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C.I.A. (Criminals in Action)
Zack de la Rocha, KRS-ONE, and The Last Emperor
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
KRS-One comin' through
Big Zack
Last Emperor
Woop woop
Haha, that's the sound of EMS
Haha, Last Emperor, KRS
Haha, Big Zack, you know the rest
Now we gon' come down like this now
Hold tight, all crew, listen
This voice shatters the calm of the day like an alarm
So wake up, battle youth, and take up arms
'Cause war is necessary in vocabulary war
'Cause a toxic rock imports, hittin' on your door
CIA I see you later, 'cause your time is comin' soon
I flip the shit like Pacino when it's your Dog Day Afternoon
Attica, Attica, drug agents you bring your static-a
My alphabet will slash, connect, and flip you, automatic-a
Dramatic, like Ali Shaheed Muhammad brought the vibes
I bring the sun at red dawn upon the thoughts of Frantz Fanon
So stand at attention devil dirge
You never survive, choose your size against direction of the Earth
The infiltrator, child-intoxicator
People-incarcerator, liberation-movement-annihilator
We got you clocked pushin' rocks and you fail
We got brothers troopin' subways like the Ho Chi Minh trail
We got the truth daddy, Last Emperor, KRS and
History manifested, Jamal the next lesson
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
You know the cops, they got a network for the toxic rock
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
So get that flashlight outta my face
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
The Last Emperor, KRS-One and Big Zack
As free market capitalism and technology expands
The Third World's fertile soil becomes a desert wasteland
So it takes fans to demand the government provide answers
When Lady Liberty has me bewitched like Samantha
And poverty is one of the most malignant forms of cancer
To all my black magic romancers and acid rain dancers
Develop close ties like Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza
We fear no man, and throw jams that
Attack counterintelligence programs
Exciting like the epic adventures of Conan
I colonize minds like Zaire by the Belgians
Now what the hell is the problem with this system and what it sells us
I bring ancient relics like Wyclef did the Zealots
I saw an Iron Curtain called hip hop
And got it open like Boris Yeltsin
Whirlwind, tornadoes in the rainforest if you say so
KRS and the Last Emperor like the Green Hornet and Kato
Zack De La Rocha brings the enraged flow
But all three drop science and become
The most powerful alliance since NATO
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
You know the cops, they got a network for the toxic rock
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
So get that flashlight outta my face
You claim I'm sellin' crack, but you be doin' that
The Last Emperor, KRS-One and Big Zack
Need I say the CIA be criminals in action
Cocaine crack unpackin', high-surveillance trackin'
Prominent blacks and whites givin' orders for mass slaughters
I want all my daughters to be like Maxine Waters
When they flooded the streets with crack cocaine
I was like Noah, now they lower 'cause the whole Cold War is over
Communism fell to the dollars you were grabbin' it
All the assault and batterin' in the name of intelligence gatherin'
Now it's karma you battlin', a losin' fight
I choose the mic to recite ignite light in the night, a'ight?
We should beat 'em, President Clinton should delete 'em, it's not hard
The CIA simply has no more job
Oh my God, it's mother, you can fix this
We rock over mixes, not six-six-sixes
Yo this is the message to all that can hear it
If you got secret information now's the time to share it
Call your congresswoman, your senator, your mayor
It's time for all the scholars to unite with all the players
Rearrange and see, times are definitely changin' G
They used to tap the phone, now they tappin' while you pagin' me
It's crazy B, yet it's plain to see who the enemy
Who's left, the NRA? The ATF? The AMA?
Okay, okay, it's all irrelevant
'Cause in the new millennium, there'll be no central intelligence
Uh, yeah, uh, yeah, throw your hands up
You know what's up kid, throw your hands up
Haha, yeah, haha, yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah, hahaha
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Now we got a lot of problems
In the everyday world there's problems
Problems are comin'
That's right, now we got problems
You got a problem? Oh, I ain't got no problems
But, everybody got problems
It's a part of reality, problems
Let's hear it for problems
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