Yeah, reminiscent of another time
And another state of mind
VERSE I

I used to flow
They used to call me a rhyme animal
Some of them don’t call me rio mo so

I try a new style refuse to get wild
On the B side because I still got my pride
The pride comes from another time

My father and mother plus God
Blessed the rhyme
Born in 1960 seventy suckers quizzing

Me what was it like before everybody
Tried to be like Mike
Back in the day when our peeps had

To fight for our rights
To make the day fell alright
But there is no is without a was

No about to be buts or because..I got
Pride
Reminiscent of another time

Dashikis, bells, to straight legs
Platforms & picks
See it wasn’t just about the fro

It was what was underneath that fro
Black power for the powerless
Deuce and quarters, caddies 442’s

Yeah pride

VERSE II

Say, say it loud
James singin black and I’m proud
I was in third grad when Dr. King got slain

And if I had to read a book about
The facts, the fact is that the black
Would be overlooked look

1967 I was seven livin proof of
what I had learned in my youth
what a difference a score and a

decade makes mistakes and super bad
breaks wait
I ate the food in the lunch programs

And now I see the young strung out on
Grams so I work on a go on
And so on and soon communicate to

Get the young straight
Cause I got the pride


TALK BREAK
Flamboyant names
Free Huey, Eldridge, Bobby, Angela

Woodstock to Kent State
Music of the time for the mind
45’s, Aretha, Four Tops

Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes
Assassinations Presidents


Sixties Soul

Now in order for us to know

Who we are we got to know
Who we was and once we know
Who we was then we know who

Were gonna be

Pride


VERSE III
The panther party before lad-i-da-di

Put pride inside plus taught karate
Fed heads in many ways many days
Were served locked down protectin the

Black and the brown
Now today the old must spread it
I said it

If they don’t communicate then the
You can’t get it
Problems have to be solved they
Won’t go away so man what
You say and don’t sway

Gotta get that pride

TALK
King, Malcolm, Medgar, Hampton
Ritos and rebellions

Newark, Watts, Uptown
Harlem that is black gold
Ghetto stell
I reserve the right to be nothing
But a man

We reserve the right to be nothing
But men and women