Blackman in Effect

Boogie Down Productions

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Boogie Down Productions

Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group that was originally composed of KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded. The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of The Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City. The group pioneered the fusion of dancehall reggae and hip hop music and their debut LP Criminal Minded contained frank descriptions of life in the South Bronx of the late 1980s thus setting the stage for what would eventually become gangsta rap. more »


Year:
1990
4:40
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Wake up! 
Take the pillow from your head and put a book in it. 
It's time for the massive BDP crew at the top of the pile. 

Yo. In the morning I'm yawning  at noon is when I wake up 
Make up my bed break up the bread and said 
Scratching my head  why am I so damn intimidating? 
Is it because of laws designed to keep us waiting and waiting 
Thus hating all forms of a setback 
Get back  if you can't understand a rap act. 
This is the language of the people ready to hear the crew 
I've got no juice, 'cause I'm not getting juiced 
To have juice means you kiss and lick a lot of booty 
To have respect means you simply new or newly 
Heard what I had to say and felt as though you'd say that too 
I'm not down with a juice-crew 
But anyway I say today the message I create is great 
I don't preach hate, I simply get the record straight 
It's not the fault of the black race that we are misplaced 
We're robbin' and killin', your own medicine you taste 
You built up a race on the concept of violence 
Now in '90 you want silence 
Well, I want science, not silence but science 
Scientific fact about black 
The board of education acts as if it's only reality 
Is talking 'bout a Tom, Dick and Harry 
So now you learn your black history is questions and answers 
Every question but the Black Panthers 
Timbuctoo existed when the caveman existed 
Why then isn't this listed 
Is this because the blackman is the original man 
Or does it mean humanity is African 
I don't know, but these sciences are hidden 
For some strange reason it's forbidden 
To talk about, or converse on a political outburst 
I don't believe that I'm the first 
Or should I say the first one, or the first one that's done 
Music like I'm still number one 
Music like that or this is the incredible uplift 
Those that oppose get dissed 
But who will oppose the teacher when society's a wreck 
So check the blackman's in effect 

Near the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys in Asia 
Lies the Garden of Eden 
Where Adam became a father to humanity 
Now don't get mad at me 
But according to facts, this seems just fantasy 
Because man, the most ancient man 
Was found thousands of years before Adam began 
And where he was found, again they can't laugh at ya 
It's right, dead, smack in Africa 
But due to religious and political power 
We must be denied the facts every hour 
We run to school, tryin' to get straight A's 
Let's take a trip way back in the days 
To the first civilization on Earth, the Egyptians 
Giving birth to science, mathematics and music 
Religion, the list goes on, you choose it 
Egypt was the land of spiritual blessing 
Egypt was the land of facts, not guessing 
People from all over the world had come 
To learn from Egypt, Egypt number one 
So people that believe in Greek philosophy 
Know your facts, Egypt was the monopoly 
Greeks had learned from Egyptian masters 
You might say "Prove it", well here's the answers 
640 to 322 b.C. originates Greek philosophy 
But in that era Greece was at war 
With themselves and Persia, what's more 
Any philosopher at that time was a criminal 
He'd be killed very simple 
This indicates that Greece had no respect 
For science or intellect 
So how the hell you created philosophy 
When you kill philosophers constantly 
The point is that we descend from kings 
Science, art and beautiful things 
African history is the worlds history 
This is the missing link and mystery 
Once we realise they all are African 
White will sit down with black and laugh again 
So judge not least ye might be judged 
By the judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged 
Matthew seven, first verse doesn't budge 
No man should walk the Earth and sludgez 
if you don't believe, you can go and check 
To see how and where the blackman's in effect

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Written by: AL JR. JACKSON, BOOKER T. JR. JONES, DONALD V. DUNN, LAWRENCE KRSONE PARKER, STEVE CROPPER

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