than an actor, it was more than awards he was after

He tried to teach young black people a better way (bang)

He got blown awayyyyyyy - ay

You gotta give it to him, Abraham Lincoln was honest

He was a racist but he did what he said when he promised

He freed slaves, of course he was gon' pay

He got blown awayyyyyyy

John F. Kennedy fought for the people

A white president that wanted to see all of us equal

At least that's what he said when runnin for office to beat dude

But then he run, and he start doin more for the people

Assassin hit him with a bullet that tore his cerebral

I know a lot of y'all are thinkin we wanna believe you

Black people pray for J.F.K. (but bang!)

He got blown awayyyyyyy - same way

Gosh, I can't forget Peter Tosh

If Bob Marley was Jigga then Tosh'll be Nas

Peter was Bob's right hand man, one hand washed

the other, these brothers wanted more than to just be large

Killer on the guitar, but better up on the mic

Y'all remember that revolutionary shit he would write

Like, "Get Up, Stand Up" - stand up for your right

But bang, he got blown awayyyyyyy - you're damn right

Martin Luther King had more than a dream

He was out for social change and that sort of a thing

Tried to lead us to freedom but before it would ring

He got blown awayyyyyyy (he got blown away)

Tupac Shakur was more than a rapper

More than an actor, it was more than awards he was after

Tried to teach young black people a better way

He got blown awayyyyyyy

Then there was Saigon, I brought you "The Greatest Story"

I know they watchin me and I know that they waitin for me

I just pray that y'all heed what I had to say

before I get blown awayyyyyyy