Nature of the Threat

The nature of the threat
The nature of the threat
That we're facing, bracing
From the new world order
To the Order of Freemasons
It's the force behind race
The division of class
And 7 billion folks
Each watching they own ass
All so focused on the self
Nobody has each other's backs
Divided, conquered
Guess who gets the last laugh?
Built on centuries of pain, oppression
Pressin' on us
Until we learn our lesson
If we knew our histories
And how they intersect
Like the pieces of a puzzle
How our struggles connect
And I reflect on similarities
Between the past and the present
Sick of livin' on my knees
A thousand years before
Columbus came
My people colonized, massacred
Bound and chained
Now you get hung up on race
Demonize on color lines
Yeah, race is a factor
But it leaves you blind
To the reality we're sittin' in
The same boat
It's got a big-ass leak
If you wanna stay afloat
Shut the fuck up
We got to work together
And if we can't do this shit
We're gonna sink together
It's the fear and the pain
Imbedded in our brains
While we killing each other
In the name of the game
It's race, and racism
Class, and class war
It's the way the rich feed
Of the lives of the poor
It's the death of hope
And the fear of change
Feelin' like the target on a firing range
While we're fightin' each other
For the crumbs they drop
When if we stood up together
We'd make the world stop
'Round the world people die
From this corporate cancer
[unintelligable] and Nigeria
Machine guns and massacres
Use race and religion to divide us
Genocide
Indigenous land gets stolen
Worldwide
From Chiapas to Chechnya
Ireland to Tibet
We're fightin' for our lives
Gettin' offensive like debt
I'm rolling six feet deep
But I ain't givin' up yet
'Cause poor people everywhere
Know the nature of the threat
It's the profit machine
We're 4 thousand years deep
In the fight for our minds
Tryin' the herd us like sheep
I trace it back before Rome
To the first empires
Pyramids above slaves
But there's a rage of fire
Of resistance to the system
For instance
We're fightin' in the street
To preserve of existence
Resistance is fertile
And we grow like weeds
And my voice is the wind
Just spreadin' the seeds
In the face of extinction
Annihilation
Organize to rise
In every nation
It's the fear and the pain
Imbedded in our brains
While we killing each other
In the name of the game
It's race, and racism
Class, and class war
It's the way the rich feed
Of the lives of the poor
It's the death of hope
And the fear of change
Feelin' like the target on a firing range
While we're fightin' each other
For the crumbs they drop
When if we stood up together
We'd make the world stop
My family came in on the auction block
We were indentured servants
But now my people forgot
Our history
From sweatshops to sharecroppin'
It's only natural
That I'd be hip-hoppin'
We were [unintelligible]
Broke as fuck in Oklahoma
'Til my granddaddy brought his fam
To California
Only way he did that is
Through the Armed Forces
But we're still white trash
So y'all, of course,
It's the same if you're black, white or brown,
Long as you're broke
The American dream
Is a sick, sad joke
And then they wonder why it is
That poor people smoke
Y'all, it's self medication
Breathe it in and choke
Normalize alibis of a dream differed
Social services your kids
If you're caught with the herb
While the real criminals
Are kicking it on Wall Street
All my people in the street
Have got nothing to eat
It's the economy, stupid!
Rigged against us
TV news brainwashing
Designed to convince us
We need they asses
To be real, the upper classes
Dead weight on our backs
Doing they best to smash us
Damn right, it's like that
I'm on the attack
Bringin' artillery to take the world back
Bringin' artillery to take the world back
It's the fear and the pain
Imbedded in our brains
While we killing each other
In the name of the game
It's race, and racism
Class, and class war
It's the way the rich feed
Of the lives of the poor
It's the death of hope
And the fear of change
Feelin' like the target on a firing range
While we're fightin' each other
For the crumbs they drop
When if we stood up together
We'd make the world stop
The nature of the threat