I pour some water on the ground
For the soldiers that's fallen
Those who paid the ultimate price
When they answer they callin
To all the martyrs that we lost as
A people in common
You got blown away but you
Didn't go in vain
True examples of change on the
Frontline of the battle
Brothers like Bunchy Carter suit
Up and rolled when it mattered
Wasn't a hidden agenda
Wasn't Maulana Karenga
He got blown away still unknown today
John Lennon and Gandhi
Both were proponents of peace
Spiritual message they taught
Millions of people they reached
Suited devils amongst
Plotted the dark and the light
Both got blown away so
Bearin this Glock is my right
Is there a message encoded
Deep in the violent display
Renderin people afraid keepin
The movement at bay
Go intel pro is a lie still to
Discourage the rise
Leaders get blown away
The media covers our eyes
Modern-day genocide what
Hope is there for tomorrow
Whether it's vertical or the
Violence is horizontal
I lost too many cousins
But was it the bullets that took you
Or was it the situations society put you
Though I rally for peace
Still I carry my piece
I keep it free of debris
I keep it oiled and greased
They say it's freedom of
Speech but just watch what you say
Before your face on a shirt
Like "He got blown away" uh)
I knew a rapper that just rhymed
Of his dope and his grind
But heard a dead prez record
That opened his mind
You know what happened the
Second he pressed play what )
He got blown awayyyyyyy yeah)
This other kid had never
Listened to S to the A nah)
So yesterday I gave him a
Couple records to play yeah)
He heard "Clap" and the shit that I did with Trey
He got blown awayyyyyyy
Henny on the floor for every young boy
Murdered in Baltimore
Watts to Little Rock Arkansas
Philadelphia D C to Chi-Town Chi-Town)
And every other ghetto
Where niggaz get shot down
The drama's pitiful little
Niggaz is homicidical
We ignore the fact that
All the crime is political
When somebody's blown away
Somebody's gone away
Prison population inflatin
The shit grow e'ry day
It's usually us that's
Occupyin the Riker's bus
It's more than us fightin just
This shit is a crisis cuz
350 million guns in United States
Y'all callin my music conscious
I'm callin it wide awake
The ghettos that I escape
A lot of others succumb
It's hard when your pops a crackhead
And your mother's a bum
And you discovered the slums is
Not a place you should stay
But the only way to leave there is
For you to get blown away
I knew a rapper that just rhymed
Of his dope and his grind
But heard a dead prez record that
Opened his mind
You know what happened the
Second he pressed play what )
He got blown away yeah)
This other kid had never
Listened to S to the A nah)
So yesterday I gave him a
Couple records to play yeah)
He heard "Clap" and the
Shit that I did with Trey
He got blown away
