Word To The Mother (land) - Big Daddy Kane

Grab a hold of yourself, open your eyes 
Get wise to the exercise 
Being taught by the teacher that's most dominant 
You need knowledge? 
Well I'm dropping it 
Listen to the rap allow it to trap 
Your body and soul so that you can adapt 
To the man on display as I take you away 
So may I? 

Proud to be a Black man 
Coming exact and 
Giving up to brothers five on the back hand 
Pray for lease and peace upon each other 
With my sisters and brothers 

I say the mother, as in the motherland 
But on the other hand, another man 
Tackled and shackled our ancestors 
But we beat him with freedom, so let's bless the 
Country that we all came from 
Because the moral of it all is we shall overcome 
The cream will keep rising 
We be sizing 
Up, the Asiatic one is enterprising 
Building and building to carry on 
All the way from Malcolm X to Farrakhan 
Martin Luther was a tutor, many were pupils 
Those who fell victim were those without scruples 
However, to sever, we could never 
So hold up the peace sign and stand together 
Take heed to the words that I manifest 
And when I'm through speaking, Marley Marl'll do the rest 



People, people 
We gotta get over, before we go under (x2) 
Let's get together> (x2) 

Yo Big Daddy, what you gonna say now?> 

Take a stand the fight for power 
Cause we've been here before the Mayflower 
Living superior abiding by nature 
The history of the Asiatic one paid the 
Price to be paid in slavery