Bamboozled movie - 2045 Radical Man lyrics
rate meSong by Prince<br /><br>
{Spoken with crowd cheering in background}<br>
How can a non-musician discuss the future of music from anything other than<br>
a consumer point of view?<br>
These few people make decisions for the bulk of us, without consulting any of us.<br>
Sales and distributions of our futures, uh!<br>
If this world were fair and right, they'd give up the car keys this very night.<br>
Damn!<br>
<br>
(Hit it!)<br>
<br>
Two, three, four, five, six, seven<br>
Flash forward, 2045<br>
What did you stand for in the life of your pride<br>
When faced with the final judgment of today<br>
Couldn't profit from the game<br>
That you and your niggas play<br>
<br>
Radical man<br>
Save the life<br>
Come on take a stand<br>
Give that money back<br>
Let's make a plan<br>
The brand new currency<br>
Taking care of one another<br>
You and me<br>
<br>
(Radical man)<br>
<br>
Flash backwards, 1999 (backwards, 1999)<br>
In a world shot full of profit, see (Tell me)<br>
How'd y'all stay alive? (Everyone of y'all)<br>
Depending on this so called man<br>
For everything you got comes from his hand<br>
Food, water, the clothes you wear<br>
How many of y'all niggas really care?<br>
<br>
To care (to care)<br>
Let's define this word nigga (define, define)<br>
Someone who stays high (high)<br>
Watching their life go by (by, by)<br>
Someone content with riding behind (ride that)<br>
Nigga<br>
<br>
They come in all colors<br>
<br>
White, black, Puerto Rican <br>
Is that the main niggas we're speakin' about?<br>
Wear suits and buy and sell corporations<br>
With only one thing in mind <br>
<br>
(Only one thing in mind)(Break it up!)<br>
<br>
That is the destruction of the so-called radical man<br>
By 2045<br>
<br>
(Let's get radical)<br>
<br>
Watch me now!<br>
<br>
School's in the yard, digital games<br>
When the war broke out we called your name <br>
<br>
(What's your name?)<br>
Everyone of color put on the front line<br>
Holocaust Avenue, 2009<br>
<br>
Get an education, good job who says? (say)<br>
Fool with the gold rush drinkin' Alize<br>
I don't play nobody that's makin' no sense today<br>
You got your own mind, so you think it's ok (It's not ok)<br>
<br>
Telling themselves lies, Mos Def say<br>
Where you gonna stay, nigga<br>
<br>
(Where you gonna stay nigga)<br>
<br>
(Oh my God, it's the Green Mile!)<br>
<br>
What's up y'all?<br>
What y'all wanna do? (Talkin' about a radical man)<br>
Ain't nobody ever lay crew no?<br>
I could really run that computer<br>
Make it flow (flow flow flow flow flow)<br>
If you ain't born with it (Radical man)<br>
Talkin' about the two and four, hit me!<br>
<br>
<br>
Wait up<br>
What George say., all around<br>
Alright<br>
<br>
We play Miles Davis, and D'Angelo<br>
We playin' D-flat in the funk<br>
You better act like you know<br>
We don't care, whatever {unknown}<br>
I'd rather know, rather know (what?)<br>
How to be a better man<br>
<br>
<br>
Hey!<br>
James Brown, Chuck D. and Jimmy<br>
Turn me up louder now<br>
I don't think y'all hear me (I hear ya)<br>
<br>
<br>
2045<br>
We will stay alive<br>
2045 (everybody now)<br>
The flow is out of site<br>
<br>
<br>
And the whole pop scenario is just nothin' but a dream <br>
<br>
(A bad dream)<br>
The day you will wake is the day you get the real cream, nigga<br>
<br>
<br>
Radical man (Radical man)<br>
Who got the gift, who got the plan?<br>
Radical man (Radical man)<br>
Who got the gift, who got the plan?<br>
<br>
This is the funk the industry most fears<br>
Artists getting together<br>
In a locker board of directors<br>
I don't think so<br>
Nobody's running this<br>
Let's talk about DNA, nigga<br>
<br>
The radical man<br>
<br>
{Spoken with crowd cheering in background}<br>
Where will you be in 2045?<br>
30 million people right now, are being wiped off the face of the planet by disease. <br>
They claim they have no cure. <br>
In the matter of a blinking eye, all of us right now can testify. <br>
Take a stand, radical man.<br>
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