We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work work work
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work work work
Community-based
They say it takes a village to raise children
Community safe to say in need of repair, rebuilding
87 Billion dollars spent by our so-called government
Yet we need textbooks and medicare
Shoes and clothes for boys and girls to wear
I must teach young women to take pride and education as they doing themselves
And you must teach young men to love honest, stay near us and help
Because together we can rise above our present state of being
From the lost states of America, Mozambique to the Caribbean
Put your fists where I can see 'em
Rock on
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work work work
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work work work
I work, love, for the youth
Break cycles of abuse
See the babies eyes used to the lies
Glamorized material like they made up of what's on the outside
I tell 'em to fight, and live life for a greater cause
They grew up on the blocks, lullabied by gunshots
Pray they never get indifferent
Find beauty in they scars
And love who they are
Knowing that this road is hard
Just don't stop living
I must teach men to listen
Challenge all the sexist conditioning
And you must teach young women to believe in themselves
While this world tries to break 'em
Just don't stop being you
We got a lot of work to do, it's true
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work work work
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work to do
We got a lot of work work work
I know they want us to suffer
But we can't give up
Just for the profits? no
I flow for my peoples soul medicine
For the frontlines
Drums that they beat in wartime
Love as artillery like bullets when we spit rhymes
Rhymes manifest
Keep music in our chest vessel
Take power fist grip upon our future threshold
Embrace family, community, globally
Grow stronger together
And keep love in our hearts
Hip-hop is forever
And the song says
We shall overcome
Rock, rock on, rock
Rock on, rock
To all freedom fighters, from South Seattle, CD
Northeast Portland, the Philippines
Someday
Haiti to Venezuela, Cuba to Somalia, Eritrea to Ethiopia
To New Orleans, to Philly, to Brooklyn
Everywhere, all families, mothers, revolutionary lovers, fighters
OG's, to the babies, on and on, to you and yours