We gonna take it to the back of your brain (tell 'em!)

We put it on the side of a train (tell 'em!)

We gonna make it so simple and plain

Revolutionary people, yo this ain't a game! (tell 'em!)

How many y'all really ready for change? (tell 'em!)

Or do you really want to keep it the same? (tell 'em!)

Edutainment - this the reason I came

If you down for the struggle, yo remember these names

Kwame Toure (Whachanoabout)

Martin Luther King (Whachanoabout)

Malcolm X (Whachanoabout)

Medgar Evers (Whachanoabout)

If you really want to change the game

Take a little time and study these names

Frederick Douglass (Whachanoabout)

Booker T. Washington (Whachanoabout)

If you want injustice to end

Take a little time and study these men

Marcus Garvey (Whachanoabout)

Nat Turner (Whachanoabout)

Let me tell you about the struggle my friend (tell 'em!)

We want freedom, I'm a say it again (tell 'em!)

We want freedom, not more money to spend (tell 'em!)

You got to listen to this message I send, come on!

Let me talk to you a little bit more

Our ancestors, tell me, what you dissin' 'em for?

Break the cylce of first I like, then I don't like

You raise and praise me up to tear me down like Michael?

KRS loves his people

I walk with my people, not above my people

Teach my people, I try to reach my people

With real truth, evidence and real proof

Thurgood Marshall (Whachanoabout)

W.E.B. DuBois (Whachanoabout)

Carter G. Woodson (Whachanoabout)

Nelson Mandela (Whachanoabout)

If you really want to change the game

Take a little time and study these names

Elijah Muhammad (Whachanoabout)

Noble Drew Ali (Whachanoabout)

If you want injustice to end

Take a little time, man, study these men

Kwame Nkrumah (Whachanoabout)

Sékou Touré (Whachanoabout)

We gonna take it to the back of your brain (tell 'em!)

We put it on the side of a train (tell 'em!)

We gonna make it so simple and plain

Revolutionary people, yo this ain't a game! (tell 'em!)

How many y'all really ready for change? (tell 'em!)

Or do you really want to keep it the same? (tell 'em!)

Edutainment - this the reason I came

If you down for the struggle, just remember these names

Remember these names, remember these names, remember these names! Rock!

"Africans in America burned down over 290 cities in the '60's to get 289 powerless mayors in the '80's"

What you really want to debate me for?

What you hate me for? What you take me for?

Always sayin'"Amen" and"As-Salamu 'Alaykum" for

If I can't speak my mind, even if it may be raw

New ideas is what they pay me for, but here's an old one

The Feds

are gonna save us, sure

Since '89 I be coming again, with peace, love, and unity

Remember these men

Kwame Toure (Whachanoabout)

Martin Luther King (Whachanoabout)

Malcolm X (Whachanoabout)

Medgar Evers (Whachanoabout)

Frederick Douglass (Whachanoabout)

Booker T. Washington (Whachanoabout)

Marcus Garvey (Whachanoabout)

Nat Turner (Whachanoabout)

If you really want to change the game

Take a little time and study these names

If you want injustice to end

Take a little time and study these men