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On Conscious
Arrested Development

Yo, this tangled web we weave, you know I'm sayin'

We judge based on what only we believe

And not on what God believe, all of us man we just people

We're just trying to get through this thing called life, man


All of us made mistakes, keepin' making mistakes

We made being conscious into a religion instead of a tool man

I was trapped deep in this judgmental thing too

I'ma come at it like this


I had some thoughts about the black conscious scene

The red, the black, the green, Afrocentric routine

Whether we be consciously or sub-consciously aware or keen

Or just knocked on conscious


Now of course it's great to feel great about your race

Your nose, your face, your country, even your state

Your spicy foods, your unique attitudes

What makes me, me and you, you


But all roots come from just one source, the Creator

That's the missing link that justified having slaves for the enslaver

Thinking one is lesser and the others greater

One's lost, the other the savior


On the conscious scene, you'll find more greetings instead

Than in a Hallmark store, where hellos are said

And the brother nods his head and what's next is his fist to his chest

How you doing God? Oh I'm blessed


In the conscious scene there's more blessed human beings

Than there is grass that's green, at least that's how it seems

Bingo, sayin' blessed has become just lingo

'Cuz stressed is how it really goes

And we think deep down and when no one else is around


In the conscious scene we take things to the extreme

We won't call a sista, sista, we call the sista queen

But a queen is royalty so we should treat her that way

But if you ask does she feel like a queen, I wonder what she'd say


If she's conscious, she'd probably say I'm blessed, I guess

Even if her relationship's a mess

In the conscious scene we don't confess

Anything that's not perfect


It don't mean wack stuff ain't goin' on

We just quilt our covers to be strong

And cover up

And [Incomprehensible] our seemingly righteous wrongs


Now the conscious scene will judge you quick

If you now use rollers when you used to use a pick or opposite

One day a perm, the next all natural

But what change did you're heart undergo?


Is the good heart determined by a Fro?

What if the KKK wore Fro's would dey suddenly have soul?

If I don't hug you on both sides am I truly off balance?

If I shake with my left hand did I truly disrespect the man?

Man o man, it's hard to be a conscious African


If you're conscious of the double stand

I mean double standards, understand?

Oops, I mean over stand there it goes again

I guess it's just the way of the world or may be just the way of the words


Speakin' of words, the conscious scene is ain't down wit the way

Tupac and Biggie did dey things, now ain't that sumpin'?

They're just more blatant wit their womanizing statements

While we're more slick but will make booty calls just as quick

Like Atari both of us controlled solely by our joysticks


We diss the white man for being so materialistic

Yet we the only ones going ballistic to get his materials

We ice friends to make cream

We pass around a pipe just to have a dream, yeah God


I know God is higher than we are

But not higher than we are, get it?


We can stop callin' each other niggas

But won't guns still have triggers?

And won't our hands still have fingers

And won't we still be finger lickin', eatin' chicken black folks?


We must be proud of our roots but there is no substitute

For the fact we're all wack

Whether white, Jewish, Asian, Hispanic, Indian or black


The truth is we're all ruthless

And our love is as conditional as medical insurance

And without the man Jesus we're hopeless


I say the man not the slave ship

But the one spoke of in God's manuscript

And not the one painted wit a pale face at yo grandma's crib

And surely not the one at dem churches that's all preach and no live


If we're gonna be conscious, let's start really being conscious

About treatin' our wives with respect not takin' dey welfare checks

And start puttin' all fake jokas in straight up check

No more thinkin' wit our joysticks


No more takin' chick flicks at freak nic

While we way that the white man is so sick

'Cuz until we stop bein' such hypocrites

We gonna continue to be knocked on conscious, can you dig it?


I been wonderin', isn't it for us to wrong?

Standin' out here all alone when we can go home

I been wonderin', isn't it for us to cry

Makin moves just to get by, seachin' for the light


I been wonderin', isn't it for us to wrong?

Standin' out here all alone when we can go home

I been wonderin', isn't it for us to cry

Makin' moves just to get by, seachin' for the light


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