Dig It! by Coup

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Presto, read the communist manifesto
Guerillas in the mist, a guevara named ernesto, so
(e-roc: what a brother with a afro know? )
Yo, go and flow for the mack and be the hoe
So grow cause the lynchin brothers might get hung
Better rip through em from the tip of my mouth/mao, say/tse-tung/tongue
Deficit (money spent) catch the glint
(e-roc: of my nine as they cut welfare twenty-five percent)
And I dissent, as I clench and raise my fist
(we did away with, that) so you could get with this
Heres a twist cause well overthrow like kwame nkrumah
Spread around the wealth as if it were a, vicious rumor
Pam, cuts a record like a surgeon cuts a tumor from a brain
(e-roc: were all cooped up so feel the pain)
From four hundred years of exploitation
Anesthesia provided by your local tv station
Patience is not a virtue (I aint waitin)
Turn this shit over like bush did a boatload of haitians

*dj pam cuts and scratches dig it!*

How now brown cow Im down with the mau mau
Clown downtown tried to put us in the dog pound
Like h. rap brown with the situation
(wont get no callouses) cause Im spittin dialectical analysis
So how is this, we never had no funk
Until you found out that I turned to revolutionary hunk
(chump!) bump you over like dominoes, rat
(e-roc: so free geronimo gi jaga pratt!)
Lyrics hear it fear it cant get near it
Got a sample didnt clear it
Point blank says, fuck five-oh! thats the spirit
Cheer it, spat out, the fat that I consumed
Knew that I was doomed since my date of birth
To be the wretched of the earth, never had a dream that was american
(the golden ? leg to chair again? ) despair again
(but that aint nuthin new) told the streets were paved with gold
Whoever paved that shit got minimum wage too!

*dj pam cuts and scratches dig it!*

Do you understand, the metaphoric phrase? (repeat 3x)
Do you understand, do you understand...

(e-roc: gunned us, stunned us) exploited and they hung us
Id like to take a moment to say, fuck columbus!
(millions off my back) the black on black crisis is a myth
The crack that did this to us (was the one from the whip)
The record skip, the record skip, the record ship *scratch*
The record skips, cause my voice is kinda scratchy
From yelling, oh shit! when five-oh comes to harass me
They never pass me, no one to go and tail bro
(e-roc: trying to kill the movement with the new cointelpro)
Leaders they killed, if I said it, it would threaten em
They only see my back because Im three steps ahead of em
Were not fallin in the slot you slated
(e-roc: we realize that our powers nickel-plated)
Masses move as well as asses do, class is through
Our time is over, past its due
(and you still wanna know) the origin of the flow
Oakland california nine-four-six-one-oh

*dj pam cuts dig it!

(yeah, the coup, comin at you in ninety-three!)
Yeah, and we out yall...

Do you understand, the metaphoric phrase? (repeat 3x)
Do you understand, do you understand...
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Dig It! Lyrics

Presto, read the communist manifesto
Guerillas in the mist, a guevara named ernesto, so
(e-roc: what a brother with a afro know? )
Yo, go and flow for the mack and be the hoe
So grow cause the lynchin brothers might get hung
Better rip through em from the tip of my mouth/mao, say/tse-tung/tongue
Deficit (money spent) catch the glint
(e-roc: of my nine as they cut welfare twenty-five percent)
And I dissent, as I clench and raise my fist
(we did away with, that) so you could get with this
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