[verse 1]

Is the groove good to you

Like when you lose your thing

Forgetten grits is grocery

And eggs is poultry



Makin a livin against those makin a killin

Super blackman gotha back

And is back in the building

If the prison is that skin you in

And your cell sittin inside your skull

They say you cant getaway

From ya damn self

When your earth is heaven

And your world be hell

Check your head

Armageddons at the foot of your bed



You aint heard a word i said

Forget them slacks



Im that throwback that

Threw that throwback

Back on the racks

To get my mind back 



O say can you see

I get back its still just a black and white tv

In lyin color brother

Gots to getaway to the other.



[verse 2]

Never was too good

Off the top of my head



Cause i want yall to know 

Exactly what i said



This so called war in iraq

Over a thousand dead

Thats about

10 a week

Even as i speak



33% of black males in jail

55% of black students will fail

85% of black folks forgot 

We were slaves

Up inside this box



America got folks brains on lock

Forget the connects



Some wanna buy whats next

Wear it like a sign up in that chest



Yall should know papa dont take no mess



If you think your past is irrelevant

Dont you know ol soul pays the gt damn rent

That messiah aint never

Gonna come as long as



You thinkin freedom

Is bein free to be dumb



[verse 3]

Soul is back

So flip them hits back

Damn the fashion

I wanna know wheres the passion



Thinkin we came a long way baby



Sayin poor michaels psycho

And prince hes crazy



But what has bob mick sir paul

Done for you lately



How they maintain on your brain

Seems to escape me



Heard some ghetto cats

Dont like metal rap



Hear it and fear it

And they think its wack



They dont even know that the blues is black

And when i rap is back to the roots



Where i be at



Not some 30 year old who dont know facts

Whos wild sayin things like some juvenile



Remember 2 million black folks in the penile

Got a world of whitefolks

Thinkin its style



Think im hatin cause you lack the information

Cause we the fbi still gots on file