Icebreaker

[Intro]

Give me your tired and your poor

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

Icebreaker!

[Verse 1: Chuck D]

I know a silent nation in dislocation

Frustration from legislation

Led to demographic in isolation

Another participation in decapitation

Ten-four die, river deep, mountain high

Is a wall stuck between dyin' and doing time

Can't ignore it, smack dab border war

As the beat goes on, words flowed on, I caught the law

Pyramids, Machu Picchu, things they don't teach you

Don't apologize, you were here first on this earth

Before these millennial cowboys claimed their turf

Now who's a thousand miles and ran deserted in the desert?

Wild, wild west hurt to the dirt

Anti-immigration against brown skin sounds like Brownshirts

Silenced by so called legal violence

Somebody had permission to put humans in this condition

"This land is whose land?" They must've forgot

Kickin' the black in the ass while keeping the brown out

This one sided law makes me scream and shout

I-C-E is what I'm talkin' about

[Segue 1: True Mathematics]

I-C-E

[Verse 2: True Mathematics]

Sgt Hawkes, and I'm found where the cops be

I get on illegals like I'm a paparazzi

I bring flash, but it ain't a camera

Gunfire shells hot enough to damage ya

No traffickin', no drug smugglin'

I-C-E, we came in thuggin'

Straight off the wire like Snoop and Chris

You can Rush like Limbaugh we get at you quick

[Verse 3: Sekreto (Translated in English)]

What will they do when they find out about this

Come for me, for what I represent

This is my accent and I'm proud of it

We're bunches and cannot be stopped

Absurd laws with racist intentions

Benefit only to these classifiers

They insist, I insist - so here we go

Broken chains, jumping borders

Thrive or die, we're no longer satisfied

Its time for power to change hands

More righteous humans, is more human rights

They say, they owners, but we were here first

The world is free and without fear we broadcast

Multi-color race, is how we're painted

I have a dream and that dream has become my desire

Power to my peoples, not power to the governments

[Pre-Chorus: Kyle “Ice” Jason]

My, my, my, ooh wee

You should know how the story go

They was here first, you put it in reverse

You didn’t even call for a hearse when you

Left them dying in your country

[Verse 4: Chuck D]

Car radios, highway hoes, motorbike types

Skateboarder whores, watch them close them doors

Clap them hands, stomp them feet

Yeah, the more government wars

Good man, bad government, great driver, wack car

I seen it before

Marxism, dual citizens, China support

Meaning y’all go get a passport

Slavery is America's past sport

Homeland Security against my homeboys securin' me

Chained brains diaspora coming after

The same idea of the United States of Africa

Bering Strait before Palin and paleface

Waitin' for the ice to break, seventy percent of Americans ain't been no place

So the human race gets displaced

While the greedy man sees the land

His plan, seize the land to feed his face

A child lost in the wild picked your food

Built your house while still on exile

Barbed wire cactus, the new middle passage

To a person, the new whirl odors just rehearsing

[Bridge: Kyle “Ice” Jason]

I’ma put the line in the sand... huh! Cross that line

I’ma put the line in the sand... huh! Cross that line

Cause I’ma put the man in the sand... huh! Cross that man

Cause I’ma put the man in the sand... huh! Cross that man

Cause I’ma put the gun in his hand... huh! Cross that man

Cause I’ma put the gun in his hand... huh! Cross that man

I’ma put the fence in the sand... huh! Climb that fence

I’ma put the fence in the sand... huh! Climb that fence

[Ad-lib: Flavor Flav]

Damn

[Verse 5: Marcus J]

By the time I get to the end of my verse

Calisthenics of the tongue exercising the first

That's freedom of speech so I speak my right

Seems to me there’ll always be powers to fight

So Chuck, let them know that the Bulls break ice

With the power of these words that we put within a mic

Like those in the past put power to pen

It was number thirteen, made us all equal men

Now Arizona back to legislate the hate

Guess freedom ain't free on this side of the gate

But everything changes if I look a certain way

Securing the homeland from how it was made

Now the ice that we skate upon is definitely thin

We got to break bad to let the good begin

A cold flag pole grabbed a hold of my tongue

Five-I froze and we all got dumb

[Chorus 1: Kyle Jason]

I’m gonna be keep on doing the thing that’s supposed to be done

Put it on the poor thing doing the one

Get back, yeah, baby, yeah-ah

Icebreaker, icebreaker

[Segue 2]

(Ow!)

[Verse 6: Tiradiation]

One man's terrorist, another's freedom fighter

Future tech, Molotov cocktails with a lighter

Legalized gang shit, Federal BI

You wanna buy a weapon, they won't hesitate a second

Whether African, Mexican, Middle East, or Haitian

Slaughter indigenous, plunder the nation

Petition the UN to gain legal traction

Then call you the enemy to justify the action

The brown in this world will only draw ire

Of the secret society soul sucking vampires

Either I come from a long line of liars

Or a degenerate senator's pants are on fire

Surround you with the walls to protect your freedom

Overlappin' laws to ensure confusion

Protect your neck in the 2012 season

Then bounce a check in the bank of illusion

[Verse 7: Professor Griff]

Home grown terrorist, for the benefit

Can't find a title or the name, yeah, that really fits

These land jackers, paleface land grabbers

Caught in a border war, stench of the border whores

Real demons, fiendin' for a real reason

You can't truss 'em cause they always fuckin' schemin'

Broke treaties with the red man, damn!

Klan disguised as a fam? Fuck Uncle Sam!

Pause for the cause and open mental doors

These foreign invaders and human traffic traders

Undocumented worker, yeah, they want it back

Panic when the brown man link with the pro-Black

Now who's the real citizen? You never been

You raped and robbed every people, yeah, that let you in

The legalized theft of the native land

You speak with the forked tongue, with the rum and the gun in hand

[Chorus 2: Kyle “Ice” Jason]

The I-C-E (I-C-E!)

Who gets deported and who goes free?

Who gets detained and who remains?

Who gets the card and who gets the plane?

The I-C-E (I-C-E!)

Who gets deported and who goes free?

Who gets detained and who remains?

Who gets the card and who gets the plane?

The I-C-E

[Outro]

At least fifty-five million immigrants, one-fifty of the population

Are either immigrants or children of immigrants

(Icebreaker!)

(The I-C-E)

We found that missing changes in the immigration laws

And regional enforcement by the federal government

Are maybe unfairly targeting thousands

Families are being broken up

"I believe that the congressman or the senator, somebody out there is going to step up and say, 'Yeah, this is wrong'"