Prince - 2045: Radical Man |
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All Songs 2045: Radical Man How can a non-musician discuss the future of music From anything other than a consumer point of view? These people make decisions 4 the bulk of us Without consulting any of us Sales and distributions of our futures, hah! If this world were fair and right They'd give up the car keys this very night Damn! (Hit it!) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Flash 4ward, 2045 What did U stand 4 in the life of your prime When faced with the final judgment of 2day Who profited from the game (The game) That U and your niggas play Radical man - (Yeah, yeah) save a life Come on take a stand Give that money back Let's make a plan The brand new currency Taking care of one another U and me (Oh) (Radical, radical) Flash backward, 1999 (backward, 1999) In a world shockful of viruses (Tell me) How'd y'all stay alive? (Everyone of y'all) Depending on this so-called man 4 everything U got comes from his hand (From his hand) Food, water, the clothes you wear How many of y'all niggas really care? We don't care (We don't care) Let's define this word: nigga (Define, define) Someone who stays high (high) Watching their life go by (bye bye) Someone content with riding it behind (ride that) Nigga They come in all colors White, Black, Puerto Rican But the main niggas we speakin' 'bout Wear suits (Say what?) and buy and sell corporations With only one thing in mind (Only one thing in mind)(Break it up!) That is the destruction of the so-called radical man by 2045 (Let's get radical) {x2} Watch me now! Schooled in the art of digital games When the war broke out they called your name (What's your name?) Everyone of color put on the front line Holocaust Avenue, 2009 Get an education, good job, who say? (Who say?) Fool with the gold fronts drinkin' Alize (Not 2day) They don't play by the rules makin' no sense 2day Gotcha online, so you think it's OK (It's not OK) (Like U're grown) Better built cellblock, (What?) Mos Def say "That's where you gonna stay, nigga" (Where U gonna stay, nigga) (Oh my God, it's the Green Mile!) (I wonder who's the man?)(Radical man) {repeated} What's up y'all? What y'all wanna do? (Talkin' about a radical man) Ain't nobody up in that crew know How 2 really run that computer And make it flow (Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa) If U ain't born with it (Radical man) U know, talkin' about the 2 and 4, hit me! (Oh)Come on U know way down, huh What George say? "Fall around" All right We claim Miles Davis, not Michaelangelo We playin' D-flat in the funk U better act like U know We don't care, what Albert Einstein did I'd rather know, rather know (What?) How they built the pyramid, hey! James Brown, Chuck D. and Jimi Turn me up louder now I don't think y'all hear me (They don't hear ya) 2045 - We will stay alive 2045 (20.... 45) - God is on our side The whole pop scenario is just nothin' but a dream (Nothin' but a dream) The day U wake up is the day U get the real cream, nigga Radical man (Radical man) Who got the plan, who got the plan? Radical man (Radical man) Who got the plan, who got the plan? This is the funk the industry most fears All of us getting 2gether (Oh yeah) In a locked board of directors I don't think so Ain't nobody runnin' this It's all about DNA, nigga Radical man Where will U be in 2045? 30 million people right now are being wiped off the face of the planet By a disease they claim has no cure In the matter of a blinking eye, all of us right now can testify Take a stand, radical man Oh! |
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