[00:04:12] And yes y'all [00:04:12] The sounds that you hear [00:04:12] Is gonna be so rare [00:04:12] You have no fear [00:04:12] Cause three live brothers are here [00:04:12] We got krs-one from boogie down productions [00:04:12] Special shout to melodie [00:04:12] We got my man chuck d in the house from public enemy [00:04:12] And I am kool moe dee [00:04:12] So are - you - ready? [00:04:12] Are you ready, to elevate [00:04:12] As I rhyme on time you'll illuminate [00:04:12] Hard as diamond, knowledge shinin [00:04:12] It's that time and it's all in the timin [00:04:12] 400 years blood, sweat and tears [00:04:12] The rain is over, and the sun is here [00:04:12] Yeah, bright and clear, countdown to the year [00:04:12] No fear, cause I'm in there [00:04:12] Holdin my mic like the staff of ra [00:04:12] Bringin true light after dark [00:04:12] Brothers are live, but still unborn [00:04:12] It's almost morn and it's time to mourn [00:04:12] See the light like a crack of dawn [00:04:12] The comatosed and the cracked are re-born [00:04:12] Reurgitatin the garbage we're fed [00:04:12] Cause this time dawn is dawn of the dead [00:04:12] [ chorus [00:04:12] Ain't that funky? [00:04:12] (yeah, that's funky) [00:04:12] Ain't that funky? [00:04:12] (yeah, that's funky) [00:04:12] Ain't that funky? [00:04:12] (yeah, that's funky) [00:04:12] Rise and shine [00:04:12] Ain't that funky? [00:04:12] (yeah, that's funky) [00:04:12] Ain't that funky? [00:04:12] (yeah, that's funky) [00:04:12] Ain't that funky? [00:04:12] (yeah, that's funky) [00:04:12] Get up [00:04:12] I rise and shine like the sun on the one [00:04:12] We dance together, we overcome [00:04:12] A wake-up call to wake up all [00:04:12] Stand up tall, get up and get up, y'all [00:04:12] Clap your hands in jubilation, meditation [00:04:12] Recreation, procreation of the mind [00:04:12] If you seek, we'll find [00:04:12] Born two times, but still one of a kind [00:04:12] Learn your past, find your path [00:04:12] The truth is infinite, like math [00:04:12] Countdown to the year 2000 [00:04:12] The thought alone is arousin [00:04:12] When we see our way with the third eye [00:04:12] Rise with the sun and think with a bird's eye [00:04:12] View, as I watch our exodus [00:04:12] When the higher conscious connect it's just [00:04:12] [ variations of chorus [00:04:12] The microphone is my funky scepter [00:04:12] When I speak on beat I'm tryin to connect us [00:04:12] To what's left us messed up [00:04:12] Egos dressed up, got us effed up [00:04:12] You see onto instead of into [00:04:12] You see what you want to, instead of what you been through [00:04:12] You can take the rhyme I say [00:04:12] Read it, hand it, see em three ways [00:04:12] Combine the rhyme to anyone of nine [00:04:12] For some still the light won't shine [00:04:12] You can take a shot in the dark, but keep missin [00:04:12] You aim with one eye, you just don't listen [00:04:12] Cause see, in the dark you need all three [00:04:12] Your eyes are ears when you hear what you see [00:04:12] The five senses are all correlated [00:04:12] The sixth and seventh is how you elevate it [00:04:12] [ variations of chorus [00:04:12] Ring-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding [00:04:12] This a krs with a different something [00:04:12] What, come in a dance and we come down for sing [00:04:12] This a krs me say - come! [00:04:12] Nuff slaveships come from africa [00:04:12] Full of africans, sold in america [00:04:12] Now you want me to call myself american [00:04:12] Even though america kill di african [00:04:12] Check it, white man is european [00:04:12] And blackman is african [00:04:12] White man never say euro-american [00:04:12] So why should the blackman say afro-american? [00:04:12] If the blackman is american with a afro [00:04:12] Then the white man is american with a long nose [00:04:12] It should be long-nose-american for the white man [00:04:12] Jump around and move your bottom [00:04:12] What [00:04:12] [ variations of chorus [00:04:12] Make no mistake, we don't shake or stutter [00:04:12] So heed the word of the brothers