1989 the number another summer (get down)
Sound of the funky drummer
Music hittinand' your heart cause i know you got sould
(brothers and sisters hey)
Listen if youand're missinand' yand'all
Swinginand' while iand'm singinand'
Givinand' whatcha gettinand'
Knowinand' what i know
While the black bands sweatinand'
And the rhythm rhymes rollinand'
Got to give us what we want
Gotta give us what we need
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
We got to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
Chorus
As the rhythm designed to bounce
What counts is that the rhymes
Designed to fill your mind
Now that youand've realized the prides arrived
We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
From the heart
Itand's a start, a work of art
To revolutionize make a change nothinand's strange
People, people we are the same
No weand're not the same
Cause we donand't know the game
What we need is awareness, we canand't get careless
You say what is this?
My beloved lets get down to business
Mental self defensive fitness
(yo) bum rush the show
You gotta go for what you know
Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say...
Fight the power
Chorus
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant ---- to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother---- him and john wayne
Cause iand'm black and iand'm proud
Iand'm ready and hyped plus iand'm amped
Most of my heroes donand't appear on no stamps
Sample a look back you look and find
Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
Donand't worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if i say it you can slap me right here
(get it) lets get this party started right
Right on, cand'mon
What we got to say
Power to the people no delay
To make everybody see
In order to fight the powers that be
(fight the power)