Hands Up ringtone on your mobile phone

Metaphysic!!!


[Crayon:]

Black rose from the concrete

Cursed since my heart beat

Rose from my chest piece

Roam through the cold streets

Watch for the police

Blue and Whites hunt me

Niggaz die daily

And set free monthly

Now punch me

In right there

We move ahead light years

You must respect your peers

But what to do when there are none

And you're three steps from stardom

And starving

Can't get trapped inside a coffin


[Rock Shabazz:]

From the streets to the club

Concretes to the rugs

Let your speakers erupt when you reach for the dub and drop it

(On everybody)

Rock it

(At every party)

Rap's the modern day "The Harder They Come"

But I'm versed on a version

Metaphysic sound system burn 'em

Turn 'em to slaves to the rhythm

A Black man that's why jake wanna kill him


[Hook:]

Throw your hands up

That's what policeman told me

Rushing my crib in the middle of the night

But I'm not home

I'm in the basement jam

Up in the club, watching my ladies and my mans

Throw they hands up

Turn the volume up

'Til your neighbors had enough, now they calling cops

They comin!

Rush the club and knock the door down

Cuff up the DJ and make everybody throw they hands up


[Crayon:]

Well I got beef with the cats by the door

With their backs on the wall

We came to get down

Stomping on the dance floor

Grabbing everything

Sliding off your wedding ring

Lose your girl in a minute

If she standing next to me

The recipe

Make 'em burn slow like rotisserie

And swiftly invade like the Moors into Sicily

Humidity

Different world like Dwayne and Whitley

The liquor be

Burning my chest

Now can I get a beat?


[Rock Shabazz:]

I'm a rudeboy, ruffneck, a rebel

A renegade, a mercenary servin anybody on your team

An outlaw that makes you bounce more with Southpaw

Beat Bandits with raw material for sure

You know I wanna fight for the rights of the poor

But now and then I gotta get my ass on the floor

Grab on a broad, all night on a song

From West Indian shores to streets of New York


[Hook:]

Throw your hands up

That's what policeman told me

Rushing my crib in the middle of the night

But I'm not home

I'm in the basement jam

Up in the club, watching my ladies and my mans

Throw they hands up

Turn the volume up

'Til your neighbors had enough, now they calling cops

They comin!

Rush the club and knock the door down

Cuff up the DJ and make everybody throw they hands up


[Bridge: Crayon]

Whether you a Yankee or Yardee

At a barbecue or houseparty

If I step on your shoes then I'm sorry

(Watch out Dread!)

Don't shoot the place up!

Girl I'm feeling your body

Here's my number

Maybe you call me

If you choose to dis or ignore me

(That's okay!)

I'll scoop your friend up!


[Rock Shabazz:]

It's official like referees and whistles

My enemies'll fizzle away and die

On a batie boy still boom bye bye

Dis it but this is the way we ride

Carnival-style, raise your flags in the air

While I stand in my B-boy stance like this

Play this Hip-Hop to Bebop

Ragga to Rah-Rah

Kompa to Soca, Rhytmn and Blues we clip it and loop it

Nahmean?


[Crayon:]

Its underground Black music

Bigger than rap music

Its food for the soul

We living for that union

Of joy and despair

Fingers in the air

Back up off the wall

You could stand up in your chair

Celebrating life and health

And knowledge of self

My people graduating college, they expect you to fail

We prevail through the jails and the kids getting killed

Now its real we still here

Now its time to exhale

Now through your hands up!


[Hook:]

Throw your hands up

That's what policeman told me

Rushing my crib in the middle of the night

But I'm not home

I'm in the basement jam

Up in the club, watching my ladies and my mans

Throw they hands up

Turn the volume up

'Til your neighbors had enough, now they calling cops

They comin!

Rush the club and knock the door down

Cuff up the DJ and make everybody throw they hands up


[Crowd:] Ay oh Ay oh


[Rock Shabazz:]

It's not over, it's not over

Black people unite and let's all get down

Cause what we have is a brand new sound

Wonder what's the sample, can't you tell?

Your system's yelling Kingston 12