What Michelle Obama Meant By: Black People will Wake UP

[zarathustra]

does anybody here listen to the last poets???they really asked a lot of tough questions back in the day....anyone got that first record...one of the best ever..

WOW! Someone who listens to the Last Poets...........I'd like to get high and listen to music with you! B-E-Y-O-N-D-E-R!

[yodajazz]

does anybody here listen to the last poets???they really asked a lot of tough questions back in the day....anyone got that first record...one of the best ever..

MY Favorite:

Wake Up Niggers

Night, descends, as the sun's light ends
And black comes back, to blend again
And with the depth of the sun
Night blackness become one
Blackness being you
Peeping through the red, the white, and the blue
Dreaming of bars, black civilizations that once florished and grew
HEY! - WAKE UP, NIGGERS or y'all through!
Drowning in the puddle of the white man's spit
As you pause for some drawers in the midst of shit
And ain't got nothing to save your funky-ass with!
You cool, fool - sipping on a menthol cigarette 'round midnight
Rapping about how the Big Apple is outta sight, when you ain't never had a bite
Who are you fooling? Me, you
Wake up, niggers or ya ALL through!
In Uptown, two roaches are drowned in each other's piss
In Downtown, interracial lovers secretly kiss
While junkies are dreaming of total bliss
Somewhere in the atmospheeeere, far away from heeeeere
Beyond realms of white dimensions, gathered by suppressed intentions
As their CRIES, cries, cries go unrecognized
Except by their keeper, the Grim Reaper
"Save me a corner" you shout, as the lights go out
'cause you ain't paid your 'lectric bill
And the rats and roaches move on in for the kill
As your lips struggle to strain, that last drop from the wine bottle
And you roll snake eyes, never to realizing that you BLEW
WAKE up, niggers or ya all through!
Sitting in the corner with your minds tied to your behinds
Bonafied members of Niggers Anonymous
Never knowing which way you're going - pimpin' off life
Turning tricks to slick dicks, with candy asses
"All masses are behelding a mind mourning for the Late Great black maaaaaaan... "
(Ahhhhhhh-meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen...)
YOU NIGGERS UNDERSTAND? ! UP AGAINST THE WALL
Black Maryland farmers, before I blow you away
And you'll never live to see the light of day
And the nightstick, the nightstick it glides GRACEFULLY upside yo' head
That's right, brothers and sisters, YOU the livin' dead
When the cock crows, and the night goes
And it saves your ass in the nick of time
As you wake up and you start to find
Yourself, laying up in bed - scratching your ass and head
Trying to remember where you recall this same nightmare
That always leaves you feelin' blue
But you still can't place, The Man face, as hard as you try to
HEY! - WAKE UP, NIGGERS OR WE ALL THROUGH!

[yodajazz]

This is my favorite part of the song/lyircs. I practically rememberd this by heart, so much so, I had to make maybe six corrections on the internet version I copied. This had to come out in the mid seventies.
I'll have to see if I can find this on vinyl, but I had a lot of records that got water damaged.

By the way one line I edited to say, "Black Maryland farmers". It was an old way to say "Black mother fucker" with out using curse words.

This is my favorite verse of all:

Uptown, two roaches are drowned in each other's piss
Downtown, interracial lovers secretly kiss
While junkies are dreaming of total bliss
Somewhere in the atmospheeeere, far away from heeeeere
Beyond realms of white dimensions, gathered by suppressed intentions
As their CRIES, cries, cries go unrecognized
Except by their keeper, the Grim Reaper
"Save me a corner" you shout, as the lights go out
'cause you ain't paid your 'lectric bill
And the rats and roaches move on in for the kill
As your lips struggle to strain, that last drop from the wine bottle
And you roll snake eyes, never to realizing that you BLEW
WAKE up, niggers or ya all through!
.....

[dafame]

This is my favorite part of the song/lyircs. I practically rememberd this by heart, so much so, I had to make maybe six corrections on the internet version I copied. This had to come out in the mid seventies.
I'll have to see if I can find this on vinyl, but I had a lot of records that got water damaged.

By the way one line I edited to say, "Black Maryland farmers". It was an old way to say "Black mother fucker" with out using curse words.

This is my favorite verse of all:

Uptown, two roaches are drowned in each other's piss
Downtown, interracial lovers secretly kiss
While junkies are dreaming of total bliss
Somewhere in the atmospheeeere, far away from heeeeere
Beyond realms of white dimensions, gathered by suppressed intentions
As their CRIES, cries, cries go unrecognized
Except by their keeper, the Grim Reaper
"Save me a corner" you shout, as the lights go out
'cause you ain't paid your 'lectric bill
And the rats and roaches move on in for the kill
As your lips struggle to strain, that last drop from the wine bottle
And you roll snake eyes, never to realizing that you BLEW
WAKE up, niggers or ya all through!
.....

Dope my man (old schoool)...lol I have heard of The Last Poets but haven't really peeped em. I am making a point to do that now.