Power to the People

[Hook] Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people (People, people) Power to the people Power to the people [Verse 1: Blu & [?]] Ninety percent of the brain unused Eighty five percenters want the truth Five percent of knowledge from the gods on earth One hundred percent knowledge is self rebirth Of the nation from suffocation The new generation don't know when judgement day is coming You can hear Amadeus playing somethin' But it sounds like the drummer drumming My mom always said "The devil doesn't know what you saying when you humming" We coming (Power to the people) Who could spark the uprising Unite and shift the whole paradigm Despite who the tyrant at the time is (Power to the people) The undermined, the undivided That one of a kind sign scientist tried synthesizing But even if they find a way to mechanize it We gon' still recognize the real by the acts of the people [Hook] Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people (People, people) Power to the people (People, people) Power to the people [Verse 2: [?] & <>[?]<> ] Yeah, the meeting of divine minds The people liberate the North Dakota pipeline Way deeper than your twitter feed or timeline The Lord'll hit you in the heart like a drive-by (Power to the people) Yeah, the power just to alter thoughts So free Mumia and bring some justice out to Walter Scott I call the freedom fighters, never will I call the cop And fuck the president 'cause we the one who call the shots I hop about that Regal... looking regal, look Drop a Desert Eagle fight for free but ain't no equal for us Mind extensions, my convention's like Geneva's horrors Pour some liquor for my people leave some Seagrams for us Power to the peoples Power to the folk and power when you vote And if that power showers leave us soaked Running with my blood and know blood ain't soaked Give us free or give us heat and make them cowards go (Power to the people) [Bridge: Aloe Blacc] We yellin' power to the people All we wanted was to be equal (Power to the people) But when you shoot a little boy in the back because he black You just a coward to the people (To the people) Power to the people We plant flowers let the seeds grow Spread love let it shower away evil (Power to the people) Power to the people Don't nobody deserve all of the power So when I get it, watch how I'm gonna give it to the people (Power to the people) We are the Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Marcus Garvey (Power to the people) Malcolm X and Nat Turner, taught me to Sojourner, [?] [Verse 3: [Fashawn] & [?]] I wonder how you'll get fat with this American pie that I'ma feed you Not the people in power it's the power in the people Patrol our own ghetto don't bother sending police through They still got a problem acknowledging us as equal I got some primo's that they crawled out Mexico You can build your wall, bet it fall like Jericho Imagine power for the powerless, dollars for the dollarless And gender equality and the ending of poverty Invent a new policy to crush the idolatry It's all abomination in a nation full of follow-me's Not one leader 'cause the leaders get struck by heaters Blindfold blind, shackles on their mind and they claim they freed us Before I was a fetus to feed us lies deceive us Leave us estranged so the mental pain it never eases Leaving diseases in our food but we can see through evil I and I stand up for the truth say it [Hook] Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people (People) Power to the people Power to the people (People, people) Power to the people (People, people) (People, people) Power to the people