Martyrs (Steve Biko)

[00:01.31] Didn't want no black consciousness
[00:04.09] If you can't kill his soul (Martyrs)
[00:06.63] Put 'em in a box with darknesses (Martyrs, martyrs)
[00:09.92] Biko, Stephen was a martyr (Martyrs)
[00:14.67] Fighting for the people
[00:17.32] Africa to USA, they say we not equal
[00:22.43] The price that we paid, them devils know
[00:25.34] When will the heavens take control?
[00:27.93] Trapped in the ghetto (Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs)
[00:31.79] Rest in peace to the heavenly deceased
[00:33.69] Gone forever 'til we meet
[00:35.09] Keep memories of thee in my speech
[00:37.06] These beats know the price we paid in chains with slave ships
[00:40.47] Ages upon ages, racist
[00:42.43] All the "isms" kept us in the graveyards and prisons
[00:45.24] Thus raising our children with a lack of broader vision
[00:47.84] Applaud the killings, police brutality's a given
[00:50.52] The blacker the nigga, the smaller the cells to fit in
[00:53.27] Forbidden, my people been forgotten
[00:55.18] From picking cotton to sit and robbing 'til you get to plotting
[00:58.20] Sicking and robbing 'cause 9-to-5 is not an option
[01:00.84] When you a felon, it's sentences they selling
[01:03.20] And niggas buying, mama crying, her son dying
[01:05.57] Lying in pool of ruby red, truly fed, dreams deferred
[01:08.36] One third lead to slaughter
[01:09.97] Malcolm, Martin, Medgar Evers, martyrs
[01:11.87] Imprisoned, the father suffering
[01:13.33] Baby mamas didn't want our consciousness
[01:16.00] Didn't want no black consciousness
[01:18.63] If you can't kill his soul (Martyrs)
[01:21.30] Put 'em in a box with darknesses (Martyrs, martyrs)
[01:24.62] Biko, Stephen was a martyr (Martyrs)
[01:29.33] Fighting for the people
[01:32.04] Africa to USA, they say we not equal
[01:37.14] The price that we paid, them devils know
[01:40.01] When will the heavens take control?
[01:42.66] Trapped in the ghetto (Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs)
[01:46.38] Come alive, son of lies
[01:47.86] For every newborn, another dies
[01:49.79] Word to wise, uncover the veiled eyes
[01:51.77] We are martyrs from the incubator to slave
[01:53.85] A slave 'cause we are mentally entrapped, it's fact
[01:56.28] When will your savior come save us?
[01:58.14] Take us to the promised land
[01:59.72] Mama's hands got the calluses, arthritis, damn
[02:02.32] We are not fighters, why cry?
[02:03.88] 'Cause rebels are no longer rebels
[02:05.67] The black leadership failing in the ghettos
[02:07.74] We are not equal, why Biko die for the people?
[02:10.56] Why Emmett Till kill for a whistle?
[02:12.46] I see you, but your eyes don't see us
[02:14.64] And your minds don't need us
[02:15.91] So when infested slums leave us
[02:17.67] We just minus justice, just is what it is
[02:20.62] Should I lie to my kids or tell 'em life is a bitch?
[02:23.77] Word to Nas and Asiatic
[02:25.64] Being black is not a sickness
[02:27.19] But thinking backwards as if we lack promised consciousness
[02:30.71] Didn't want no black consciousness
[02:33.34] If you can't kill his soul (Martyrs)
[02:36.02] Put 'em in a box with darknesses (Martyrs, martyrs)
[02:39.31] Biko, Stephen was a martyr (Martyrs)
[02:43.96] Fighting for the people
[02:46.76] Africa to USA, they say we not equal
[02:51.85] The price that we paid, them devils know
[02:54.61] When will the heavens take control?
[02:57.37] Trapped in the ghetto (Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs)
[03:01.52] For freedom cry, Stephen died
[03:04.29] He and I bonded in blood
[03:06.93] See the lies, read the eyes
[03:09.52] Realize surrounded by love
[03:12.67] Hate cannot, shall not, will not ever prevail
[03:16.09] Africa, hail
[03:17.80] A slain soldier over again
[03:20.51] Stephen, the martyr, Biko
[03:24.02] Didn't want no black consciousness
[03:26.72] If you can't kill his soul (Martyrs)
[03:29.30] Put 'em in a box with darknesses (Martyrs, martyrs)
[03:32.69] Biko, Stephen was a martyr (Martyrs)
[03:37.36] Fighting for the people
[03:40.06] Africa to USA, they say we not equal
[03:45.14] The price that we paid, them devils know
[03:48.01] When will the heavens take control?
[03:50.67] Trapped in the ghetto (Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs)
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