Friend, rapper and Rhymesayers artist Toki Wright just sent me this. A Remix of Public Enemy's "By The Time I Get to Arizona" the 2010 version. Your job is to listen and repost , repost, everywhere.
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Song: By The Time I Get To Arizona Reduex
Artist: Toki Wright
They say 400,000 workers
Crept across the border
Hell yeah
I need to get to Arizona
But my money’s spent
On food clothes and rent
Neither party is mine
So middle finger to the government
20,000 brown skinned people in the corner
of the cell
some from Tiajuana some from California
populus none
in the desert and sun
where the whip cracker
sucka minuteman
get his new job from
look hard at prison guards
Isn’t it odd and unique
Seeing people beat down
In the heat
120 degree
til my people get free
More Fiya to your tower
til it burn to our feet
why wanna pass a law
well fuck it
cause they wanna
separating kids from their
daddy and their momma
they aint selling no rock
standing out on no block
I got a 9 in my mind
So blam blam
I’m the trigger man
Looking for the govenor
Huh, she aint loving ya
Ha, But here to trouble ya
She’s rubbing you wrong
Get with it and ride along
Let me get to the point
I urinated on the law
While I was kicking this song
Yeah
She appear to be fair
Whip cracker over there
She trying to keep it yesteryear
The good ole days
The same ol ways
That keep us poor
Mad that theres more of us
And less of yah’ll
Indeed
What she need
Is less Jim Beam
Read between the lines
Then you see the lies
Politically planned
But understand
That all she wrote
With the evil inside
You hide behind your vote
And now they want to ban us
damn
I’m speaking bout my people
You live on stolen land
So you’re illegal
Wait
I aint waiting for no date
My people need respect
So yah’ll can shove your laws
C’mon!
I'm on the one mission
To tell the politicians to honor
Or be a gonner
BY THE TIME I GET TO ARIZONA
Well….
I got about 100 days to do it
If a walls in the way
Watch me kick right through it
Cause I gotta do what I gotta do
Toki’s number 1
Gets the job done
When it's done and over
police got a quota
Its simple mathematics
Not stick but automatic
That's the way it is
Now something’s got to give
SB 1,0,7,0 got to go!
Make the state pay
Lookin' for the day
Hard as it seems
This ain't no damn dream
Gotta know what I mean
It's team against team
Lets wash the slate clean
So I pray
I pray everyday
I do and praise Jah and Buddha
Blocking off blocks
Make coppers have to come and move ya
Pushin' and shakin' the structure
Bringin' down the babylon
Hearin' the sucker
That make it hard for the brown
Was hard on the Boulevard
But now
More now than ever now
Who's sittin' on my freedom
Oppressor’s the soul eaters
We deep in the streets
No justice no peace
What we screaming now
Reparation a piece of the nation
And damn we got some nerve
Another terrorist they say and classify
We want too much
My peoples in here deep
Touch one of us
You’ll see a ton of us
Here's a brother my attitude hit 'em
Let me know
They come into your front do
You come into they front do
The blind get a mind
No more fearing
And we gone clear it out
There will be the day we know who’s down and who will go
Go, go, go, go
BY THE TIME I GET TO ARIZONA
2 comments:
Powerful words, crucial message.
thank you for showing some love to Toki! we love him up here in the twin cities too.
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