Blackman In Effect

Boogie Down Productions

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