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You Can’t Stop Us Now
The Last Poets
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From Willie Lynch to Willie Hutch, right on, we superfly
Made Gucci to shit, Louis too, suits and ties
Player trophies, pray to Goldie
Picture wax museums full of black pants and triple OGs
Aunt Jemima hoes, historic horseshit
Girls from long time ago, stagecoach with the horse kid
Witch doctors, good old pickpockets
Sip moonshine, so-called coon shines and darkies
I love y'all, pyramids to cotton fields to Wrigley Fields
Forgotten men who did get killed
Crispus Attucks, the first blasted
Peace to the rich lady purse snatchers shot in the back
I know your hunger, kid, I know they hung your dad
Burnt your mama crib, I know that hurt you bad
Minstrel shows, from gold to shackles and back to gold
We act like we home, matter of fact, we are home
Bad attitudes, octoroon skin tones
Slave food turned to soul food, collar to neckbones
Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag
Bet she had a nigga with her to help her old ass
As James Baldwin says
You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are
What the white world considers a nigga
No matter how hard you try
You can't stop us now (Oh, no matter)
No matter how hard you try
You can't stop us now (Can't be stopped)
Yo, on Dateline the other night, they show hate crimes
Gave a Blood time 'cause he fought with his canine
Bestiality, humane society
Go to China, see how they dyin', see what they eat
Better yet, ask PETA, whoever, which animal makes suede?
If not for Sway, would you have survived the dark ages?
Cannibal ways of the ancient Caucasians
Steal you like your steak tartare, Pinot noir
David Starr on the chain of Sammy Davis
He helped pave the way for Southern crankers and them Harlem shakers
Now we gettin' our papers
They try to censor the words to stop our money comin'
But you can't escape us, haters
No matter how hard you try
You can't stop us now (Oh, no matter)
No matter how hard you try
You can't stop us now
You can't stop us now