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No Knock - Gil Scott-Heron
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No Knock Gil Scott-Heron

No Knock - Gil Scott-Heron
[Intro]
Um, we want to do a poem for one of our unfavorite people, um, who’s now the head of the, uh, Nixon campaign. He was formerly the Attorney General named John Mitchell. Um, Nixon’s campaign seems to be out, you know, getting off on a rather hip foot after his trip to China in the name of peace, uh, while they were killing people right across the street, so to speak, in, uh, North and South Vietnam. But, um, no-knock, the law in particular, was allegedly, um, aheh, legislated for black people rather than, you know, for their destruction. And it means, simply, that authorities and members of the police force no longer have to knock on your door before entering. They can now knock your door down. This is No Knock. 

[Verse 1]
You explained it to me, I must admit
But just for the record, you were talking shit
Long rap about no-knock being legislated
For the people you've always hated
In this hellhole that you, we, call home

[Verse 2]
No-knock, the man will say
To keep that man from beating his wife
No-knock, the man will say
To protect people from themselves

[Chorus]
No-knocking, head-rocking
Enter, shocking, shooting, cussing
Killing, crying, lying, and
Being white
No-knock

[Verse 3]
No-knocked on my brother Fred Hampton
Bullet holes all over the place
No-knocked on my brother Michael Harris
And jammed a shotgun against his skull
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