Shuffering and Shmiling ​dead prez (Ft. Bilal, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Jorge Ben Jor & Talib Kweli)

[Jorge Ben Jor] (scat singing)

[Stic.man]
(to the ancestors)
Can't keep quiet
This time gon' be more than a riot (to the warriors)
Can't keep quiet
This time gon' be more than a riot (to those who came before us)
Can't keep quiet
This time gon' be more than a riot (long lived the revolution)
Can't keep quiet
This time gon' be more than a riot

[Stic.man]
Religion is like prison
Keep the people locked up in different divisions
Some of them promise you heaven
But I see a whole lot of bullshit ism-scism
Imperialism in the form of spirituality
Slave mentality, escape reality
What we supposed to just suffer and smile and be content?
Sendin our prayers to the clouds? (stic.man - uhn uh)
I want my heaven now, freedom on earth
And if the preacher ain't with us, then we takin his church
What is it worth to have the biggest religion
When the people got miserable living conditions?
No water, no lights, no rights
All over africa we fight, but we have to unite
Cause ain't no power in the gospel
When the priest puttin powder in his nostril
And the elder's council fails to lead
And the children suffer from daily need
And the people can barely eat
Is it a sin to stand up
To fight against the ones that put is in handcuffs?
Goddamn, what happened to the daily bread, spread love
And not what the bible said, but in the name of the bible
How much love is spread compared to how much blood is shed