Revolutionary Generation
Public Enemy

I get down to what it is and if it ain't funky
(See ya)
People askin' me what's goin' on with my mind
(Huh)
Wait a minute

It's just a matter of race 'cause a black male's in their face
Step back for the new jack swing on the platter scatter, huh
We got our own thing, just jam to let the rhythm run
Day to day, America eats it's young and defeats our women

There is a gap so wide we all can swim in drown in an' get it
(Uh, get down)
Got it goin' on wit it, sister, soul sister, we goin' be all right
(Hey)

It takes a man to take a stand, understand it takes
A woman to make a stronger man
(As we both get strong)
They'll call me a crazy Asiatic while I'm singin' a song

Oh, my God, oh, my Lord, I can't hold back
But I get exact on a track, it's an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
Forget about me, just set my sister free
R E S P E C T my sisters, not my enemy
('Cause we'll be stronger together)
And make the suckers say, this generation
(Damn)

They don't know what we got goin' is, to turn it all around
(Sound)
To my sisters I communicate with the bass and tone
Through speakers and the microphone
'Cause I'm tired of America dissin' my sisters
(For example, like they dissed Tawana)

And they try to say she's a liar, my people don't believe it
But even now they're getting higher of the feeling inspiration
We must know that in this nation, every single generation
(They teach us how to dis our sisters)

Strange as you say, I say revolution
Need for change brings on revolution
The great book just look see solution

God chooses who and what for the bruisin'
There's been no justice for none of my sisters
Just us been the ones that's been missin' her
Now we got to protect, we get together and damn this generation

I said so, to what it is, where it is? She needs a lil' respect
There it is, I say she needs a lotta
Brother from a mother like me has gotta
Give it up, give it now and pass it all around to my soul
(Sister)

They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt
America took her, reshaped her, raped her
Nope, it never made the paper, beat us, mated us
Made us attack our woman in black

So, I said sophisticated B, don't be one
Not to head the warning crack of dawn
Or is it the dawn of crack? Stop the talk they say
But we talk and say whats right or wrong
Some say we wasting time singin' a song

But why is it that we're many different shades?
Black woman's privacy invaded years and years
You cannot count my mama's tears
It's not the past but the future's, what she fears
Strong we be strong, the next generation
It's what not who we are facin'

The fingers pointed to us in our direction
The blind state of mind needs correction
Word to the mother we tighten connection
To be a man you need no election

This generation generates a new attitude
Sister to you we should not be rude
So, we come together and make 'em all say
Damn this generation


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  ...And No One Broadcasted Louder Than..(Intro)   ...Everything   \   1 ( PEace )   1 Million Bottlebags   2 ( resPEct)   31 flavors   41: 19   41:19   54321 Boom   54321...Boom   66.6 Strikes Again   911 Is a Joke   A Letter to the New York Post   A Letter To The NY Post   Ain'tnuttin Buttersong   Aintnuttin Buttersong   Air Conditioning   Air Conditioning Listen Listen   Air Conditioning (Revisited)   Air Hoodlum   Ali Rap Theme   And No One Broadcasted Louder Than... (Intro)   Anti - Nigger Machine   Anti-Nigger Machine   As Long As The People Got Somethin’ To Say   As Long as the People Got Something to Say   B Side Wins Again   B Side Wins Again [Scattershot Remix]   Bedlam 13: 13   Bedlam 13:13   Beyond Trayvon   Black Is Back   Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos   Black steel in the hourdo you wanna go our way   Bring Tha Noise   Bring tha Noise [Version]   Bring tha Noize   Bring Tha Noize (with Anthrax)   Bring That Beat Back   Bring That Beat Back [Back to the Breakbeats Mixx]   Bring The Noise   Bring the Noise [Acappella]   Bring the Noise [Pump-Kin Instrumental] [Remix][In...   Bring the Noise Remix [Instrumental]   Bring the Noise Remix [Instrumental]   Bring The Noise(Anthrax)   Broke Diva   Brothers Gonna Work It Out   Burn Hollywood Burn   By the Time I Get to Arizona   By the Time I Get to Arizona [Album Version]   By the Time I Get to Arizona [the Moleman Mix]   By the Time I Get to Arizona [The Moleman Mixx]   Can You Hear Me Now   Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man   Can't Truss It   Cant Truss It   Catch The Thrown   Caught, Can I Get A Witness   Caught, Can We Get a Witness   Caught, Can We Get a Witness?   Check What You're Listening To   Check What You’re Listening To   Cold Lampin With Flavor   Cold Lampin' With Flavor   Contract On The World Love Jam   Contract on the World Love Jam [Instrumental]   Corplantationopoly   Countdown To Armageddon   Countdown to Armageddon [*]   Countdown to Armageddon [DVD]   Crash   Crayola   Dark Side Of The Wall 2000   Dark Side of the Wall: 2000   Death Of A Carjacka   Do You Wanna Go Our Way   Do You Wanna Go Our Way?   Do You Wanna Go Our Way???   Do You Wanna Go Our Way??? (Live At The Fillmore 2...   Don't Believe The Hype   Don't Believe The Hype   Dont Give Up The Fight   Donu2019t Believe the Hype   Earthizen   Either We Together Or We Ain’t   Either You Get It By Now Or You Don’t   Electric Slave   Escapism   Eve of Destruction   Everything   Fame   FassFood   Fear Of A Black Planet   Field Nigga Boogie (XLR8R Remix)   Fight The Power   Fight The Power - Live   Fight the Power (Soul Power u2013 Who Stole This S...   Fight The Power (Soundtrack Version)   Fight the Power [Album Version][Edit]   Fight the Power [Do the Right Thing]   Fight the Power [DVD]   Fight the Power [Edited Album Version][Version]   Fight the Power [Extended Version][*]   Fight the Power [Flavor Flav Meets Spike Lee]   Fight the Power [Live Winterthur, Switzerland]   Fight the Power [Powersax][*]   Fight the Power [Soundtrack Version]   Fight the power soul power u2013 who stole this so...   Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Da   Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Da...   Final Count of the Collison Between Us and the Dam...   First The Sheep Next The Shepherd   First The Sheep Next The Shepherd?   Flavor Flav Cold Lampin'   Frankenstar   Game Face   Game Face   Get it In   Get Off My Back   Get the F... Outta Dodge   Get The Fuck Outta Dodge   Get Up Stand Up   Get Your Shit Together   Gett Off My Back   Give It Up   Give Peace a Damn   Give The Peeps What They Need   Give The Peeps What They Need - Clean   Go Cat Go   Godd Complexx   Gotta Do What I Gotta Do   Gotta Give The Peeps What They Need   Gotta Give the Peeps What They Need [DJ Johnny Jui...   Gotta Give the Peeps What They Need [DJ Johnny Jui...   Hard Rhymin   Hard Rhymin'   Hard Truth Soldiers   Harder Than You Think   Harder Than You Think (London Radio edit)   Harry Allen’s Interactive Super Highway Phone Ca...   Hazy Shade of Criminal   He Got Game   He Got Game [DVD]   He Got Game [DVD][Live]   He Got Game [Live]   He Got Game [Radio Edit]   Hell No We Ain't All Right!   Hell No We Aint Alright   Hell No, We Ain't Allright   Here I Go   Hit da Road Jack   Hitler Day   Hoover Music   House Of The Rising Son   House Of The Rising Son   House Of The Rising Sun   House Sell Soul To A Souless People Who Sold Their...   How to Kill a Radio Consultant   How to Kill a Radio Consultant (The DJ Chuck Chill...   How to Kill a Radio Consultant [The DJ Chuck Chill...   How You Sell Soul To A Souless People Who Sold The...   I   I Ain't Mad At All   I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga   I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga   I Shall Not Be Moved   I Stand Accused   I Stand Accused - Clean Version   Icebreaker   If You Want It To Be Good Girl (Get Yourself A Bad...   Incident at 66. 6 Fm   Incident At 66.6 FM   Incident At 66.6 FM (Instrumental)   Incident at 66.6 FM [Instrumental]   Invisible Man   Is Your God a Dog   Kevorkian   Kill Em Live   Last Mass Of The Caballeros   Leave This Off Your Fu*kin Charts   Leave This Off Your Fu*kin Charts [Instrumental]   Leave This Off Your Fuckin Charts   Let's Have A Party   Live & Undrugged Part I Ii   Live And Undrugged Part I & II   Live And Undrugged Pt. 1 & 2   Livin In A Zoo (Remix)   Living In A Zoo   Living In A Zoo (Remix)   Living In A Zoo (The 13th Message)   Living in a Zoo [Remix]   Long and Whining Road   Lost At Birth   Lost in Space Music   Louder Than a Bomb   Louder Than a Bomb (JMJ Telephone Tap Groove)   Louder Than a Bomb [JMJ Telephone Tap Groove]   Lsd   M. P. E.   M.P.E.   Make It Hardcore   Makes You Blind   Man Plans God Laughs   Me To We   Meet The G That Killed Me   Megablast   Megablast (The Madd Skillz Bass Pipe Gett Off Remi...   Mind Deep [#][Instrumental]   Mind Terrorist   Mine Again   Miuzi Weighs A Ton   Miuzi Weighs a Ton [Live]   MKLVFKWR   MKLVFKWR (“Make Love, Fuck War”)   MKLVFKWR (Put Your Hands In The Air)   More News at 11   More News at 11 [Extended Gary G-Wiz Mega Bomb]   Most of My Heroes Still..   Move!   New Whirl Odor   Night of the Living Baseheads   Nighttrain   Nighttrain [Album Version]   Nighttrain [Instrumental]   Nighttrain [Instrumental]   Nighttrain [Peter Rock String Isalnd Mt. Vernon Me...   No Sympathy from the Devil   Notice (Know This)   Now A Daze   Paid   Party for Your Right to Fight   Party for Your Right to Fight (Blak Wax Metromixx)   Pesa #1   Pesa #2   Plastic Nation   Politics of the Sneaker Pimps   Pollywanacraka   Power To The People   Praise The Loud   Preachin' to the Quiet   Preaching To The Quiet   Prophets Of Rage   Public Enemy #1   Public Enemy No. 1   Public Enemy No. 1 [Jeronimo Punx Redu]   Public Enemy No.1   Pump The Music, Pump The Sound   Pump The MusicPump The Sound   Put It Up   Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)   Race Against Time   Rage Against Time   Raise The Roof   Raw Shit   Rebel Without a Pause   Rebel Without a Pause [*]   Rebel Without a Pause [DVD][Live]   Rebel Without a Pause [Live]   Rebel Without a Pause [Vocal Version]   Rebirth   Rebirth Of A Nation (eaturing Professor Griff   Reggie Jax   Resurrection   Revelation 33 1/3 Revolutions   Revolution   Revolverlution   Rightstarter   Rightstarter (Message To A Black Man)   Riotstarted   Rise   Rise   RLTK   Run Til Its Dark   Say It Like It Really Is   See Something, Say Something   Sex, Drugs & Violence   Shake Yo Booty   Shake Your Booty   She Watch Channel Zero?!   Show ‘Em Watcha Got   Show em whatcha got   Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely   Shut Em Down   Shut Em Down (Live in the UK)   Shut Em Down (Pete Rock) Remix   Shut Em Down (remix)   Shut Em Down [Album Version]   Shut Em Down [DVD]   Shut Em Down [Pete Rock Mix]   Shut Em Down [The Functionist Version]   So Whatcha Gone Do Now?   Son of a Bush   Sophisticated Bitch   Stop In The Name...   Sudden Death (Interlude)   Super Agent   Super Agent   Super Agent... 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