Powerful

[Verse 1: Murs]

(Powerful)

They call me slept on, guess I'm the one they dreaming 'bout

But when they finally woke, it'll be my name that they'll be screaming out

Been walking this path from an early age

Reading books by the Panthers, building up my rage

At age 14, rest soul on ice

Spook Who Sat By The Door, read that joint twice

Ice Cube, Brotha J and Ice T

These are the professors that would set my mind free

Fuck the police to the Easton cop killer

These were my textbooks, sorry it was not thriller

That pop music was filler, no disrespect to Mike

But I was fed up and focused, I was ready to fight

The power

With Flavor Flav and Carl Ridenhour now emerged my energy with Public Enemy for many hours

Towers of Babylon that radiate pollution

Are the same ones we'll be using to stream the revolution

[Chorus: Murs]

Facts is facts and the fact is whack is whack

Nowadays they need to let the rappers rap

Facts is facts and the fact is trap is trap

Whip that work, but just let the rappers rap

Facts is facts, it's a fact that you stackin' racks

Get your money, but just let the rappers rap

Rappers act like rappers but they still singing

Autotune and making music with no meaning

[Verse 2: Murs]

I stand for the flag, and stand for my people

This is not a contradiction, I am not a fan of evil

Most of these rappers is evil as these politicians

Flexing on their own folks who ain't even got a pot to piss in

Still they loving on the bad guy

Try to be the hero, my people tell me to stand by (Stand by)

Cause I don't rap about the coonery

I'm Rogue One, standing like Diego in this lunacy

Ergo, my Earth go Urso, full circle

And we plant seeds amongst the weeds to make the Earth grow

Pollocks sprout as I spout this intelligence

Horrid in my aura, my intent is of intelligence

Radio once meant relevance, now irrelevant

It's all about the playlist, the playing field is levelling

If you got better ideas, then I am Edison

Electrifying and defining true music medicine

[Chorus: Murs]

Facts is facts and the fact is whack is whack

Nowadays they need to let the rappers rap

Facts is facts and the fact is trap is trap

Whip that work, but just let the rappers rap

Facts is facts, it's a fact that you stackin' racks

Get your money, but just let the rappers rap

Rappers act like rappers but they still singing

Autotune and making music with no meaning

[Outro: Propaganda]

We live in this odd paradox right?

This juxtaposition of knowing too much and not enough

I got facts to quote ya, you just don't know when to shut up

When you can't un-understand

Know too much to leave it alone and not enough to trust the process of seeing too much

Art that builds cultures and chants down tyranny's power

And empowers powerless, homie how you gon' change the land with one tenth of your man's fanbase

Facts!

Am I too smart to be that dumb or too dumb to be that smart

Lol, nevermind, I'll just rap