[Intro: Malcolm X]
And when I speak I don’t speak as a democrat or a republican
Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy
You and I have never seen democracy, all we’ve seen is hypocrisy
[Reporter]
Is the Black Panther Party a military organization?
[Huey P. Newton]
Is America a military state?
[Verse 1]
From 1956 to 71 the devil
Begun, In the form of Edgar Hoover to run
Covert operations of the FBI
Code named CoIntelPro, I’ll tell you why
The aim was to help blow communism out or
So they said, but really the agenda was to
Go instead, squash all the dissidents
Peace activist and progressive resistance
This is for instance what led to the deaths of
Martin Luther and Malcolm X
Fred Hampton, and many other heavy brothers
Black Panthers and Native American strugglers
What’s worse is the underhanded ways in which
The government’s so heinous
And if you think it is all done your wrong
History is cyclical and it’s still going on
[Chorus]
This Party ain’t the same, it’s a party for your brain
Party until Babylon burn in the flame
This Party ain’t the same, it’s a party for your brain
Party until Babylon burn in the flame
This is the
ProIntelPro the pro-intelligence program
Promote intelligence, global developments
Local street elements feed the currents
Counter the lies of the secret service
[Verse 2]
Counterintelligence never really stopped
Or flopped, they just have covered it up and bumped it up
A notch, they love to watch and continue tactics
Of disseminating lies turning you backwards
But propaganda that works both ways and
Just like in those days we’ve got our own ways
While they spread lies we gotta spread truth
They got a hold on the old but we represent youth
Well they divide and conquer, we must unite it stronger
They break the real links we gotta make the people think
Used to use communism as a guise now the style is
To call you a terrorist if you’re not down with
America’s arrogance but any real patriot
Knows to oppose this is appropriate
To the puppet they confide to the public they have lied
You know, I’m kinda glad Reagan died!
[Chorus]
This Party ain’t the same, it’s a party for your brain
Party until Babylon burn in the flame
This Party ain’t the same, it’s a party for your brain
Party until Babylon burn in the flame
This is the
ProIntelPro the pro-intelligence program
Promote intelligence, global developments
Local street elements feed the currents
Counter the lies of the secret service
[Verse 3]
See counterintelligence means anti intelligence
In other words they promote stupidity
We are the epitome of rapping relevance
ProIntellPro we promote intelligence
This is what real hip hop is meant for doing
This is the evolution of revolution
They know this so they corrupt it an infiltrate
And that’s how rap dropped from it’s pinnacle state
In lyrical weight because they win if you think
It’s fly to be a gangsta, pimp sell your soul to
Bank a bit sell some drugs and help in
Self-destruction into the matrix plugged in
That’s not real hip hop, it’s dangerous traitorous
And we are coming back to shame these bitch
Ass MCs back to the program
And promote intelligence with the flows 'dem
[Chorus]
This Party ain’t the same, it’s a party for your brain
Party until Babylon burn in the flame
This Party ain’t the same, it’s a party for your brain
Party until Babylon burn in the flame
This is the
ProIntelPro the pro-intelligence program
Promote intelligence, global developments
Local street elements feed the currents
Counter the lies of the secret service
[Outro: Malcolm X]
The government has failed us, you can’t deny that
Anytime you’re living in the twentieth century and you’re walking around here singin’ “we shall overcome,” the government has failed you
This is a new generation! If they’re gonna draft these young Black men, and send them over to Korea or South Vietnam to face eight-hundred million Chinese: If you’re not afraid of those odds you shouldn’t be afraid of these odds
If you’re Black you were born in jail, in the north as well as the south. Stop talkin’ about the south. Long as you south of the--long as you south of the Canadian border, you’re south! (Audience laughter)
