Bad Brains

[Verse One: ??]

Listen to me brother, so we can discover

why they will not play this

Their minds are enslaved with, this commercial style

But meanwhile rap is exiled

off of the radio, not on the playlist

No rotation, so listen when I'm statin that

this style, may not sell many units

It's just to protect the rep of our music

We gave birth to the sound of the 90's

And most of you who sing, can't deny me

that rap rhythm, now makes you a livin

But who will listen to the rhyme that's given?

What do you fear most, about the sound that we're teachin

To tell the truth is my reasonin

Seems to me that the radio should play the truth

to enlighten, today's black youth

Cause your education's not teachin them

It only weakens them, and they rebel to violence

I can not be silent, kick the petty rhyme

pick up my royalty check and keep slimin

as if there was nothin wrong, this indeed

is a sell-out, and that is not the way I go out

I was put here to give enlightenment

But there are some who want to change my writin

into somethin which I can not be

A sell-out MC, let me be free

to do what I do best without all the preachin

Yo Tone - why can't we teach them?



[Chorus]

Listen to me brother.. YO THIS IS FOR THE CHILDREN

Listen to me brother.. [Chuck D: "suckers never play me"]

Listen to me brother.. IT'S STRICTLY FOR THE KIDS

Listen to me brother.. [Chuck D: "suckers never play me"]



[Verse Two: ??]

Yo "radio" black radio

pull their rap out, for fear of a whiteout

They sellout like suckers and come from out their position

Fear the man on the mission but didn't bother to listen for

lessons instead, you let the critics discriminate

Put a twelve on the 12 but still you don't let it rotate

You're prime time, just another rhyme I can dance so

I loaded my lyrics and then I pumped them like ammo

Through the heart of the ghetto it's time that they know the truth

Rap music is television to mind of black youth but

the system's corrupt, they watch us all self-destruct

Instead of knowledge of self, they teach to sell-out for wealth

So take 'em back to your army, that [?] outsell

P.E. knew the time, Chuck D would fight and rebel

Follow the Minister entered to teach a lesson to all

Yo the suckers won't play this cause this is yo' "Final Call", so



[Chorus]

Listen to me brother.. DJ'S STOP SLEEPIN

Listen to me brother.. [Chuck D: "suckers never play me"]

Listen to me brother.. PROGRAM DIRECTOR, WAKE UP

Listen to me brother.. [Chuck D: "suckers never play me"]



[Tony D]

(Tell them!) Yo "radio" give me some airplay

If rap was a golf course, that'd be the fair/fareway

And we'd run through the charts like Herschell

But daytime's only for commercial

material, man who you tellin?

Despite the lack of play we're STILL sellin

more, units, than ever before

Flyin in and out of your record store

It's hip-hop, stronger than ever

Ain't no stoppin us now, the time is never