Raise the flag chords by X clan
Verse 1
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Descending from the
tribes of Africa,
inspired by the great black leaders.
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Am
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Vanglorious, this is protected
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G
Am
by the red, the black, and the green.
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Em
With a Kizu.
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Em
A
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Dynamic, articulate, perceptive,
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courageous, outspoken.
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One man is not a nation,
brother builds a clan.
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Circle within the circle
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creates the better man.
The colors, the brothers,
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the key, the motherland.
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This cause is to assemble
this black band
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Red, black, and green are the colors
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of the flag on the rise
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Cause the na tion shouldn't guise,
I'm ever flowing
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Eb
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As I come to sons and daughters,
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knowledge leads the way
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So I flow like Nile's waters,
African -American
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Rebel of authority, majority,
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why I'm so -called minority
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Sometimes they ask me,
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why are you the rebel?
Is that the way you choose,
to tame the base and trouble you?
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Brother don't get deep,
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that's what they're telling me
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Just like a sellout,
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while society gets stronger
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and stronger
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My race is weaker and weaker,
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maybe I can make a difference
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to a mic and a speaker,
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so my lyrics float different than a
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hip -hop beatbop,
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my controller who turns out to be the bop,
my wisdom god -given exercise
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point of rhythm,
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power pos itive and strictly
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Bible, that's how I'm living,
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fortunes we establish high
so none attack it,
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back to the ways of our mathematic blackness,
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they can't solve it,
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something they can't catch,
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Am
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took respect of our lives
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and I'm snatching it back,
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power flows in the nation,
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there is life in the key,
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Am
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let us all bind together in the red,
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The black, green
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The black, green
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Em
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Verse 2
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G
Am
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The black, the green
One vanglorious way through
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the heart unified
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And that should be the guide
for the younger nation
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so they can build the tribes
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After and beyond keep the colors alive
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A message through lyrics
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and beats composed
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Written, composed
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Outstanding direct to those who
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understand what was taken
Xeroxed and stripped naked
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Today's pig shall be
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Education brings false words,
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why do they teach?
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Everything that I learned,
I had to self -reach
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What do you know of a race
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Am
that's dying hourly?
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The smartest men on the world
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lay in the Bowery
Are you the trapped
or brainwashed
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on the come up?
Am
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Kick to the butt, wake up,
are you some kind of nut?
Ab
Are you blind?
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Can't you see what's never seen?
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We need some unity
within the colors of the
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Verse 3
Am
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Ab
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Garvey like brotherhood
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flows with the vibe,
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and with the key,
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the flag is kept alive,
the sense of power,
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nat ive to a different land,
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originality, fact that I understand,
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a black fist, black power,
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Am
and a black man, ex -Klan,
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take a stand with the upper hand,
using this as a gimmick, yo man I'll catch you,
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fetch you, kick my foot
and then direct you in the right path,
Suck a tash,
don't ask me about the aftermath
You do what don't make me laugh, dummy
I am protected by forces beyond you
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Think before you sweat
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before the rebels, silly mortal
You wearing mother's tags
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and you don't know what they mean
All you are concerned with is
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greedy man's green
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Sportin' on medallions
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cause they matchin' with your outfit
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Your posse's wearin' it
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Man is so illegit without definition
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You represent the fraudulent
Blessed with blackness
but now you just doggin' it
Truth for truth and a man for man
Ignorance, take a pause
soon we'll all understand
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Independence is one thing
when unity is stronger
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No one to realize oppres
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sion lasts longer
I'm just one man who
fears for the worst
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Cause if we don't take a stand,
someone will step forth and then
No justice, no peace
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Ab
Am
Fuck Moses, Osiris, Oasis
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Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X
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Marcus Garvey, Sonny Carson
Am
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The Black Watch, Sissy Sissy!
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Raise the flag
X clan
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