Rightstarter (Message To A Black Man)
Public Enemy

Mind over matter, mouth in motion
Can't defy, 'cause I'll never be quiet
Let's start this
Right

You spend a buck in the 80's, whatcha you get is a preacher
Forgivin' this torture of the system that brought cha
I'm on a mission and you got that right
Addin' fuel to the fire, punch to the fight

Many have forgotten what we came here for
Never knew or had a clue so you're on the floor
Just growin', not knowin' about your past
Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass

Mind over matter, mouth in motion
Can't defy, 'cause I'll never be quiet
Let's start this
Right

Some people fear me when I talk this way
Some come near me, some run away
Some people take heed to every word I say
Some wanna build a posse, some stay away

Some people think that we plan to fail
Wonder why we go under or we go to jail
Some ask us why we act the way we act
Without lookin' how long they kept us back

Mind over matter, mouth in motion
Can't defy, 'cause I'll never be quiet
Let's start this
Right

Yes, you if I bore you, I won't ignore you
I'm sayin' things that they say I'm not supposed to
Give you pride that you may not find
If you're blind about your past then I'll point behind

Kings, queens, warriors, lovers
People, proud sisters and brothers
Their biggest fear, suckers get tears
When we can top their best idea

Mind over matter, mouth in motion
Can't defy, 'cause I'll never be quiet
Let's start this
Right

Mind revolution, our solution
Mind over matter, mouth in motion
Corners don't sell it, no, you can't buy it
Defy, 'cause I'll never be quiet
Let's start this
Right

Our solution, mind revolution
Can't sell it, no, you can't buy it in a potion
You lie about the life that you wanted to try
Tellin' me about a head you decided to fly

Another brother with the same woes that you face
But you shot with the same hands, you fall from grace
Every brother should be every brother's keeper
But you shot with your left while your right was on your beeper

Mind over matter, mouth in motion
Can't defy, 'cause I'll never be quiet
Let's start this
Right

As the world turns, it's a terrible waste
To see the stupid look stuck on your face
Time bomb alarm for the world, just try it
Known to all zones as the one man riot

I'm on a mission to set you straight
Children it's not too late
Explain to the world when it's plain to see
To be what the world doesn't want us to be

Mind over matter, mouth in motion
Can't defy, 'cause I'll never be quiet
Let's start this


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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... 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(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... 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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   Revolutionary Generation   Revolverlution   Rightstarter   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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