[Flavor Flav]

Yeah that's right Chuck man, that's what you gotta do

You got to tell 'em JUST LIKE THAT, you know what I'm sayin?

Cause yo, man let me tell you a little somethin man

All these brothers around here fiendin for that crack-a-lack-a-lack

You dig what I'm sayin? Yo man, all they wanna do is get what you got

But when you ain't got nuttin, then they wanna cut you off

So what you gotta do, you gotta play 'em long distance

You know what I'm sayin? I mean long distance

They think we takin shorts, show 'em this is Cold Medina man

C'mon, kick it!



[Chuck D]

Back one more time, here to put the message in a rough rhyme

It's important that you knowin the time

Cause I'm seein the program, know what I know and

until we get together we will never be up for sure

So I wreck like I'm posessed by Malcolm X

See the feds want us dead, we too complex

I always speak the truth, comin from me to you

We movin as a unit so you KNOW we refuse to lose

I got my eyes on the lies from Washington

I'm a survivor, I know how the West was won

See a show and tell, the way the CoIntel

undermind the REAL hip-hop so the cops can trail

But know bad boys move in silence

Save us all from the pain of a life of violence

They tappin my phone, full grown and knowin

And still prone to refute the lies, won't stop until we rise



[Chorus: Chuck D + various samples]

Rise up! "C'mon, ah-c'mon"

Rise... rise up! "One more time"

We rise... rise up! "C'mon, ah-c'mon"

Rise... rise up! "To the beat y'all"



[Chuck D]

I'm a hard truth soldier to the bone for change

Demonstrate and seperate the fact from strange

Blame companies killin our children

When the villain's on the record never think for a second that's the way we live

Wanna squeeze on the fleas at MTV

We quiz knots for the cops at BET

Seize the time, always rhymin combinin the antidote

for dope Interscope and fake gangster quotes

Cause I can recollect times when records set

Collect a dead brother you mind if you silence it yet

Rest the program, defeat the beastie

Cause on the street they do as we influenced by what we see

And yes it "Weighs a Ton" I say it once again

That's why the Enemy is down with Paris and KAM

It's all fam, we collide we live

Better decide on which side you ride, won't stop until we rise



[Chorus]



[Flavor Flav]

Y'all don't know, y'all don't know uhh [x4]



[Chuck D]

I know the power of fame, ain't never playin no games

Never croonin is provin, that we ready for change

Never simpin but they pimpin my people, for the dollars

So I holla back it keep us from EVIL 'til them devils are collared

And like I said it's on, I say it once again

Better know the plan to keep us ignorant

Brother to brother, ain't no other can smother

Or erase my case, we marry words with BASS

Just another wicked rhyme that I'm rappin on

S1's got my back if the clappin come

Pass on the work, makin sure the words are known

Keep 'em nervous, make 'em understand we servin foes

Keep it goin strong, nevertheless, know the enemy

And never back down, you can take it to press

'Less the mic like the art dart told you before

We for the prize emphasis the fight, now c'mon and rise



[Chorus]



[ad libs of Chorus to fade]