Chuck D The Pride

Yeah, reminiscent of another time

And another state of mind



[Verse 1:]

I used to flow

They used to call me a rhyme animal

Some of them dont 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 aaight

But there is no is without a was

No about to be buts or because..I got the

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 2:]

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



[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 3:]

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



[Outro:]

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
[ The Pride Lyrics ]