Album

Fire for the People


Bayani
Blue Scholars
Producer: Sabzi
2007

Verse 1:

Now what I spit, it's medicine for the sick

An attempt to get a grip before it all starts to slip

It be the call and response from the bottomless pit

I remain nonchalant when the drama get thick

The last call, ballin up my palm in a fist

The most common misperception is this

Drop a tape, rock a show, sign a line

Hit the road, hit some hoes, videos

Next you know you'll be ballin and shit

But you'll be callin it quits

When all the cards start to fall in a ditch

Cuz temptation is so hard to resist

Know there's no such thing as an unjustified existence

Except perhaps a few thousand rappers in this business

Finish what I start, scientifically, strategically

Specifically addressing the oblivion we livin in

My brethren and sisteren, I'm speaking, are you listening?

Freedom been imprisoned by the television image

If you let it instead, get affected by your habitat

Ask a few questions, quit a few bad habits

And after that handle this, similar to how Xavier McDaniel did in '86

We're talking just a little less shit

And lately been mindful of the babies I admit

But at nighttime I sit, serenaded by the blues of the skyline hue

Reminded me of the time when the old was new, and I....

 

Hook:

Spark a fire for the cold in the dark

Peace and war, both pumping soul in my heart

And no they can't keep what they stole from the art

And they love to see beef cuz it throws us apart

More fire for the people (more fire for the people)

Say more jobs for the people (more jobs for the people)

And more books for the people (more books for the people)

And more music for the people (more music for the people)

 

Verse 2:

As the world hurls toward seven billion more listeners

Seven hundred plus either killed or held prisoners

Seven thousand one hundred islands I been missin

Cuz I grind from seven to five

I don't write the scriptures

As hot as the block gets it's cold contradiction

Pen drips with honesty, I don't offer fiction

Throw the competition a bone that they try to pick with me

And learn the moral lesson and marchin forward to victory

No flag wavin' celebratin your invasion

You call it thanksgiving, we call it things taken

Everybody lookin for the ladder, not the answer to the question

Waiting til the cancers in regression

Fresh from the northwest, the hottest thing lately

Like white celebrities buying black and brown babies

Got the town crazy over beats, rhymes, and life

Peace with Adobo grease, eggs, and brown rice

And I....

 

Hook:

Spark a fire for the cold in the dark

Peace and war, both pumpin soul in my heart

And no they can't keep what they stole from the art

And they love to see beef cuz it throws us apart

More fire for the people (more fire for the people)

More food for the people (more food for the people)

More homes for the people (more homes for the people)

More clothes for the people (more clothes for the people)

More schools for the people (more schools for the people)

More land for the people (more land for the people)

More life for the people (and more life for the people)

 

Verse 3:

Yo

I've seen souls get sold so coldly

Seen what a dollar can do to the tired and true

I speak boldly, composed of a melody told

Whenever we hold the memory close

No tellin when the reaper finna post

And snatch a fan

Something that you can't capture with a camera lens

Amalgamation of the bolo and the hammer and pen

The truth hurts, no wonder the people rather pretend

I annihilate a fake persona for spare change

Everybody self included is fair game

Inherited the trait to make both ends meet

Often make a brother feel like he gotta compete

But with each release I reach for peace

Others quick to reach for the piece from here to beacon to beach

You see, freedom of speech don't apply if you're silent

I shout like I'm trying to get heard on the Island

 

Hook:

Spark a fire for the cold in the dark

Peace and war, both pumpin soul in my heart

And no they can't keep what they stole from the art

And they love to see beef cuz it throws us apart

More fire for the people (more fire for the people)

More peace for the people (more peace for the people)

More life for the people (more life for the people)

More love for the people (more love for the people)

More love for the people (more love for the people)

More love for the people (more love for the people)

More love for the people (more love for the people)



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